[virtualritz]

See the explanations in my other replies on this topic.

It is impossible to hold a typical VFX scene in RAM to start with.

Even freelancers doing sim/FX work now have at least 128GB RAM and this is often just enough for proxy work that still gets expanded at render time.

I.e. consider the possibility that your worst estimate of how complex this data could be is off by 1-3 orders of magnitude.

And for your example: the person who signs this off is the VFX supervisor. They don't sign off anything but final frames.