3-way vertical split screen project

[Tim Mccain]

Hi Walter,

thanks for the info! I’ve just had contact with the client. For his trade show he’s working with another ‘supplier’. That’s actually a company that build stand on trade show. They’re also responsable for the video. The client sent a my test file and we’ll wait until tomorrow. If there is no feedback I’ll get the change to contact him personally.

It’s probably not going to be watchout because the supplier had his own equipment. I will wait for his feedback before doing something else.

@Walter: what do you mean by rearranging the finished work? They’s going to be set up vertically under each other. Not horizontally… Can I still use the Triple2Go?

I’ve tested the JPG codec again at half res and it worked smoothly. So basically if I have a pc with more performance the highres file should be fine..?

[Mark Suszko]

Walter, is the triple-head approach complicated by how his client wants the screens turned on their sides? Or do you adjust or that in the AE comp somehow? I’m just a curious observer but would like to know for future personal reference.

[Walter Soyka]

[Tim McCain] “@Walter: what do you mean by rearranging the finished work? They’s going to be set up vertically under each other. Not horizontally… Can I still use the Triple2Go?”

The TripleHead presents itself to the system as one wide monitor, and then splits its output across three standard outputs. In other words, it can tell the computer it’s a 5760×1080 monitor, then spit out three unique 1920×1080 outputs.

If your 1920×3240 comp looks like this:

A
B
C

Then you’ll want to create a 5760×1080 comp and insert that tall comp into it three times, so it looks like this:

ABC

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Walter Soyka]

[Mark Suszko] “Walter, is the triple-head approach complicated by how his client wants the screens turned on their sides? Or do you adjust or that in the AE comp somehow? I’m just a curious observer but would like to know for future personal reference.”

I thought they were still landscape orientation, just stacked vertically.

If they were portrait displays, you could compensate by pre-rotating in Ae. (I like to produce two versions, one for clockwise and one for counterclockwise rotation, just in case the install doesn’t go as planned…)

One consideration with portrait displays is that if you are working with an interlaced signal, the interlacing will now be vertical instead of horizontal.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events