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  • Exporting with a certain “DPI” in mind

    Posted by Michele Poggi on August 30, 2012 at 11:34 am

    This might be a hard or simple questions, I admit to don’t know.
    It’s by the way the first time that something like this is been asked to me.

    I still don’t know the details but it seems that I’ll have to export a 3D Text from A.E. with the asked resolution of “300DPI”, like in Photoshop for prints.

    I still don’t know if it will have to be a still frame (well, I think so) or not, but do you guys have any idea about how could I achieve this?

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    David Chappell replied 13 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • David Chappell

    August 30, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    AE is pixel based – as in an example screen resolution is 1024 pixels by 576 pixels.

    So if for instance you want an A4 (21cm x 29cm) image at 300dpi – you would need to set up AE to render 2480×3425.

    Example set-up for an A4 based on (21cm x 29cm):
    72 dpi – 595×822
    200 dpi – 2283×1654
    300 dpi – 2480×3425

    An easy way to find out your needed pixels is open photoshop – set up the size in cms and the desired dpi – then change view to pixels.


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