How to remove text aliasing in After Effects

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I'm not very experienced with After Effects and I was wondering if there's a built in option or a feasible workaround for text with no aliasing (think pixel art).

I know this can be easily be done in Photoshop, so one option is to prepare text there, flatten the content, then bring the pixels over to After Effects.

What would be the cleaner/more efficient way to achieving sharp pixel looking text in After Effects ?

Best Answer

In After Effects you can use the Mosaic effect (Effect > Stylize > Mosaic) to make the text borders more or less jagged or you can use Sharpen (Effect > Blur & Sharpen) to clean the text from aliasing.

You can also change the text layer quality from Best to Draft, clicking the / symbol in the Timeline. In this case, when exporting, you have to set the quality to Current in the Render Setting panel or the text will be aliased again.

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