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  multiscreen production

  Posted by Maurice Jansen on February 19, 2009 at 7:18 pm

  Hi there.

  i have to work on a multiscreen production for a exhibition booth.

  the screen will be fed in SD 16:9 (this because of budget and the live camera’s that will be used) do i have to make my main composition in widescreen pixels or in square pixels. the main composition will be split up in several SDwidescreen render’s for playback on BonsaiDrive’s.

  greet
  Maurice

  Maurice Jansen replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  David Bogie

  February 19, 2009 at 8:16 pm

  Never heard of a bonsai.
  is this for a digital signage installation or a video installation. Huge difference in how you deliver. once you know what the playback engineers need, post back.

  bogiesan
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  Maurice Jansen

  February 19, 2009 at 8:31 pm

  BonsaiDrive is a product of Rosendahl Studiotechnik

  it’s a Harddiskplayer with several types of timecode chase mode’s
  very nice piece of equipment plane simple and good. one of the nice things is that you can shift your timecode track in corelation with the content and you have the possibility to delay audio in the player.
  i will deliver the content in 8bit-720×576 uncompressed quicktime since this is the only format the player can handle.

  i’m more concerned about the pixel aspectratio of my main Canvas.
  because i also have to take care of the physical gaps between the display’s

  greet
  Maurice
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  Maurice Jansen

  February 19, 2009 at 9:24 pm

  Thanks for the advise.

  now i have to find a way to calculate the gaps.
  but that won’t be the problem.

  i guess your render option 1 is faster with more screens
  and render option to is faster with fewer screens.

  greet
  Maurice
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  David Bogie

  February 19, 2009 at 10:34 pm

  [maurice jansen] “now i have to find a way to calculate the gaps.
  but that won’t be the problem. “

  How many screens did you say? and wehre are they?
  If it’s than a 4×4 grid of 16 screens, the mullions between the sets are not worth worrying about.

  bogiesan
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  Maurice Jansen

  February 21, 2009 at 9:32 am

  well

  the displays are more configurated in a exploded view.
  and have corelation with paintings on the booth’s wall.
  so i definitly need gapping. in the last contact with the client.
  they want to rotate the display’s as well. (help) i guess pixel aspect ratio will kill geometry when the display’s are rotated.
  so th question about pixel aspect ratio is open again ;-(

  greet
  Maurice

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