gradient wipe - anti-aliased text problem

[Mylenium]

I'm trying to use a Gradient Wipe and Track Mattes on some text and I have it all working right, but the problem is that as the gradient wipe progresses, it keeps expanding slightly outward and makes little speckles around the text. I'm pretty sure this is because of the aliasing of the text, but I can't figure a way to stop it.

Any help?

Try 16 bit mode. Also add an instance of Tint or Colorama (greyscale gradient) to the gradient layer to smooth out all luminosity values. unfortunately Gradient Wipe is very sensitive to even minor luminosity variances. If that fails, you could always use the Simple Choker...

Mylenium

[FortUno]

Thanks for the response Mylenium. Unfortunately, none of those worked for me :(
the choker produces the same results with the Gradient Wipe. Tinting and Colorama don't seem to make any difference either.

Basically, this is what I'm trying http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae17_e.html
The text writes itself on with a glowing front using a Track Matte. I'm not sure why it's producing the noise around the edges for me, and doesn't seem to for the author of that tutorial..

I guess I'll have to figure something else out unless anyone has any other ideas?

[Mylenium]

Thanks for the response Mylenium. Unfortunately, none of those worked for me :(
the choker produces the same results with the Gradient Wipe. Tinting and Colorama don't seem to make any difference either.

Basically, this is what I'm trying http://www.ayatoweb.com/ae_tips_e/ae17_e.html
The text writes itself on with a glowing front using a Track Matte. I'm not sure why it's producing the noise around the edges for me, and doesn't seem to for the author of that tutorial..

I guess I'll have to figure something else out unless anyone has any other ideas?

Yeah, should not be any problem at all... Do you use "clean" footage or have you created your gradient layer from an existing bitmap? In that case perhaps there's some invisible pixels left over?

Mylenium

[FortUno]

I am actually using text from inside AE. Just wrote some text using a blocky font and put on a grayscale ramp. I tried using text from Illustrator, but I barely know how to do anything in Illustrator, so I don't think that was a reliable test.. but it produced the same problem I'm having.


BTW, I was just poking around your site and found your stuff at CreativeCow. I'm definitely gonna go through your tutorials. It looks like good stuff! :thumbsup:

[Mylenium]

I am actually using text from inside AE. Just wrote some text using a blocky font and put on a grayscale ramp. I tried using text from Illustrator, but I barely know how to do anything in Illustrator, so I don't think that was a reliable test.. but it produced the same problem I'm having.


BTW, I was just poking around your site and found your stuff at CreativeCow. I'm definitely gonna go through your tutorials. It looks like good stuff! :thumbsup:

Glad you like it. I just don't have an idea how to solve your problem. Sounds very strange, especially since Text created in AE is razor sharp and shouldn't cause anyy such phenomena as you describe :-|.

Mylenium

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