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After Effects and the Illegal Drug Trade in Burma!!
Sorry for the sensationalist title. I’ve sometimes had no responses so I thought an inflammatory Subject might help
I’m trying to create a World globe and zoom into Burma to fill the screen. I’ve done this by wrapping a 10,000 x 7000 pixel sized Targa around a Sphere [radius 2000] in Invigorator and keep getting constant memory errors. I have a Quad G5 with 4.5 gigs of Ram and AE6.5.1 & INVIG 4.8. These are the errors which I can’t seem to get much info about:
-After Effects warning: memory inefficiency due to 2 unbalanced checkouts ( 26 & 248 )
-After Effects: not enough memory to create U_MemTrackedObject. (1K requested, 0K available)
– After Effects Error: Failure during Render (4) ( 25& 60 )
If I reduce the Layer to 90% it starts to work. The problem is I need to zoom into Burma to fill the screen [1024×576] which means the entire layer map should really be 20,000 pixels across otherwise it starts to pixellate.
I’m not sure if it is an Invigorator or a AE problem. If anyone has any suggestions that would be great.
Danny
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Most likely you don’t have the RAM to do that at 10,000 pixels.
That seems rather extreme, I recently did a project which was basically the same thing and used a map that was about 3000 pixels wide and zoomed into India.
Place the map in one comp(needed to have the red line conncting departure/destination), brought that into another comp and just applied CC Sphere to it. I was able to zoom into India no problem, without any pixelation issues.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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I’ve used a 8192×4096 TIF and PNG earth surface map on a 2.0Ghz Dual-Core G5 PowerMac with 4GB of RAM without issues.
NASA should have one available for download on its Visible Earth site.
https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/I once tried playing with a 21601×10801 map but got similar errors.
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H. Keith Hamilton
Fellowship Bible Church (Day Job)
Fallen Dragon Studios (Freelance)
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Hi,
I had similar problems and render-times go nuts with large worldmaps, so I went to transitioning. Just make your zoomin on the globe/sphere as far as it looks OK, then blent to another zoom into the close map of burma and surrounding. A nice way of transitioning is the trapcode shine with the images own colours along with a motion blur.
But since you asked the question… I guess you use a satellite picture to map on the globe. To avoid pixelation I tried to use Illustrator-Maps… but I can’t get around the pixelation issue there too. Either its pixelating or the mapping messes up when changing the layer transformation… Any hints??? 🙂
Karim
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