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script for quickly chopping up giant image in AE?
Hi all,
We want to do a giant video wall in AE and it’s matte/frame will be upto 30,000 pixels wide, so I know we need to chop it up into manageable pieces and slot/parent them back together in AE…
I read in an old post there is a script that can achieve this pretty quickly, but after a bit of googling I can’t find it. Any ideas?
Originally post here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/958020#958069
Cheers
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Hi, I think this may be what you are looking for:
https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_Slicer
It even has a dockable UI panel to make things easy. BTW, just curious, why do you need a 30Kx30K video layer? It seems a little much…
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Cheers for that. We’ve got a massive map of europe and it will be made up from hundreds of bits of video, starting from one of those videos full screen and pulling way out to reveal the whole continent. BIIIIG!
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**If you want the layers to be sliced into rectangles, this could work too:
https://nabscripts.com/downloads_en.html
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I think both these scripts start from an already big footage and chop it up using masks, anchorpoints and position.
However. This would mean you’re going to wind up with multiple instances of a 30K by 30K image. Even more of a pain to handle.I don’t even know how you would create that image to begin with… I guess Photoshop can do it if you have ages of time. Just 1 layer in RGBA would be 3.35 Gigabytes if I’m correct.
I’m pretty sure After Effects will not even try to import, let alone display that.Can you describe the workflow you have in mind in a bit more detail ?
This is going to prove quite a challenge, and will be very interesting if you pull it off, so please share. -
If you are not animating scale, and doing it with a camera, you should probably look for a script that will take all of those pieces made with the grid script and then have it save each one as a .psd or high res JPEG, and then maybe find a way to quickly replace each original piece with the new .psd/.jpeg images. Theres a keyboard shortcut to do one at a time, but if you could find a script that would be handy. Good luck!
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thanks akshay
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