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Josef Swanberg

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  1. The drawback with spout is that it would have to run on the actual display computer that is running our display software, and that could have a negative effect on performance. Also, you would not be able to share the spout image, to render on more than one media server.

    However, when using NDI, the image can be rendered on a separate computer in the network, and shared to several media servers.

  2. I can recommend you to read the user manual on the subject, in the section 3D MAPPING PROJECTOR. Here you can see, among other things, that both the Lens Shift and the Width/Distance Ratio properties can be either locked (which means you need to calculate them yourself) or let them be determined by the calibration.

  3. Hi Alex,

    To be able to help you, we need more information:

    1. What version of Watchout are you running?
    2. What does the error message say, exactly?
    3. When does the message appear, what where you doing at the time?
    4. How does the message appear? (Message window, popup dialog etc)

    Regards

    Josef

  4. Hi kFrogStudio,

    To investigate this issue, I would like to know a couple of things:

    1. What version of WATCHOUT are you using?

    2. You mention that free-running and looping videos have worked before. What version of WATCHOUT was that?

    3. When you where running a free-running looping movie on main timeline for two days, where you controlling the show from a production computer, or from an external controller such as WATCHNET?

     

    Regards

    Josef

     

  5. 11 hours ago, mindopera said:

    Josef, I would imagined you’ve tested the machines Dataton is selling.  Take for instance the WATCHMAX 6x4K.  What are the limitations with virtual displays on that computer?

    I really can't say. As usual there are no limitations in WATCHOUT to the amount of things you can do. There is no limitation on timelines, layers in timelines, video and image cues, and so on. And there is no limitation on the number of virtual displays.

    When it comes to performance, it depends very much on your show: How many displays are connected to your device, what other things you want to do at the same time, like playing lots of high resolution video content. All those things can have an impact on the performance. That is why it's very hard to give any general guidelines, even on one specific device.

    One thing I can say, is that having one high resolution virtual display, is much less heavy for the display computer, than having multiple low resolution virtual displays, that combined could have the same resolution as the high resolution one. That could be something to consider, when designing your show.

    It's quite possible that we, in the future, may have some sort of benchmark examples. Like on this device you can play this many 4k videos while having that many virtual displays with this resolution. But that would just have to be examples, and couldn't possibly cover every use case.

    In conclusion, you'll just have to try it out and see what works for you.

  6. To be fair, Live Update and Virtual Displays did not exist in version 5.5.2, so they couldn't have worked flawlessly then.

    That being said, It's quite possible that Live Update has not been tested when performing the intricate operations that you describe, and that this feature is still a bit rough around the edges. Therefore I can not, at this time, recommend having Live Update on continuously while working on the show, and only turning it on when you need to place things correctly on the stage, for example, in relation to real world objects.

  7. Like you say, it's very dependent on your system, and what other things you want to do at the same time, like playing lots of high resolution video content may also have an impact on the performance. That is why it's very hard to give any general guidelines, you'll have to try it out and get a feeling for it yourself.

  8. It is not possible to change the order of transformations. However, you may be able to achieve what you are after by placing the 3d object inside a composition. Then you can to the constant Y rotation on the inner 3d object, while doing the other rotations on the outer composition.

    Hope this helps!

  9. It seems your auto saved show file got corrupted somehow. However, in the auto save folder of your show (named as your show file, followed by "_autosave") you should be able to find more time stamped auto save files. Try opening one of them (after copying it out to the folder of the original show file).

  10. Hi,

    It seems your files are exported with a quite old version of FBX, that not even Blender is able to import.

    Try and see if you can export with a newer version, maybe in your exporter settings, or by updating to a newer version of C4D, or by using a different software.

    Regards

    Josef

  11. This is all great feedback, matkeane!

    Some comments:

    On 4/8/2019 at 11:44 AM, matkeane said:

    Need to change the blend mode of 97 video clips without going crazy?

    Maybe this is not exactly what you are looking for, but since 6.2 you have been able to copy tweens from one cue, and pasting them onto multiple other cues at once.

    On 4/8/2019 at 11:44 AM, matkeane said:

    In the meantime, if it were possible to copy the duration of a video clip from the Media window, that would already be an improvement. 

    This shouldn't be too difficult to add... :)

  12. I suspect the video won't play smoothly, but if it does, then you know there is nothing wrong with the video, an the problem is somewhere else. All the other steps, such as the 3d model, virtual display, warping and blending, add a certain amount to the work load of the processor. Try removing them one by one to see which one is causing the problem. But as I see it it's highly unlikely they are the source of the problem.

    If it doesn't play smoothly, then you know the video is too heavy, and you know you need to do something about that. Maybe switch to a less heavy codec, such as H.264?

  13. How are you mapping the video on the 3d model, directly or via a virtual display?

    I should think the video is the bottle neck here. Playing back such a high resolution hap file is quite heavy for such a small machine, may it be a WATCHPAX or a nuc.

    Have you tried just playing the same video content, but without the 3d model, warping and blending?

  14. On 12/28/2018 at 1:57 PM, matkeane said:

    It would be really helpful if there was a simpler/quicker way to enable/disable displays and assign them to player machines than double-clicking each display one-by-one.

    I can recommend to you this feature, available from version 6.2 (from release notes):

    • Properties of multiple displays can be edited all at once, by selecting them and double-clicking one of them, or via the Specifications command in the Edit menu or in the popup menu.
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