[Jaleel]

Shawn,

I scanned the photos in extreme large and I said before I let AE create comps based on the size of the photos which were huge! I need to learn more about compression as this was one the things my school neglected to teach me because of the exports are 1GB in size which is too large for something 30secs. I really appreciate the help that you have provided.

Jaleel

[Jaleel]

Steve,

I just wanted to thank you again for the help! I found out that I was doing ALOT wrong after your help with the first problem.

I ended up forgetting to resize the comp size due to the fact that I was just dragging the photos to the create new comp button and the comps being created at the same size as the photos. This caused them to be very very large; bigger than HD large.

I did a batch resize of the photos however, they didn’t look good when I zoomed into them. So what I did was redo all the animation for the photos after I resized comps to DV size. This worked perfect as well as allowed me to do ram previews and render them alot faster! All 22 of them in less than 40mins.

Again thank you! I hope this helps someone else down the line.

Jaleel

[Jaleel]

Steve,

I think you might have nailed the problem. I did in fact scan the photos in at a very large size I didn’t want them to be too pixelated when I output them. Is there anything I can do to correct the problem short of rescanning them?

Thanks

Jaleel

[Jaleel]

There is another odd thing I noticed. I did a movie preview and the render not only took 30+ mins but the file was over 20GB for a 20sec photo!? What am I doing wrong?