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  3. Display computer not responding to Production computer

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Hi Omar!

     

    A few more questions.

     

    1) Does this happen every time your start up the system or just sometimes?

    2) Have you, as Jonas suggested, tried with a straight network cable by-passing the switch.

    3) Any chance you have an external VNC (remote desktop service) running on your PCs?

    4) What is your display/projector and what is the native revolution and refresh rate? The same setting i  WATCHOUT?

    5) Is the display/projector connected directly to the display computer or is it going though some external hardware?

     

    Best regards,
    Fredrik S 

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  5. WATCHOUT Shortcuts

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Here's a list of convenient shortcuts to speed up your WATCHOUT workflow.


    General
    Ctrl K Preferences dialog box
    Ctrl O Open a show file
    Ctrl Q Quit program
    Ctrl R Refresh media (looks for changed files)
    Ctrl S Save show to disk
     
    Edit
    Ctrl A Select all
    Ctrl C Copy
    Ctrl E Select to End
    Ctrl F Find/Replace
    Ctrl G Find/Replace again
    Ctrl M Move stage position of selected cues/displays
    Ctrl X Cut
    Ctrl Z Undo
    Ctrl Shift Z Redo
    Enter Open specifications dialog
     
    Stage & Preview
    Ctrl Shift A Remote manage display
    Ctrl B Standby mode (toggle)
    Ctrl D Update
    Ctrl L Online (toggle)
    Ctrl N Snap (toggle)
    Ctrl 1 Preview scale 1:16
    Ctrl 2 Preview scale 1:8
    Ctrl 3 Preview scale 1:4
    Ctrl 4 Preview scale 1:2
    Ctrl 5 Preview scale 1:1
    Ctrl 6 Preview as wireframes
    Ctrl 7 Preview as thumbnails
    Ctrl 8 Preview video as thumbnail
    Ctrl 9 Preview at best quality
    Ctrl 0 Preview masked by displays
    Ctrl Drag Zoom scale to rectangle
    Ctrl Click Zoom in
    Ctrl Shift Click Zoom out
    Ctrl Alt Drag Pan stage position in window
     
    Timeline
    Ctrl I Insert layer
    Ctrl DEL Delete layer
    Ctrl J Timeline settings
    Ctrl P Add play control cue
    Ctrl Shift P Add pause control cue
    Ctrl T Click jumps to time (toggle)
    Spacebar Start timeline (toggle)
    Esc Pause timeline (no toggle)
    NUM 0 Start timeline (no toggle)
    NUM * Jump to last start position
    NUM + Magnify timeline scale
    NUM – Reduce timeline scale
    Alt While dragging tail of cue to stretch tween points
    Up/Down Select layer
    Left/Right Select next/previous cue in layer
    Ctrl Arrow Nudge image of selected cue 1 pixel
    Ctrl Shift Arrow Nudge image of selected cue 10 pixels
     
    Tween
    Alt P Position
    Alt O Opacity
    Alt S Scale
    Alt R Rotation Z-Axis
    Alt C Crop
    Alt L Color
    Alt V Volume
    Alt B Balance
    Alt T Wipe (tiles)
    Alt E Wipe (tiles)
    Alt W Wipe (gradient)
    Alt N Wipe (venetian)
    Alt H Hue & Saturation

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  8. Hard lesson learned

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Hi Kaarle!

     

    I understand that you're looking for a deeper technical suggestion, but my simple advise is to use a one extra WO display computer as a full redundant back-up in situations like this. You know how easy it is to set this up with "Tiers" in WATCHOUT and it is a very cost-effective and simple way to handle the unexpected with grace.

     

    Best regards,

    Fredrik S

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  10. Masking a Projector

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Yes, Tiers is the right way to go. Put your LED screens and Projection screens on different Tiers. Then you open the Layer settings (in the Timeline) and connect the Layers to the appropriate Tiers.

     

    In addition, if you want the same content to travel through all screens, you have to apply pixel-density-scaling because the size of the LED pixels and the Projected pixels will probably not match. You can do this scaling in WATCHOUT. Just double-click on your display. Leave the Display resolution as it is (should be the native resolution of your screen) but enter a large/smaller number in the "Stage resolution" a bit further down in the same dialog.

     

    Good luck

     

    Fredrik Svahnberg

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    Rebuild show file?

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    To recover a .watch file from a display computer,

    first go to the display computer, find the folder where watchout is installed,

    and in that folder you will find a folder named "  Shows  "

    In the Shows folder, you will find more folders, each with the name of a stored show.

