I couldn’t view the resultant movie on my laptop.Īfter tweaking the palette and other settings I loaded the same image used for my 720p movie (and the same location used in the 480p Orson Wang fractal movie that got me started) and set the resolution to 2,488 by 1,400, with 3 by 3 antialiasing.
There were a couple of image finalization tasks which ended up being run once per thread, and on high-resolution images this could cause a 5-10 second hang at the end of each image! Rendering the movie was going to take a month on my laptop so I switched to a 20-core/40-thread machine, but this revealed long-standing performance bugs.None of my video editing programs (Camtasia, Windows Live Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements) supports 4K so I had to use ffmpeg to stitch 18,117 frames together, which also meant I had to code up my own scrolling credits.The AVI format I’d previously used to export videos doesn’t handle 4K and the files would have been too large anyway so I had to update the zoom movie player to allow saving frames as PNG files – this was long overdue.My laptop doesn’t support 4K so I had to update the zoom movie player to allow saving frames larger than the display.I think it’s beautiful, and I also think that it is profound that all of this complexity comes from a formula as simple as Z = Z * Z + C.
It is the zoom-movie perfection that I have imagined since I released my first fractal program in 1986. Standing a few feet in front of the 4K TV while this new movie plays makes me happy. So I decided to make a new version, at 4K resolution instead of just 720p, with improved colors and other tweaks. I recently got a 4K TV and I realized that my “HD” video looked blurry on it.
My version of his movie was antialiased and 720p and seemed pretty impressive at the time. Four years ago I created a HD fractal movie because I wanted to see how quickly Fractal eXtreme could calculate the same movie that Orson Wang had posted to youtube.
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