• Adobe After Effects

  Scale After Effects project

  Posted by Dean Chapman on August 14, 2012 at 3:47 am

  Let’s say I have a project exported from C4D into AE at a size of 720×405.

  I do some rough compositing (masking, using some particles, adding typography) at this size, to show the client.

  The client gives me the go ahead, and I re-output the exact same 3D scene from C4D into AE, at a new size of 1920×1080 (same ratio).

  Is there a way to simply “up-rez” or scale my AE scene to fit the newly resized C4D project? Will my mask’s edges be off/softer? Will comps within comps, and cameras be offset? Will my particles be screwed up?

  Or do I simply have to rebuild my AE work from scratch at this new size?

  Thanks,

  Dean

  Dean Chapman replied 13 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Dan Fredley

  August 14, 2012 at 3:59 am

  File>Scripts>Scale Composition.jsx will get you to a certain point. But you might have to tweak a few things manually.
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  Erik Lindahl

  August 14, 2012 at 10:37 am

  A good tip when wanting to work low res for a later high res out put is working on “perfect downscale” of the full-res. For 1920×1080 HD that would mean 960×540, 640×360 or 480×270. That makes it much easier up-resing.

  But try the above suggestion and see where that takes you!
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  Dean Chapman

  August 14, 2012 at 10:28 pm

  Very cool, thanks Dan.

  -d

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