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Working with 88+ layers at really high resolutions
Hi, first time posting here. I’m working on possibly the biggest project I’ve ever worked in. It consists of 88 layers of DV video (yes I know DV sigh), each a different shot, composed side by side in a “grid” like pattern–kinda like a chess board or something along those lines. I’m working in a ridiculously huge Comp of 6926×3896 because I don’t want to lose resolution, however I’m also using quarter proxies.
The client wants every shot to change positions every now and then alongside some audio. Obviously, since the Comp is so huge and there’s so much video going on, I can’t playback realtime at all and everything takes forever to render.
As the project goes along I’m gonna need to adjust the position of each shot to moments in the audio, but obviously I can’t playback realtime.
I’m wondering if there’s a better way of doing this? I feel like there has to be since I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person who’s worked with 88+ layers of video in AFx before and it’s not like I’m adding any effects…
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[Nicolas Ayerbe] “I’m working in a ridiculously huge Comp of 6926×3896 because I don’t want to lose resolution,”
Are you planning to render at this size, if not no reason to work at that scale. If you are, use Proxies then render out without the proxies.
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Nope I’m supposed to export at 1920×1080. Should I just create a new 1080 Comp and downscale all the footage?
Thanks
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Thanks Dave, just one more question: if my footage is in DV to what codec should I downscale them to?
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Got it! Thanks a lot!
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