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After Effects: Create and Render a composition above the 30000 pixel limit

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February 15, 2024
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Hello everyone,
I have a question to a problem I am facing:
I created an animation and I need to render it to the exact format size 42240 x 96 px.
It's for a sports stadium.
However AE doesn't allow any composition above 30000 x 30000 px.

Do you know of any way to achieve this format size, maybe in combination with Media Encoder, etc?

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Correct answer David Arbor

Understanding that this is the pixel dimensions of the output, are you sure this is what the stadium wants? Often, stadiums and arenas with these massive displays will take a 16x9 render where you stack your rows in a single file and the playback system handles the splitting and stiching. For example, with your dimensions you could get 11 rows that are 3840x96 with 1104 pixels of padding on top and bottom. Is this perhaps what the stadium wants?

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NoMagnolia

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I have a similar problem. The screens I'm designing for are 61024 x 80px. The supply format is 20960 x 240px - they want the master comp stacked three times vertically within the 240px area. But 61024 doesn't divide evenly into anything below 1907, which doesn't fit into 20960. To tile properly, the best solution seems to be to create one master 61k comp, make a series of comps which are repeated horizontally within this, then stack that 61k comp into the final 21k delivery format - but this is impossible because of the 30k limit. Seems stupid to set an arbitrary limit like the 30k maximum dimension _in one axis_ when there are examples like this where it might be useful to be able to go higher than that, even if I'm not outputting at that res.

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NoMagnolia

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I should also add that this 61k screen is in an unbroken ring around the stadium, so it's not even like the edges can be easily fudged - it all has to match up

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Joey01

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Hello Shroom.

Did you find a solution to your composition size problem? I too have sports venues that have linear fascia displays that exceed 30000 horizontal pixels. The 2 previous replies have no knowledge of how digital in-venue signage works and the special playback systems that feed them. I am currently trying to find other apps that might allow for me to create these sizes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Joey

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Shroom35475071l0yuAuthor

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Hi Joey,

The previous comment from David to my question turned out to be correct!

The stadium I created an animation for did require a different composition size, more a 16x9 size, within the individual animations needed to be stacked on top of each other. The playback systems of the stadium splits this composition and displays it on the screens.

The sports venue should be able to provide you with the specific requirements for the exact composition size and layout. I hope this helps!

All the best,

Shroom

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Joey01

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Thanks for the quick reply, Shroom.

I'm in contact with the arena to see if they have a method to deliver stacked content. Most of the other venues I deliver too that have massive displays default to the stacked method and most of the time supply an AE template project to do so. This venue was a unique exception. Hopefully, they will supply a template as well.

Cheers.

Joey

Mylenium

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What the man said. Your question makes no sense. Even if you could render the clip, there's no playback system for this size. whatever deliverables you have to produce have other specs.

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David ArborCorrect answer

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Understanding that this is the pixel dimensions of the output, are you sure this is what the stadium wants? Often, stadiums and arenas with these massive displays will take a 16x9 render where you stack your rows in a single file and the playback system handles the splitting and stiching. For example, with your dimensions you could get 11 rows that are 3840x96 with 1104 pixels of padding on top and bottom. Is this perhaps what the stadium wants?

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