Ryan Hodges
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we do this kind of thing alot, and usually i use a lavalier or a countryman over the ear thats flesh colored and just record to audacity on my laptop or cubase on my workstation. audacity is free and it works perfect for this kind of stuff. to sync it i use something that also helps is sync the multi cameras when doing multi camera switching in post: a little rig we fixed up very cheap that is an led light that emits a sound when turned on. so the cameras all see the instant the flash comes on and the beep shows up on the waveform and you just line them up on the time line.
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go with cat5e converters, we use it extensively in our church and even send dvi over cat5e to an led sign outside more than 500 ft(probably more than most would suggest but it looks great as long as you dont let it near power sources.)
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if you want them all the same i would suggest you do what we do for our video distrbution at our church. use cat5e to make a home run from each monitor to a central station where you have cat5e cctv splitters you can get from blackbox. to convert just use any of the hundreds of video converter you can by online (svideo, vga, dvi, component, etc). blackbox has all of this but you can find the svideo and composite video converters cheaper at svideo.com. the splitter have 8 outputs and a loop out so you can just loop as many splitters as necessary. we use 8 splitters and everything works great. just use something like renewedvision.com’s pro video player or even windows media player if your a PC person and play whatever you need to play.
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i think youll find you can do just about anything you want with video walls using renewedvision.com’s software. i use it to feed a wall of 30 50″ plasmas hi-def .mov’s that i make in premier pro and you can split it any way you want with the software, it really beats anything else you can find.
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i had the same need at our church for our production area where i had a 32″ lcd but wanted all of my cameras and other imputs and DSK’s and even preview and main out on one screen withouot paying 10k for something really high end because quality wasnt an issue as a still use an NTSC monitor for our preview for color, etx. the solution was an 8 input CCTV DVR from worldeyecam.com, which you can get with 4,12, or 16 inputs as well. whats nice is you can move them around to some degree as you please. for instance i have the main out large and in the let corner with all the other inputs wrapping around the right side. and you can name each input as well. it works great for us.
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after about 2 hours of trying my best to figure this out i cannot get the trasparency map to cut out the object. if i knew how i would post the project somehow so someone could tell me what im doing wrong.
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wow, thats basically what i wanted to do. to apply the transparency map i thought that i just clicked on the swatch next to the transparency slider and chose the correct jpg but apparently thats not it. what is the method you use to determine how to make the map, obviously it is cut down the center along some calculated line, or are you just doing trial and error until it falls correctly?
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update on this:
i installed illustrator and successfully imported my logo. problem was when i fill in the areas that are to be solid it covered other areas, for instance a circle inside a triangle should be cut out rather than just on top of it. i know how to do all of this in corel, but not in illustrator. how do you do “front minus back”, etc, if you can that is. once i imported my somewhat jacked logo into proanimater i had a front face not attached to the back face so when i went to increase the width it just increased the seperation between the two faces, what did i do wrong?
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the logo is more of a flat shape with very round edges, not so much an egg really. if i use the transparency method will the inner edges be solid or will you be able to see the backsides of the front and back faces, does that question make sense?