Best Codec for multi-screen project?

[Bob Bonniol]

Thomas,

LOL, LOL, LOL… I LOVE the comment about keeping the client impressed with the interface ! You are right at so many levels… And oh so wrong at all the ‘wickedest’ ! I’m with you man. Clients start thinking it all comes from some magical simple place.

No doubt that Wings has a much slicker looking interface, with more bells and whistles.

Cheers,
Bob

MODE Studios
http://www.modestudios.com
Contributing Editor, Entertainment Design Magazine
Art of the Edit Forum Leader
Live & Stage Event Forum Leader
HD Forum Leader

[Crea3552]

Gents, thanks for sharing your experience. I believe I have indeed ground up against the disk/Front-Side-Bus/PCI-Bus/Graphics card side bottle neck Bob mentioned. Rats! I am not technically oriented so I am not totally clear where the limitation is through this pipeline – but I have run enough compression tests to see the single node idea is not working.

I don’t suppose there is a cheaper Synched DVD solution out there?

Thanks for additional thoughts

Auguste
auguste@raffael.com

[Bob Bonniol]

Auguste,

You might tackle this from an art solution standpoint. What if the content designed for the multiple monitors (and say, played off DVD), were envisioned and created so that sync isn’t totally necessary ? i.e. perhaps you could have 4 or 5 signals that are complementary and whose interaction seems interesting and tied together, but it’s not neccessary for them to be any closer than within a minute or so ? In low budge circumstances I’ve had some good luck in getting DVD players to all go within several seconds of each other… Hell, I’ve had them all go pretty much simultaneously, but it was just a happy accident…

If the content were just crossfading stills you could do it off one computer with Keynote, or as we previously discussed you might use QC. It’s just the 5 full frame movies that’s killing you a bit. Can you compose this thing so that it’s a bit of stills, a bit of motion, etc, so that it is runnable via QC or a presentation program like Powerpoint or Keynote ?

Just trying to think outside your particular ‘box’…

Good Luck,
Bob

MODE Studios
http://www.modestudios.com
Contributing Editor, Entertainment Design Magazine
Art of the Edit Forum Leader
Live & Stage Event Forum Leader
HD Forum Leader