How to Change a Complex Sequence resolution to Higher one and keep all movements and positions Intact

Report · Dec 05, 2018

Hello everyone
I have a problem that couldn't find an Answer to It

the story is I Had a "Drawing Video" as a Project
I had to stabilizes & Smooth motions, Also Zoom in and a lot of Nests

Size of Video was 1280*720

now the Client Brought me newer Video in Higher Resolution 1920*1080

the Problem is I don't know how to Replace new Video and Change the Sequence Settings the way that don't interfere with Clips Movements and Positions and Animations. I also used Mocha Pro for Stabilizing.

one way is to "Scale to frame size" Bigger Video

then nest Everything
then copy it to another Sequence with Higher Resolution
and Scale it to 150%

But that gonna Destroy the Quality and All this gonna be for nothing

I wonder if there is an easy & simple Answer to it. But i ask it anyway

Another Question that is main one for me is this
*****is there a method for Nesting Videos that is not Destructive?*****
I mean Scale 1% > Nest > Scale 10000%

This gonna Destroy Quality
is there a way to prevent Destruction and still do such things

Thank you

Report · Dec 05, 2018

You can change the sequence settings by right clicking on the sequence and go to sequence settings..

Might need it to set it to custom first.

Upscaling the 1280x720 footage in a 1920x1080 sequence will degrade the footage.

I would keep everything as it is and downscale the 1920x1080.

Report · Dec 05, 2018

Hi

I would duplicate your main comp as a safety. Then replace the old video file on the timeline with the new one. Use fit to comp to scale that down to fill the smaller comp. Then nest that main comp into a new 1920x1080 comp and scale it up to fill the full frame. All the elements will scale including the new movie which will scale back up to its native size.

Hope that helps,

Steve