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video for xl projection
Hello boys and girls,
looking for you to share some of your experience… I have a 15 minute clip that I need to play in loop for 6 months straight. It was shot in RED, its currently in DPX and I’m planning to finish with prores 422 hq and use a mac mini to play it. I’ve tried other formats but was not happy with the quality (it’s 6×5 meter projection so every pixel counts). Now, I’ve been running some tests playing the fie in loop for a few days now and I’m not sure but I think its started skipping some frames in the last day. anyway, my questions are:
can you tip me on software that lets you know if it skipped frames while playing? (i’m using qt now)
other suggestions regarding my workflow (such as a lossless alternative to prores 422 hq) would be greatly appreciated
thank you
Miki -
3 Replies
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HI, Miki.
I think you might want to consider thinking about this from the end of the chain rather than the beginning.
What are you using for display your clip? A projector, or a video wall, or…???
Before I could make any suggestions, I’d like to know what the resolution of the display device is and then work backwards.
But. That could just be me.
C*
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Miki,
We don’t use computers to playback digital signage for long periods of time if we can help it. Too many things that can go wrong and break / overheat / whatever else.
We have been using these BightSign boxes for a while with a lot of success.
https://www.brightsign.biz/products/hd210.php
I like them because they are solid state. No moving parts. They also resume the presentation automatically after restart.
Hope that helps,
Seth -
For solid state playback, we have been using these boxes:
https://www.technovision.com/dv75.htmlWe have about 45 in our rental inventory, and have not had a problem in two years with them working on tours for months at a time.
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