How To RESIZE Compositions In After Effects FAST

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How To RESIZE Compositions In After Effects FAST - How To RESIZE Compositions In After Effects Project FAST - In this video editing tutorial using After Effects CC, Will teaches you how to quickly resize compositions for a project you've already built. You can manually do it yourself, but it takes quite a few clicks to change all the layers, but there's a script built right into After Effects that saves you a lot of time!

Welcome back to another video. In this one, we're going to talk about how to quickly resize compositions and layers inside After Effects. There's a script that can do this automatically, and it will save you some time. If you're new here, we have over 200 videography-related videos like gear reviews, camera and lighting how-to's, and editing tutorials. So, subscribe if you want to check those out. And if you want to know the equipment, music LUTs, or motion graphics that we use to make our videos, all links are in the description. So, let's jump in and talk about how to quickly resize compositions in After Effects.

Oh, all right. Let's say you've been working on an After Effects project. You have a composition, it's in HD, let's say, and you've basically finished the project. You have some text, maybe you've created some solid layers or shape layers, and you have some animations, and the project is complete. You save the project and then decide later that you want it in 4K.

So, of course, you could go to composition settings and change everything there, but it doesn't really change anything down in your composition. In After Effects, there's actually a script built-in. You go to File > Scripts, and then down here, you'll see "Scale Composition." This small window will open up, and you can go to "New Comp Width" and then change this to whatever width you'd want it. So, I'm doing 4K, so I will enter 3840, and then it will automatically change the bottom based on your existing composition size so that it retains the aspect ratio. Hit "Scale," and then as you can see, it changed the composition first and then changed your layers, and everything's back in place.

Now, I should note that this will only work for continuously rasterizing layers in After Effects, and that means it'll be good for shape layers or text layers.

However, if you bring in the footage or a picture, that would be footage that you cannot scale without losing quality. So in that case, if you're changing your composition from HD to 4K, then the media you have in your project will go from 100 to 200. And obviously, going from 100 to 200 percent, you're gonna have a drop in quality and it's not gonna look very good.

Compared to continuously rasterizing layers in After Effects, which are basically vector-based layers, the script has done what it is supposed to do. However, I like to go a step further, and you'll see that if you go to a text layer and go into the scale properties, it's set to now 200 percent. Now again, because this layer is continuously rasterizing, that's not a problem. No matter how big you scale it, the text will still look very sharp.

But for the sake of keeping this project consistent with how it was built, I prefer to change it back to 100 and then click on the layer and double the size of the actual font. So this is 180, go to 360. And if you go to the shape layer, you'll see that the scale is set to 200 as well. However, there are no settings for shape layers because they're essentially the size that you create them. And again, because they're continuously rasterizing, you don't really need to worry about this too much. As again, same with the text, no matter how big you make them, it's still going to look nice and sharp.

The last thing I'll mention is you have to run the script for every composition you have in the project, which just takes a couple of extra seconds. Just wanted to break the video up here for a quick second to let you know that we have a ton of resources on our AlienWill.com website, like our color grading LUT pack or our Premiere Pro Motion Graphics (mogrts) Pack that we use to speed up the editing process in most of our videos.

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