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Uncompressed AVI
I may be doing an animation for a football stadium on one of those rectangular banner-type screens that run around the stadium (not the jumbo-tron). Anyway, these are the specs:
Frame Size
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Nobody spaced, Dave.
:o)
Chalk it up to politics between the two companies. Neither Apple nor Microsoft wants to support the other directly on the Mac, so this opened up the door for developers like Telestream to fill in the gap. It is the way things are and I doubt it is going to change in the days ahead.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[parker C] “The way I’m thinking now, the only way to do this would be to export a full res quicktime from AE, then use something to convert it to an uncompressed AVI. But I’m not 100% on this. Any suggestions?”
Go the Animaiton route at 96% – yeah, I’m old school. 😉
Once you’re on the PC, you can pick the uncompressed/None AVI CODEC.
And the 100 DPI requirement sounds contentious as video specs are irrelevant to DPI measurement.
And working at 4064×32 pixels should be fine cos’ those boards generally contain text and vector-like imagery. The real problem would be trying to size up Pamela Anderson for such an aspect ratio. Dang! How would you fit her head in and still make it look like its Panela!?!?!
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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Please allow me to rant for a moment at the person who gave you a spec of 100 DPI.
DPI is irrelevant with video — it is only used when scanning from paper or printing to paper.
Is the big long screen 100 DPI? Darn, that’s gazillions of teeny tiny lightbulbs.
Is the computer monitor you’re using supposed to be 100 dpi? So a 100×100 square would be an inch wide if the screen is set at 640×480? How about 1920×1080? Feh.All you need to know is the screen size in pixels. In your case, 32×4064.
It helps to know where the screen is and how it will be viewed so you can design for viewing angles and so on, but ignore DPI.
And yes, that comp size and shape is a pain, but you have to work with it. Try to crank up your monitor res if you can.
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Wow, thanks guys for all the info. Sorry, I should have told you my specs. Yes, I’m running AE 7.0 on a Mac G5 Dual 2 GHZ PowerPC with 3 GB of RAM.
So to make the AVI, I’ll need a PC? Or is there a program out there to convert it on a Mac?
[Roland Kahlenberg]
“Go the Animaiton route at 96% – yeah, I’m old school. 😉
Once you’re on the PC, you can pick the uncompressed/None AVI CODEC”Are you saying to make the QT with the animation setting? I don’t understand the 96% Sorry, I’m not old school, I’ve only been on AE a few months. 🙂 And what program on a PC should I use to create the AVI?
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Steve,
Yes, that’s what I though about the DPI spec as well, which also made me a little suspect about some of the other settings. I guess I’ve never seen one up close, but that frame size seems a bit strange to me. Although I guess they’re different for every stadium. -
Can you talk to the folks at the stadium? Sometimes there are agents who deal with large digital signage, and work with the venues and content providers such as yourself. I dealt with such an agent for the NASDAQ Marketsite screen, and he had a very specific set of specs that worked well. Maybe the stadium has such an agent.
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I don’t like it either, Dave.
I just didn’t want it to look like it was Microsoft “spacing” here, when it’s clearly a “co-spacing” of both MS and Apple.
I like that word, co-spacing.
:o)
Have fun, Dave.
Ron
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[RoRK] “And the 100 DPI requirement sounds contentious as video specs are irrelevant to DPI measurement.
And working at 4064×32 pixels”
With the ‘DPI’ included I initially assumed that the 4064×32 ‘frame size’ was listed in inches =O
32 pixels seems short and a little low res… although 3200 pixels seems far too high… I would ask for clarification on this.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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To go into details, I would have to violate NDAs, etc.
Let’s just leave it at co-spacing and trust me that the operative term is “co-.”
Best,
Ron
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[Dave LaRonde] “…as far as the boys & girls in Cupertino and Seattle are concerned, the term “Pirates of Silicon Valley” still applies.”
Yep, and with the 50% margins that the iPhone is bringing to Apple Inc., “…there be flagons of grogg for all, maties! Drink up, boys! Aaarrrrrrrr….”
Ron
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