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Question regarding AE resolution upscaling engine
Hello,
If I create an SD (720×576) composition (with lots of vectored text and shape masks etc), and if I then drop this SD comp into an HD (1920×1080) composition, is there a way that AfterEffects will work its way back through the compositions to create a true HD image, or will it only upscale the SD composition?
I have tried playing with the “Preserve resolution when nested” settings in the advanced tab of the comp settings, but this doesn’t seem to work – the HD composition just looks like upscaled SD rather than the sharp lines if I just made it in HD in the first place.
The reason I ask is I would like to work in a 720×576 (16:9 anamorphic SD PAL) composition because a) it is faster to render and b) to present the client with an standard definition DVD. However I would like the option of later upscaling to HD.
I was trying to avoid creating the whole project in a HD comp to avoid slow render times. So I figured that when I am ready for output, I could drop the SD comp into a HD comp, and then let it render out as it needs.
And also, if I create the whole project in SD and then try to change the SD comp settings to 1920×1080 HD, I need to scale everything up and the camera moves go all out of whack etc.
Does anyone have any suggestion? It would be great to get a better understanding of how the AfterEffects render engine treats resolution in nested sequences.
Or is it worth doing this at all – is simply changing the quality of (FULL, HALF, THIRD, QUARTER) the HD project, have the same effect as working in a low res composition.
Cheers,
TomCamera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
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6 Replies
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Use the “Scale Composition” script from File/Scripts/. If you have vectors only then all will stay sharp. If you have bitmap images then it all depends on the original size of those images.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Have you tried ticking the Continuous Rasterization box for your precomp?
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No I have not – where can I find this option to try please?
Cheers,
TomCamera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
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Pro tip: search the AE help for terms you don’t recognize. The very first link when searching the AE help for Continuously Rasterize was this: [link] In it it tells you:
In the Timeline panel, click the layer’s Continuously Rasterize switch, which is the same as the Collapse Transformations switch for precomposition layers.
And it even includes a picture of what it looks like. There are also video tutorials there to explain more about it.
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Thanks, I’m on the road so will look when I get back.
Cheers,
TomCamera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
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Thank you – finally got around to figuring this out – I was only ticking rasterise switch in the final composition, but not getting the upscaling results that I wanted.
But then I found that I needed to tick the rasterize button for EACH composition as they were nested deeper and deeper back in the project.
So now I can up-res what I was working on (new client asked me to make a DVD – thus SD project) – the client since asked for a HD version. This will solve this.
Thanks again.
TomCheers,
TomCamera Operator – Editor – Motion Graphics
(https://www.tomdavid.com.au)
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