From the course: After Effects Weekly

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- [Eran] Hello, and welcome to After Effects Weekly. My name is Eran Stern. And today I want to show you how to resize the composition and automatically scale all the layers to fit to the new dimensions. So I'm going to use theseComp that we already seen in this course. So let's pause it over here and first I'll show you the problem. So let's assume that they want to scale these to half the size of what it already is. So I'll go to the composition menu, I'll choose Composition Settings. I'll make sure that both the width and the height are locked. I'll also make sure that the preview check mark is switched on. And then I can add a divider and let's divide it by two and then press tab. So After Effects will do the math over here but if we're going to take a look under this menu, since the preview check mark is switched on, we can see what happens. The composition size is reduced but all the layers stays…

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