What image dimensions? What app? I find this extremely suspect, but it’s plausible if you’ve way undersold what you’re doing. 24Mpixel 16bit RAW image would have no problem generally on an 4gb machine if it’s truly the only app running and the app isn’t shit. ;)
I shoot timelapse using Canon 5D RAW images, I don't know the exact dimensions off the top of my head but greater than 5000px wide. I then grade them using various programs, ultimately using After Effects to render out full frame ProRes 4444. After Effects was running out of memory. It would crash and fail to render my file. It would display an error message that told me specifically it was out of memory. I increased the memory available to the system. The error goes away.
But I love the fact that you have this cute little theory to doubt my actual experience to infer that I would make this up.
> But I love the fact that you have this cute little theory to doubt my actual experience to infer that I would make this up.
The facts were suspect, your follow up is further proof I had good reason to be suspect. First off, the RAW images from a 5D aren’t 16 bit. ;) Importantly, the out of memory error had nothing to do with the “16 bit RAW files”, it was video rendering lots of high res images that was the issue which is a very different issue and of course lots of RAM is needed there. Anyway, notice I said “but it’s plausible if you’ve way undersold what you’re doing”, which is definitely the case here, so I’m not sure why it bothered you.
>> die with out of memory errors when I was processing 16bit RAW images
> Canon RAW images are 14bit
You don’t see the issue?
> Are you just trying to be argumentative for the fun?
In the beginning, I very politely asked a clarifying question making sure not to call you a liar as I was sure there was more to the story. You’re the one who’s been defensive and combative since, and honestly misrepresenting facts the entire time. Where you wrong at any point? Only slightly, but you left out so many details that were actually important to the story for anyone to get any value out of your anecdata. Thanks to my persistence, anyone who wanted to learn from your experience now can.
>> I was processing 16bit RAW images at full resolution.
>> ...using After Effects to render out full frame ProRes 4444.
Those are two different applications to most of us. No one is accusing you of making things up, just that the first post wasn't fully descriptive of your use case.
