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Authoring Content for a vertically mounted display
Hello,
I have to author content for an upcoming tradeshow and my boss is demanding to have it on a vertically orientated (?) plasma.
I am completely at a loss, even a starting place, and searching the web turns up essentially nothing.
I was curious if anyone out there has any suggestions on how this can be facilitated, what the proper setup would be (I am using CS3), even how to play it back. I would like it to be as high-res as possible and am open to playing it back on anything.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Karl -
4 Replies
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Hi Karl
I am assuming that your question is how do I author for a portrait oriented screen? One way is just to set up the composition in AE to be in portrait mode.edit away until you are finished then export it out to quicktime. in the quicktime pro options you can turn the movie back into landscape and then send it to DVD Studio Pro or whatever DVD app you are using to build the project to disc.
set your monitor up and pop the dvd in and bob’s your uncle!
hope this helps
The Electric Canvas
Large Format Projection Specialists
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Is it just one plasma which is turned 90°?
What’s the resolution of it? 1920*1080 (Full-HD)?If so, just start a new comp with dimensions of 1080*1920 and make your animations.
Then place the finished comp into a standard Full-HD composition with 1920*1080 Pixel and rotate it 90° so it fits.I don’t know what you got but you could use BlueRays which are Full-HD or just connect the plasma to a pc/mac which is playing the rendered project. For example as a Quicktime-File (Animation-Codec, but others are possible, too).
A professional setup (like in exhibitions for example) use special players which can read PNG- or TIFF-Sequences but for your task you don’t really need it.
Dino Muhic – Media Producer
VFX – Motion Graphics – Web-Design – Or just ART
http://www.dinomuhic.com -
Dino,
Thanks so much for your reply. I actually tried something very similar while I was waiting for a reply. I had to believe there was a way of doing this without my head cocked 90 degrees for the next week. I certainly don’t have it all dialed in yet, but I think with some tweaking and your direction, I should be able to make it happen now.Thanks again for the info. I really appreciate forums like this.
Regards, Karl
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We see this post often these days.
There are two approaches: You just work as normal with your display rotated or you explore the digital signage industry.bogiesan
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