Jason Shane
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Thanks.
We have a few switched sources hitting the spyder too. I was not sure if the media backgrounds could be imported into the spyder or not. Either way, it sounds like I need to find a “server” that can build graphics with alphas. The issue with keynote is that the animations being used are near impossible to key. They were not made to be keyed, rather overlayed over the bottom layer and there is a lot of transparency in them. If they had an alpha channel built in to the program or effect, then they would key fine.
Oh well– I am out of time, so I am pushing forward with keynote for this year and will look into everyone’s comments in my post meeting so I can improve this next year.
Thank you all
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I will look into it. Thank you.
My main concern is being able to build graphics (there are A LOT of them) ahead of time and able to show them to client with animations for approvals.
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Spyder. Which is contracted out and we need to build graphics weeks ahead of time for approvals, etc.
I am not familiar with using the Spyder for graphics, or if it even does it.
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Thank you for the reply. We considered that but it was shot down for some reason. I will revisit it.
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I was afraid that was the only answer when sticking with keynote. Maybe for next year I can use different hardware/software. Do you know of any that could be built weeks ahead of time (including effects) and ready for use on site? That kind of removes the Viz from the conversation… I was thinking something else that has an alpha channel and can be built off site.
We have tried the luma key on black and most of the effects do not work well. Since we are tied down to some of these effects, at least for this year, I am working on making looping motion backdrops that come to a slow stop. This seems reasonable and looks pretty good… but not ideal. At least you can switch slides and there is not a visible shift and then the motion just starts up again.
Thank you for your response.