From the course: Motion Control 3D: Bringing Photos to Life in Three Dimensions with After Effects and Photoshop CC (2019)

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Setting the composition size

Setting the composition size

In order to animate things, you're going to want to set the composition size to match the delivery format. Remember, in this case, I've given you some photos that have been down-sampled to a smaller size to make the exercise files easier to deliver over the internet. Normally, you would work with higher-resolution images. Now before I do this, I'm going to make sure that the composition is selected correctly, the one called Rigged, and I'll adjust the Composition Settings. And we're going to work with a low quality, standard definition size. This is because we were attempting to deliver this for a smaller download. So I'll choose NTSC D1 Widescreen and click OK. Now we'll switch to the soldiers in field and do the same thing, Composition Settings, and this one's a bit higher quality, so this will work out nicely. We'll go with the NTSC D1 Widescreen and click OK. As you can see, the original resolution really…

Contents