multi screen

[Johnsabbath D’urzo]

the text and images are going to slide form the right On some images from the right side will show refection on the left side as well. Like a man sitting on chair in the right screen and a fliped transparency with the same motion and text on another

[Bob Bonniol]

This is SO dependent on your playback system. The res of your master comp is dictated by two factors: What are the output resolutions of your display devices (projectors at, say, 1024 x 768 ? Or HD plasmas at 1920×1080 ? some other variant), and the playback device. Multi screen presentations need to be played back by devices that can maintain frame accurate sync. Some of these sorts of devices (say Doremi v1HD) output standard broadcast resolutions, and are controlled via show control systems like Medialon Manager to make sure they are running in perfect frame sync. In the case like that, you create a master comp (as outlined in the previous post from Dave: This comp needs to be twice the width of you output files, you do all the motion between screens in this comp; then you render 2 output files each formatted for the size of the output device res). In other cases, the output device may be one of the advanced multi-screen playback servers, such as Pandora’s Box, Hippotizer, Wings Platinum, or Watchout. In this case you actually render out the full size comp, and the playback device does the heavy lifting of keeping things frame sync, and splitting the master comp into the appropriate pieces.

As you can see, success here is only assured by knowing the information about your display systems. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a client hand me the WRONG sort of media for this (my studio specializes in big multi-screen live event stuff), something they have had commisiones, and then I have to essentially recreate or re-render it on the spot to make it playable. FIND OUT who is providing the playback/display system and talk to them ASAP.

Good Luck,

Bob Bonniol

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[Johnsabbath D’urzo]

just sppke to the other editor incharge of the post here and he said to make a movie 1140×1080. Then a comp 720×486 D1 (for the left side and the same for the right side). Use the 1440 comp as a main and use the other two to preview. Then render out the left side and right side as seperat movies (720*486) is this right? the staging company asked him to put it on beta sp and they will take care of the set up. Please let me know. Thanks for everything so far

[Johnsabbath D’urzo]

i set up the comp as 1440 *1080 and made a title safe in that comp, one for the left side and one for the right. then i look at my main 1440*1080 and my left 720*246D1 and my right 720*246 D1 and hit the aspect ratio on my main comp to view it properly. how do i preview multiple comps at the same time in AE CE3? I hope i’m doing this right just started the job.

[Johnsabbath D’urzo]

Thanks Dave I did what you said, you saved my but.