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TaranVH
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January 24, 2023
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Nearest neighbor scaling (sampling) - simple and vital

  • January 24, 2023
  • 72 replies
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After Effects allows you to use Bicubic, bilinear, and nearest neighbor ("draft") for scaling. (Also known as "sampling" or "interpolation.")

Premiere should absolutely have the option for the Motion effect to use Nearest Neighbor. (It would still be bicubic by default, as it is now.)

This is very important for sprite art, screenshots, screen recordings, etc.

Here is a forum thread on the issue from 2012, where most people unfortunately don't even understand what the problem is:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1061901

NOTE: The TRANSFORM effect currently has the option for bilinear and bicubic. It would be good to add nearest neighbor here, but that should not be the ONLY place where it is available. The Transform effect still has severe issues with buggyness, instability, and choppy movement. Again, it is important that the MOTION effect has the option for Nearest Neighbor.

72 replies

JohannesMP
Participant
January 24, 2023
You need a plugin for nearest neighbor interpolation. One free one for example is 'Pixel Perfect Upscale' by Vizual: https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Vizual-PixelPerfect-Upscale-Pixel-Art-Nearest-Neighbors-Premiere-Pro
Participant
January 24, 2023
The lack of this feature ensures I'll be cancelling my creative cloud subscription once I'm finished college. Nearest neighbor scaling is 100% REQUIRED for interpolating pixel-art. No other form of interpolation is a viable substitute, Lanczos included.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Just throwing my hat in the ring for this. We absolutely need a dropdown within the Scale parameters of a clip. It must include Nearest Neighbor.
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
We have a new solution for nearest neighbors (pixel art) upscaling in Premiere Pro ! Please test our FREE filter called Autokroma Vizual PixelPerfect, download and install from here https://www.autokroma.com/Vizual
Participant
January 24, 2023
please add nearest neighbour scaling to premiere pro, i really need to upscale my pixel arts properly
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Hey everyone ! Please contact us on our website and tell us how you would like to use this feature in Premiere Pro ! https://www.autokroma.com/contact
Participant
January 24, 2023
plz im trying to scale up pixels and they look like yak i know your thing is hIqUaLiTy but clearly there is a need for NN at least
Participant
January 24, 2023
here to comment yet again that this is a very much needed feature
Participant
January 24, 2023
Yet another game trailer editor here! Currently I have to scale in Premiere to the size I want then dynamically link the footage to AE to take advantage of NN for pixel art footage.
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Because this thread on the issue is seeing some attention lately, I want to toss my hat in the ring yet again. I'm working a lot with retro footage in my content production and had to resort to up-scaling with VirtualDub because of the lack of a nearest neighbor option in Premiere.

@Francis Crossman: I'm sure this had been pointed out elsewhere but it seems that you don't understnd the problem we're having: It's not about (detail-enhnacing) upscaling, it's about doubling the pixels that are in the footage explicitly *without* interpolation.