Smaller resolution

[Darby Edelen]

Well, I checked in CS5 and CS6 and the smallest resolution available in both of those is 4×4.

What version are you using?

Darby Edelen

[Angelo Lorenzo]

Hm, lets me do it in CS6 and CS5.5 without an issue. Do you have “lock aspect ratio” unchecked?

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[Hermann Haf]

Hey guys

Im using CS5

Im new in AE so I guess im doing something wrong.

Here’s the setting im using when I make a new file:

And this is what I get when I save as a movie from the render output settings:

Im saving the movie as a quicktime movie.

[Juan Manuel]

Most, if not all, lossy compression codecs require the frame size to be divisible by 4, due the way they work. I don’t know off the top of my head if there is a codec which will allow you to export a frame size that’s 5 pixels horizontally, but you could try uncompressed formats like animation. Note that this maybe a issue for final delivery, depending exactly in what you’re going to do with the animation.

[Darby Edelen]

Indeed, this is not a limitation of AE but a limitation of the codec you’ve chosen in the output module.

Darby Edelen

[Hermann Haf]

can you guys recommend any other codec I can use ?

[Walter Soyka]

[Hermann Haf] “can you guys recommend any other codec I can use ?”

That depends on the system you are delivering to.

How are you actually going to use this output?

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[Hermann Haf]

Its for a pixel display on a building, same building as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8sqI2HIIkI

The output has to be AVI and 5×28 pixels.

[Todd Kopriva]

See this post for some detail about output constraints:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/06/output-module-constraints-in-a.html

In this thread, Tim Kurkoski goes into a lot more detail about the constraints for AVI files:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/2973980

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[Hermann Haf]

Thanks, this workaround posted by kelly_hanson at forums.adobe.com is the best way around this I guess 🙂

It’s not ideal, but we’ve been using the process below to make it work. It adds a couple extra steps, but as of now, it’s the fastest way we’ve found to get around the issue.

In After Effects:
Render any comps smaller than 32×32 as an MOV. .mov files will render in sizes smaller than 32×32 without adding the black bars at the top & bottom

Drag the rendered .mov files into Photoshop. Set yourself up an action to export the files back out of Photoshop as an uncompressed avi. Give it a function key (F3 or something for a tiny bit of added speed – especially if you are doing a LOT of files like we do) and it’ll export the file, with the original file name but in .avi format.

Again, it’s not ideal – but that’s how we’ve been getting around it.

Hope it helps!