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  • Changing default “Custom” resolution size?

    Posted by Ben G unguren on July 29, 2009 at 9:02 pm

    Hi all,
    It seems like this should be a no-brainer, but I can’t find it anywhere. When working in HD, especially when doing large-scale color correction, I’ll set the custom resolution to rendering every 16 or 20 pixels. The hotkey for custom resolution is command+option+j, but that always seems to default to 5 pixels. So every time I move from an upper resolution down to custom, I have to manually set the number.

    I’ve been doing this repeatedly lately — there must be some way to automate this, some pref or hotkey that I’m not finding. Help?

    (OS X 10.4, AE CS3)

    Ben G unguren replied 16 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Todd Kopriva

    July 30, 2009 at 12:09 am

    The custom resolution setting isn’t persistent. This is a good feature request, though.

    Here’s a link to the feature-request/bug-report form.

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  • Ben G unguren

    July 30, 2009 at 3:21 am

    Ah, shucks. But thanks for the link — the request has been submitted.

  • Ben G unguren

    August 22, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    In case anyone is doing a search, you *can* change the default custom size if in the prefs file (on a Mac, it’s in your user directory: ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/[… your version, etc] Adobe After Effects [X.X] Prefs). QUIT AE FIRST and make a backup copy of the prefs by option-dragging it to your desktop (making a copy there). Open the prefs file in a text editor (like textwrangler), do a search for “custom” and the second hit (at least in my case) has a spot where you can change the custom X and Y from 5 & 5 to, say, 32 & 32. Good deal.

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