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what’s the biggest size comp AE can handle? and picture size?
I am about to create a 3D world for a client. It will probably contain lots of elements so i dont want to get tripped up.
What is the biggest comp size I can have in AE without it crashing or not rendering?
Also, what about Picture and Illustrator Imports? What is their resolution max as well?
And, finally, will the comp size matter that much if i use all Illustrator Vector images? Or could the comp be 100×100 and scale infite to 4000×4000 and still look crisp?
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Oddly enough, I found this in the AE help file:
“After Effects supports a maximum image resolution of 30,000 x 30,000 pixels for importing and rendering files. Resolution refers to the dimensions (width and height) of an image measured in pixels. When you work with higher resolutions, you can use a wider variety of formats, such as IMAX frames (4096 x 3002 pixels), full-aperture/silent frames (4096 x 3112 pixels), and other large-format media. ”
Erik
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if you’re working in AE 8 you’ll want at least a Terabyte of RAM for anything more than 2k resolutions, otherwise you’ll get out of memory errors. Super nice feature of AE8
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a TERABYTE!? As in 1000GB? Blimey, what workstation would support that much RAM? I know the Boxx Apexx systems support upto 128GB, but that’s ridiculous!
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It was bitter sarcasm – ther’es another thread right now about this exact topic
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Thanks, Erik, for quoting from the Help document. It’s good to see that someone reads that. 🙂
Here’s an excerpt from the updated document for After Effects CS3:
“After Effects supports a maximum image size of 30,000 x 30,000 pixels for importing and rendering files, except for PICT (4,000 x 4,000 pixels) and BMP (16,000 x 30,000 pixels). The size of image that you can import or export can be reduced by the amount of physical RAM available to After Effects.”
The 30,000px x 30,000px limit applies to composition size, too.
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I once had a problem with this (I’ve only got 1GB of RAM)
I had a 6000*2400 image around which I was flying with a 3D camera but when it came time to render, it kept giving me errors about memory and no matter what I did, I couldn’t fix it. Fortunately I had a somewhat smaller version of the picture and then simply replaced it and everything worked out fine.
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