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AE problem with stills from UK…
An acquaintance from the UK wrote me…
I am having a lot of problems using stills in After Effects and thought that it was probably something very simple. I using fairly large hi res (300dpi) still files as jpegs and also tiffs and wanted to do some simple 3D rostrums on them – one thing I was trying to do was make a 3D book with the pages turning.
Here’s the problem, everything seems to be crunching up (pixelating or whatever you want call it). I am using a DV PAL resolution and when I increase the scale of the object it completely pixelates in rendered movies and in the original project RAM preview and it is driving me mad.
I have checked all the quality tabs and the quality settings and there are all on full. It is also effecting the text that I am trying to write on. I would be grateful for any light you could shed on this, it’s an embarassing problem as it’s something that is really setting me back. You will probably need to ask me a few more questions about what I’m doing so I’m happy to provide more information if you need it. There might be some toturials or something that you can point me towards.
thanks so much for your help
AndyJay Thompson
Thompson Visual Design & Storytelling
7 Marjean Ct.
Kirkwood, MO 63122 -
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pixels and dpi are sometimes hard to understand. the thing that finally got it to click for me was a post that I read here that said that somewhere in your project the image should be near 100% but not much more. I also saw another post when I was searching the archive that had a jpg that was i think 900 dpi and another one that was 1 dpi but when you brought them into photoshop or ae they were the same size. The light finally went on and i started thinking of resolution as number of pixels and dpi as the size of the image on paper.
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