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Anonymous
June 22, 2019
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Scaling Pre-Comp losing resolution

  • June 22, 2019
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I have been working all day on a wide tracking shot that shows a character moving from the sidewalk into a driveway to the front door from the side. I have been stabilizing it by both tracking points, manual rotation, and 2% warp stabilizer as I don't want the clip to crop too much.

Each transform I did in a different composition:

Comp 1: Scaled to 84%, manual rotation for the horizon line;

Comp 2: Single point track on the character (x-axis only);

Comp 3: Rescaling, and manual Y-axis keyframing;

Comp 4: 2% smooth warp stabilization (for the small jitters)

This issue here is that pre-composing the footage scales down the resolution, not just the clip size.

TL;DR

Is there any way to scale down footage in a pre-comp and scale the pre-comp up without loss in resolution?

If anyone can help me with this, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks so much.

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Correct answer Roei Tzoref

if you press the collapse transformations switch for your precomps, then information from the precomp will pass through to the master comp.


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Roei Tzoref
Roei TzorefCorrect answer
Legend
June 22, 2019

if you press the collapse transformations switch for your precomps, then information from the precomp will pass through to the master comp.


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    FluoreKaiju
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    May 11, 2022

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      Rolling Man
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      June 2, 2024

      4 years later and this is still true

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