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Card Dance renders change depending on comp resolution
This is the weirdest issue that I’ve ever had with After Effects! I’m using the card dance plugin to give the effects of multiple images in space, however when I change the resolution of the comp (from say 50% to 100%) it changes the positions of the images in the mosaic.
Also, when I use the render queue to render out a video, my entire comp seems to have “zoomed in”… But when I render a video using file > export > quicktime movie it renders out just fine?!?! I’m using AE CS4. I’m convinced that it’s something to do with Card Dance and not my system.
If anyone has had this same problem and fixed it, PLEASE tell me what you did! Thank you.
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I’m never seen what you describe however when you render you render the Active Camera. I’ve just done a test on my system and it behaves normally. There’s something else going on with your file.
Precomp? Collapsed transformations?
Try resetting your prefs to default holding down all modifier keys when you launch After Effects.
(Ctrl+Alt+Shift on the PC, Command + Option + Shift on the Mac.)
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Thanks Brian!
It’s really weird and I’ve never had this happen to me before. I’ve uploaded a few examples of how it’s behaving so that you can better see what I’m talking about. All feedback is helpful at this point!
This is with the resolution set at “half”.
https://www.twentyfortyone.com/img/card-dance-1.pngThis is with the resolution set at “full”.
https://www.twentyfortyone.com/img/card-dance-2.pngnotice how the image set at “full” has a different look than the images at “half”. WTF?
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David, I’m sure I have my comp set to the “active camera” (see images I posted above). Another company developed the project, I’m just editing it to fit our new needs and it’s just not working the way it should…
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I’m with Dave :).
How are you offsetting the cards in Z space, a gradient layer or the layer itself?? What is controlling the separation of the cards?
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there is one big photoshop file that is divided into square quadrants so that when we set the rows and columns the images are divided equally. So even if the image is losing quality it shouldn’t be repositioning itself or toggling the card dance settings.
I’ve attached a screenshot of my card dance settings in my timeline. What’s weird though is that when I render by going to file > export > quicktime movie, it exports it as seen… weird.
https://www.twentyfortyone.com/img/card-dance-3.png
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I notice that the layer is a comp. Are transformations collapsed?
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