• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  multi screen output

  Posted by Andreas Wappel on March 14, 2012 at 10:52 am

  hi,
  i was just wondering.
  i am about to edit an ambient cinema short film (meaning 4 walls in a room being projected at the same time) and the ideal way to edit such a project would be to output 4 streams of video out of final cut (or any other editing software). now i have read that back in final cut pro 3 it was possible to assign the video-tracks in a sequence to different viewers.
  i was wondering if it is possible to somehow do the same, just output single videotracks to differing canvas’s.
  i think the power of todays machines would be able to do that (output 4 streams of HD footage), but i have never heard about apple or avid supporting this.

  any ideas. even through other software?
  thanks
  aw

  Neil Patience replied 14 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Neil Patience

  March 14, 2012 at 5:28 pm

  Although FCP or Avid supports multiple streams internally as layers on a timeline they both only output a single stream.
  So although you can playback 4 or more streams of video at once the output is a composite of them all.

  If you have 4 seperate projectors then you need to edit 4 seperate films and then the issue is syncing them up so they they all play together to create the desired look.

  check out things like

  https://www.zachpoff.com/software/multiscreener/
  https://www.nasolab.com/arraysync/index.html
  https://www.djdesign.com/products/proddvd.html
  https://www.videobotics.com/polydvd.html

  should get you heading towards what you need

  best wishes
  Neil
  http://www.patience.tv

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