However, if you’ve ever tried importing illustrator files into After Effects you may have realized that they remain pixelated when you scale them up in your composition. The enable/disable feature called “Continuously Raster” is unknown by many AE noobs, but is needed to get your vector files to scale smoothly in AE.
This begs the question “Are your vector files pixelated in after effects?”
Adobe Illustrator is vector based, meaning you can adjust the scale of Illustrator files without a loss in quality (it uses a system of equations to calculate the shapes of your object rather than pixels ).
If you follow these steps your vector files will be smooth when scaled up rather than pixelated. This technique also works with pre-comps, so if you happen to have something like text inside of a pre-comp but need to scale it up you can hit the “ continuously rasterize ” button and you will now be able to scale it up without it being pixelated.
Why does after effects run so slow on my computer?
If you run applications other than those with which After Effects shares a memory pool, and you don’t allocate adequate memory to other applications, performance can be greatly reduced when the operating system swaps RAM to the hard disk. Stop or pause resource-intensive operations in other applications, such as video previews in Adobe Bridge.
While we were researching we ran into the question “Why does after effects take so long to load?”.
After Effects must use memory and processor resources to update open panels, which may slow the work that you are doing in another panel. Create a region of interest. If you are working on a small part of your composition, limit which portion of the composition is rendered to the screen during previews. See Region of interest (ROI).
How do I enable “continuously raster” in after effects?
The enable/disable feature called “Continuously Raster” is unknown by many AE noobs, but is needed to get your vector files to scale smoothly in AE. In this quick tutorial we’ll show you how to use it. Import an .ai, .eps, or .pdf file After Effects accepts all four of these vector formats. Move the vector file to your composition.
Why is after effects using so much ram?
As you work on a composition, After Effects temporarily stores some rendered frames and source images in RAM, so that previewing and editing can occur more quickly. After Effects does not cache frames that require little time to render.
If your running 8GB or 16GB of RAM you may end up getting an error message from After Effects saying that it requires more memory to complete a task. This could happen for a number of reasons. I’ve had it happen to me in the past because I had 4 other applications running in the background that were eating up memory allocation.
The next thing we asked ourselves was: why do I need RAM for after effects?
In short, RAM is needed in After Effects to allow your computer to quickly access data, instead of your computer going to the hard drive to search for that data. Think of RAM like book shelf, on this book shelf you have added all of the books that you want direct access to at any time.
How to scale text in after effects without pixelation?
This technique also works with pre-comps, so if you happen to have something like text inside of a pre-comp but need to scale it up you can hit the “ continuously rasterize ” button and you will now be able to scale it up without it being pixelated. Have any other tips for using vector files in After Effects?