[John Czerwinski]

Walter,

Thank you very much for all the help. The 6400×1440 master comp inside the 1920×1080 aspect ratio worked great. I still need to try set up the 4:3 configuration you are talking about. The test we did yesterday was a good start. We used H.264 and played it through VLC for testing. Have you any better luck with any other codec? Also I’m concerned about how much I have to scale up the 720P footage that I’m using in the master comp. The next test I would like to try is the Bright Star product your were talking about or the DVR vaLANte sells. Thanks again for doing my homework.

John

[John Czerwinski]

Thank you Walter for doing my homework for me. I believe I follow up until the point of:

Instead, you could cut up your master comp when you position it in your render comp into a 4×3 grid like this:

1-2-3-4
5-6-7-8
9-10-11-12

I guess I have not separated physical layout from the delivery output.

In the mean time I’ll try the setting you provided and let you know how works out. I’m doing a test on Wednesday.

Thank you for your time and patients,

John

[John Czerwinski]

You should also mentally separate the physical 5×2 layout of the screens (which has an aspect ratio of 40:9, or 4.444) from the delivery layout (16:9, or 1.778). Designing at [5×2] * [1280×720], but outputting at [4×3] * [480×270] (with 2 blank spaces) within a single 1920×1080 frame will use your output space more efficiently and save you some display resolution.

I’m sorry Walter, you lost me. Are you saying create a 6400×1440 comp, for design. (I created 10 boxes using guides with a size of 1280×720 each.) Create my piece. Then bring that comp into another comp at a size of 1920×1080. Squeeze the first comp to fit within the 1920×1080 comp? Also, what do you mean about the 2 blank spaces?

Of course the output render won’t resemble the physical layout of the screen, so you’d need to render separate passes from the master comp for pre-visualization and delivery.

not sure what you are saying here either?

Thank you for taking the time to help me out.

John

[John Czerwinski]

thanks Walter for the information.

After I wrote this post, we were concerned about syncing all these videos together. we are going to try a test of just having one file for all ten monitors. Build all three videos in one comp in AE. the left 2 monitors one video, middle 6 monitors one video, and the 2 right monitors one video. Then just use 1 voLANte transmitter/receiver for everything.

That being said, I still need to figure what comp size I need to work in?

The content will be playing in a lobby for about 12 hours a day. We may change the content once in a while, but for now this is the content schedule. With this information, do you think QT or VLC can handle playing a video file for 12 hours a day? If you think a BrightSign product would be more stable and easy to use which product would you recommend?

Thanks again for your help.

John

[John Czerwinski]

maybe a corrupt file. check your auto save, and see if that file opens

good luck

[John Czerwinski]

try turning off the video layer. good luck

[John Czerwinski]

check out http://www.squared5.com

works great

[John Czerwinski]

what do you think is the maximum you can zoom in on HD footage?

[John Czerwinski]

I’m guessing you are referring to the window on the right as the canvas. If so, the 3 little buttons on the top of the canvas window. left button(screen size) middle button(snyc off, open, gang). The right button may be checked alpha instead instead of RGB. change to RGB

Good luck

[John Czerwinski]

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried trashing the FCP Preferences using FCP rescue, that did not fix the problem. The issue is both on the canvas and video monitor. Andy, the widescreen filter generator worked great.