[Walter Soyka]

Have you tried this?

https://bax.comlab.uni-rostock.de/en/projekte/glyuvplay.html

Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka]

[matthew bradshaw] “Is there a reason why you can’t just record each camera, capture and then do your “live” vision mix in multicam?”

I think multicam shoots of live events almost always should be done live. As the other posters have mentioned, having one director in constant communication with the camera operators — literally calling the shots — guarantees you will always have an appropriate shot on tape.

Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka]

Some more information on your system would be helpful. What versions of the OS, Quicktime, FCP, and AE are you running?

Have you seen Todd Kopriva’s blog post on ProRes 422?

Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka]

What does the log say? There should be an HTML log file in the folder that you collected all the items into.

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Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka]

This is a difficult question to answer because what effects you are rendering will have a huge impact on performance.

Other factors aside from the computer itself include RAM & hard disk speed and configuration.

I think Total Training has a benchmark project for After Effects, so you can measure the speed of different computers rendering the same project. You might be able to find the information you’re looking for that way.

Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka]

No need to get the controller — PBP can be operated from the keyboard.

It you really have no budget, you could use embedded videos in Keynote. You won’t have the controls or information you get out of PBP, but it will work.

Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka]

You’d need 6 VGA/RGBHV fan-out cables, 3 long RGBHV cables, and 3 RGBHV DA’s to place by the Matrox devices to act as signal amplifiers. You may also need 3 humbuckers by the projectors to eliminate electrical hum.

If you only need it for 3 gigs in a row, it might be cheaper and easier to rent the Cat5 extenders from a local staging company.

Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka]

I forgot to mention this before — one of the biggest problems of trying to extend VGA too far isn’t just loss of picture quality (like you may have seen with long composite runs), but an absolute loss of picture. The projector may not be able to keep a lock on the sync signal if it’s too weak, and if it lost sync, it would drop the image entirely.

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[Walter Soyka]

There’s no such thing as an absolute cable length limit for VGA — it depends on the resolution and refresh rate, the graphics card driving it, and the quality of the cable itself. I wouldn’t attempt more than 15 or 20 meters with HD15 VGA cable.

For an analog run of that length, most events would use a DA (or line driver) with 5-wire coaxial cable with BNC connectors instead of HD15.

The Cat5 extenders actually work across the whole distance. Some companies have units that can go significantly farther than 50m.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Walter Soyka]

That strikes me as quite a long run for VGA cable.

You might look into Cat-5e VGA extenders for runs like that. Side bonus — Cat-5e cable is cheaper, thinner, lighter, and easier to work with than VGA cable.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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