Genius Large MP Photo suggestion

CClub wrote on 10/4/2009, 8:00 AM
I thought that this suggestion by JohnnyRoy shouldn't get buried in http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=676393&Replies=19This Post [/link]:

Here's an idea if you really do need to do deep zooming... Delete everything in the project except the 8MP images and save it as a new name. Then render just the 8MP images out as video. Then add the video back to your original project. This will eliminate those large images from the equation. Like I said... large image support works great in on Vista 64 with 8GB of memory... not so good with XP32 and 2GB of memory limit.

I can't see doing that until I'm certain that I'm done with ALL editing and thus won't need to move the images around again, but once set, I could see this eliminating some annoying rendering glitches.

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R0cky wrote on 10/4/2009, 8:43 AM
This works up to a point. I haven't had any problem with 8 Mpixel images.

I had a very large panorama I wanted to pan and zoom that is 50 Mpixels. A project with only this image in it will crash V9a and while V9b doesn't crash, the color reversal bug shows up so it still won't render correctly. SCS has acknowledged this bug.

A project with only a single still image, XP, quad core with 4 Gbytes RAM, details:

29,998x1739x24bit PNG file - a very wide panorama.

52,166,522 pixels or if you want to count 3 color planes and an unused alpha channel it is 208,666,088 pixels. When rendering this crashes V9a and in V9b the colors are severely distorted.

This is far less than a gigapixel but is significantly more than a gigabit.

If I resample to 18,630x1080x24bit PNG it will render in V9a. This is about 20 Mpixels or 80 if you count 4 planes. This is less than a gigabit. Maybe that is the limit, bits not pixels? I haven't gone back to it in V9b to see what happens to the color.

I also have not tried the 50 Mpixel one with the 2GByte blink3times hack. I think (not sure) that it still crashed with only one rendering thread.


Rocky