Reordering canvas, being able to add or subtract distance between canvas and to be able to work on a group of canvases in timeline mode would be incredibily helpful...
The best way, for this kind of installation, is to create a big canvas, then use advanced-layout to dispose your output accross your content. Once this setup done, you can keep focused on the content. I wouldn't recommand to create 12 differents canvases.
My workaround was to use canvases not assigned to an output as spacers to give me the distance that I need and a large canvas that covers all of them and copy layers to place the media in the actual screens. This can be achieved in advance screen layout but since there are no precision controls, that I can find making accurate representations of screen layouts. I am concerned about having to redo a lot of preproduction work on show site.
I need more distance between screens than CitizenCaine's example, which looks awesome by the way, but fewer screens.
A frequent senario in my world, mostly corporate shows, is a center screen, with multiple blended projectors, and multiple outboard screens that need to be a part of the big picture. As a result I need 50, 100, 1000 or sometimes more pixels between screens to make the time of items traveling from screens feel logical. This is easy to achieve in Watchout. If the advance screen layout had a way of readily making these screens precisely, for pre production purposes, it could be easy in Millumin.
All that being said... Millumin is very close to being able to take many of the corporate shows currently done in Watchout. It is gaining a little traction in the US. Many people are talking about it but only a few are using it.
In advanced outputs (and also in layer mapping) you can double click on the bullet and enter a pixel value to enter pixel precise value. Please see this tip for more infos.
That does help. In advanced layout the screens have outlines but I have to put a pixel map of the screen layout, at reduced opacity/locked, in the timeline and dashboard to define the screens.
If I understand your point well, couldn't you use mapping surfaces like in this tutorial ? The same way as in advanced output you can edit the pixel values of the corners .
I understand that this method could be a little fastidious because you will have to copy/paste all the corner values. But it will save you bunch of time regarding the use of the locked screen layout.
In a "perfect world", the solution could be creating mapping surfaces directly from the advanced output layout. If you are interested in this, do not hesitate to fill an uservoice.
@antoineM The mapping approach is certainly one solution to the problem described by @Trigg. The issue I can envision here, in a corporate environment, is that applying media to a mapping surface does not allow to maintain aspect ratio. We would need to be able to fill, fit OR stretch the content to match the mapped surface.
The other issue that arises with the example from earlier in this thread is when a client requests that content only shows up on one or two of those monitors. This means the content must span monitors but be restricted to those outputs. In WATCHOUT this is done with stage tiers.
It would be excellent to find workarounds to these issue while still maintaining aspect ratio.
The mapping tool adapts the perspective of the content, so it matches the surface on stage. Of course, if the content and the surface don't have the same ratio, it should look stretched. But you can fix this via the slice-editor, to remove pixels on sides, so the look becomes correct on stage. See this tutorial.
Regarding comparison with Watchout's tiers : Millumin is working differently, but we could say that Watchout's tier = Millumin's canvas. So in your case, you could create an additional canvas, then use a "copy layer" to simply get some content from the main content, in this very special canvas.
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We're working on it, and it could come in the next beta phase (so outside official update channel). No guarantee, but we hope so.
@Trigg : feel free to create these 2 ideas on Uservoice, since it helps us to keep track of user requests, and see their popularity.
Best. Philippe
The best way, for this kind of installation, is to create a big canvas, then use advanced-layout to dispose your output accross your content. Once this setup done, you can keep focused on the content.
I wouldn't recommand to create 12 differents canvases.
Best. Philippe
Sorry, I don't understand.
If it's a user request, you could create an idea on Uservoice (it help us to keep track of them, and see their popularity).
Best. Philippe
In advanced outputs (and also in layer mapping) you can double click on the bullet and enter a pixel value to enter pixel precise value. Please see this tip for more infos.
Is this filling your requirement ?
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AntoineM*
If I understand your point well, couldn't you use mapping surfaces like in this tutorial ?
The same way as in advanced output you can edit the pixel values of the corners .
I understand that this method could be a little fastidious because you will have to copy/paste all the corner values. But it will save you bunch of time regarding the use of the locked screen layout.
In a "perfect world", the solution could be creating mapping surfaces directly from the advanced output layout.
If you are interested in this, do not hesitate to fill an uservoice.
Regards
--
AntoineM*
The mapping tool adapts the perspective of the content, so it matches the surface on stage.
Of course, if the content and the surface don't have the same ratio, it should look stretched. But you can fix this via the slice-editor, to remove pixels on sides, so the look becomes correct on stage. See this tutorial.
Regarding comparison with Watchout's tiers : Millumin is working differently, but we could say that Watchout's tier = Millumin's canvas.
So in your case, you could create an additional canvas, then use a "copy layer" to simply get some content from the main content, in this very special canvas.
Best. Philippe