Trying to convert a comp to a print size…. How?

[Steve Roberts]

DPI is dots per inch, which in a digital context, means pixels per inch.
So ….

1 inch at 300 dpi is 300 pixels.
2 inches is 600 pixels.

It sounds as if you’ve been asked to create something 1.51×300 pixels tall, by 1.01×300 pixels tall. So I’d wager it would be 453 pixels tall by 303 pixels wide.

Steve

[Chris Huggett]

hehehe… Steve, my apologies… i thought you could read my mind… I missed off the metres of my dimensions..

so it should be 1.01×1.51 metres

thanks again

chris

[Andrew Yoole]

So you need to create a new comp which is 11930 x 17835 (phew!).

Drop the artwork comp into the new comp, collapse transformations and scale to fit the new dimensions. Vector based art and text should work fine, but any pixel-based artwork/footage will be very soft, depending on the original resolution.

Then go Christmas shopping while it renders!

[Chris Huggett]

Thanks Andrew…

It is a massive file and it looks like my dual xeon 3ghx can not handle that size. No matter what i try, it won’t render just a still.

Do you have any ideas?

All i have is a text layer with shine applies to it. Is there a similar shine plugin for Photoshop?

Cheers
Chris

[John Dickinson]

Hi Chris,
I hate it when clients come to us and ask us to make print resolution versions of broadcast graphics

[Steve Roberts]

I thought it was a little too easy …

[Steve Roberts]

Yeah, that sort of thing is nasty. This is where specific details in estimates are important. When you have the say, of course.

John’s right: GF is the classic app for that sort of thing, but you might want to check out Resizer.

Steve

[Jonathan Miller]

I rmember a good article in DV magazine from October where John Jackman explained how to do just this using GF on a video still.

https://www.dv.com/news/news_item.jhtml?LookupId=/xml/feature/2005/JackmanVidforPrint.1105

Good luck!

Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA

[Michael Szalapski]

Here’s a Photoshop plugin that’s sorta shine-y.

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[Thehardmenpath]

Precomp that composition and in another that is, for example, 11930 x 2000. Put the precomped layer on top and render it if you can. Then change the position to -2000 and render again and again until you finish. Merge all files in photoshop. If you can’t you will have to reduce that 2000 to a size your computer can manage.

Good luck!