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Bluetonesblue

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  1. I also use this ALL THE TIME and find it easier to drag and drop the newer files onto a copy of the original setup clip on the timeline then going thru the motions. +1 for this feature! Another +1!! I find compostions useless without having some reference of the overall stage. I design my look in the main timeline, then cut out the needed pieces and paste them into a composition.
  2. BOY this sounds cumbersome! The find/replace option should have a way to look through all timelines and compositions. Kevin Lawson
  3. I agree with Walter Alex, fantastic design! Was it you who designed it? Or, are you technical for playback? What's your role? Just curious... Kevin Lawson
  4. ALso, if you leave the show in "LIVE" mode, then when you load new media in, it will push to all displays in case they have to show it. If we're talking simple graphics, and not 30 Gig video files, this can be done live... with "caveat emptor" in mind I've done this a few times, with both large graphics, and small videos, without interrupting a show. I wouldn't load in the new media to the media pool in the middle of playing back a large video or something, but... it's possible.
  5. I have also found the slight offset of PAUSE or PLAY commands from a media cue helpful. If it's close enough to the media, WO will still pre-load the media clip, without triggering it. I especially find this useful on triggering very widescreen videos within it's own Aux timeline with a clean start.
  6. While I always like the idea of making things work in ways their designers never thought of, and I have also experimented with using live capture with a subswitch to bring images into a WO-based system. However, my understanding is you would need a capture card on each machine that needs to EVER see a particular input. Meaning, if you want your 4 ATEMs attached to 32 WO outputs, at minimum you would need 24 capture cards to allow all 4 ATEMs into all 6 WO display machines to accomplish what you want. There's no ability in WO to program a live input to a machine that doesn't have that feed already attached to a capture card in that display machine. As such, I think the rental of an E2/Spyder/Asscender is way below the outlay for all the capture cards in this system your proposing, never mind that the switchers are generally more flexible for last minute changes and features, never mind the improved latency issues. I hope I'm making this clear, and not confusing the issue further... Kevin Lawson
  7. OK... so a VERY custom world of film... You're right... there are FAR fewer staging events, or museum setups then film production... Just sayin'...
  8. How about we NEVER see this frame rate? This is OLD, BAD Marketing crap to sell cameras that didn't have the memory to record actual 60 fps video. Didn't Peter Jackson, (amongst others,) prove that HFR is highly preferable to low frame rate? 25 fps, OK to deal with old PAL resolutions. (NO other reason, please!) 30 fps, again... OK to deal with NTSC resolutions. (Again. Old, deceased, ancient... NOT needed really.) All the variants of HD 59.97 and the like. (Again... just to be compatible with old systems... there's no REAL reason today for this to even exist!) So. 50 FPS for European power rates. 60 for Japanese/American power rates. All others are a hold back from old systems that were limited by technical capabilities at the time... {END OF RANT}
  9. Joakim - I can't imagine ANY show where I don't need to read the current time of a timeilne! Letting others in the crew know where we are in a cue is a constant need. I would LOVE to have a way to view countDOWN time of a current timeline for out cues and the like, within the Production software. Kevin Lawson
  10. Hello Claude - Thank you for sharing your findings! Very thorough and informative. Kevin Lawson
  11. THANK YOU! This will be helpful for all I think.
  12. I totally agree on the Folder in the Tasks idea!! With Copy/Paste, how about it pastes to the next line. Simple and clear. No guess work. Thank you! Kevin Lawson
  13. Excellent info! Thank you! Makes a number of weird hiccups make sense now. Thanks again! Kevin Lawson
  14. Hear Hear! Monitoring tools would be VERY helpful for troubleshooting shows!!! Thanks!
  15. I would think that having a check built in to the pasting of a Task object so that it takes "Current tasks in file" and adds 1 to that to create new task number. I know... I don't program, so I think everything is "easy"... Kevin Lawson
  16. Is this a Mac only program? How about PC users? (We do use PC to use WO anyway, right? )
  17. I REALLY like the ability to add other Tasks to the Status window. And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE an ability to set them to countdown to end of Task! PLEASE?? Thanks.
  18. I like the "unique ID" idea, since having a changeable name (as a descriptor field,) and an unseen ID that keeps the links would be a real help in complex setups!
  19. I agree EDID management is essential for a smooth project. It's one of the reasons that I always convert to SDI right out of the rack, or go direct into an E2 or Spyder switcher, so that the signal doesn't drop based on a long run. Once converted to SDI, the signal is robust and easy to manage and troubleshoot. With only 6' (1 M) cables Displayport/HDMI cables, I have little to no problems. My 2 cents, (or .02 EUR) Your mileage may vary...
  20. Hello mindopera. I don't see how the schematic you offered could have been a challenge for any competent operator. Simple and to the point. the fact that he didn't read it and respond ahead of time that you needed to do things differently, or come to a mid-point for each, that's not right. I can understand an operator wanting to have control over the blend regions himself, especially if he's doing any PIPing, or other effects over your output, he would definitely need control. (I think that a Spyder or an E2 has better blending control then you get in WO, with most projectors having even better control... but that's for another topic.) If he did the outputs as individual outputs, instead of a single "screen destination," then you could have done your blending and all would be fine. Otherwise, when he brings your inputs in, he has to put them in as individual layers, each with hard edges, that won't understand your blending areas. (They don't accept the inputs as an "alpha-edged" input, if that makes sense.) A simple router would be a far better choice for your needs, since the ins and outs don't interact with each other. As far as my setup is concerned, I do my WO outputs as "Background" inputs to the E2. I edge-butt the WO displays across one Background, then I don't have to use any Layers in the E2. So, whenever I'm sending only WO content, I just "Remove All" layers and run my WO content. When that's done and I need to place 16x9 PPTs, or 16x9 videos, or Demo machines; I put them in a PIP over the WO. This uses each to their strengths. (And, as mentioned earlier, I use the projectors to do the blending, so again... each to their strength.) I am intending on get Sync cards for my WO system, but have only occasionally had issues with tearing, and that was usually because I tried to spread a wide video across too many outputs. By splitting them up I've always been fine. Since the outputs are edge-butted, then edge-butted videos locked to the edges of each Display output, works great! I also have the whole system racked together, with the Prod machine and Primary and BU Display machines, UPS, and the E2, with all the networking and the like, all in one. Pop a couple covers, jack in a few keyboards and mice, gimme a little power, and I'm off to the races! Good luck! Kevin Lawson Bluetonesblue
  21. We also go with an all SDI path for our setups. In our case, we have been using DAC-70's as our HDMI -> SDI converter, but we have recently started using the BM micro converters for other things, and will probably go that route in our racks in the near future. I like your use of the Decimator MV for yourself... nice simple solution. We use an E2 based system, (instead of the dreaded Spyder!) and it's always been reliable for us. Our WO's are used as Background sources and our other client PPTs/16x9 videos/IMAGs PIPed with the E2.
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