720p and 1080p

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

i did a project in after effects where i kept my composition settings NTSC/DV 720 BY 480.
i have done all my renders and composites but now i am required to give an output in 720p and 1080p.
can someone be kind to tell me about the process. i am new and learning on my own so some advice in simple language will surely be appreciated.
thanks in advance

let me know if more info is needed about my composition settings.

regards

[Andreas.Jablonka]

your screwed to be honest. you can take your output file and make a new composition. make it 720p or 1080 p, drop your old output in it and scale it up. it will look bad.
you should have asked what output to generate your work too before you did it. now it will proly be too late to go HD

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

thanks a lot for the reply but can u tell me if there are any chances if i can generate that 720p size from my current comp.
here are the details of my compositions.

PRESET : NTSC DV

720 by 480
PIXEL ASPECT RATIO : D1/DV NTSC(0.9)
FRAME ASPECT RATIO : 27:20
FRAMERATES : 29.97
RESOLUTION : FULL

regards

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

andreas can you kindly guide me. i am new to after effects. should i do changes in PIXEL ASPECT RATIO parameters. does that makes it 720p.
any help is appreciated.

regards

[Andreas.Jablonka]

any help might be appreciated but GOOGLE gives you answers for free:
720p is the shorthand name for a category of HDTV video modes having a resolution of 1280×720 (for a total of 0.92 megapixels or 921,600 pixels) and a progressive scan.

see was that so hard? your resolution is SD(standard definition). your WHOLE comp needs to be 1.5 times the size it was. instead of 720x480 you need 1280x720. this makes a 4:3 image(think old TV) into a 16:9(widescreen TV). so its either stretched or squiched. you either need to scale it up even more till it fills the frame or add black bars (letterbox) to your comp .

the pixel aspect ratio also news to be 1 and not 0.9.

to be even more complicated you have 29.97 interlaced footage but 720p(progressive needs that to be deinterlaced. so when you render it out make sure it says progressive and NOT interlaced.
your quality is gonna suffer immensely

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

your details reads you are administrator.(i take that as you are associated with this website somehow)
do u give the 'search google' advice to everyone or its just me having a bad day.
i will surely try to google but i will do it to search for a better website where people give some solutions instead of go google advice.

[yakuzowner]

google should always be the first way to go - even you will get your answer faster. And it isn't a terrible hard task to google "video resolutions"... hang around on wikipedia for 5 minutes and there you go.

and by the way, he mentioned google but still provided you with a helpful answer afterwards.

My personal tip: Watch some basic tutorials on videocopilot.net - it's for free and in his first tutorials he also explains the after effects composition settings.

cheers

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

dear yakuzowner, thanks for your kind words and the copilot link.
and thanks andreas.

[Andreas.Jablonka]

I am the admin yes, I run this site in the background. Your questioned showed you have not spend any time trying to find the answers yourself. thats why google or the search on this site will be your friends. we love helping artist and students but we dont like it when people feel "lazy" for the better lack of a word. video copilot is a good start.

[Tagger]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Vide...9163823&sr=8-1

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

I am the admin yes, I run this site in the background. Your questioned showed you have not spend any time trying to find the answers yourself. thats why google or the search on this site will be your friends. we love helping artist and students but we dont like it when people feel "lazy" for the better lack of a word. video copilot is a good start.

So what you are saying is that i should have listed all the links i have gone through to find my answers before posting the question here.

your tone was not right when you asked me to go google first. how do you know i didnt ,already.
i listed all my composition details you started to give me wiki crap when you could hav just told me the necessary parameters changes.
for example 'change NTSC/DV TO 720 HD' in PRESETS .
i 'googled' it.
i may be lazy but i think you dont know how to run this thing too.
and please put a 'vfx talk-dummies dont join' tab too on your page.

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Vide...9163823&sr=8-1

thanks bro. will try to purchase this thing.

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

google should always be the first way to go - even you will get your answer faster. And it isn't a terrible hard task to google "video resolutions"... hang around on wikipedia for 5 minutes and there you go.



cheers

if you dont know how to reply too then please dont jump in the conversation.

[Andreas.Jablonka]

I think you should think if you want to be on this website or not. because with a shitty attitude like this you will not get answers. being a newbie is fine. but IF you googled it and you STILL dont know what HD resolution is you dont deserver our help. Its a clear sign of somebody not knowing what the hell they were doing. I dont want all links, it was clear you dont understand your program or the requirements.

should i do changes in PIXEL ASPECT RATIO parameters. does that makes it 720p.

did you get that from google? did you find out what pixel aspect ratio means and why it exists? (hint square is PC/non-square used to be TV). this led me to believe you have no clue.

and to be crystal clear: Im not mad at you for not having a clue. we all start somewhere, this is what this site is for. Im mad at you for not trying harder to solve your problem yourself (google/manual/etc). We should end this discussion now.

[VOLUMELIGHTS]

I think you should think if you want to be on this website or not. because with a shitty attitude like this you will not get answers. being a newbie is fine. but IF you googled it and you STILL dont know what HD resolution is you dont deserver our help. Its a clear sign of somebody not knowing what the hell they were doing. I dont want all links, it was clear you dont understand your program or the requirements. did you get that from google? did you find out what pixel aspect ratio means and why it exists? (hint square is PC/non-square used to be TV). this led me to believe you have no clue.

and to be crystal clear: Im not mad at you for not having a clue. we all start somewhere, this is what this site is for. Im mad at you for not trying harder to solve your problem yourself (google/manual/etc). We should end this discussion now.

i am sincerely sorry for being rude. it was a bad day and i thought professional guys over here can help a newbie. well i surely dont know how to handle the program as a pro but i will try to learn.
i m sorry again and thanka for your help. may be i didnt had the brain to understand it. will buy tuts and will spped up my learning.

regards to everyone.