Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 2.9
The action and title safe
areas in video animation iles. The
light blue guide represents the action
safe area. The light red guides
represent the title safe area.
such as PSD (Photoshop), AEP (After Efect), and so on to a viewable video
format such as AVI, MOV, FLV.
The saved or rendered video ile comes with a large ile size, which requires
compressing the video content so that it can be easily handled by users. A
huge ile size and the need to compress video have made necessary a
technology called the
codec
, which basically means to compress video
content to get a smaller size. Actually, the quality and the compression
works against each other: the more compressed the video is, the lower
quality it has.
Summary
This brief overview of 3D and animation terms will help you to better
understand the 3D and animation features in Photoshop as we cover these
features and concepts in more detail.