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Resizing a Comp without losing layer positions
Hello. This may bery well be a dumb question. I have created a number of AE projects in 320×240 resolution, and have been asked my my client to rerender them as 480×360… Now I could obviously just rerender them at that size, but I will lose quality. So, how do I resize the comp and have everything in the comp resize with it? THere are lots of scale keyframes, so I don’t want to go in and re animate everything, I want it to just resize all the graphics and whatnot automatically with the comp size increase. They are mostly vector graphics and text, or scaled down HD video elements, so I’d like to preserve the quality of those elements.
Please Help – Deadline looming.
Bill Moore
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Regardless of any resolution concerns you can do this pretty easily, at least I think this way is easy. There may be a better process but it worked for me.
I had to do the same on a project a few months ago and decided to use parenting and a single null to scale everything.
Create a null in the main comp. Call it something like “Comp Scale” if you like being organized. Then proceed to parent all the layers to this null. The scaling of this null will distribute all proportions of the child layers evenly. As far as I can remember it should scale motion paths in proportion too.
Important!
–Make sure you only parent layers that do NOT already have parents. (example: if layers 5, 9, 15, 77 and 72 are parented to layer 2, you should only parent layer 2 to the scaling null. If you don’t look out for this you can screw up your comps original parenting structures).
–You may need to create two nulls, a 2D and a 3D if your comp has both kinds of layers.
Hope that helps.
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Excellent Suggestion! Am muddling my way through this animating biz and this one saved me a lot of work! Thank you!
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