todhop

After a lot of moving tracks around and enabling and disabling, the WAV finally played. No obvious fix but it's running now. I can't export it though. Exporting results in the error "Some audio files could not be exported." The WAV is the only audio file. Cheers, tod

I'm trying to replace my scratch track with the final mix, a WAV file. I cannot get the WAV file to play on the production computer. I don't yet have access to the display computer. The current scratch track continutes to play fine. The new mix WAV file plays fine everywhere else, but not in this project. It even plays fine in a new, empty Watchout project. I've placed the clip, and the audio icon everywhere I can think of on the stage and in track priority, including placing it on a section of timeline with nothing else. I've checked it's volume setting. I even tried cutting and pasting the clip from the project where it plays fine into my current project. Nothing. Silence. Watchout shows the waveform, but no sounds. Any ideas? Cheers, tod

Then deselecting "Width and height same as display computer" does affect the final output quality? I had been led to believe it would not. You are saying that setting "Stage Position and Size of Display" to a value lower then the "Display Resolution" setting will reduce the quality of the final presentation because source material will be sized down in the composition and then back up on the display computer. That means that for the highest quality presentation, I would set all screen sizes to a value equal to or higher than their display resolution. Is their any way I can include screenshots? When I composed this with images, I was told that I was not authorized. Cheers, tod

I understand that image quality will be lost if an original must be scaled up for display. I'm trying to understand whether the stage size has any effect on when and how scaling occurs when the "size" of the display does not match the "resolution" of the display.. I believe you are indicating that this does not have any effect on scaling. Scaling is a function of only the source resolution and the display resolution, regardless of the relative "size" of the display as defined in the composition. I presume the pixel density of the stage does have an affect on the performance of the production computer. That would be why Jonas suggest a smaller stage. A smaller stage in the software would decrease the load on the production computer without affecting the quality of the rendering on the display computer. Cheers, tod

Does lowering the screen display "size" below the display resolution affect the resulting image quality in any way?

I am laying out a six monitor production. The monitors are all 1920x1080 but vary in size. I must choose a pixel density for the stage in order to calculate proper monitor size and spacing on the stage. My question is, does the pixel density I choose for the stage matter to the quality of the final product or the performance of the production machine? Should I use the pixel density of the largest display, resulting in a smaller stage, or the pixel density of the smallest display, resulting in a very large stage? Or is it a compromise? Cheers, tod