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mm149047
08-29-2007, 01:57 PM
hi everyone!

i received lots of help for my (to me) tricky issue with an animation on 2 monitors. first of all thanks for that!! now, the customer wants me to extend the project over 3!!! monitors. so, before hitting the render button i would be very happy if someone could briefly skim through the strategy i would like to apply for the final render.

the aim: animation on DVD, stretched over 3 tv monitors. played from pc with triple head video out.

here's what i did:

footage (png sequence 1932x515px) -> import into composition1 with the same dimension. pixel ratio "quad"

create a new composition2 with triple pal 16:9 dimension: 2160x576px pixel ratio pal wide.

drag composition1 into composition2 and resize to fit composition2. (according to adobe, this strategy results in better quality than solely resizing the original composition1)

the raw footage is now at the desired triple pal 16:9

now - render film: here i tick "opengl" and mpeg2-dvd. mpeg2-dvd quality up to 5. question: in the mpeg2-dvd settings in the size menue: am i using here 4:3 or 16:9 ???

render ....

is that basically a (the) way to get my animation fit over 3 16:9 displays?

ps: opengl lets my render crash pretty frequently (ATI) - any clues?
pps: the tv monitors the customer display @ 16:9 and 1366x768px

thanx everyone for reading :)

markus

www.humanchaos.net (http://www.humanchaos.net/)
Mylenium
08-29-2007, 06:43 PM
is that basically a (the) way to get my animation fit over 3 16:9 displays?

Nope, absolutely not. Using DVD (video) and wanting to stretch the animation across 3 screens is mutually exclusive. DVD (video) for PAL is always a mere 720x576 pixels and there's no way around that. If you want to make use of the full resolution, either your clip has to be full size or you play 3 clips in sync. Since you mentioned the clip will be played from a PC, I'm assuming it is done using a Parhelia or multiple coupled graphics cards and at that point it is completely irrelevant at which resolution you create your graphics - as long as it fits on the desktop in fullscreen mode, it will be displayed. Doing so would require some format that can guarantee good quality and low data rates and that's only feasible with DivX or Windows Media.

Mylenium
mm149047
08-29-2007, 08:26 PM
mylenium - i really apprechiate you take the time and helping me with this issue! you're advice is very valuable to me :)

markus

www.humanchaos.net
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