From: "Chris Zwar" <chris@chriszwar.com>
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:36:13 +0000
Subject: Re:  [AE] Thoughts on ultra-high resolution
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Thanks for all the replies.  There's another meeting next week with the a=
gency and I'll be interested to see if they want to go ahead.

FWIW the display will be an exhibition / art type thing, so the public ca=
n walk right up to the TVs.  It's a marketing piece for the TV manufactur=
er which is why they insist that each TV has a 4K feed, otherwise scaling=
 up wouldn't be an issue.

I looked at the design at it calls for an array of 8 x 9 4K TVs.  They wi=
ll probably be 60" OLEDs because the 100" will be too big for the space. =
 That's a native resolution of 30,720 x 19,440.  It's definitely possible=
, probably just won't be much fun.

We have met with a technical company who have said there will be no probl=
ems driving it with watchout.

Although I wasnt involved, the company has previously done an AE project =
at 30K x 30K (for Cisco, in 2009) and the basic thing is to budget for th=
e extra time it takes up.

If this thing does go ahead, we will probably design and animate everythi=
ng in Maya, and comp it in Nuke.  This is because we have a deadline farm=
 that can tile render, so we can build the scene in Maya and Deadline wil=
l automatically split the scene up into 4K outputs for each screen.  Nuke=
 has the same capability.

If it happens it will look good=85

FWIW here's an article on the current record for large size video product=
ions:

http://www.redsharknews.com/m-production/item/1248-and-you-thought-4k-was=
-impressive

-Chris