Size of Photoshop files for FC.

Greetings.
I am scanning some photos that I am going to use to make a slide show in FC. I will probably be doing a lot of panning and zoom-ins very close. These will all be either .psd or tiff files.
My thinking is that a PS image around 4000x2600 @ 72dpi (little over 30MB) should be fine.
Some people have said this is good and maybe even larger scan sizes, while others have said that is far to big.
My plan would be to use these in an HD timeline, 1080 or 720. Not sure if that matters.
Any thoughts on my photo size issue?
Thanks.
Jonathan

I believe FCP and motion have a limit of image size depending on your video card.
Most don;t like bigger then 2k; around 2000 pixels each way.
But personally I would scan as high as I can go, like really as high as I can optically go (none of that extra interpolation crap!).
Then resize in Photoshop to either HD size, or 2k size and do moves e.t.c on your images.
But seriously try to scan as optically big as you can, and resize and fix in Photoshop.

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