Mike Fahl

I assume you're using the WATCHMan Flash API: http://academy.dataton.com/sites/default/files/docs/WATCHMan/AS3/index.html?com/dataton/watchout/WATCHMan.html&com/dataton/watchout/class-list.html If so, first call GetAuxTimeline to get a proxy or the auxiliary timeline. The returned AuxTimeline object can then be used to learn about interesting events, as the docs say. In your case, you'd add an event listener to the returned AuxTimeline object for the PlayingChanged event, which will be fired when the timeline starts/stops. Hope this helps. Mike

As Jonas say, the easiest solution is to install WATCHOUT on the large data partition, since WATCHOUT by defaut stores its show files on the same partition as it is installed. However, an alternative if you prefer to keep the app on the system/app partition is to use a command line option to direct the show files to another drive/partition. See here: http://forum.dataton.com/topic/26-forcing-wo-display-pcs-to-use-second-disk/ Mike

I've been primarily using FFMpeg lately. It's free, although it has a somewhat arcane UI (command line based). It encodes to most relevant formats, and can do MPEG-2 up to 4k. Mike

It should be here: ~/WATCHNET_Data/logs/WATCHNET.log Log files are numbered and rotated (I believe up to 10 files are kept). Mike

Please send a small example show that exhibits this behavior to support@dataton.com, as I don't quite follow what you're doing here. Mike

What Jonas says above applies only if you're indeed dealing wth a pre-split video. There are other use cases for proxy media, which do not require using a folder of multiple files, but proxying a single media file only, which sounds more like what the OP is talking about. Mike

The error message you're reporting (-2147220891), translated to the more traditional hexadecimal format (0x80040265) can be looked up here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd375623 Where it says "Cannot play back the file: the format is not supported.". Without knowing anything more about what's in the video fie you're trying to play, that's about as close to an explanation you can get. But presumably, as suggested by others above, the file format isn't supported by WATCHPAX. It may be that the file plays through QuickTime on your other computers (assuming QT is installed). QT is not available in WATCHPAX, which would then explain the difference in behavior. The solution is then to re-encode the file using a recommended video file format. Mike

I found a free timecode generator app for my iPhone (TC Toolbox). Using that app, you could quite easily record a timecode track yourself. Mike

Should be no problem, and have been used quite a lot, given adequate hardware. What's the precise resolution of the content? Mike

So essentially a "bulk" command for cues, moving all selected cues along their layers so their start time aligns with the current time position? Presumably same in the tail end of the cue, with the option of either moving or "trimming" so all cues end at the current time position. Mike

File extension doesn't matter. Note, however, that a MOV file may contain additional data/tracks that could interrfere with playback, while the MP4 standard is a more strict subset of the MOV file format, thereby avoiding any sich additional data. But in most cases when just exporting a MOV file, there will be no difference. Mike

Disengage "click jumps to time" and drag them until they snap to the time indicator (with snapping enabled, of course). Mike

We've done quite some demos with Kinect sensors over the years. Some more info and an example implementation can be found here: http://academy.dataton.com/recipe/kinect-input The Leap is essentially similar, albeit on a smaller scale. So I'd say you can treat it pretty much the same way. Details will differ, of course, since the API to obtain data frmo the Leap is different. But the basic concept should be the same. Mike

Not quite. Unless you give the "Remote Access" command in the production software, the VNC server isn't running on the display computer, so no VNC port will be in use. The included VNC server is started on demand by the "Remote Access" command. Mike

You can set the In Time of the video. This doesn't affect the loop-back point, though as it will always loop back to the beginning of the file (not its in point), fwiw. Mike¨

They can contain spaces if you enclose the name in double quotes when giving the command, e.g.: run "Timeline 1" Mike

Depends on how you define "keyboard" You could hook up an external MIDI keyboard, and hook it up to the task list by adding Inputs for as many keys as you want. Hope this helps. Mike

Shouldn't matter as far as WATCHOUT is concerned. Where did you see the hint about IDE mode? Whatever works best for the computer/OS should be best for WATCHOUT too, as far as I can tell. Mike

Paul isn't in Houston, but "next door" in Forth Worth. If that's of interest, you may want to give him a call. http://www.dataton.com/watchout/success-stories/Paul_Johnsson http://pauljohnsoninc.com/ Mike

You can do it either way. But having the audio separate gives more flexibility in terms of where to play it back from. Mike

You can click the head or tail of a cue, which will set the time to the corresponding end. Mike

Insert smooth keyframes along the tween track to bend the curve into an S-shape. Same as for all other tweens. Only the position tweens behave differently, since they have separate easing handles in the Stage window. Mike

Sounds like you don't have UAC disabled, as described on page 227 of the manual. Fix this, and your Shows folder will go into the app folder as before. You should then delete the folder in the other location to save some disk space. It's Windows that redirects the folder to th location you mention when UAC is active. This should be doable using a proxy media item, setting its file transfer mode to "manual", as described on page 139 and 141 of the WATCHOUT manual. Mike

Walter, what particular codec have you used related to the HAP codec? There are a couple of "DXV style" codecs out there, based on D3D texture compression. While workable, I believe most of them have poor dynamic range, resulting in severe banding in some cases. As far as I can tell, the base HAP codec falls in this category as well, while the HAP Q codec seems to fare better (at the cost of significantly higher data rate). Please share your experience here, as we've very eager to provide useful codecs in this area for inclusion in upcoming WATCHOUT versions. Mike

I've seen this message occasionally when quitting the produciton software. It's somewhat annoying, but appears to be harmless, just as you say. Could you try uninstalling QuickTime from this machine temporarily, to see if this makes this problem go away? I've had some indications that this message is related to QuickTime somehow. Most functions in WATCHOUT work without QuickTime, so you may not need it anyway. If you do, you can just re-install it after making this test. Please post back here with your findings. Mike