How To Run Scale Composition Script in After Effects
March 19, 2024 · Mike Murphy
This tutorial will show you how to run the Scale Composition Script in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to scale up or scale down the size of an entire Composition and maintain the original aspect ratio.
Adobe After Effects CC 2024: How To Run Scale Composition Script
**Description:
**This tutorial will show you how to run the Scale Composition Script in Adobe After Effects CC 2024 to scale up or scale down the size of an entire Composition and maintain the original aspect ratio.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro: About The Tutorial
00:16 Overview of Composition & Project
00:28 Composition Settings
00:57 Duplicate Composition
01:25 Run ‘Scale Composition’ Script
01:48 Scale Composition Options
02:00 New Scale Factor
02:17 Scale Composition Error Message
02:30 Error Message Fix
02:42 New Comp Width
03:08 Original Aspect Ratios
03:36 Version #3 (1280 x 720)
04:18 Recap: Scale Composition Script
**Software Used:
**Adobe After Effects CC 2024 (Click To Try or Buy)
How To Run the Scale Composition Script in Adobe After Effects CC 2024:
- Open a Composition
- Add Footage
- Select Composition Name in the Project Panel
- Go to the File Menu
- Click on ’Scripts’
- Click on ‘Scale Composition.jsx’
- Choose one of the 3 options to Scale Composition:
- Select ’New Form Factor’ and enter a value to change the scale (1.0 is original size, 2.0 is double the scale, 0.5 is half the size)
- Select ‘New Comp Width’ and enter the new Comp Width (ex. 1920)
- Select ‘New Comp Height’ and enter the new Comp Height (ex 1080)
- Click ‘Scale’ to Resize the Comp to the new dimensions and maintain the original aspect ratio.