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| > I've been doing IMAX projects since the mid-1990's, on as little as 512MB RAM on 9500's and G3's Well it all depends on what you're doing. It's bitmaps that AE 32-bit (and other compositors) can't handle - especially at 16-bit and 32-bit color depths. Vector stuff in 8 or even 16-bit is not really that bad at high resolutions since you only worry about the frame size, not the layer size. The issue with 32-bit AE is bitmap layer size. I can guarantee the CS4 and previous won't load any of my current projects for Outside In. In fact, they won't even load at HD rez, much less IMAX. To get the them to work under AE would require breaking every bitmap layer (the film will have over 1,000,000 bitmap layers made of photo images) into many much smaller layers and dealing with the many issues of layer joins - probably would take either a couple of decades of work or several hundred people working on it. But that's about as valid an argument as I could actually made my film without a computer at all. It's all 2d photographs and with enough ink, paper, optical printers, animation stands and several hundred motion control arms it could be done entirely optically. 64-bit AE makes just a little more sense :) Although I wish the 4GB per frame buffer disappears in CS6 - I still have to tile my very biggest bitmaps especially in 32-bit mode which I have to use for much of the film. stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.sv2studios.com/ http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/ http://www.stephenv2.me/ A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -Stanley Kubrick |
