Pro Video Presenter
Remember how we played all those videos at NSWN and SWS at Pauley – on the center screen and side screens. Well, there was a little piece of cool software behind it all.
Thanks to Brad and the others at Renewed Vision for their help in getting us a trial license to test out their application in a real production setting. I have to say that everything worked out very, very nicely. We had a few snags but we worked through them. Our biggest complication was using PVP with ProP.
Here’s how we did our setup:
* Although this was against best practices we did use the primary machine and the slave over a private wifi network.
* The primary was a MBP outputting to two projectors via a dual head matrox external video device powered by USB. This gave us a resolution of 2048×768.
* The slave machine was a MBP outputting to 2 side projectors via a kramer pict tools 1 –> 4 duper. Basically the same image to both projectors.
* Imbetween we used a Kramer scaler vp710 and Corio scaler to manage the middle projector and side projectors.
* I can give more details if you’d like. Some of it is documented on the previous posts.
A VERY NICE about the PVP software is that it’ll playback the video in the resolution that the machine it’s on is playing. So the primary could output to 2048×768 and the sides could do 1024×768. We didn’t even take advantage of the tiling…partially b/c of license constraints.
We’re in the process of evaluating the software and will determine shortly how we can integrate this into our present environment at Willard Auditorium.