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  • What does scale correlate to?

    Posted by Noam Osband on August 9, 2011 at 12:19 am

    I want to take four shots, shrink them, and fill the frame with shrunken versions of all four at 1/4 size. My first instinct was to scale to 25 but that was very clearly wrong. I’m not entirely sure what scale correlates to mathematically. Anyone know? This will make it easier to do this sort of thing in the future. The footage I’m playing with is 16:9

    Rafael Amador replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Adam Taylor

    August 9, 2011 at 9:37 am

    a box which takes up a quarter of the screen is actually half as wide and half as tall as a full screen…hece 50%.

    Adam Taylor
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  • Rafael Amador

    August 9, 2011 at 10:17 am

    [Noam Osband] “I want to take four shots, shrink them, and fill the frame with shrunken versions of all four at 1/4 size. My first instinct was to scale to 25 but that was very clearly wrong. I’m not entirely sure what scale correlates to mathematically.”
    And the scale relates to the size of the object (clip or still) you are managing, not to the size of your canvas.
    rafae

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • Noam Osband

    August 14, 2011 at 7:25 am

    I guess I’m wondering matematically how it works. I just feel like everytime I want to do a split screen, there should be some formula I use to determine what to do instead of putzing around to figure it out.

  • Rafael Amador

    August 14, 2011 at 8:53 am

    Sure.
    Learning the application and some very basic maths.
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

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