Set comp to always continuously rasterize vector files.

Hey, just reaching out to see if anyone knows a setting or secret way of making a composition always apply continuous rasterization to any vector (Illustrator) layer that is dropping into the composition?
I checked under the comp settings and under the Illustrator interperate footage settings and couldnt find anything.
Thanks in advance.

As Todd said, it doesn't exist and on a more general level it would make zero sense to have such a switch considering how it also affects render order of other elements, collapses transforms and passes through belnding modes of nested items and a ton of otehr things. It may work for what you have in mind, but otehrwise would be very much a nightmare to deal with.
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i have a pre-comp with a masked and stroked solid, but in the final comp on scaling, "Continuous Rasterize" doesn't render the mask path out smooth yet. How is this done ?
Also, i'd like the stroke to render at its original stroke size and not be scaled ... is that possible with the stroke within the pre-comp? With an expression or so ?
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Hello.
I'm trying to import a vector into After Effects and it's not working the way I need. Yes I have Continuously Rasterize turned on. No the original Illustrator file does not have any effects on it. I've tried png, eps, psd, and ai files. Same issue.
1. This is what the original AI vector file looks like:
2. This is what it looks like in AE with Continuously Rasterize turned on, zoomed in at 400%. It's crappy.
3. And this is what it looks like in AE zoomed in at 100%, but I've scaled the image up to about 200%.
But I can't use the huge scale vector for my project because it is too big for my comp. Can somebody help? My brain hurts.
I do realize that it looks crappy within the AE viewer, but even after I export it in HD, it still looks crappy.
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When posting questions like this just a screenshot of the result is almost useless in diagnosing the problem. A better screenshot would include the Comp Window and timeline with the layer in question selected and all the changed properties revealed by pressing the U key twice. Also, since this was an imported file that is in question, if the footage item is selected in the Project panel then we can get an idea of the format, size, and other properties of the original file that may be causing problems.
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Here's what I mean. A single Illustrator layer selected, scaled to 5174% and perfectly rasterized in a comp with the Zoom Factor at 100% scale. Note the layer size in the project panel. Everything we need to know to diagnose a problem.

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Here's what you are probably missing. Let's set up something very simple. You have a Main Comp and a PreComp. The Main comp contains the PreComp and a Camera. The PreComp only contains single layer - TestShape that is a 20 X 20 pixel red solid and it has a circular mask applied so it looks like a dot. When you add a mask to a solid you have essentially turned that layer into a vector layer.
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Look at the Main comp and scale up the PreComp layer 600% and the edges look terrible. Turn on Collapse Transformations and the edge is sharp.
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What you want is to continuously rasterize the layer:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb916558 66c1103906c6dea-7f49a.html
Quite likely, but this assumes much I was not willing to presume.
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> I mean when I scale the text up it doesn't get affected, just when I zoom.
That's not actually a problem. That's normal. When you scale a layer with continuous rasterization, the vector information is converted into a new set of pixels to make things sharp. When you just zoom in a preview, you're not actually changing any pixels in the composition; you're just zooming in on the existing pixels for a closer look.
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> I mean when I scale the text up it doesn't get affected, just when I zoom.
That's not actually a problem. That's normal. When you scale a layer with continuous rasterization, the vector information is converted into a new set of pixels to make things sharp. When you just zoom in a preview, you're not actually changing any pixels in the composition; you're just zooming in on the existing pixels for a closer look.
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