Michelle Weiss
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Yeah, sorry about starting a whole big love-in, I just needed to get that off my chest! :))
Can I also say the tutorials section, especially video tutorials are great!
I feel better now.
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Yes, I did have some issues with this when I first started, but now it works just fine, the computer recognizes the res of the display and it’s just peachy 🙂 Monday or Tuesday my display is promised. we’ll wait and see!
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Thanks for the suggestions,
Once I get my test screen back (in a week) I can begin to test this properly again! I’ll do a few versions and see what looks best on the screen, but yes, I am playing from a computer via DVi cable, so the file size is important (as files will be transferred over intranet connection), but not THAT important.. if that makes sense. What I mean is I’m willing to sacrifice a bigger file size to attain a better quality, to a degree.
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Thanks,
That answers my question, NO it is not possible to enter a “custom” size frame, YES it will still display correctly on my plasma. I think if I export it as HD1080i it will be the best (as my original footage is shot in 1080i), but I will experiment with a few different frame sizes and bit rates to see which gives the best quality vs file size!
Thanks again for your help,
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A small note on the iTunes problem, I have switched off “shuffle” and manually shuffled my playlist, it seems to have ceased the exit and enter full screen problem described above… still testing though!
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Can you post what kind of file >size, format etc your original is, and what settings you are using in FCP?
I am by no means an expert, but my suggestion would be that you need to have your footage ‘matching’ your sequence. For example, if I have a quicktime movie that is 1440×1080 pixels, I set my sequence settings to >Easy Setup> HDV1080i
Once your sequence matches your footage, you will no longer need to render your footage. That said, if your footage isn’t native to FCP it will need rendering regardless. Just apple+r your timeline to render, but every time you make a change, you will need to re-render to watch it back, which will slow you down. But at least it’s not a RAM preview!
Again, I’m no expert, so anyone who knows better than me (the majority of you here!) please, correct me!
Michelle
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Just done a QUICK jpeg (medium quality) export – went out of the office and it was done, so not too time intensive. It handles the motion and overall image very well but the text has a lot of artifacts around it. Maybe it would be better at a higher quality, but the file size concerns me a bit, JPEG compressed is 147.6MB as opposed to 20.2MB for h.264 for the same file. The problem with the text is that it needs to look very crisp as it is being displayed on such a huge screen(65inch), and the customers will be only a few feet away. The TV is in the bank branch during the day, and swings out to face the street at night, so the 24 hour exposure to a very wide audience from a very close viewing perspective means it’s important that it looks pristine. Now if they could find a way to mount an 85kg TV to the roof…. 😉 Thats a lot of pounds but my inferior metric system brain isn’t up for that conversion!
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Well… That IS a good question, as the first store is operating in a less than ideal ventilation space. That machine is running the 2.5 gig file on loop though and has crashed a couple of times, but the playback is running smoothly. We have taken measures to elimate this problem – a larger space and better ventilated security door as it’s mounted in the wall cavity behind the TV.
This project is running on PHASE 1 at the moment “Get the THING out there!!!” and PHASE 2 is the remote update scenario described.
My testing machine, which is giving me the problems with playback (using a referenced movie, not one long big file) is hanging out in a nicely air conditioned room and has about 10 metres (whats that in feet?? erm, 30 feet!) of space around it. (well, it’s resting on something, but you get my gist. The different codec thing is kind of a last resort due to export times, because we have one machine each to work on, and it’s just no good! But I haven’t actually used the jpeg compression, how is it with text heavy work? – which mine is (white and yellow text on a RED background *groan* corporate identity!) And export times? 30sec to 2min pieces?
Thanks guys for helping with this, I know there’s a lot of info to read through!
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Hey Jonathan,
I will be updating the content remotely as new campaigns etc come to hand, so I will be creating new content as new campaigns are launched, and probably removing old movies from the playlist as well (using remote desktop access- or possibly running a script on startup). I will be ok with the IP address as the ‘network guys’ at the bank (where I work) have already got the infrastructure in place for that to happen. But thanks for the software suggestions, if everything goes awry (as it usually does) I have a backup plan!
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Yeah! I had tried this before and it was ‘stuttering’ but just did a quick test and it seems ok (there’s been some updates since then!) So, let me leave it running for a few hours, or days, or whatever it takes and I’ll let you know! The larger files (a couple only) are approx400MB and are stuttering, so I will compress them further and see what happens. Thanks for your help, I’ll keep you updated. –I’m willing to try more ideas if anyone has different suggestions as well.