9 horizontal LCD animation trick....

[H_Molla]

Hello,

A client is asking for a simple animation to be use during an exhibition...

There is no problem with the animation the only problem is how to render it...

The trick is that the animation is going to be viewed on 9 horizontal LCD..And to make things bad. What u will see moving in screen A1 to going to continue in screen A2 & to A3 & etc…?



Each one of this LCD is going to be HD1080i resolution which is 1440 * 1080...

It sound to me that it is a job for ACT but to be honest I never used it & I think this is not the time to try & error on my client & if I don’t found a solution I will refuse to continue because I don’t like to shake my reputation…



So any ACT expert give me hand??



Thanks in advance...

[FredyN]

I have 2 sugestions:
1) make a camera size 12960 x 1080, render it (i hope LW handle it) and then split the screen in 9 separate videos (in AfterFX or similar)

1B) if the LCD are in a circle, use a fish eye camera in LW (never make it, but should work with new camera modes)

2) use 9 cameras in LW, make a test plate for adjusting cameras and render separately, it is a bit dificult to set up cameras, but need less RAM and you dont need to split it

I hope it help you a bit... :)

[Extent]

I did some proof of concept stuff with 2 screens years and years ago with multi cameras parented to a null, I don't think that would be the first way I'd approach this though.

My first impression would be to setup a single camera in 12960 x 1080 as FredyN mentions and then use limited range to dump into separate sequences. You can get limited range to crop the image and not just letterbox right?

If you really want the renders to match up perfectly you'll want to find out the PPI of the screens and find out how far apart they're going to be mounted (including the bezels on either side). You'll need to add enough extra space between your renders to compensate for this, otherwise anything that breaks across a screen edge is going to look kind of off. I do this when I'm making a desktop background that spans more than one of my monitors (3 monitor setup here)

[Dexter2999]

Well, there is this hardware/software solution. The client would probably need to rent the hard ware part but the software is free to download.

http://www.dataton.com/watchout

[BeeVee]

You should speak to Pal as well, he's done a job for an antivirus company (Norman, I think?) that was a similar idea.

B

[prospector]

Use CCTV.

match edges of view of each camera then map each camera to a screen.