Editing for multiple screens with FCPX

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Rod,

Sounds right, but how does the client want to play the file?

Do they have the equipment installed?

If so, can you run a test to make sure that it works, and that the screens are perfectly alligned?

Atb
Mads

[Matthew Woods]

Sounds about right. I usually render an all screens pro-res master from Final Cut. Then depending on the player/players I either crop and cut it up into individual vids for each projector, or remap it to fit the requirements of the player.

A recent 4 screen project that I worked on was installed on a brightsign, and needed a single 8k file where each quadrant was the output of 1 screen. The screens were different sizes and orientations, so I had to scale, rotate and crop my edited master vid to fit each quadrant.

A little bit of self promotion. If you are dealing with screens that are in perspective, or are hitting multiple screens with 1 projector you might find this tool that I wrote helpful. It will blow up a perspective portion of your vid to full screen so you can use the native corner pinning tools on-site to map it into its final location.

https://fxfactory.com/info/reversecornerpin/

AE’s “Power Pin” tool will do this too, but I wanted the ability to do it in Final Cut.

Good luck,

-Mat