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  1. We had a load of sound issues recently on a tour - intermittent pops, crackles and dropout. This was with a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 (3rd Gen) on a watchpax 40. Somedays it seemed fine then it would just start again. We tried a second sound card, new cables etc, which was the same, so we ended up stripping the audio out of the watchpax, putting it into QLab which also then sent timecode to watchout. Bit of a headache mid tour The sound quality using the same sound cards have been fine via QLab, they were also fine on a Pc running WO display. Personally I think the inability to add sound card drivers to a watchpax is a mistake.
  2. Interesting response..... Unfortunately relying on the generally limited projectors capabilities isn't the solution for this gig it's too complex. Neither is the question based on a budgetary issues or concerns, but I appreciate the heads up. Obviously Watchout wasn't built for this type of setup in mind,
  3. HI, Could you let me know - Is it actually possible at all to do geometry correction and blending within Watchout for four separate 1920x1080 in one display(3840x2160) output via a FX4? Thanks
  4. I’ve been batching out a lot HapQ content from After effects, Premiere and Media encoder over the last year using Aftercodecs plugin and it’s been really solid. The only issue I’ve seen is if I attempt to replace the video files from within watchout using the browse option, it create a nasty yellowing. Bringing in video files freshly then replacing them on the timeline sorts this out.
  5. Hi, Due to the restrictions over the last few months I've had a set-up where I am predominantly working on a show remotely via VNC giving we access to the Production and Display Machine. I've a camera on stage and this is generally working out OK and as planned. The only frustrating element is due to the elements of the set on stage I am unable to see the updating status bar on the onstage outputs when I am updating/transferring new content. It's leaving me clueless to any sense of how long is left for the transfer. Is there a way of knowing the status of data/file transfers from the production computer. The outputs are all 3D Mapping projectors (I know a status bar can be seen with a 2d projector). thanks Barret
  6. Of course! That’s for the reply, it’s really appreciated
  7. Hi, Is there a way to fade a 3D objects opacity making it transparent as opposed to fading to black then snapping out at 1%?
  8. I'm in the process of bringing an old show into WO. The footage is all rendered in ProRes. After finally getting it to run on the display software it was noticable that the blacks were not full black, I checked the original footage in After effects which is all good - black is black. Subsequantly I've done a test transcoding and comparing the footage to HAP which fixes the problem within WO. It reminds me of the old issues with gamma shifts with ProRes with Quicktime as can be found on a multitude of forums for editers and content creators - is it the same quicktime issues causing this within WO? I've added a screenshot of the footage of the two test clips within Watchout which I've then looked at in Photoshop, there is 16% RGB shift in the blacks with the ProRes compared to 0% in the Hap footage. I'm guessing there's a whole gamma shift but I've not tested it properly - I realise ProRes is not the recommended codec but the simple conclusion it seems is that ProRes isn't an option.
  9. It would be great to have the same output options and tweaks for a virtual display as you do for a standard display output, i.e the masking and geometry correction. It would open a plethora of creative combinations and compositions
  10. Sure, as was the method with After Effects tens years ago as well as embeding the mapping and distortion into the artwork, it's nice to think we've moved on from there a little though.
  11. OK, I've done further tests on this and striped down the set-up to do it. It seems the screen print/capture works when a single display is attached but two or more and I'm unable to do it - I get the WO screens. Is this the same as other folk? Is this a bug?
  12. I thought that would be the case - I've got the images displayed with the mask but when I print the screen I get the following
  13. Again RBeddig thanks for the reply. Unfortunately the export video method seems impossible as the production computer is running on an HD monitor and the outputs of the display are 4k -I can't make the displays fully visible on the stage window to capture them - it's a shame this would be a good workaround. The capture card method I'll tinker with but I feel it's adding significantly more kit and workflow to the process which I feel should be relatively straight forward. Has anybody got a screenshot method of working with Watchout? A third party app that''l do the job? I don't know enough about what's happening with Watchout to allow for the Watchout icon window to be captured and not the output display itself
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