Indie Image restrictions

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Can someone from SESI confirm the Indie Image output restrictions for 3rd party renderers?

Looking at the SESI website it seems to suggest, the following Indie image output restrictions:
Resolution Stills: Unlimited Image Size
Resolution Animation: 1920x1080

SESI allows 1920x1080 pixels (2.07 million pixels) for animation. My understanding is I can render those pixels however I choose:

Animation
1440x1440 = 2.07m pixels
1880 X 1102 = 2.07m pixels
2000 x 1036 = 2.07m pixels

edit: Mantra is pixel count restricted to 2.07m pixels, but it seems Redshift is x/y resolution restricted to x_max = 1920 and y_max = 1080.
Edited by TwinSnakes007 - Feb. 22, 2017 11:24:49
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Bump.

I have been rendering in Mantra in Indie and doing all my sequences at 1440x1440.
I purchased a license of Octane to do the same but on GPU, but found it is restricted to 1080x1080 pixels.This is 46% fewer pixels that I am allowed to render with Mantra. I asked OTOY customer support and they said it is because their legal contract with Sidefx specifies:

“The maximum resolution of any sequence of images produced by the Renderer must be 1920x1080
(x_res <= 1920 && y_res <= 1080) “

But 1920x1080 = 1440x1440 = 2,073,600 pixels, the exact same resolution. It seems plugin vendors are being constrained by second line: ”(x_res <= 1920 && y_res <= 1080)" , rather than a maximum pixel count, forcing them to restrict their output resolution by up to 46% (total pixels in 1080x1080 vs 1440x1440).

Can someone at Sidefx verify this limit is correct or should plugin vendors be allowed to output 1440x1440, or other non-standard aspect ratios, so long as the total pixel count doesn't exceed 2.073 million?

I, and many others, think it should be the same as the Mantra Indie limit, which is 2,073,600 pixels. If this is the true intention, can someone inform the plugin vendors so they can put fair, accurate limits on their renderers?

Thanks!
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