render advice for video projection??

williamconifer wrote on 2/20/2004, 8:52 PM

Greets,

I have a demo that I will be displaying at a Bridal Fair this Sunday via a Epson S1 projector. The montage I created has a digital juice intro and the rest is photo montage with lots of motion. If I am correct projectors are progressive aren't they? Is there a render or project setting I should use to take advantage of this so I get a nice stable image? BTW the DVD player I have is not progressive scan.

thanks as always
jack

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jaegersing wrote on 2/20/2004, 9:36 PM

Hi Jack. I'm not sure about the progressive/interlaced part, but I have seen lots of problems with brightness levels of projected images. If the projector is in a room with high ambient brightness, the tendency is for the projector lamp to be turned up. This means that any video that is on the bright side or high key will be washed out. If I am lucky enough to get a test run at the actual venue, I usually find I have to apply a level adjustment curve to problematic clips in order to let the detail come across.

Richard Hunter

farss wrote on 2/20/2004, 11:28 PM

That is a BIG problem with video projection, unless it's been setup for real video projection I tend to find the brightness and contrast wound up as far as it'll go.

I don't know anything about the projector you'll be using but the big mothers I've shown video through seem to do an excellent job of de-interlacing.

You'll improve matters by getting the best possible feed into the projector, aim for a least S-Video, component would be better still. Also pay serious attention to getting good audio. If the audio is c**p you're wasting your time, even if the video is poor so long as you've got attention grabbing sound that's clean and can be heard properly you've got a chance.