Q: Great looking hi-res images in photoshop look terribly pixelated when scaled down in Motion 5...how can I prevent this?
I'm working on a project with a client logo and title...both are downloaded from the internet at a high resolution and look crisp and wonderful in Photoshop. However, when I drop them into my 1,080x1,080 Motion 5 project and scale them down to the size they need to be in the animation, all of that crispness becomes terribly pixelated.
It looks like an aliasing issue to me...the Motion-generated text in my document looks great, so I imagine it's not just too low-res a project (1,080x1,080 seems pretty hi-res to me!). I'm fairly new to Motion, so I feel like there's just something obvious I'm overlooking...any help is appreciated!
Motion 5, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Mar 3, 2016 8:54 AM
If you downscale or upscale a JPEG enough, yes, it will pixelate. Start your logos in your image editing app by sizing them to the same frame size as your Motion project. Then there's no scaling, no artifacts.
Also, depending on your hardware setup, and the duration and complexity of your Motion project, having Resolution and Quality set to anything besides Full and Normal, with Dynamic turned off, may result in Motion purposefully degrading the "appearance" of the image, for better playback.
Posted on Mar 10, 2016 10:18 AM