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I'm new to TVP and I'm in production (tight deadlines...), I couldn't figure out the following:

how does TVP handle zoom in/out without loosing image quality?
for my project (1920 X 1080 HD) I do all the animation in TVP and export (grouped) layers to after effects for more camerawork, extra animation ( >>> I found that afx is more flexible for let's say sliding in a layer: e.g. walking-cycle, TVP commits the x-axis movement to instances (but maybe I'll have to find out more about the camera)

The image in attachment shows a zoom out of +/- 500%

Do I have to work in 5 times the resolution?
Can I change the image dpi?
In photoshop I would work in 300dpi or more, so that i can zoom in a lot.

Thanks

Do I have to work in 5 times the resolution?

If you want to zoom in that deep: yes.

If you have TVP pro, use the camera project.
If you have debut, do the background in one (large) project and your scene in another (in project size) and use the keyframer.

timson wrote: Can I change the image dpi?
In photoshop I would work in 300dpi or more, so that i can zoom in a lot.

DPI don't make any sense in animation.
DPI only make sense if you output your project to paper.

A 10x10 pixels image, being it at 10 or 3000 DPI, will still only have 100 pixels.

If your project in PS has 1920x1080 pixels, it doesn't matter if it is 300 DPI or 72 DPI, when zooming in 5 fold, you'll have the same quality loss as in TVPaint.
Just try it to convince yourself.

If you want 300DPI on a movie theater screen of 30 feet wide, you'll need 300 x 30 x 12 = 108 000 pixels wide !!!
With a "widescreen" aspect ration of 1.85, that makes 108 000/1.85 = 58 300 pixels high, or a total of 6+ *Giga* Pixels !!!
Ask PS, it will tell you the same absurd numbers...

For your problem, as slowtiger said, you have to start with a size five times your final resolution.
You always have to take the maximum zoom factor you'll use in consideration, to create the project at the appropriate size.