[Ben Pritchard]

Hi, Its been a while as I have only just had some sort of confirmation of the requirements.

The company are being very vague and this is the information they have provided.

They sent this PDF to show the screens being used and said they “It will be one channel output for entire video wall”.

So I have made a couple of test files for them and it all seems to work ok. However I would be interested to hear how you would tackle this, what output video size would you do etc? The video wall again is 4×4 screens so 16 in total.

Another question I do have is I made one video file to the native resolution of the screens which is 1366×768. My after effects file is coming out huge, which is expected.

Normally with my 1080 videos I can compress the file size through quicktime or even final cut, however with the odd screen size of 1366×768 I can’t seem to find any way of getting the file smaller.

Any ideas?

Thanks

6701_necx462unenglishwall.pdf.zip

[Ben Pritchard]

Hi Walter,

Thank you so much for your response.

Im not sure as of yet, Im waiting for that information. The client is passing me the details of the company in charge of the displays so should find out then.

The only piece of information I had from the client is that they can send one signal to all 16 monitors, or a separate signal to each monitor. How true this is though, Im waiting for the response from the company.

One thing I couldn’t get my head round though is if its one signal to all screens, would you make the comp size to fit one screen and effectively blow it up to fill the entire video wall?

Or is this all dependant on the playback system still? I should have an answer today so will let you know as soon as I find out.

Thanks again.

[Ben Pritchard]

Hi Walter,

I appreciate this is an old thread but hopefully you can still answer my question.

I’m creating an animation for a video wall of 16 screens in total. 4×4 to create a one big screen.

I completely understand the workings and reasons for how you would normally set this up , but just to be clear this is how I was going to do it.

I was essentially just going to create one comp the size of one screen and then make the entire animation on that, using rulers and guides to divide that up into the 16 spaces. Then on final output just send the one video source to the entire 16 screens as one animation.

I have got parts of the animation where I only want things to happen in one screen, that’s what the rulers and guides would be for.

Is this completely wrong?

I would really appreciate your professional advice.

Regards

Ben