Thomas Leong
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For RAM addition, it also depends on your operating system, assuming you are using Windows 7 (don’t know about Mac).
Home Premium 64-bit can only use max 16GB…because MS assumes anyone using Home would not need more. It will see more, but cannot use it.
To use more, eg. if you have 32GB RAM, you need Pro or Ultimate.
Not sure about Win 8, but google may help.
Thomas Leong
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A 3:1 screen format is very common in large screen presentations to a live audience. It is a Standard panoramic size from screen manufacturers for front or rear projection – 30’x10′ or 45’x15′. By ‘Standard’ size, I mean ex-stock.
Back in the multi-35mm slide projector days, worldwide, we used to do it with 3 stacks which we called Left, Centre, Right or LCR, with each stack overlapping the adjacent stack by 50%. Soft-edged 35mm masks were commonly sold by Kodak, Wess and DSC for 50% overlaps. Nowadays with LCD/DLP/LCOS projectors, a 3:1 screen format can be covered easily by 2 projectors.
Chances are playback is from software such Dataton Watchout, AvStumpfl Wings Platinum or Renewed Vision’s ProVideoPlayer, or hardware such as those from Barco’s Spyder, Coolux Pandora’s Box, Analogway, Green Hippo’s Hippotizer, etc.
The specs would two 1920×1080 projectors overlapping each other by 600 pixels, i.e. 31%, therefore a total width of 3240 pixels; ((1920*2)-600). The split would be sent to the display hardware by the control program if the playback device(s) can comfortably handle one 3240×1080 file. Else the people renting out the playback devices may do a pre-split into 2 video files for synchronized playback from 2 devices.
Thomas Leong
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“When I blatantly scale the website down so the character on it is the same size as the one i have animated, the image gets ridiculously blurred.”
Think it depends on the resolution of the website image (without scaling) versus your animated size, i.e. your comp.
Recently, I did something similar – scaling a 22,000 wide Photoshop image I was given to my comp width of 5000 pixels BEFORE importing into After Effects. The result was bad. The solution was to bring the original 22,000 pixel wide image into AE as is, and CTRL+ALT+F to fit my comp. The resulting render was nice and sharp.
So if the website image is larger than your comp resolution, CTRL+ALT+F should help. But if it is smaller, then I doubt so.
Thomas Leong
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If it is a matter of muxing, perhaps this for Mac –
https://code.google.com/p/subler/as pointed out by the Handbrake FAQ.
Thomas
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Check out Handbrake – has Mac, Windows and Linux versions – all under GNU licence. Not sure if it has your moov atoms requirements, but it does have a number of options to encode.
Thomas Leong
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I’d get the highest cpu processor I can afford even if it means breaking the bank a bit (in this case, the i7 4930MX). Reason is that with laptops, you cannot upgrade the cpu later, and I doubt if the MSI is any different.
Thomas Leong
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Here’s a rundown on the new 800M –
https://www.anandtech.com/show/7834/nvidia-geforce-800m-lineup-battery-boost
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One cheap content production I know of is to use Photoshop and After Effects.
1. 2 media files: one for the background, one for the car. Works best when car is intended to ‘move’ from left to right or right to left. Moving towards the audience would also be possible depending on the quality/resolution of the car’s picture.
2. In Photoshop, blur the background with streaks ‘moving’ in the opposite direction of the car.
3. Likewise, apply clockwise or anti-clockwise radial blur to the car’s wheels as if it were moving forward.
4. Create a comp in After Effects that is x number of monitors’ resolution width + an estimate for the bezel width (the car should not immediately appear on the next monitor owing to the bezel width; it should appear to travel behind the width of 2 monitors’ bezel before it reappears on the next monitor. Might take a bit of short render tests to get the number of pixels to allow for the width of the bezel).
5. Composite both images in After Effects, and keyframe the car to ‘move’ across the comp, probably from out-of-frame on one side to out-of-frame on the other.
6. Render the comp into as many video files as there are monitors, taking into account the bezel width determined from the tests.
Playback & Sync –
One reasonably priced option is multiple units of Brightsign HD220 (the lowest unit with ethernet connection for syncing via a router). Authoring is with their free Bright Author (video tutorial is available at their site or on you-tube). uses SD cards on each unit.Other options may require a pc present, but at an exhibition, you may not want to do that. The Brightsign units can be mounted to the rear of each monitor, connected to each other and to a cheap router via CAT-5.
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“My initial thought was a single video stretched over multiple screens.”
The car will then look like one of those “Hollywood stretched limos for hire”.
Others potentials are –
1. Wide-angled shot of car in motion. But this will mean small and low res when zoomed in to fit the 5-6 monitors.2. Green screen the car in motion. Have wide-angle background that can cover the 5-6 monitors without looking unusual to composite over.
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Hello Olivia,
Off-hand, I’d say you should have no problems with cameras and tripods. But since you have mics, and multiple cameras, that makes it look ‘professional’ and formal – more than a self-use video shoot.
With Sabah, I’m not too sure as the local government for Sabah is quite autonomous re laws for Sabah. However, the good news is that they are very favourable toward anything to do with encouraging tourism. So I’d advise you to contact the Sabah Tourism Authority for a letter stating that you are in Sabah to document your holiday on video and to request ‘To whom it may concern’ to co-operate and facilitate your shoots.
Thomas Leong