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Playing out to six monitors
We can install two additional video cards so we can play out from a Quad G5 into six monitors.
What we want to do is play out and control six separate videos on each monitor from one computer. We need the kind of frame accuracy you get from Final Cut.
Is there any software that can help me with this this?
THANK YOU!
(also posted in art of the edit forum)
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9 Replies
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What are you trying to do with six monitors?
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You can’t do this with FCP.
You can’t play six separate full-screen images at once.
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This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but I ran across a video that someone posted on Digital Juice where they had to have frame accurate DVD playback to 3 monitors.
The video and comments can be seen at https://www.digitaljuice.com/dj_showcase/detail.asp?workid=1873.
The creator of the piece said…
“Then there was the playback issue. At first I had planned on using a SONY MAV 550 (a braodcast digital disc recorder used primeraly for slo-mo during sporting events) but this machine it turned out was out of the clients budget.This forced me to turn to a more cost effective solution. Knowing that I needed to be frame acurate I knew that I needed to have DVD players that had black burst and RS232 ports (Pioneer 7400 industrial DVD) to support a GPI trigger that would start them all at exactly the same time and would not drift out of sync buy the end of the program.”
Hope this helps.
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Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about – thanks for the head start. Looks like I might be in for a long search ;o)
It’s for an art installation.
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Does it need to be a sync roll?
Have you check into a video wall?
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Sounds like a job for Quartz Composer.
Peter
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There’s a dedicated piece of software and for the life of me I cannot remember what the name of it was. It’s something like Showtime, or WatchMe or something like that, but not that. It allows you to administer video over a network to all kinds of different displays, from small to larger than life.
I’ll have to do some research and find the name. I was looking at it once for an event.
Jeremy
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