Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 4563470 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:38:21 +0100 Received: by dakl33 with SMTP id l33so869950dak.28 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:44:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1mjtdhbdnmAr50H0Ly07BIntb/8GLbbCIvbR6D2KE6E=; b=XLzEjpIP3arDQkRhp5Y7iiQuzR27d8Uwe5QI3NBQfKKN2YdtXzVbnLaeB/W5GW961U n88aJYroq2GoihCDDLXFSxZxUTh2Fvk1b/kMIUysQUf7jXbhxeIXwzUtVWTs2pphB1M6 UCLDbV0/JyJ7L7bsyB78A4wwleeHbjKF63Ly0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.191.196 with SMTP id ha4mr4789714pbc.100.1323888261379; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:44:21 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: alan@effektor.ca Sender: goofibulator@gmail.com Received: by 10.142.43.15 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:44:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:44:21 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FUHrcAdmhiVZQKlZf5I9F42J1bs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] script to resize composition and its contents From: Alan Shisko To: After Effects Mail List Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8fb208608ab68f04b411c191 --e89a8fb208608ab68f04b411c191 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hm: that hasn't been my experience. Quite often, it will render only what it needs to based on the final comp size, but I haven't been able to crack the code exactly what "breaks" this. I know there are some (most?) effects that simply always need to be rendered full-size, but there are other instances when simply putting the comp in a smaller comp gives you render speed boost. Depends what's downstream. alan On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Gary Berendsen wro= te: > Render times won't change if you down scale in the final comp since it > still has to render the rest. > > > > > > On 12/14/2011 6:49 PM, Darby Edelen wrote: > > Is there a reason in this case that nesting the composition and scaling i= t > wouldn't work? That's one of my go to moves! :) > > -D > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Chris Meyer wrote= : > >> I'm having a brain freeze=85another user just asked if there is a way to >> take a finished comp created at a too-large size, and scale everything d= own >> to the correct size. Aside from nesting the comp and scaling it, or >> attaching everything to a null and scaling that, I would have swore ther= e >> was a script that did it as well. But my Google Search skills are failin= g >> me this morning. Anybody remember one? Or am I still asleep and dreaming= ? >> >> thanks - >> Chris >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to >> > > > -- > gary berendsenhttp://garyberendsen.com > VFX generalist > > --e89a8fb208608ab68f04b411c191 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hm: that hasn't been my experience. Quite often, it will render only wh= at it needs to based on the final comp size, but I haven't been able to= crack the code exactly what "breaks" this. I know there are some= (most?) effects that simply always need to be rendered full-size, but ther= e are other instances when simply putting the comp in a smaller comp gives = you render speed boost. Depends what's downstream.

alan

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 = at 1:36 PM, Gary Berendsen <gary@garyberendsen.com> wrote:
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Render times won't change if you down scale in the final comp since it still has to render the rest.

On 12/14/2011 6:49 PM, Darby Edelen wrote:

Is there a reason in this case that nesting the composition and scaling it wouldn't work?=A0 That's one of my go to moves! :)=

-D

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:

I'm having a brain freeze=85another user just asked if there is a way to take a finished comp created at a too-large size, and scale everything down to the correct size. Aside from nesting the comp and scaling it, or attaching everything to a null and scaling that, I would have swore there was a script that did it as well. But my Google Search skills are failing me this morning. Anybody remember one? Or am I still asleep and dreaming?

thanks -
Chris
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