Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 52493

Most of my work is large format, but this is about twice as many pixels as the largest wall I've done. I'm curious to hear how you get along with it!

If you were doing slideshows on gigapixel photographs, I'd want to do that part in WATCHOUT instead of Ae.

For Ae work, I'd suggest that "resolution" means "sharpness" to the viewer. If you are designing computationally expensive soft, organic or out-of-focus backgrounds, you can design and pre-render those elements at half- or even quarter-res and scale them up in the final composite as long as there are a few tack-sharp full-res elements in the foreground to establish the "sharpness" of the display.

(As an aside, high-res work is a great example of how improving Ae's performance could open up all kinds of new creative possibilities.)

Walter Soyka | Keen Live

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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com> wrote:

Hoping I can pick the brains of the group…

A marketing agency has approached us with a concept for a display of 4K TVs. Stripping away the creative it's basically a video wall made up of 4K TVs. The problem is that they want each TV to be displaying a full 4K stream, so the pixels add up very quickly.

4K is 3840 x 2160.

If this hypothetical video wall was 5 TVs across by 4 TVs down, the overall canvas would be 19,200 x 8640. I think the actual design was for even more, I think it was 8 across (30,720 pixels).

I really don't think it's feasible to work at such a high resolution in any software package. I've had one After Effects project that was about 10K x 1080, and probably the biggest I've done was about 7K x 3K, and I really wouldn't want to go much bigger in After Effects. However I don't think any compositing package - or even software package - would be much fun working with projects in then 10's of thousands of pixels.

Apart from the playback issues (don't know how they plan on playing back to 20 - 30 4K TVs, perhaps Watchout can do it?) I'm not sure how to approach the project without doing it at a lower res and scaling up. And that's what we would normally do - and often do when the delivery resolution gets too high - but the whole point of this marketing exercise is to have each TV playing back a full res 4K stream…

So I am wondering what are the largest resolutions that people here work with successfully? If we had access to a few gigapixel photographs would it be possible to do a simple slideshow type thing at 20 or 30K?

-Chris
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