]More screens to come.
Digital signage in Vegas 8
Spot|DSE
wrote on 9/3/2007, 10:43 PM
]More screens to come.
]More screens to come.
Comments
Chanimal
wrote on 9/3/2007, 11:14 PM
Looks great. What are the most common uses for this feature?
MRe
wrote on 9/4/2007, 12:03 AM
Nice but... couldn't you just use pan&crop on either track or media to accomplish this. And for preview rotate your external monitor 90-deg (to avoid excessive neck strain).
I mean: this is really a niché (yes, niche, not nice) feature, hopefully SCS guys have not dropped anything significant of from the v8 release because of this...
Just my 0.02 €
I mean: this is really a niché (yes, niche, not nice) feature, hopefully SCS guys have not dropped anything significant of from the v8 release because of this...
Just my 0.02 €
UlfLaursen
wrote on 9/4/2007, 12:59 AM
Thanks for sharing this Spot!! :)
/Ulf
/Ulf
farss
wrote on 9/4/2007, 1:26 AM
Someone asked about this before V8 was announced and yes, most monitors can pivot, so just turn your monitor 90deg, job done. The idea anyway is to shoot using a 90deg bracket between the camera and the tripod, sort of a 9x16 image. When you play it back you rotate the secondary monitor and all is sweet. You don't want to rotate the image using pan/crop (shooting with the bracket avoids the need for that anyway), that'd do serious damage resolution wise.
So unless I've missed something one could do this in V7 pretty easily.
Bob.
So unless I've missed something one could do this in V7 pretty easily.
Bob.
Yarin VooDoo
wrote on 9/4/2007, 1:41 AM
Thank you so much for this video preview! ;-)
CClub
wrote on 9/4/2007, 3:22 AM
Boy, I know this is off topic, but what are people using for settings to send to YouTube these days? This footage looks great.
Spot|DSE
wrote on 9/4/2007, 7:59 AM
Yes, after some effort you could do this in Vegas 7, and would need to do it with all media (pan/crop or TM).
This simply makes it easier, and keeps things at native resolutions. Playback is full frame rate rather than it being lost to pan/crop or TM processing.
As far as useful? Wow. I didn't realize folks wouldn't see it as useful right away. We've had several clients request verticals. Hospitals, shopping malls, airports, tradeshows, lobby graphics, hotels, bars, etc....it's much easier to put changing signage in a vertical screen, because the screens can mount in smaller areas, and because they're live but vertical, they capture more attention (until folks become used to seeing them). A large retail chain recently did a big-window display featuring pounding music and vertical media. It's one of those "next big things" in the retail, corporate, and service industries here in the US.
This simply makes it easier, and keeps things at native resolutions. Playback is full frame rate rather than it being lost to pan/crop or TM processing.
As far as useful? Wow. I didn't realize folks wouldn't see it as useful right away. We've had several clients request verticals. Hospitals, shopping malls, airports, tradeshows, lobby graphics, hotels, bars, etc....it's much easier to put changing signage in a vertical screen, because the screens can mount in smaller areas, and because they're live but vertical, they capture more attention (until folks become used to seeing them). A large retail chain recently did a big-window display featuring pounding music and vertical media. It's one of those "next big things" in the retail, corporate, and service industries here in the US.
Grazie
wrote on 9/4/2007, 8:33 AM
Douglas, I saw the possibilities immediately. On the back of cash tills; counter staff options - tall and slim! Just like me . .
Full reso too!
You got to think that other NLEs must be thinking - "Now why didn't WE think of that one?"
Vegas and its development just keeps removing the blockages - at every release it just gets better and better.
Thanks SPOT, any more .. please???
Grazie
Full reso too!
You got to think that other NLEs must be thinking - "Now why didn't WE think of that one?"
Vegas and its development just keeps removing the blockages - at every release it just gets better and better.
Thanks SPOT, any more .. please???
Grazie
hoosierdraft
wrote on 9/4/2007, 9:28 AM
Douglas, what do you see as being the playback mechanism for the verticals?
Terje
wrote on 9/4/2007, 10:07 AM
A DVD player?
Grazie
wrote on 9/4/2007, 10:15 AM
USB Stick into a VERTICAL display!! I've done it! No dvd - in fact a SD card would do too.
Things are becoming just soooo convenient now. DVD players? Nope! Give me a big LCD slab and me USB stick and I'm away!
Too excited!!!
Thanks SONY!!
Grazie
Things are becoming just soooo convenient now. DVD players? Nope! Give me a big LCD slab and me USB stick and I'm away!
Too excited!!!
Thanks SONY!!
Grazie
hoosierdraft
wrote on 9/4/2007, 12:37 PM
apit34356
wrote on 9/4/2007, 1:54 PM
As DSE pointed out, digital signate is really big right now. In an old vegas forum thread, a discussion was going on about aspect ratios and how hard it is to put a face in the scene with "impact". Marketing figure-out just turn the new 1080p displays sideways, but the "face/s" at the top and text in the middle and bottom ( like the old days of the first electronic word processors). This seems to increase the visual impact on/to the viewers. The 1080p on its sides have more impact than sd sideways.
TheHappyFriar
wrote on 9/4/2007, 3:05 PM
Nice but... couldn't you just use pan&crop on either track or media to accomplish this.
Yes. But you could also do whatever the new titler does with the old one if you wanted to do one letter on each track. :)
this looks very very cool though. I see more uses for this then just sinage but for making veg's with slices of videos cut out & the using those veg's to make complete screens.
Yes. But you could also do whatever the new titler does with the old one if you wanted to do one letter on each track. :)
this looks very very cool though. I see more uses for this then just sinage but for making veg's with slices of videos cut out & the using those veg's to make complete screens.
rmack350
wrote on 9/4/2007, 3:21 PM
Yes, but this provides a flexible way to preview your work on all sorts of monitors. And I think that monitors capable of pivoting into portrait mode also trigger a mode change on the card, don't they? So unless Vegas was sending it a rotated signal you'd still end up with a sideways preview.
Very cool, actually.
Rob
Very cool, actually.
Rob
farss
wrote on 9/4/2007, 7:01 PM
So unless Vegas was sending it a rotated signal you'd still end up with a sideways preview.
No, I can rotate the Dell 2407 and keep the image relatively the same way around. If I used this new feature in Vegas to do it, it's actually kind of wrong because the seconday preview device would be showing 9x16 in a 16x9 frame i.e. scaled and not full raster.
However I think the target display devices are a bit more complex. They're not just send dumb video. Part of the display can be a video feed and part of it text and grahics being updated dynamically. In this scenario if preping / shooting content you might do better using 4:3 shot the right way around.
Bob.
No, I can rotate the Dell 2407 and keep the image relatively the same way around. If I used this new feature in Vegas to do it, it's actually kind of wrong because the seconday preview device would be showing 9x16 in a 16x9 frame i.e. scaled and not full raster.
However I think the target display devices are a bit more complex. They're not just send dumb video. Part of the display can be a video feed and part of it text and grahics being updated dynamically. In this scenario if preping / shooting content you might do better using 4:3 shot the right way around.
Bob.