Projecting app pro res 1920 x 1080, 29.97 .mov files at live event

[Kai Cheong]

An alternative suggestion popped into my mind: Would you consider encoding your movie into a high quality H.264 .MOV instead? It will cut down on the file size quite dramatically and if you spend some time tweaking the presets in Compressor, you can probably get a very good H.264.

Not sure whether your HDV footage is interlaced or progressive, but if it’s the former, you could also get a better playback from your PC if you make if progressive in Compressor.

Just a thought.

Kai
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[Magda Fernandez]

Hi Kai, absolutely. I actually already have high-quality H.264 .mov files to screen as a backup, even if I can screen 1920 x 1080i app pro res .mov files.

[Nicholas Rivero]

Whenever I am doing live events, I encode all of my videos down to H.264 at either 1080 or 720. I find that the difference is unnoticeable to the audience.

A cost effective solution to video playback would be something like Apple’s Keynote. I personally go between two programs, Renewed Vision’s ProPresenter and ProVideo Player, for all of my live playback needs: https://www.renewedvision.com/

//nick

[Daniel Brodie]

The professional advice is this: The projector just isn’t really a professional projector. It is never going to look as good as the Cinema Display which is a professional display. You can have the projector color balanced, and you can turn off all the lights, but you’re just never going to make it look as good as it does on the monitor. If you can rent a projector, you should do so. Depending on what city you are in, there are probably numerous video shops to rent it from.

As far as your prores codec goes, I would absolutely convert to h264 for live playback. No one is going to be able to tell the difference in quality, it is going to be absolutely undetectable to the audience, even if you get a brighter projector. Prores is a bulky format that saves most of the quality of the clip for editing purposes and although your computer could probably play it, it isn’t really a playback format.

Export it out of Quicktime as h264, current frames per second, 1920×1080 at 15 Mbps, and that should be fine.

Daniel Brodie
Projection Designer
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