Is there a less taxing way to do this effect?

[Darby Edelen]

The only reason I like to use 72 DPI for my PSDs to go to video is because that is the default setting, I like to stay consistent, and I just don’t like that the View > Print Size option should affect my document =)

Of course images shouldn’t be scanned at 72 DPI, that would be ridiculous, but we’re talking about DPI in terms of output (where it doesn’t affect anything in the case of video) not input (where it is of supreme importance). However, seeing as PS chooses 72 DPI as the default for NTSC DV (and other video) presets, I see no reason to change it since it doesn’t matter at all.

And there in lies my unconvincing reasoning for why 72 DPI is ‘better’ than other DPI =)

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I may have missed this, but can’t you break the image up into smaller pieces and then connect them together with parenting. This way AE doesn’t have to render a huge image at once.

I;m pretty tired and I may have missed the point, but if a big image was the problem, breaking it into smaller parts should fix it.

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[Malcolm Desoto]

wow, alot of replies. I’ve been out of the studio all day on a shoot. Thanks for all the suggestions. I’ll try em out.

Yeah Aharon, I was thinking of importing them as multiple images and parenting them together.

By the way, I can’t tell you how much I’ve benefited from your tutorials =D.

[Mike Procunier]

Create a proxy for the background image, when you render it’ll use the original image. Andrew Kramer did a tutorial that explains the whole process well.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Yeah – the cow is awesome that way, isn’t it?

Glad to help

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When you finish, tell how well it worked and what steps you took to do it. That’ll help people doing future searches about this same type of topic.

[Anthony Dupsta]

I just ran across this post. Lot of good suggestions. But you might want to go the

[Anthony Dupsta]

OK so along these lines. Now I am stuck. I have an AE camera doing a Pan and Scan over a 5000×6000 psd file.
Well it is so bad it is crashing almost all my Machines so I’d like to break it up.

So I have one PSD file that has about 11 layers in it. That PSD is brought in to AE as a Comp so I can animate certain layers.
So If I were to break this up into lets just say two. How do I perfectly break it up, and keep all my layers? I can’t flatten it, no way, I need to have the layers.