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  • resizing/scaling to HD

    Posted by Jeffrey Buras on October 18, 2007 at 4:08 am

    I have a vector animation that is currently in SD widescreen square pixels. I want to use the same animation in an HD program. Is there an easy way to scale up?

    Erik Pontius replied 18 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Erik Pontius

    October 18, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    depends. Is this animation a series of illustrator or other vector frames? or is it a movie (quicktime file, etc..) that has been made out of vector images?
    If each of the frames is a true vector graphic, it should scale infinitely without any problem when the “collapse transformation” switch has been turned on.
    If the vector animation has been “rasterized” and encoded into a Quicktime file, scaling it up will really impact quality.

    Erik

  • Jeffrey Buras

    October 18, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Yes, they are true vectors. Illustrator files animated in After Effects. I’d like After Effects just to stretch the whole animation, but if I simply change the sequence settings it just makes the screen size bigger and leaves all of the elements the same size.

  • Erik Pontius

    October 18, 2007 at 3:14 pm

    First, make sure that all your vector art layers in your 4×3 comp have the “collapse transformation/continuous rasterization” switch checked. Then drop the 4×3 comp into a new 16×9 HD comp, then make sure that the “collapse transformations” button is checked, for the layer, then scale the layer to fit the screen the way you want it. Since they are true vectors they will scale with out creating a jagged blurry mess.

    Erik

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