How to Get Rid of Blurry Edges // Anti-Aliasing in Fusion?

How does one get rid of the Blurry Edges // Anti-Aliasing in DVCR Fusion?

In After Effects, the dots created by the ellipse tool have this type of edge.

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What's important, is that when you look at it at full scale, it looks actually quite nice.

But in DaVinci Resolve Fusion, the edges of sEllipse -> sRender are blurred (and so are from every single picture I've tried).

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And on a rendered mp4, it just looks blurry, like I'm not wearing glasses with -0.8D myopia.

Here's a side by side comparison of AE to DVCR:

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It's a random png of an apple, exact same file, exported to both an AE comp and a Fusion composition.


Why is that happening, why does DaVinci Resolve do that and how can I remedy it, for DVCR not blur it in the first place?


I know it might just be a single option somewhere, that I'm missing, but I've looked and haven't found it. (the "high quality" in fusion is checked and as mentioned, the rendered mp4 is blurry)

I'm not a "pro" pro, but I'm not a beginner, so I don't know if I'm missing something or it's just supposed to be like this.

There's an option in the viewer display options (the ... menu in the upper-right corner of the viewport) to turn off "Smart Resize." The viewport's default is to apply a linear filter when viewing at anything other than 100%. It's really obnoxious and one of the first things I fix in a new Fusion install.

edit: If the render is also blurry, that's another issue. If you've transformed the image, you may need to change the filter in the Transform node. I think the default is Linear, which softens things too much usually. I like Catmull-Rom for its slight sharpening, but watch out for ringing in high-contrast areas.

Other than smart resize option which only affects the preview, the only thing that comes to mind if its in the render is that there is a mismatch between final output resolution and sRender you mentioned. Without further information its hard to say what else could it be.

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