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HD Map Animation – Largest file size possible?
Hi
I’ll be providing an editor with a kit of parts to animate a basic HD map, which will be a wide of the UK, then a zoom in, and a dot traveling from points A to B. The editor will be animating everything so I wondered how big I can provide the map so he can zoom as far as possible? What would be the limit in pixels?
Cheers,
P
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Generally with an animation like that, I create maps in multiple pieces with a transition between the various sections of the Map. You’d probably have to create a Map in the 5000 x 5000 pixel range to do everything you’re asking about in just one image so he can zoom far enough.
Or you can create the wide map, then a closer one and then the closest one to which he can transition between them.
After Effects and even Motion will actually do a much better job of the animation vs. FCP.
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I’d second what Walter says, if I were doing the animation I’d do it in Motion rather than FCP…
Bear in mind that for HD the fully zoomed in picture needs to be 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels high, so if you work out the difference between the widest and tightest zoom position that’ll be required you can get an idea of how big the widest view has to be. I don’t know what the biggest sized import can be (anyone know??) but it might be worth considering supplying the image as a series of blocks – as long as they’re seamless when they’re butted up together to make a composite image they can be joined together to make a virtual giant image to do big zooms in several different ways (depending on the software being used).
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