Lin Evans Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Well, how to spend the day after Christmas.... A Video Wall Room with nearly 500 video screens playing simultaneously while a rotating video cube with six videos takes center stage. Built entirely in PTE. Just pushing the limits to see if it could be done. It's been done before by some others with Adobe After Effects plus using several other software selections, but PTE is pretty special and it just took some thought about how to proceed and not overtax my system. Here's a Youtube link - Barry, your demo is in there somewhere too - LOL.. Optimized Windows Exe (about 125 meg download)Video Wall Executable LinkLin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Lingreat job title could have been " A BOXING DAY SPECIAL BY PICT TO EXE - A WALL OF MOVING BOXES " )KEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 This video has been removed by the user? Message I got when clicking the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Hi, I'm loading an updated version now - will be correcting the original link as soon as it is updated in about a half hour. Improved room design, etc. Sorry for the inconvenience... Original Link Now Corrected and Live...Best regards,LinThis video has been removed by the user? Message I got when clicking the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Hi Tom,Yes, sometimes it overwhelms the CPU and GPU so video makes more sense. The nice thing about video is that it can be used as an iterative tool to limit the load on the system. This allows building very complex animations which will run even on limited resource systems.Best regards,LinNice Lin. Video rendering is great for those projects that are too big for .exe format. Maybe Igor should add an optimize .exe for screen size option. I know we can use videobuilder to create a 720p or 1080p video and then import it back into PTE.Thanks,Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Hi Ken,Thanks! It would be nice if I could get a few of these "channels" at home. I only get one channel which is worthwhile. I get three revival channels in Spanish, one in English and "ION" which plays mostly re-run detective shows. My "Rabbit Ears" just doesn't do it. Maybe some day I'll get cable - LOL.Best regards,LinLingreat job title could have been " A BOXING DAY SPECIAL BY PICT TO EXE - A WALL OF MOVING BOXES " )KEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Lin,rotating cube appears largerI remember the video of Elvis sing with a living famous singer - forget which - she describes the use of green screen to enable her to sing With Elvisken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Hi Ken,Yes, that's Martina McBride - it's one of the videos running on the cube...Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 you the manhttp://www.wannaplaydaily.com/elvis-presley-and-martina-mcbride-blue-christmas/thks ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Thats just so cool Lin. Love it - couldnt do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted December 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Hi Andrew,Thanks! Actually you could do it, it's not that difficult - just takes some time. I have one request on YouTube for a tutorial and am thinking about the best way to proceed with perhaps doing one. The primary features of PTE which make this possible are the "parent/child" relationships, the ability to easily and visually move the center of rotation, and the ability to apply 3D transforms with all three (X, Y and Z) axis to all objects including video clips. The most time consuming part is collecting and formatting the over 100 videos used to create the initial wall. Making small FLV videos with a freeware Video to Flash converter and doing some cropping using the freeware version of Video Pad Video Editor greatly facilitated the construction of the screen. The built-in totally adjustable grid in PTE made alignment a breeze and the ability to create and totally manipulate the color and dimensions of "frames" made constructing the dividers very straight-forward. I already have published the template and tutorial for constructing the cube including adding live video to each face so this project can be done in "stages" with the created components assembled and adjusted for the final exe or video output.Best regards,LinThats just so cool Lin. Love it - couldnt do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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