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This is my solve most often - an output just for the SM/Director with the same clip that has the coutdown - you can adjust the start time of the clip to match the length of cue - I also do some text with TRT and clip title. When the 'play speed' functionality was released, I MAY have adjusted the last 10 seconds to play slower/faster to toy with some of my favorite SMs....?

Miro this is awesome info!!! Thank you for benching this!!

I just updated.... *facepalm*

I've used the blackmagic cards quite a bit, but know they have significant latency that makes them pretty much unusable for IMAG(if that's your intent).

To add to JFK - I would recommend using virtual displays in case you have scenes where the displays are one big canvas, and other scenes where they're used as traditional displays... I've made the mistake before of locking myself into one big canvas, only to have the director ask for individual screens and having to scale the media down into the canvas size. Z

If you're driving it with a virtual display, just scale that virtual display to an output and use as confidence. If not using a virtual display, make one just for that purpose.

Network would be my first guess also.

There's a facebook group?? How do I find that?

Would you not use Dynamic Image Server?

Capture your EDID on all four outputs, set them up in firepro settings to 50hz, make sure you're using active adaptors, and make sure the project settings in watchout are set to 50hz. Z

This is usually a framerate thing. Double check your framerate out of the device, in the actual blackmagic driver, AND in watchout.

Try turning off windows firewall on your production machine. This had me running in circles(again) the other week. Wish I could say it was the first time I've made that mistake but it got me again....

Hi Christian - VISCA is a standard control protocol created by Sony. It has been adopted by many, but often times varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, and some manufacturers have entirely different protocols. Best to check the manufacturers manuals to see what they allow. Furthermore it's worth noting that VISCA is based on RS-485(with options for 232) and is technically not a network protocol, though many cameras allow for VISCA over IP.

Try this thread: http://forum.dataton.com/topic/2827-control-dmx-channels-with-artnet/?hl=artnet

Looks like standard VISCA... that 'x' after the 8 refers to the camera number. 88 is broadcast to all. since it's hex, you would enter the commands with the '$' escape character. Here's the command to send cam 2 to preset 5: '$82$01$04$3F$02$05$FF' It looks like you need to open a TCP socket on 5678 to send it PTZ commands. Have fun!

Try bumping your whole clip back .5 seconds in the aux timeline. Then try. Z

Any chance Dataton will be migrating to DirectX 11?

Which Model Panasonic? Could be any number of things... wiring to/from moxa/projector; baud rate/parity settings; etc. Most panasonics can be controlled via IP, as well... Panasonic's website has very useful guides, but different projector series have different APIs - make sure you grab the right one.

I was curious if it actually showed up as 2 GPUs or if it somehow acted as one in the DirectX environment...

Anyone use the AMD Radeon Pro Duo yet? I loved my W8100 and I'm looking for a replacement...

My understanding is the Dynamic Image Server is not intended to serve video content.

I've had the lost projector happen as well. It's frustrating. You can typically get it by going to the 'Top' or 'Left' views. For positioning, double-click the 3d object in the timeline and place it at 0,0,0 using the 'Initial Stage Position' fields. Also Z

Not possible in Watchout. You would need a device capable of accomplishing what you want, and take that in as a live input.

Hey - Not really an issue - more a buggy annoyance. I'm programming on my laptop running the latest release of windows 10. It's not intended to be a show machine. I'm in 6.1.6 and when I use my scroll wheel(on my mouse) in an aux timeline, it will move the main timelines and/or the labels independently in both the timeline and tween tracks. IE, if I hover over the tweens, and move my scroll wheel, the tweens will move up and down without the labels on the left moving. This is fixed by me grabbing the vertical scroll bar on the right and moving it. Anyone experience this?

I've seen that before. It's always indicative of an incorrectly encoded video. Wanna post a screenshot of the encode settings you're using?