garageCube

[okami]

Hello
After reading almost every post about multiprojection i still have some questions, or maybe better, some experience tips are wanted. I'm looking for a powerful tool which is able to handle high resolution with 4-6 Projections. Here is my setup and the question related to it:

This is my setup:
1 x 2,6 Ghz quad MacPro - 3 GB
4 graphic cards
internal SATA Harddrive
6 Projectors
1 Controllmonitor

As i read here, the best way to manage more projections in modul8 is, to render one large movie and split it do the 6 projectors.
So far, no problem....
but. it should be 720p resolution, or at least 1024x768 per projector.
That gives me in the second case a movie with 6144x768 pixels.

1. is it ok to render one movie with all the material in one row? --> 6144 width or is it better trying to arrange the 6 channels on one canvas, like 3072x1536 ?
2. my major problem is, that this movie should be around 6 hours for an art live performance....

has anybody some tips and experience with such a long projections with 6 channels....

i built a 6144x768 pixels test movie about 30 sec. with photo jpg compressor at max quality, giving me a 2,4gb file wich wasn't loaded in, after about 10 min.. so i gave up at the moment.

I'm appreciate every kind of experience tips, or also some tips for other systems if modul8 can't handle this...

thank you very much
andy

[wygiwys]

Maybe h.264 would be a better codec, as you just play it (no scratching, or weird stuff) and it will be smaller. It will cost more cpu power though.
Further I haven't got any experience with multi projection things, sorry.

[videomasta]

i think its not possible to play smooth high quality movies at this size.
you have hiccup and jitter with a single pal movie(res:768x576) playing with macbook pro dualcore 2.3 GHz (fotojpg75%)
if your tagret framerate is not the crucial point, you can give modul8 a try. it is more a app for fast vj clips.

[vjrei]

Modul8 can handle big files but that doesn't mean your system can. You will need a ride array of disk to output such files.

[deepvisual]

pixel for pixel at that size is crazy.
make you content at least 50% of the final size and upscale it.
you'll find the antialias works fine.

[RickRobiN]

Try the Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC)

http://www.garagecube.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2105&highlight=apple+intermediate+codec

And use a software Raid0 and you will be fine
cheers RR

[mowgli_uk]

i think its not possible to play smooth high quality movies at this size.
you have hiccup and jitter with a single pal movie(res:768x576) playing with macbook pro dualcore 2.3 GHz (fotojpg75%)

I've played HD clips with no problems!

[keptnahab]

you have to use solid state disks or better raid 2 of them together !
the harddisc access time is the botleneck of most systems.
i would also recommend the ai codec.