[After Effects & Sony Vegas] Can't get rid of the Pixel's Blurr

[SuperWiiBros08]

This is a problem that has been bothering me a lot of a while, I never had it at my previous laptop, the one that I'm now using is a Lenovo Z40 Entertainment, with a Nvidia Geforce 820m (2gb) for render and Intel HD 4400 for Display.

Whenever I wanna zoom in a Video or a picture, I sometimes like to keep their perfect squared pixels instead of getting a bilinear blurry interpolation.

I have this pixelate picture for example.



Re-sized



I found out on this post
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/367796-%5BSony-Vegas%5D-Pixels-are-getting-rounded-...d-after-render
That I could get a Nearest Neighbor Interpolation by setting the proyect/preview to draft



Not working

I learned from a long time ago that After Effects can change a sampling to keep the Nearest Neighbor Interpolation



Still no result






I assume this has something to do with my "system settings", even on game maker games I get a bilinear interpolation when going fullscreen.

[jagabo]

My guess is those packages are using DirectShow for the scaled output to the preview window, and DirectShow is set up for bilinear or bicubic scaling. See if you can change the output to Windows GDI intead of DirectShow (or Direct2D, Direct3D, whatever they're currently using). That should force the programs to do their own scaling. You can try changing the graphics card's scaling in its properties -- but that will effect all video programs. Some drivers allow access to that via the graphics card's setup applet.

Or try using Windows' Magnifier. I use that to zoom in on videos and it uses point resizing (aka, nearest neighbor). That way programs don't even know that the graphics card is zooming. Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Ease of Access -> Magnifire. I have the magnifier attached to my scroll button so I can bring it up any times. It offers up to 16x zoom, in a Windows or full screen.

[SuperWiiBros08]

My guess is those packages are using DirectShow for the scaled output to the preview window, and DirectShow is set up for bilinear or bicubic scaling. See if you can change the output to Windows GDI intead of DirectShow (or Direct2D, Direct3D, whatever they're currently using). That should force the programs to do their own scaling. You can try changing the graphics card's scaling in its properties -- but that will effect all video programs. Some drivers allow access to that via the graphics card's setup applet.

How do I change the output of DirectShow to Windows GDI? I'm using Windows 8.1, I also checked both of my intel hd and nvidia graphics option and looked up for "scaling", but still noting.

[poisondeathray]

For AE, if you add it to the render queue, by default the render settings will be "best". That will override draft mode, even on individual layers, and even on precomposed layers. Set it to "current settings" and the render will have "draft" for those layers with the draft switch enabled

Not sure about Vegas, but I'll check later tonight

[poisondeathray]

I couldn't "convince" vegas to use nearest neighbor, something might have changed between newer versions. But the steps above work in AE