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Importing PSD back into After Effects, not staying at original dimensions?
Hi,
I had a tried and true process that I’d do to render a still from after effects as a PSD, edit it in photoshop, then re-import it into After Effects and it would be perfectly aligned with the frame I’d been working on. I used the shortcut opt-cmd-s to generate the freeze-frame PSD.
Now when I import the PSD back into after effects, it’s much smaller then the source file and is about 50% the size and in the middle of the window. Resizing the document to fill the window is a pain and not always as accurate.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a simple fix to have the PSD fill the screen again?
Thank you!
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My guess is that you had the resolution of the comp set to less than 100% when you exported the frame. Still frames, unlike video, are exported at the resolution set in the comp. BTW, you can export a layered PSD file from AE, just go to Composition>Save frame as>Photoshop Layers. Some things won’t translate to Photoshop but reasonably simple comps will usually come through OK.
Erik Waluska
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Hi,
Don’t know if this will get monitored or not, but I am having the same problem and I tried what was suggested here and it didn’t work for me. So I figured, oh well and just tried to resize it, but the resolution is not the same and so the still seems very blurry, compared with the original footage. I used PNG to try to maintain the same quality, but it didn’t work. I have had this problem before and found a work-around, but it is an important function for what I have been working on lately, so if someone has any idea, I would be very grateful, as I have searched around a fair amount and can’t seem to find anything. Thanks…
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For anyone else who may encounter this… It’s a stupidly simple fix. It appears that the default setting on the OUTPUT MODULE SETTING are set at 480×720, so I just hit resize to change it to my Comp Setting, (which for me was 1920×1080) and it worked fine. Don’t know why it doesn’t follow the comp size, but…
PS I am on CS6
Cheers…
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