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setting up an AFX project
hello,
I have started working with my AFX project and before i get to far advanced I wanted to check thaty i setting it up correctly.
Basically it is a 5 minute piece. with 5 main sequences of 40 seconds each + intro transitions and end. I have created the 5 minute sequences as 5 seperate image boards in photoshop storyboarding out exactly how i want them. So there are 5 photoshop files with their layers each about 150mb.
Now I am bringing them into AFX by importing the photoshop file and choosing each layer of that file. I thought this was a good way to work seeing as though its all very organised and my source files are inside 1 photoshop doc — however when I see the in the project window and view all the files it says each of those files (essentially layers from one photoshop doc) is 150mb (reading off the entire photoshop doc)? am i setting this up correctly? is it duplicating 150mb each time?
it doesn’t seem like it’s cranking toooo hard, or making my machine die (yet) and I managed to render out one of the 40 second sequences at full resolution at 800px x 800px – – took a long time, but worked… I’m just trying to find the easiest, cleanest way of working especially seeing as though this will be 5 minutes with hundreds of layers, nested comps… etc…
any suggestion about setting this up correctly from the begining would be a great help! Thank you!!!!
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1 Reply
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When you import a file into AE it’s really just creating a link to tell AE where to find the file and its contents–you’re not actually making a copy of it in AE.
I suggest importing multiple-layer PS files as compositions so that each layer is brought in individually and laid out collectively in various compositions. You can still use the layers in other compositions and even delete the original file composition if you choose.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
http://www.dfilminst.com
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