Hi beauclair,
These amounts of holes certainly test your hardware. OF course if you can exclude this, please contact the support, as crashes are not tolerated ;o)
http://www.maxon.net/support/support-questions.html
If the Boole works initially, make it editable.
The amount of data produced to have (I assume) just one hole where the camera flies through seems not very economic. My initial thought was to have not a single hole, but a bump or perhaps a displacement (SPD) for that.
While on the outside, the texture suggests a surface with holes (dents) in it, after the flight through, the surface is set up in the same way, but the bump and/or displacement map produce the dent then from the inside. A transparency map helps to convey the effect. Perhaps for the single fly through whole, you might create a detailed hole, eventually with some “neighbors” around it in a similar quality. This will be then composed in, e.g., After Effects. Also composed the inside and outside, but maybe you try a front and back projection of the texture to get the results at once.
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Typically I would take the sphere apart and create a “slice” or triangle kind of shape. Prepare all the holes for that segment and have it as static model (compared to an active Boole), then clone it to get a complete sphere back. The seams are the real problem. I think of a sphere like an Icosahedron set to 8 or less segments (or a Platonic Object directly)—for example
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Speaking of the Icosahedron Sphere setting, which I think comes the closest to a nice distribution of the triangles. How about using a plug-in? Which I do not tech-support here! Nitro-Fit from Nitro4d.com. This could use one triangle object with a single hole and “map” it to the geometry. Not tested nor checked for this.
I hope one of the three options might work for you. All of that is just brainstorming, as I have no idea of you camera movement, and how much motion blur is involved. There are too many un-known parts that I left it here on a consultant/brainstorming level.
Perhaps you fill in more information, as “fly into it” is not really creating a precise “picture” here for me. I certainly like to explore it—just supply more data.
All the best