rendering at quarter resolution

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

My first question would be why do you need to do that? If it’s just for preview reasons to send to a client, I would recommend using Adobe Media Encoder- open the AE project in Encoder, choose the comp you need rendered and then render out using a preset.
You can also choose to “stretch” (shrink) the image to a smaller size in the Render Queue.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79dba.html

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior VFX Artist

[Johnny Smith]

Certain settings in trapcode form look much better in a quarter view than full view. Especially in Motion Preview Render Mode. ( i like the downsampling look ). Not sure if shrinking the image would solve this. Also the link you posted does not explain how to shrink the image.

[Walter Soyka]

[Johnny Smith] “Certain settings in trapcode form look much better in a quarter view than full view. Especially in Motion Preview Render Mode. ( i like the downsampling look ).”

You could precomp your Form layer, then pre-render [link] or proxy [link] it at quarter res. If you use proxies, make sure you set your final render’s render settings to Use Comp Proxies or Use All Proxies.

If you really need hard, nearest-neighbor scaling, you can use Draft mode on your low-res pre-render. Just make sure to set your final render’s settings from Best to Current.

Walter Soyka
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[Johnny Smith]

your method (both pre-render and proxy) produced a quarter sized final image that looked different than my preview window. I’d like the final image to be full size ( 1920×1080 ) but with quarter resolution so it would look just like I see it in my preview window.