Fuzzy Image rendering in After Effects Solution
I was compositioning two radio DJ’s together from different takes. The reactions of one was better in one take but I liked the performance of the speaker in another. Since it was a static shot I had was able to take a mask of one take and overlay it on the other. No big deal.
However, that DJ that I cropped in would render blurry once I saw it in Final Cut Pro. Started looking it up and learned a whole lot about how to maintain De-interlacing during export. This article was extremely useful from Adobe. Yet after trying so many different ways of exporting for 8 or so hours, and varying results, none acceptable. I had and epiphany. I went back to my composition. Selected the track that was blurred. Pressed the up arrow, moving my clip up 1 pixel. Exported, and aaaaaaahhh. Nice.
So the my masked clip was wedged between two pixels rendering it incorrectly. Moving it up on created proper pixel alignment. Time not wasted completely, learning about working with interlaced footage in After Effects will no doubt come in handy.