    Open the folder for the show you wish to recover. There, you will find a file named   Spec

    Copy the Spec file to use for the recovery process.

     

    The procedure for re-creating a show file from a Spec file is quite straightforward...

    1. Rename the Spec file DFC_Data (no file extension)
    2. Zip the file
    3. Rename the resulting Zip file to Whatever.watch

    Best regards,
    Fredrik Svahnberg
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  15. Stepping on dissolve in

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    You bet. Animations of bit maps (still images) in WATCHOUT should be silk smooth. Please connect the WATCHOUT display computers output directly to a good screen (or projector) with a short DVI cable with nothing else in-between. Make sure WATCHOUT and your graphic card is set to 60 Hz. I am sure you will now see a perfect result. Then you have to figure out what is causing the strutter/stepping. My guess is that you have some kind of miss-match in the VGA/switcher/scaler/LED processor area.

     

    Good luck.

     

    Fredrik Svahnberg

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  16. How to run an unattended show

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    I'm having trouble deciding how to control an installation show that does not use Medialon or really anything other than Watchout.

    just a few questions:

    We want the show to :

     

    Please find my answers inline below...

     

    Start projectors automatically

     

    No, problem, you can trigger a relay-box from an output cue in WATCHOUT or, if the projector is in Standby, send a string output cue.

     

    Run the show

     

    No problem. You can setup WATCHOUT to auto-start after reboot or a power failure. You do this with a command-script.

     

    Shutdown automatically

     

    Power down is pretty straightforward through commands in the WATCHOUT protocol. Shut down [PowerDown 0] or Sleep [PowerDown 1]

     

    switch to backup (Using a matrix) if the main display drops out?

     

    No built-in feature for this but you can certainly query if WATCHOUT is still alive and build your "switch-alarm" from the response (or lack of response).

     

    Is it OK to have a 24 hr long timeline in watchout? The scheduler is probably not going to fit our requirements for this one.

     

    No problem

     

    Can watchout be setup to send email messages using the string output?

     

    No built-in feature, but I'm sure you can do it with a combination of a string output and some external tricks.

     

    Would it be possible to use an expression to send emails if we receive a message about a display going offline?

     

    Same as above.

     

    What is the best way of forcing Catalyst Control Centre to boot windows to 4 displays? When Windows 7 starts it will *sometime go to 4 screens, but most of the time you need to open CCC to re-enable them. Is there a way to get a preset as a short-cut that can be loaded from the "startup items" folder?

     

    As I understand you've managed to find a solution for this.

     

    Best regards,

    Fredrik S

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  17. Will the pc run 2 time the same fullHD movie?

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Here is the answer, Alex.

     

    1) If you run one video on one display computer it does not matter if you span the video across multiple outputs. WATCHOUT will still only playback one instance of the video file.

     

    2) If you run two (or more) cues of the same video, at the same time on the timeline but on different layers, WATCHOUT is smart and will still only playback one instance.

     

    3) If you run the video (as in 1 above) spanning two displays running on two separate display computer, each display PC will play one instance of the video - of course.

     

    Best regards,

    Fredrik Svahnberg

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  19. remote access

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Hello!

     

    While Jonas, with his vast knowledge always solves the complicated technical issues, I, myself, always look for the simple things. In this case "remote access" is indeed greyed out until you select one or several displays in the stage window.

     

    Best regards,

    Fredrik Svahnberg

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  20. WATCHOUT Academy

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    Hello!

     

    The new official WATCHOUT training program, The WATCHOUT Academy has now been officially launched. Yesterday, we ran 5 full sessions in conjunction with Infocomm in Las Vegas

     

    Check out some pics here:

    feed://instagr.am/tags/watchoutacademy/feed/recent.rss

     

    Stay tuned. We're soon coming to a city near you.

     

    Best regards,

    Fredrik Svahnberg

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  25. Display cluster issues

    in WATCHOUT FORUM

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    The obvious solution is to add a "control cue" at the specific point on the timeline which plays your first movie. This control cue should be set-up to trigger another "Aux timeline" with your second move.

     

    Or perhaps, but not very likely, you need to send the trigger commands between to completely separate WATCHOUT computers (clusters) over the network. This is also possible. Please describe your complete setup in detail (WO production and display computers, external control systems etc)

     

    Best regards,

    Fredrik S

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