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Recommended setup for HD out of laptop to dual monitors for trade show?
Hello,
I have a client wanting his FCP project 1280 x 720 delivered Blu Ray.
Instead, it has been suggested to me that it could be uploaded H.264 at 3mb bit rate for download to clients laptop and then played out to a dual monitor setup for his tradeshow.Has anyone done anything like this and if so…could you give me suggestions for upload settings and what would be needed on laptop to play video in HD to two monitors?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
John
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Apple TV is designed just for this very thing. You could feed two monitors by just splitting the signal using an HDMI splitter.
I would not use a laptop if this is supposed to loop.
BluRay is a good option too, though we’ve had issues with 720p discs, we convert everything to 1080i.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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What is the problem with looping on a laptop and is there a workaround?
John
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[John Willis] “What is the problem with looping on a laptop and is there a workaround? “
I can almost guarantee your laptop will lock up at some point during the playback whereby you will have to do a full re-boot of the system. Resulting in those high def monitors displaying the Apple startup routine instead of the client video. I’ve seen that happen with both Windows and Mac machines.
Even desktop computers will lock up from time to time if you simply leave a video looping all day long.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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Thankns for the heads up…just trying to come up with a solution while waiting on blu ray for FCP
John
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[John Willis] “Thankns for the heads up…just trying to come up with a solution while waiting on blu ray for FCP “
You might be waiting a while. We’ve been producing BluRay for a year now with Encore. Can’t do anything more than a “Play Movie” button right now, but at least we’ve gotten 10 or 12 titles out the door already. We took delivery of a new HP Workstation last week (our first Windows machine) and we’re moving to NetBlender’s DoStudio. We hope to have our first new BluRay titles ready in two weeks and those will be commercial standard BD-J titles.
In your case you could always look at Toast. That’s a perfect application for what that application can do.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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How would Toast apply in this case?
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[John Willis] “How would Toast apply in this case?”
Toast now authors BluRay disc if you want to go that route.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
Read my Blog!
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[walter biscardi] “Apple TV is designed just for this very thing. You could feed two monitors by just splitting the signal using an HDMI splitter.
I would not use a laptop if this is supposed to loop. “
I AppleTV is GREAT for playing content, however it does not loop. I have been wishing for this feature from the release of the AppleTV. If you have found a way to get the AppleTV to loop I would love to know how.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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We use computers or computer-based DDRs for video playback at live events all the time, but we always also run a backup on a second unit, whether the playback source is computer, DDR, or even Beta tape. Of course, this would mean you’d also need a switcher.
When I author discs for playback loops, I encode multiple iterations of the loop. That is, if it’s a 1 minute loop, I’ll stack 20 or 30 of them back to back on the timeline. This saves some wear and tear on the DVD or Blu-Ray drive mechanism, and reduces the number of times you’ll see the loop glitch as the laser scans back to the beginning of the disc.
Walter Soyka
Keen Live, Inc.
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An in-depth article has just surfaced on the Ken Stone web site about how to author BD-R’s with FCP, Compressor and Encore. Might be worth a look:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/blu-ray_fcp_fields.html
– Don
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