Vegas for Digital Signage Apps?

[John Rofrano]

You can certainly use Vegas Pro for making digital signage movies since it has the ability to rotate the video 90 degrees for tall signs. Adding weather and news crawls sounds like you need a real-time application dedicated for this purpose and not a video editor. I’ve never done digital signage so I have no idea what is available but if the digital signage forum is empty, I’m sure a google search for “digital signage software” should uncover something useful. 😉

~jr

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[Dave Haynie]

Ha! I used to work for Scala! And I did actually use it to author a 2 hour film… back in the days of tape. Scala plus a Genlock did the titles, controlled the camcorder and the recording deck, controlled a device called a TBCplus, which did the usual TBC stuff plus color corrections, video effects, etc.

For pure video authoring, yeah, I would definitely use Vegas over Scala. They ship Scala with many tools these days, and I’m sure you could do video authoring with it too. But the point of Scala is aggregating assets for digital signage presentations. You can build all the video you like in Vegas, then use it in Scala to create complete presentations.

You have to first understand how you want to use your digital signs. Scala basically treats it like television: you may want to build different segments/shows, present them at specific times, etc. And Scala lets you do this for one display or 10,000.

Same idea as DVD Architect: I wouldn’t use DVDA for editing or rendering video (technically you could, a little bit). But I also wouldn’t use Vegas to assemble a finished DVD (you could, as long as its just one video). The right tool for the right job.

-Dave

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

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[Chas Smith]

Thanks Spot: I already saw the useful tool in properties. Thing is that I would really be interested in something that has templates already made up to use motion-video in one section while displaying related content in the other (dynamic text, logos, banners). The real-time content (i.e. news crawls, weather, etc.) would probably come from the IT guys in the facility. I was wondering if there were “stand-alone” digital signage design/compositing programs (other than Adobe CSS or Flash) that are cost-effective and user-friendly. As for SCALA …I have to say that doing simple things like changed text attributes aren’t very straight-forward. And doing a number of searches online have users expressing their frustrations as much about that as other things.

I guess I could do the comps in Vegas but again… I was hoping for something a bit more off-the-shelf for the specific purpose.

Thanks to all who’ve replied.

[Dave Haynie]

Scala was designed to do very hardcore Digital Signage work. I haven’t used it in well over ten years, but I can imagine they have some of the same lock-ins as any older program. Once you have a dedicated user base for a program, you can’t just go changing the UI, even if it’s on some level an improvement. As tens of thousands of original Premiere users demonstrate, we humans do ultimately adjust to an evil UI. And may, at least in the short term, prefer that to something much better but alien.

-Dave

[Sam Mathew]

Using Vegas for digital signage is a great idea; more over Vegas can be a great outdoor advertising sign. According to different advertisement display needs of different customers, we need to update or change the software constantly.

outdoor advertising signs