Multiscreen Video

[Andreas Woelfl]

Hello everybody,

thanks again for all the support so far.

It took me quite a while but finally I have information from the production company that will be at the event, doing the back projections.

Here are some technical specifications:
Program for Animation – After Effects CC 2017
2 side screens – 1920×1080
1 center screen – 3240×1080
Program for projection – Playback Pro

So here again the problem:
I created videos that will be split across the three screens. The dimensions of the files are 7080 x 1080px.
As the h264 codec is only limited to files of 3840×1080 I need another codec to export the files from After Effects.

The production company told me that any Quicktime codec works fine for them, recommending the ProRes422 codec.

The problem is that I am in Spain and the event and the production company are located in the US. I have to deliver around 20 videos which means that with the ProRes422 codec I’ll have tons of GB that I would have to upload via internet. And that’s what I want to avoid.

I tried the Sorenson codec and at least I was able to export the full file size form After Effects. Afterwards I was not able to play the file on my Mac.

Does anybody have experiences with Playback Pro and the Sorenson codec. Do they work together? Would this be a possible option?

Thank you so much for all your help!