Error Exporting files above 4000 pixels

[Kevin Snyder]

Will it RAM preview? You can save the preview to disk and then convert it to your codec of choice.

[Princess Tariq]

Hey Kevin,

AE is letting me render the video but automatically rescales it to 4096×22. Is there anyway I can force it to not override my specs?

Cheers,
Princess

[Tero Ahlfors]

It rescales the longer edge to 4096 because that is the limit of the H264 codec. The client is wrong and there’s no way you could do a H264 file with that resolution.

[Princess Tariq]

Thanks Tero. Is there any codec that can render over 4096pixels wide in AE?

[Walter Soyka]

[Princess Tariq] “Is there any codec that can render over 4096pixels wide in AE?”

Yes, but the question is really what codecs the playback workflow or device supports.

Quicktime’s Animation codec at 100% quality is lossless and pretty widely supported. Some fascia systems like this also prefer AVI with no compression.

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[Cassius Marques]

See if they accept any other format.
See if you can split the videos into more parts, most projection systems (that I imagine is your final use) support multiple imputs.

We usually use .mov JPG, it can render out almost any size (our last one was 8378×720 for one part) its quick to export, relatively small filesize. And the loss of information is not very noticible when you’re seeing it 40m afar.

Also I’m almost certain that if you generate some intermediate file, quicktime pro can export h264 wider than 4k. But I won’t advise in using it. You really should get more information from the client.