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 <gary@garyberendsen.com> wrote:

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 <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:

I'm having a brain freeze…another 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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