Everything in After Effects is SUPER pixelated

Everything is pixelated. Whether I import an image, make a shape, or type in some text, everything is so pixelated! The pixels are HUGE. Like a centimeter across.
Here is a screenshot:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2vc6bsl.jpg
That is a shape with some text on top.

your viewer settings are set to Custom and you probably have it to some incredibly low setting. . Under your preview you see a pulldown that says custom, drop it down and select one of the presets. Full, Half, Third or Quarter.

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Application Name:          AfterFX.exe
Application Version:          11.0.0.378
Application Timestamp:          4f6d63ab
Fault Module Name:          StackHash_a85b
Fault Module Version:          6.1.7601.17725
Fault Module Timestamp:          4ec4aa8e
Exception Code:          c0000374
Exception Offset:          00000000000c40f2
OS Version:          6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID:          1033
Additional Information 1:          a85b
Additional Information 2:          a85ba096cc6b6acabe6eaf35bf34dc60
Additional Information 3:          f862
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> If I trim the video within the composition, does that save me memory giving me longer RAM preview or speed things up?
What, exactly do you mean by "trim"? Are you referring to shortening the duration of the video in the source file? That has nothing to do with RAM preview.
> I'm not getting RAM preview longer than maybe 5-6 seconds now due to the number of files in the composition (most of them will be used).
The number of files used as source for a composition aren't relevant to RAM preview length, either.
> I even turned on the multi-processor option...
Don't do that.
You only have 4GB of RAM. That's not enough for using the Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing feature.
Also, by using that feature, you dedicate RAM to the background rendering processes, which subtracts RAM from what's available for RAM preview duration.
You have very little RAM, so your RAM preview durations aren't going to be great. See this FAQ entry for some tips on mitigating this:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/424030

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<languageVersion : 1.0;>
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>
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I've figured it out.
If you test like so, it works!
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You're right, it's no known PAR... completely arbitrary and custom to this particular job. I'll run you through my process.
I have a projection surface (a basketball court) Which needs to have content designed onto it which is viewable from one perspective point (camera 1) in the stadium. The problem is that Camera 1's viewing angle to the court is quite shallow.
This is what Camera 1 sees:
I will be generating like this for the surface so that it looks like a deep 3d surface from "camera 1"
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The resulting render looks like this (note, the angle of the camera hasn't changed)
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If i want a horse to look like its jumping through the scene from "camera 1", like this:
Then in the that contains all the information, It will look like this:
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I'd like to retain all the image information and just view the comp as though it's squished down.
I imagine this could be done easily by changing the comp settings to a PAR of 3.3.
That way, all the pixel information remains, but i can design in a realistically proportioned composition.
I hope that gets you up to speed on my issue, and my request for a solution.
So, in summary. I'll I'm really looking for is a way to customise the PAR options so that I have a custom available that I can apply to this, and only this scene.
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Cheers,
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