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  4. Surface Pro 3 for production?

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    Hi,

     

    is anyone using a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 as a production-computer successfully and would recommend it? Or is that a really bad idea? I am thinking of getting one for use with Watchout 5.x/6 and Ventuz (not at the same time:-) eventually... I see that screen-estate is tiny and would hook up one or more extra displays, if needed.

    Best regards,

     

    Uwe Wiesemann

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  6. Losing sync on outputs from same Display computer

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    Hi again,

     

    Is it possible, that AUX-timelines are especially "vulnerable" to these sync-issues? I've had some simple compositions with still-images moving and cross-dissolving slowly, placed into AUX-timelines.

    At the end of that loop the timeline was made to jump back to a specified cue and play again from there. One half of that composition became transparent for the duration of a frame or so on that moment of jumping to that cue.

    One would see a "flash" of whats underneath in the main timeline.

    The same with a movie (mp4). When i put those compositions into the main timeline, the issue was gone.

    This made me modify the compositions/timelines to a length where they didnt have to loop anymore, cause they would play hours....

     

    All this was with WO 5.5.2, even with a synch card installed. Display-machines from a rental-company.

     

    Cheers,

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  8. Formula for Tweens?

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    Hi,

     

    I would like to have a timeline that contains stills that are dissolving in and out while they are slightly moving. Either scaling and/or panning.

    I want to control the starting time of each dissolve by playing and pausing the timeline before and after each dissolve. When pausing I want the scaling/panning to continue, so I thought of using the formula-function instead of fixed tweens.

    Is there something like "scale from 85% to 92% and back in 50 seconds" or "pan from 4554 to 5123 and back in 120 seconds"? I know I could use some external control like midi but then I would have the same issue there..

    Or would this be a case for free running timelines?

     

    cheers

    Uwe Wiesemann

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  12. Feature Request ? Post here

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    Hi all.

     

    My wishes would be:

     

    - Add kerning in the text-module, like in AfterEffects.

     

    - Add the ability to switch the timeline to "real" frames and snap to those

     

    - Add stepping in the timeline framewise with some keyboardshortcut. Very often I am asked to show a client some transition/section framewise...

     

    - Add "handles" or tabs on the displays on the stage (or maybe a rightclick-dropdown list). When stacking two or more displays exactly on top of each other, it takes time to select and work one of them.

     

    - Add a different kind of cues, that can be used for naming/marking areas of the timeline. Call them Markers, Notes or something.

    As of now I am using play-cues for that, but they are being loaded into the iphone WO-remote as well and I end up with a whole lot more play/pause cues than actually needed.

     

    - Enabling/disabling single cues (like "ctrl B" in FinalCut) to quickly take some thing out of the show temporarily.

     

    - Limit export of video/audio to quicktime to the actual screens as an option

     

    - Make the dissolve of "standby" a real dissolve between the show and the standby layers. At the present it is fading all layers down and the stby-layer up. This is always visible and irritating.

     

    - Save the position/size and arrangement of the production-software window within the project or as seperate setups. At present, when using a second monitor, I have to rearrange after turning off/on.

     

    - Make the show folder of a display machine "transportable" in some way. At present they seem to be locked to their original IP-adress.

    I wanted to test some things with a show(folder) on a different machine and the iphone-WO-remote, but couldnt because of the different IP-address, I believe.

    Maybe by editing a textfile inside that folder?

     

    I guess that's all that comes to mind right now.

    All the best.

    Uwe Wiesemann

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  14. WO-Remote (iPhone) trouble

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    I guess I found an answer somewhere else on the forum.

    I was trying to start the show via iPhone-app on the production-computer (connecting to watchmaker, not watchpoint ..)
    The showfiles had not been transfered from producion to display, of course.
    No wonder...

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  16. WO-Remote (iPhone) trouble

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    Hi, I am just trying to get the iPhone WO-Remote-app to control a laptop-display computer running Watchpoint (5.3.1, with a dongle attached, of course). I can connect to it. The app shows me folders, where I know the setups (xxz.watch) are located. It wont open any of the setups. In the logfiles I can see, that watchpoint-output saying that the "show doesnt exist"... The shows have the same name as the folders.

    Bug or feature? What am I doing wrong?

    Cheers

     

    Uwe

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