video question

[beenyweenies]

Even if the playback machine feeding these three monitors is going to be amazingly beefy, it is doubtful that it will be able to play back video of those dimensions, in any kind of lossless codec, in realtime. That just isn't going to happen. You will need to compress the videos fairly heavily just to get it to stream at that size properly. As fair warning, most conversion programs are going to be VERY unhappy processing a frame sequence of that length.

one option is to buy Quicktime Pro ($19.95) and use it to convert your frame sequence into full size H.264 videos. Even with this, the playback machine had better be extremely high end or it just won't play back a video that large, and hiding the Quicktime frame might be tricky.

Authoring a proper DVD is another option, but the max video size for DVDs is 720x480, so you'd have to blow it up on the monitor and it won't look so hot.


hi everyone!

i have a special problem with an oversize animation i need to do.
the animation is supposed to run over 3 monitors and is fed from hd.
dimension: 3xDVD Pal -> 2160x576 pixels
60.000 frames
running time 40min.
the client asked me to render preferrably to (1) mpeg2 or (2) quicktime
so far i rendered some 27000 of the desired 60000 frames to a png sequence (very timeconsuming and unstable :( )
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btw my system:
winxp 32bit
intel quad core
3.5gigs ram
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can somone point me in the right direction how i can get this monster at reasonable size onto the harddrive?
i messed with virtualdub, tmpegenc, flask ... unfortunately to no avail. also unfortunately i do not own premiere ... (would that do the job?)

hoping desperately for help :)

markus

www.humanchaos.net (http://www.humanchaos.net)

[Mylenium]

...the client asked me to render preferrably to (1) mpeg2....

No dice. All MPEG-II transcoders on the market that I know of are tied to the strict specs of the format, meaning resolutions, quantization matrices and so on a standardized without any room to futz around.

Anyway, once more I think you're going about this the wrong way. Why not simply create a HD animation with a cinematic framing? Why not simply use 3 synched professional DVD-players. You know, ever since the advent of HD, there are tons of used Panasonic studio DVD-players to have for cheap... If you really must play the thing as one piece, then WindowsMedia or H.264 is pretty much you only option (within the limits we were discussing in a similar thread 1 year ago or so, I believe) and then of course you are going to need a monster of a machine as Brendan already pointed out.

Mylenium

[mm149047]

ok . i hear you guys :)
i understand that i am manouvering myself into a pretty tricky situation. i will contact the client as soon as possible and tell him about the issue! hm - what a shame though, it could look really cool on those three monitors :)

thanks for your time anyways

markus

www.humanchaos.net

[mm149047]

ok - this should solve my problem:

the client told me that it is ok to split the video in three slices and render each one out as an mpeg2-ts.

is it ok to do it in AE or is there a better strategy?
(the raw footage is a png sequence at the moment.)

thanx
markus

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