Benoit

Hello Vollmers, What tool do you plan to use? What do you want to do? Because interactive name need an addon to watchout to work... Best, Benoit

Hi Dimi, To complete the JFK answer, it could also be because some Artnet to DMX bridge remember the IP address that send the orders and when you change from producer to display you need to reboot the Artnet bridge… Benoit

Hello, Are you sure to be on the right forum? Here it's Dataton, not Datapath... And by the way the Wall designer software works on my laptop with Windows 10. Best, Benoit

It could be useful to look in the log if there is a message « unexpected display reconfiguration » indicating an issue with the display connection that can be solved with the EDID manager.

Your quality issue could come from other things. My guess is ffmpeg decode prores 422 with quality loss and your issue comes more from the decoding than the encoding… Benoit.

Hi Keitht, Did you try to encode with ffmpeg from still images? We often use ffmpeg to encode HAP (not Q) without any quality issues... Benoit

Hi Tyskern, Did you have a look to the Watchout logs files, it can gives you details on what happend... Benoit

Hello Stiegzinator, The Samsung protocol is hard to find. It depends of your monitor ID and there is a checksum at the end. For monitor 1, try send to your monitor IP port 1515: power on : $AA$11$01$01$01$13 and power off: $AA$11$01$01$00$12 Samsung doc explicitly tell you to send the command for 3 times every 2 Seconds until ACK command. If there is no ACK within 3 times, It means failure. Good luck, Benoit

Hi Michael, We already tried to emulate some Spyder features for some customers. I think for the best result you should not use only tasks because you will need to know what are the tasks status to know what Watchout need to do. What we did is to use inputs for fade, pip positions ect… and drive the inputs with control cue that send commands to Watchout itself. It’s a bit tricky but there are 2 main advantages to do what you expect: All effects are driven by inputs so you can ask a media to fade out in 1 second, if he is already transparent there is no side effect. All media are active and you don’t jump into aux timelines, Watchout react much more faster with no pre-roll, it’s particularly useful for live inputs (even if there are others trick to solve this problem). For example, here how to setup a background video with 2 presets to show and hide the background: Create a generic input called “Bgnd_opacity” (limit 1). Create a task named “Bgnd” and put your background video in a layer Add an opacity tween but don’t add any key points, map the tween to the input “Bgnd_opacity”. Now if you move the input, it change the opacity. To play the video background when you fade in, add “Bgnd_opacity > 0” to the trigger of the task To stop the video background, create a new aux timeline “Bgnd_stop” with 2 control cue “stop aux timeline named Bgnd” and “stop itself”. Add “Bgnd_opacity=0” to the trigger of the task. Now you just need to control the input to fade and start and stop the video. To control the input from anywhere, create an output “WO”, IP=127.0.0.1, Port=3039 Create a new task named “preset 1”, add the “WO” output and in the cue settings, data to send=”setInput "Bgnd_Opacity" 1 1000$0D” (let’s say the preset 1 start the bgnd with a fade of 1 sec.) Create a new task named “preset 2”, add the “WO” output and in the cue settings, data to send=”setInput "Bgnd_Opacity" 0 1000$0D” (let’s say the preset 1 stop the bgnd) By doing this you can call many time “preset 2” with no effects if the bgnd is already stopped. And you can mix many inputs for fade, pip position etc. in your presets. Of course, it’s a bit tricky and there is certainly many others things to do, but it works… Tell me if it’s not clear, Benoit

Many thanks!!! I'll try that soon... Do you mean this feature exists since Watchout 3.1.1 or is it a type error? Benoit.

Hi jfk, What is the command you use to change the timeline rate? Does it works in realtime? Can you do it also for the aux timelines? Thanks, Benoit.

Hi Henry, I think Watchpax 4 works with USB capture card. I didn't test it by myself but it should work... Of course, NDI capture announced last week at ISE and available with WO 6.2 will be better for Watchpax 2 and 4 than USB capture… Regards, Benoit

Hello, Did you consider using a Watchpax 4 ? Small, 4 video outputs, 1To of RAID SSD… And build for Watchout… Rgds, Benoit

Hi, Try "getAuxTimelines", but it works only on players, not producers. Benoit

Hi Timothy, Just an idea, did you try to increase the pre-roll? Instead of automatic, try 10 seconds. Regards, Benoit

Hello, I’d like to suggest something. When you remove a media, it tells you if the media is used. If you work with a huge project, it’s not so easy to know where the media is used. Maybe you can update the message box to tell the user where the media he tried to delete is used: “Selected media is in use and cannot be removed. Used in the following tasks: Task 1 (00:00:01, layer 23) Task 2 (00:12:48, layer 3) …” Thanks, Benoit.

Hello Erik, Any idea on how to select "chunked encoding" in After effect? Thx, Benoit

Hello, The “interaction name” can be used by 3rd party software to create interactivity. Here you can find a project we did using this feature (sorry, in French) : http://www.videmus.fr/salle-immersive-et-interactive-lalimentarium-de-nestle/ It’s a 14 ultra-short throw projectors setup, 7 Watchpax, with 2D lasers scanning the walls for visitor’s fingers. If you add a task name in the “interaction name” field of a cue, the task starts when someone touch the cue. Let me know if you want more info. Benoit.