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> I hate to say it, but have you considered other software? Like maybe a NukeX rental Back in 2009 prior to CS5/64-bit, I considered Nuke and Combustion and even just using Photoshop on it’s own, but at the time Nuke & Combustion both lacked
critical stuff for timeline based photoanimation that made AE the best tool overall. The film will pretty much edited online in AE with some offline work in Premiere due to no NLE on earth able to online edit a film built of 6K 16 bit and 32-bit TIFF sequences
with choking J Note that Nuke and Combustion have suffered similar memory limitations with huge bitmaps most notably during the first Dark Knight IMAX film that required ILM
spending $1M on custom code to deal with memory crashes. Honestly, if I had $1M, I would pay Adobe to do the same thing
J I even had a friend back then try several 3D programs only to run into similar problem bringing textures that big. Basically no one is really doing photoanimation at this level that I’m aware of – it’s all vector with much more efficient texture maps. My current render involved nearly 40 gigapixels of bitmaps – layers around 140,000 x 100,000 pixels – manually tiled of course. At this point, changing ships is impossible as the film is roughly 90% done even if Nuke is now able to do it. I’ve got years of comps and renders and technique
built all around AE. Hopefully the interest in timelapse, gigapixels, huge digital still sensors etc. will prompt Adobe (and to be fair everyone else) to really bump up the bitmap
processing side of things instead of vector getting all the love. stephen van vuuren 336.202.4777 http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ 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 From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv]
Wow. I've heard your complaints before but not the specifics. I hate to say it, but have you considered other software? Like maybe a NukeX rental? It is far more robust for those kinds of extreme project workflow demands. Its capabilities
may even offset the hourly costs (and medical bills from stress). Of course, that doesn't include the training you'd need or cost of hiring someone... -TG On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Stephen van Vuuren <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:
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