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  stabilizing of 3K footage in HD comp – loosing resolution?

  Posted by Emanuel Schwermer on October 13, 2015 at 4:34 pm

  Hi Forum,

  my question today is about stabilizing with warp-stabilizer in AE:
  Do I loose resolution – is AE upscaling when stabilizing 3K footage in a HD comp?

  Details:
  – I’m using a “new” MacPro with latest Mavericks and latest CreativeCloud.
  – I import 2880×1620 footage and create a comp
  – setting comp-settings to 1920×1080
  – I scale (67%) to see the original framing without cropping the image
  – I run WarpStabilizer (Position, Scale,Rotation) let’s say 15% smooting and 115% max scale (AutoScale on)
  – I analyze and stabilize
  – AE needs 114,8% (auto-scaling) for this stabilizing pass
  – scaling @ Transformi-settings ist still @ 67% – sure the image is now zoomed in (14,8%)

  Fine so far – BUT:
  Is AE scaling up my 1920×1080 Image or is AE using pixels available out of the 2880×1620 footage?

  How should I optimize my workflow in order to not loose resolution of the 1920×1080 comp?
  Or did I all right?

  Many thanks from Munich,

  Emanuel

  Emanuel M. Schwermer
  Director of Photography, BVK
  SpecialEffectsPhotography
  Munich-Germany

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