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musicvid10 wrote on 7/5/2009, 4:00 PM
It means it handles large images better -- as in improved memory handling for large compressed images that would sometimes cause the program to lock up.

afaik, it does not affect the quality of either stills or movies.

"big quicktime movies" come in several flavors as you well know by now. You would have to test them, and consider using an intermediate render if they are causing you problems on the timeline with the project properties properly set.
rmack350 wrote on 7/5/2009, 6:34 PM
Technically, VP9 is supposed to handle 4k x 4k movies, but that doesn't get you out of testing it.
JHendrix wrote on 7/6/2009, 5:39 AM
what is the normal "4k x 4k " movie? is that red or something?


8c does not do that?


does that apply to QuickTime or only certain formats?
JJKizak wrote on 7/6/2009, 8:32 AM
4k x 4k is RED. 4K is what they use for digital movie theatres.
8.0C will not handle it.
JJK
rmack350 wrote on 7/6/2009, 11:08 AM
Well, some RED setups can do 4K, but 4K is not RED, strictly speaking. Other camera systems can also record 4K. RED just does it in a much cheaper camera. 4K can also be a good resolution to digitize film, or to print to film

Versions of Vegas before VP9 could handle a frame size up to 2048x2048 pixels. Anything that could fit within those dimensions would work (if your system was built for it and the wind was blowing in the right direction)

VP9 can handle a frame size up to 4096x4096. "4K" for short.

4K could mean a number of things depending on who says it, but it pretty much always refers to the horizontal picture dimension in pixels. Oft-times "4K" or "2K" assumes a certain frame proportion (like 16:9). The vertical dimension is not necessarily 4K.

1920x1080 HD is less than 2K.

The first time I heard anything referred to this way was from a friend generating graphics for output to film slides back in the early 90's. Prior to digital projection. They'd generate "2k" graphics for printing to film. The frame proportion was a given so they only needed to think about the horizontal dimension.

Rob Mack
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/6/2009, 2:38 PM
I just did a test: Vegas 8c 32-bit *CAN* read 4000x4000 files, no issues. You just can't export something that large is all.