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by David_Fine » 13 Jan 2018, 02:04
This is very helpful, thank you, but I think the math needs to be done a different way for how I am working. I do understand that in order to get native resolution, I should set the camera to the same size as the project, but that assumes the camera is exactly the full project field size. In this case, I want to crop in tighter to reduce the field in the scene, so I do that visually by grabbing the camera box and making it smaller. When I am happy, I can look at the zoom ratio on the camera tool and I see that, in this case, it shows me it's now 81.87%. So I presume to get native resolution, I have to divide the original resolution of 3840 wide by 81.87%. That gives me 3143.8, so if my understanding is correct, that is the number I should set in the export dialogue. Having said that, I have to round it to 3144, which is very slightly different, but will that mean that the export is recalculating the pixels in the image and degrading the image quality in any way? If so, is there a way to avoid this? Is there an output setting that simply tells TVPaint to use the camera, with no conversion? Ah, now I know yo are going to say that No Conversion is an option already, but it doesn't seem to do that because when the camera is zoomed in, the No Conversion setting still says 3840, which is the full screen resolution, not the cropped in resolution, so it is, in fact, converting the cropped image up from 3144 to 3840, right?
If the above is correct, then I think I am getting somewhere. Thanks again for your help.
David Fine
iMac late 2014 3.5 GHz, 32GB RAM
Snowden Fine Animation Inc.
Vancouver, Canada