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  • Resize to match and center on canvas?

    Posted by Xavier Paredes on September 7, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    Do any of your folks know of a way to:

    a. Resize a video so it matches the height of another.
    b. Resize a video so it matches the width of another.

    I have a large job that requires me to do this with small videos. To be more specific I have about 400 ultrasonogram videos that I’m supposed to layout like this. Problem is I not all videos are the same aspect ratio (some are taller, some wider) and I want to align everything nicely which means matching their heights or widths (depending on the case).

    Another question:

    Is there a way –for example– to select the top 2 videos (while maintaing the horizontal distance between them) and center them in the canvas? I tried precomping but it doesn’t work. If I remember correctly, this is possible to do in photoshop if you group objects.

    Thanks!

    Xavier

    Cassius Marques replied 11 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    September 8, 2014 at 10:39 am

    I would use Adobe Media Encoder to resize and render (loss-less codec) the different videos to the size you need. Define a custom preset (or several, depending on your needs) and then just drop all your rendered videos that need to be resized into a watch folder. Bring the final results in your AE comp

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior VFX Artist

  • Cassius Marques

    September 8, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    To match height or width I would import every video and select the tallest one (or widest) and precomp leaving attributes then import everything else to it and use the Transform -> fit to comp height command.

    If you want to crop whats left off canvas you should precomp each layer moving attributes or else just copy/paste them back.

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