HD rendering

[stezza]

Anyone out there rendering at HD resolution?
We may need to render out a new pilot in HD and having no expirence in HD production with Maya and Vray we may need some help in this field.
Does anyone have any advise for going down this road?
Would it need to 1920x1080 at 25 frames or 60 frame ps?

Thanks for any help.
S

[seq]

Not easy to answer. What is you final output?

1920x1080, with 1:1 pixel aspect, 25fps is what we use. Never heard that 1080p60 is used for anything in real word.

[stezza]

Just as I thought, I did read something about 60fps and it gave me a scare, thanks for the confirmation that 25fps is the norm. So how many cores do you use to render out ther frames? We are not sure as yet what the final output is going to be, is it usually uncompressed AVI? I guess it all depends on the requirements of the broadcast folks at BBC.

[pechart]

Easiest way would be to just ask the client how he needs the stuff. We actually never delivered in AVI uncompressed, but in QT uncompressed or maybe Apple ProRes or something like that. But you should really ask, i think.

[Davood.Kharmanzar]

Hi Stezza ...

For doing this :

1st ) Export your scene as (.vrscene) file. Then open it with an text editor ( e.g. wordpad in windows ) and add this line ( img_rawFileVFB=2; ) under img_rawFile=1; . This happens that your rendering process take lower memory in PREVIEW RESOLUTION.

2nd ) Render this file in shell/batch mode.
(( vray -scenefile="x:\file.vrscene" -imgfile="y:\image.exr" ))

3rd ) For broadcasting perposes use "DV AVI" compressing codec for write in the DV TAPES or DV DISCS.

Have fun and good luck ...

[stezza]

Wow some great tips there Davood, will certainly put those into practise soon.
Many thanks.

[seq]

QT with lossless animation codec is what we are using in most case. How many cores you need, really depends on how complex your scenes are. When you use BF+LC then you better not using DR.