• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HD file for a trade show

  Posted by Natalie Raichl on February 22, 2006 at 8:40 pm

  Hi guys:

  I produce video in FCP HD 4.5, using a Panasonic Varicam.

  I have a client that wants us to do a tradeshow video in HD, and he wants to play it back in HD at the show. He just bought two 80″ Sony HD projectors, and wants to play the video off his PC laptop.
  I’m working on a Mac, and would need to output some sort of file for him to load on his laptop. Now I realize his internal drive might not be fast enough, but I do have a portable FW drive I could let him use. I use it to edit on the road. The question is: Is there a file format I can actually output that would give him playable HD on a laptop PC?

  Kevin

  Markus1394 replied 20 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Debe

  February 22, 2006 at 9:02 pm

  It all hinges on his laptop. If it can’t handle the sustained throughput of HD, then there’s nothing that will really help.

  What resolutions do these HD projectors have as options? There are seemingly eleventy-billion of them.

  The specific HD resolutions of the projectors and the specs of his laptop are what we’d need to know in order to tell you if it even has a chance of working.

  debe
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  Natalie Raichl

  February 22, 2006 at 9:18 pm

  Thanks:

  We’ll be hooking it up in the next few days, and I’ll find that out and get back to you.

  Kevin

  Kevin
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  Shane Ross

  February 22, 2006 at 9:24 pm

  Good. The most important thing is testing things out WELL BEFORE you get into a crunch. Try everything and see what you need to do to get it to work.

  Shane

  Alokut Productions
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Markus1394

  February 22, 2006 at 9:41 pm

  Since your client is using a Windows laptop, I would recommend encoding to a HD resolution Windows Media file. It has been my general observation that files encoded in WM9 play back quite beautifully on PC hardware.

  The best Windows Media encoder for Mac currently is Telestream’s Flip4Mac

  https://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

  I would suggest scaling your file to the output resolution of the projector being used for best playback performance.

  My test system: at home I have a PC running a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, Nvidia 6600, and 1 GB RAM connected to a Apple Cinema Display at 1920×1200.

  markus peek | tekserve pro video NYC
  (212) 929-3645 | http://www.tekserve.com

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