Large Scale Flag Ripple Project

[Cagdas Kara]

Hi.
I’m making a video for Videowall.

[Richard Garabedain]

thats an expensive plugin just to make a non realistic waving flag…it just looks like a displacement map (or Glass) with the wave world effect…

[Matthew Keane]

To be fair, the Zaxwerks Flag plugin can give good results for certains types of animations – try parenting a small banner to the motion-tracked movement of somebody waving their arms in the air, for example, and the material will flap back and forward in the air in a much more realistic way than other plugins I’ve played with.

But, as the original poster points out, it’s horribly unstable at high resolutions. I just about managed to coax some 4K renders out of it for a project by tweaking the render settings until it stopped crashing, but it was still very slow. For a very high-resolution render for a video wall, I would look at either one of the particle plug-ins, like Form or Stardust, for a stylised flag, or maybe Freeform Pro, if you need something more realistic-looking.

As Dave mentioned above, I would find out whether you actually need to deliver content at the final resolution, or whether a half-res, or even quarter-res render would be acceptable which would speed up the render times. If the display is a low-density pitch LED wall on the other side of a stadium, sometimes full-res renders are not necessary (or can be upscaled after rendering).

Matthew Keane

Freelancer based in Paris, France
– Motion Graphics, Video Editing & Effects, Watchout Programming & Live Operation.

[Cagdas Kara]

Dear Dave and Dear Matthew,
Thank you for your comments.
This resolution is unfortunately required. But we decided to make changes in the project. Because render time is forcing us.
We will use a different and simple effect.
But I will look at the Stardust and Freeform Pro extensions.

Thank you again.