wiesemann
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18 hours ago, Vollmers said:
Thanks for clearing that up. Except that some of the shows I’m working on is incredibly complicated, and building it all again from scratch……. That’ll be a killer. I hope you find a way to at least import some of the old shows into v.7.
Anyone remember Final Cut Studio? Replaced by FinalCutPro X over night, no compatibility? Bad idea.
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Have used 25fps timecode coming from an audiotrack of a mp4 played on an iPad. There is an offset, which means you will have to somehow find the real start of the program.
I used TC from 09:59:20:00 or so to keep some time for synching. One can hear the jump to 10:00:00:00 and use that as reference.
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could one say, that the files you got only play when they are re-encoded. Could it be that they have been encoded in maybe the „wrong way“ in the first place?
Do they play when reencoded in the exact same size? Maybe „remuxing“ with OBS helps already?
I dont know..
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Hi,
did you try updating without the wav file? I‘d try to isolate the problem testing each step. using no audio, different format (16 bit, 24 bit, mp3), move the audio away from that display, change framerates, resolutions..
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On 6/4/2023 at 1:44 AM, Leif said:
For a particular building projection I use lights to supplement areas outside the projection area. I usually sit down a 1am in sub zero temperatures and manually move each R, G and B value in the timeline. I don’t get content until the last minute so it would be easier to create a area outside the mask to sample from and get the content creators to set the colours then get those values to drive the DMX.
can I get RGB. Values sampled in real time from video to drive DMX ?
I dont know anything about the new version of Watchout.
But you might want to check the community edition of Ventuz.
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the production computer could provide this set to high resolution instead of thumbnails. But dont know if screenshotting wouldnt interfere with the playback.
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18 hours ago, jfk said:
Very true. We deny quite a few spam submissions. Recently legitimate users accounts have been hacked and spam posts submitted. We were able to block the spam and notify the users to update their passwords. Another spam technique we have been catching is new accounts submitting what look like legitimate posts that are actually copies of old posts from others. If approved, they come back and edit the post to change it to spam. While new submissions are moderated, edits are not moderated. But we have caught them anyway.
Appreciate all that extra work. Thanks to all involved. Great Forum.
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18 hours ago, blueguerilla said:
Also, Moderators, I have been a member on the forum for a bloody decade. When will I be able to post something without moderator review every time lol?
I like moderation. Otherwise we‘d have Twitter of even Facebokk in a minute.
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18 hours ago, blueguerilla said:
I agree, I always try to stay a version behind with all my software. Unfortunately the racks the AV company is providing are on 6.7.2, so I need to build to their spec.
But that is what I meant. I tell these guys, which version I want to work with, or in some rare cases, install it myself.
I know that sounds rude or „not service oriented“, but since every jitter, non looping loop and everycrackle in audio is going to be „my fault“ anyway I decide this or I reject the job.
Had a really bad experience which led me to this. („what did you program there…“)
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16 hours ago, blueguerilla said:
Yes, I created this show last year on a different production laptop, with Watchout 6.5. I am tempted to try installing 6.5 on this machine just to test, but my current workflow using Joyko encoder and Watchout 6.7.2 is working well, and I am too busy worrying about this years show to try and make an old one work. (I had just loaded it as a test of the new hardware) I was just baffled by the fact that files that worked previously aren't working in the current version of Watchout and was wondering if anyone had a clue why. My biggest worry is that there is an unknown bug with the current version of watchout that is going to come back to bite me later....
Well, Dataton probably doesnt want to hear it, but it was always the case that there wer unstable newer versions and I have waited for bugs to be fixed in another even newer version.
I would just stick with the version that was running. Clients always blame it on you (me) not on software engineering. So I decide what is used.
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Try encoding to HAP with a different software than Adobe. Sometimes Adobe.. I better not say it..
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Sounds like you have Quicktime installed? Which isnt necessary.
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at some point we had Watchout play single AppleProRes422 files that were 6k sonething by 1080 px wide at a framerate of 25 fps.
I assume, when splitting them one could get pretty far. Otherwise I have been using Mp4, after mpeg2 and WMV were basically out of the business.
The latter looked sharper than Mp4..
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This is why I never bothered to even look at HAP after seeing, that even a short HD film ends up with a ridiculous filesize.
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23 hours ago, artboy said:
I think the black frame is seen in a short moment when the media file is uploaded to the buffer.
Turn off the automatic pre-roll setting in the second content setting and manually enter the time to test.
The two contents must be located on different layers.
try the same in the maintimeline instead of an aux.
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Very cool. Please Dataton, buy this technology!
Is it possivle to send this to another computer on the same network which has the tool installed? So that colleagues of the team can see it in the same moment.
Up to now they keep asking like kids on vacation trips..
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On 12/9/2022 at 6:50 PM, Fucci said:
hmm. Ok, how can one have 1 keyboard command or 1 midi note trigger to advance to the next cue on a specific layer in the main timeline regardless of the selected layer?
To simplify, I want (the functionality of) right arrow but on a specific pre-determined layer only.
You can „lock“ the layers that contain cues you want to omit. This way „arrow right/Next“ key hits the one you want. But of course you would have to prepare this.
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Sometimes USB ports go weird or defective. For example I have a surface pro dock, that cannot safely be used für USB-drives.. So I wouldnt use that. The surfaces own USB is good.
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I had a show at some point where tc-sync was neede for one section only. Tinecode was coming from an iPad thru an audiocable. There was no need to do anything except NOT run than timecode from that iPad when not needed.
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On issue could be that the display machine/s are not „powerful“ enough to play back the content. I had that and it took a while to isolate it to just that.
Which was a disappointment for some people who had hoped it would have been my programming mistakes and not just their „too cheap“.
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4 hours ago, Morgan Wong said:
i always reserve layer 1-4 for control cues & notes.
so you can easily see when will stop or when is next cue/scene.
exactly this. In order to not have all these layered cues active, one could lock the layers they are in. Except one of course.
Also a good trick to just bypass them all, for testing content or so.
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Looping… Always a big topic..
I would recommend NOT using pause and play cue OR free running. But instead make really long timelines. Like 24 hours if needed. Put the films end to end, copy, repeat.. Do that with stills as well, when working with dissolving stills.
This way you avoid the sync AND the transparency-jump issues at the end of loops.
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Why run two NICs in the first place?
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On 8/17/2022 at 7:55 PM, jfk said:
And it has been heard. I wish things were moving faster. Suffice is to say, NDI output is included in the next major release ( and has passed alpha testing). One of numerous additions. I hope i live long enough to see it reach the market
. In all fairness, we do not want a product that is not ready.
Thats good to know… 🖖🏽🍀
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Watchout 7 and video content with embedded audio
in WATCHOUT FORUM
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well, in the old days (Version 6) it was recommended to NOT use embedded audio but instead creat a separate file, which then can be placed on any output.