S it best to down res photos to display on apple tv?

I would like to display a folder of images on my tv via my apple tv. Currently these images are between 4 and 8mb each - so way oversized for the HD display. Does anyone know whether it makes sense to create a shared folder with more appropriately sized images so the Apple tv doesn't have to down res? Or does the Apple TV create it's own onboard cache of the down res'd images?

If the photos you take are exclusively for viewing on your widescreen TV (or on your widescreen computer screen), rather than in printed form, it may be worth considering setting your camera to take in 16:9 format.
This way, your photos fill the screen. One thing to be wary of though, is if you then take photos in Portrait (using 16:9) they are even worse than if you had used 3:2 - ie they are even taller and skinnier on the screen.
I've seen the odd post here that some people take in 3:2, then duplicate their shots, and crop the duplicate with a 16:9 constrain for use with ATV on the widescreen.
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Resolution is the number of pixels. When you scale down an image in After Effects AE cannot cram more pixels in physical space. Let me explain. I'm going to use whole numbers so the calculations are easier.
If yhour image is 3000 pixels wide and you put it in a 1500 pixel wide AE comp then AE will crop the image to 1500 pixels wide. You will only see half of the image. You can move the image around because the pixels in the image outside of AE that are not in the Composition Canvas are not lost, they are just not visible in the composition because they are cropped.
If you want to see the entire image you must scale the image down to 50%. The original 3000 pixels now become 1500 and you can see the entire image. Did you follow that? Inside the composition your image is not still 3000 pixels, it is only 1500 pixles. Half of the information in the image is thrown away. After Effects uses some complex math to try and maintain as much of the detail as it can but half of the information is lost. Your image, inside the composition is now half the resolution of the original.
If your design requires you to see the entire image without any cropping then it does no good to import an image that is 3000 or even 2000 pixels wide. Photoshop, and a bunch of other image editing applications, can do a much better job of scaling down an image that After Effects so if you want the image to have the best appearance then you should scale the image down to the composition width in something like Photoshop before you bring it into your project. AE will perform better, the image will look better, and all will be well with the world.
The second scenario in a design may be that you wanto to do a push in on an image to reveal only 1/4 of the original photo. In that case, if you started with a 3000 pixel wide photo in a 1500 pixel composition you would need to scale the image to 200% to crop the image to 1/4 of the original area. This time, After Effects will have to double the number of pixels in your image. This results in a loss of apparent detail. You would be better of importing an image that was 6000 pixels wide to start with. Here again, if the original is only 3000 pixels then there are better solutions for scaling up the image and restoring the apparent detail than AE. Photoshop does a better job and there are 3rd party solutions that can do even better.
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