Return-Path: Received: from [208.97.132.83] (HELO homiemail-a15.g.dreamhost.com) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 4563479 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:42:02 +0100 Received: from homiemail-a15.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a15.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A294376C072 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:48:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=aescripts.com; h=mime-version :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to: content-type; q=dns; s=aescripts.com; b=GxHm75eZKnlLOMYm2eumpxKU Bo8RyEx1rFddexZst2tjWCwLQ/g8VcvOcU9MPmzhL48yDnLKGp7GPj3cTPF0l6rM Ns3GWUGNWKgBIYlp3/SeR5GBkqSfuMUGng92KowK1xmhW5ZownFC5NeTWsV0WFm3 20NhcICQhjg0b7YXMHE= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=aescripts.com; h= mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject :to:content-type; s=aescripts.com; bh=SCv0dptcezV+aVw9d2WmrfLmkL 8=; b=FHAmONkAtb90J83TufXhg33fgJcZVreksJFxYdRM7O0+i+WA4URjPpgCKC +3oHYrzGf/F1f0eZ0zFJxak/1nscibAAL9WXrupHKF3gmPgANayqKYVArmDkiTgi OtnzdpeE11QBvkcRuS6RPJizgGxKy/97v3Vp/+uNbtj4mvk2Y= Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com (mail-pw0-f41.google.com [209.85.160.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: lists@aescripts.com) by homiemail-a15.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83B5976C069 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by pbaa13 with SMTP id a13so847760pba.28 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:48:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.213.68 with SMTP id nq4mr4858190pbc.14.1323888483179; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:48:03 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.148.20 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:47:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Lloyd Alvarez Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:47:22 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [AE] script to resize composition and its contents To: After Effects Mail List , alan@effektor.ca Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff1c802c31ac804b411cef7 --e89a8ff1c802c31ac804b411cef7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Also any plugins that have their own "world" like particular will also get all messed up. I would also recommend pre-comping and scaling the pre-comp. Besides the render-hit it's the fastest best way to do it I'm afraid. -Lloyd On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alan Shisko wrote: > 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 crac= k > the code exactly what "breaks" this. I know there are some (most?) effect= s > 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 w= rote: > >> 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? That's one of my go to moves! :) >> >> -D >> >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Chris Meyer wrot= e: >> >>> I'm having a brain freeze=85another user just asked if there is a way t= o >>> 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 the= re >>> was a script that did it as well. But my Google Search skills are faili= ng >>> me this morning. Anybody remember one? Or am I still asleep and dreamin= g? >>> >>> thanks - >>> Chris >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to >>> >> >> >> -- >> gary berendsenhttp://garyberendsen.com >> VFX generalist >> >> > --e89a8ff1c802c31ac804b411cef7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Also any plugins that have their own "world" like particular= will also get all messed up. =A0I would also recommend pre-comping and sca= ling the pre-comp. =A0Besides the render-hit it's the fastest best way = to do it I'm afraid.

-Lloyd

On Wed, De= c 14, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alan Shisko <alan@effektor.ca> wrote:
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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