From: Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com>
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Subject: RE: [AE] Largest Image
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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:20:26 +0000
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> I know you've got beefy machines, but the performance of AE with big imag=
es comes down to memory.  Which isn't an issue if you have lots. =20

Absolutely right - I've got 64GB thankfully due to a nice donation - but cu=
rious to see how anyone else had seen renders with this many data per frame=
, even though it's tiled. I'm tiling in AE right now and the UI is getting =
sluggish with half the tiles at 1/4 rez. This may or may not in fact work.

stephen van vuuren
336.202.4777

http://www.insaturnsrings.com/
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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

-----Original Message-----
From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv] On Behalf Of=
 Chris Zwar
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:53 PM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] Largest Image

I know you've got beefy machines, but the performance of AE with big images=
 comes down to memory.  Which isn't an issue if you have lots. =20

But I'm currently working on a project with a canvas size of roughly 10K x =
3K, and it is interesting to see how render times differ on machines that a=
re basically the same except memory.  In some cases the same render might t=
ake 10 minutes on an old machine with 16 or 24 GB, 20 minutes on a newer ma=
chine with 12 GB, and just for kicks the same thing can take 3 hours on a b=
rand new mac mini with only 4GB.

-Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Loomis - NOAA Affiliate [mailto:tim.loomis@noaa.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 09:23 AM
To: 'After Effects Mail List'
Subject: Re: [AE] Largest Image

30K is max. When we need to make movies with something that big, we usually=
 do it in Maya after we run it through imf_copy. Wavgen's wavelet plugin ca=
n handle that output within Maya, and you can map images that size to displ=
acement also. Can't wait for unrestricted file sizes in AE, although they'l=
l need to get around the patent holders for wavelet compression for most sy=
stems to begin to deal with the memory hit from something that size.


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:15 PM, David Torno <torno@sydefxink.com> wrote:

> The documentation mentions 30,0000 as a max. I assume images are=20
> included in that number.
>
> David Torno
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>
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Stephen van Vuuren=20
> <stephen@sv2studios.com>
> wrote:
>
>  What's the largest image anyone has run through AE? I've got 9.4=20
> Gigapixel (110,000 x 85,000 pixels) currently tiling for use in AE. 26=20
> GB source file.
>
>
>
> *stephen van vuuren*
>
> 336.202.4777
>
>
>
> *http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ <http://www.insaturnsrings.com/>*
>
> *http://www.sv2dcp.com/ <http://www.sv2dcp.com/>*
>
> *http://www.sv2studios.com/ <http://www.sv2studios.com/>*
>
>
>
> *A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It=20
> should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's=20
> behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.*
>
> -*Stanley Kubrick*
>
>


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