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  <li>Your resolution is on a third</li>
  <li>But most importantly, your video is 720 x 480 resolution but on a 1920 x 1080 timeline (so it seems), so you are scaling it to fit (you can't make up for a lack of resolution but upscaling your footage).</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>To get the right comp size, you can: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><strong>Drag your video file onto the little film icon</strong> to the immediate left of the 8 bpc selector below your footage tree </li>
  <li>Or <strong>create a new composition based on the dimensions of your footage</strong></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><em>There is no real point in making 480 footage 1080, it will not increase the quality.</em></p>
  
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Body: <p>I am having an issue with a video that I am adding effects to. The video is clear when I import it, but when I drag it on to a composition, it gets blurry. </p>
  
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Tags: <after-effects>
Title: Video blurry after dragging it to composition
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ThreadText: # Video blurry after dragging it to composition
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-07-27)
  
  I am having an issue with a video that I am adding effects to. The video is clear when I import it, but when I drag it on to a composition, it gets blurry.
  
  [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/RSeaV.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/RSeaV.png)
  
  **Tags:** after-effects
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: was the answer sufficient enough for you  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-07-27. Score: 4
  
  1. Your resolution is on a third
  2. But most importantly, your video is 720 x 480 resolution but on a 1920 x 1080 timeline (so it seems), so you are scaling it to fit (you can't make up for a lack of resolution but upscaling your footage).
  
  To get the right comp size, you can:
  
  * **Drag your video file onto the little film icon** to the immediate left of the 8 bpc selector below your footage tree
  * Or **create a new composition based on the dimensions of your footage**
  
  *There is no real point in making 480 footage 1080, it will not increase the quality.*
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: good improvements ;)  
  
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