was there a recent post about msg looking different from the canvas or the output than what is in the animation memories?
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What do you mean by different?
The aspect ratio of the MSG preview cells (advanced editor, evolution editor, and msg memories) could be different than what is in the canvas. So this can lead to differences unless you are working with a square aspect ratio for the canvas.
Some MSG effects scale as the canvas size increases and just look essentially the same with more detail. Others might change a little bit or a lot depending on how they are constructed.
A way to check this would be to scale down your canvas size to run a test. Make it 2 or 3 times the preview size. Run the MSG effect. Then bump it up again towards where you had it sized. How is the MSG effect changing? Or not.
Feel free to point out any MSG scaling issues you run into. We're in the middle of this whole process to try and make upsizing of Studio Artist effects as painless as possible in the next release.
One thing you can do in the next version we're working on is convert the MSG effect into pure vector rendering. You can then anchor the effect at a specific resolution to construct the vectors, and any resizing after that point just scales the vectors.
So if you had a scenario where you love the look of the MSG preview and hate it as it renders larger you could just anchor the effect at the preview resolution and then it would scale from that point as a vector effect that looks the same with more detail as you upsize it.
in the evolution window there were very interesting combinations of the source image with the msg effects that were cartoon looking. when i rendered an animation the source image did not get ouput at all. same thing would happen if i tried to get the effect i liked in the canvas. the source image was left out.
The first thing to check is what the IP Source is set to for the MSG preset in the Editor.
The source is not going to be processed unless the Ip Source is set to Source Image. If you have it set to Current Layer then the canvas image would be passed into the MSG effect as the source for it to process.