• Adobe After Effects

  After Effects CS5 locks up when importing PSD file as composition

  Posted by Bryant Coffey on April 20, 2011 at 2:47 am

  Hey all,

  I’m having a strange deal happening with the new AE CS5 while importing a photoshop document. I have quite a few layers and it was quite large, however, I also scaled it down and tried it that way as well. I import as composiiton, merge layer styles and disable the Photoshop 3d. I get it imported as usual, then a thinking mouse pointer, then beach ball of death. Mac OS X Snow Leopard, MBP 17″ 2.3 Quad 8 Ram. File sizes tried as follows with the PSD ->

  5007×1853 -> 206.9MB
  2918×1080 -> 76.6MB
  1920×711 -> 36.3MB

  The PSD file is also an RGB colorspace. Any ideas as to what might be happening here? Thanks!

  Bryant

  Bryant Coffey replied 15 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Szalapski

  April 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm

  Does it do it with other PSD files or just that one?
  How about if you reboot, start a new project and try to import that PSD file into the new project?

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  Bryant Coffey

  April 20, 2011 at 8:36 pm

  Well, I just quickly threw together a psd and it imported as a comp with the layers… So seemingly it would just be this file. It’s fairly complex but I wouldn’t think that that would matter…Attached is a few images

  1) The completed painting
  2) The layer structure in PSD

  Anything look odd as to why it wouldn’t work?

  Thanks.

  Bryant

  

  

  

  Bryant Coffey

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