Thomas Leong
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BTW, kbainter is Kyle Bainter…a Canopus Edius user. I’ve contacted him and he has offered to email the project file of afore-mentioned work to anyone from here who wants it. Not sure of filesize, but contact him via his website and request for the project file.
Thomas Leong
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Perhaps something like Example 31 from Ayatoweb may help as an idea. With camera moves ramped to zoom into, out of and between various pics you want to highlight depending on the music beats would keep the show alive.
Thomas Leong
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hi Bob,
Effect is labelled variously as Time-slice, Time Freeze, Bullet Time, Flo-mo, etc…
Almost all available links including How to are here but hardly any using AE -
Hi,
Your query has been forward to the relevant people. There is a US dealer/distributor who will probably contact you shortly. Let me know if they don’t.
Thomas Leong
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I would have thought red-orange warmth is more for sunsets than sunrise.
I’d go for cold, light blue (sky) on the outside/background, and silhouette of the businessman with a hint of detail in the shadows. And I’d probably start the scene with a pan and re-focus from a CU of alarm clock to the actor getting out of bed just to emphasis the time of day, and probably add a sound effect of the alarm clock going off at the start too, fading away from centre of soundstage to one channel, in sync with the pan.
my .02c,
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The above explanation assumes and gives as an example a multi-screen presentation which objective is to present multi-screen to look like one master panoramic screen.
Of course, one can also design and present as multi-screen per se…i.e. multiple videos each on its own screen area but seemingly linked in subject matter to each other. Such a multi-screen presentation can be edited easily on today’s NLEs such as AVID as long as one keeps an eye on the timecode to keep related subjects/clips occurring together. Then present as ‘one’.
In this case, the major problem is to start all videos with one ‘switch’ or push of the button to keep things in sync. Solutions would then depend on playback method – via video files from PC, or dumped to machines/DVD?
There are software solutions like EventPlayer from AVStumpfl, or the shareware Syncmaker Pro will start a playlist of videos in multiple PCs. Hardware solutions would be those from Alcorn McBride plus a few others which will start multiple (serial-controllable) DVD players or harddisk players.
Thomas Leong
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> Any suggestions on how to do a multiple screen presentation and cutting it on Avid?
I don’t use Avid, but have played a little bit with the demo (very little bit). Being purely a VIDEO NLE, like all the others, I’d say Avid can only handle the normal video res – 720×480 NTSC or 720×586 PAL. The type of multi-screen presentations I presume you are asking about deals with resolutions well above that. Example of a quite standard 3-screen show with 20% edge-blend overlap would have a resolution of ((3 x 1024) – (2 x 20% of 1024)) = (3072 – (2 x 204)) = 2664 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically. With no edge blend, it would simply be 3072 x 768.
> Does Avid have any native mode for this or will I have to do a picture in picture to view all the tracks on one screen at the same time?
Even a PiP will not allow you to view 2664×768 or 3072×768 since Avid’s “one screen” is merely or a maximum of 720×480 NTSC or 720×568 PAL.
An app like After Effects would allow you to create, edit and view 3072×768, then output as 3 split videos, each video being 1024×768. With a blended screen, you would have to take into account the blend on the left and/or right edges and adjust the output accordingly depending on whether you are outputting for the left screen, the centre screen, or the right screen area. Additionally, for a blended presentation, if your final presentation software or hardware does not internally generate the soft-edge required for the blend, you would have to create the soft-edging and include it in the output file. There will be quite a bit of trial and error to ‘discover’ the correct amount of soft-edging required so that the blended panorama does not exhibit dark vertical bands where the blending occurs.
> Plus what is the best way to show the presentation, I have never done this before and I went to the web sites that were listed previously but they do not say how it works.
For a computer to process and display the 3072×768 pixels in realtime synced with audio, etc., its specs would need to be in the high end of PCs. Even then, there are hardly any projectors that can project such a resolution.
To solve, the most economical and viable means was to split the overall 3072×768 display into separate PCs/files, each handling an easier resolution such as 1024×768, and with each PC outputting to a projector/display device capable of displaying 1024×768 with ease.
One of the secrets then lies in where the projectors are pointed to on the screen, and in slaving the PCs together taking instructions from a Master Control PC so that all remained in sync with each other. So if the projectors were pointed to different areas of the screen to match the splitting of the original overall 3072×768 video, then the ‘re-assembled’ display would look like one panoramic. Usually ‘alignment slides’ (files) are created to allow this alignment of projectors to reflect the original overall 3072×768.
Prior to the development of software/hardware to do all the above, multiple slide projectors were used. When the demand for that died, some used multiple Betacam machines linked together with a controller (much like in a machine-based linear editing suite) and synced via time-code to present multi-screen videos. This is still do-able, and seems to be the best way to present VIDEO (as in traditional V-I-D-E-O) but one would have to factor in the cost of hiring/buying/lugging multiple Betacam decks and the controller both for production as well as presentation. I suppose if one can link 3 AVID systems together via timecode, one can edit a 3-screen hard-edge (i.e. no edge blend) video presentation, which would be the same as the Betacam way.
Thomas Leong
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George,
Syncmaker won’t allow seamless panoramas to move across monitors since it plays, from a playlist, separate videos. I can think of only one way to make it work that way…and that is via After Effects where in the Master Comp, you move the various media elements across the whole pano, then render each portion out as such to individual files, and just let Syncmaker call up the videos to play simultaneously. The edge-blend would have to be rendered into each video file (trial and error to discover the required blend…yikes!)
Not sure about changing the playlist on the fly. First thinking is no, ‘cos to change, you’d have to be able to access the playlist, and that would mean the monitor playing the video has to switch over from the media player to the playlist….unless a dual mon setup is used and the primary mon is used for media playback and the secondary mon is used to monitor/change the playlist/Syncmaker app, which is how I’ve setup my Wings Platinum.
Budgetwise, Wings is still cheaper than the hardware options. Think one Master and one Slave will work out at over Euro2,200+ for multidisplay work, excluding the PCs and other hardware, and Euro3,300+ for one Master and two Slaves, versus (I hear) 20,000British pounds to buy a 1-input 3 output Spyder that would allow one to project a 3-screen show (and this excludes having to produce the whole blended show in After Effects).
Thomas
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George,
I just remembered a shareware version of multiple display playback – Syncmaker Pro – you could try. Merely plays media on multiple displays from a playlist, not really a production software like Wings and Watchout. But if you have After Effects or Digital Fusion, Combustion, etc…you could create the Master config in these, and output the splits as individual media files for playback from a playlist.
Thomas Leong.
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Don’t know of any Mac-based software that can do this. Two PC-based software though –
Wings Platinum (Module Version)
WatchoutBoth operate based on a Master PC controlling configuration, timeline, loops, and media splits/assignment to any number of display/slave PCs. With Wings, the Master can also be a slave for playback. With Watchout, Master remains as Master, and Slave Displays as slave displays. This difference means one licence less for Wings versus Watchout. Each Master and slave(s) must have a licenced dongle in order to output through the graphics card of each respective PC, or for the Master to ‘talk’ to the slaves.
A shareware version that plays media from a filelist to multiple displays is Syncmaker Pro
Thomas Leong