Design for Plasma!
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- lizer
I am doing a quicktime animation that is going to be displayed on Plasma Screens. What screen size and resolution sould i be saving the movie as?
Any help/tips would really help me!
cheers
Lizer
- TransFatty0
what are they feeding into the plasma set?
a dvd player?
is it a hi-def plasma screen?
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if it is not hi-def .... then you are working at NTSC specs.
- TransFatty0
or rather PAL
- lizer0
cheers 4 the quick response fatty....i am awaiting a fonecall to answer them questions....will post them once the fella has foned back!
I think its going to run off a dvd player...as yet not sure!
I will look at NTSC specs for now!
- vespa0
widescreen? I would have thought designed to 1024 x 576, then rendered out at 720 x 576?
- kevinv0330
nice! i was about to ask some questions in here.
- Dancer0
Dunno if this helps but I did a screen saver for a plasma screen (played directly from a laptop). the screen saver was had a round circle in it and due to the w-i-d-e screen I had to squash all the graphics to compensate.
This was done by 'trail and error'
Maybe something to think anout?
- vespa0
check your mail. don't say i never do nothin for ya
- lizer0
wow thanks alot for the help...
Vespa your a star mate :)I am terrible at this kinda thing....usually stick to just web stuff....so not to get confused!!!
I am building the animation in Flash and then exporting as a quicktime.
Should i work the flash as a 1024 x 576 movie but keepin the aniamtion within 768 width and when i export make it 720 x 757?
is this correct?
cheers
- vespa0
Hmm I've never done broadcast graphics in flash before but I think you can change the publish settings to stretch the .mov to 720 x 576
So set up your flash movie to be 1024 x 576 and then in the quicktime publish settings set the output dimensions to 720 x 576. It should look squished on your computer monitor but when you play it on the widescreen it will stretch the movie back out to 1024. Hope you have time to test everything!
Have emailed you a jpeg of the text safe and action safe areas for widescreen. If you overlay this onto your anim you can see where the important stuff needs to sit inside.
- JazX0
at first I thought it was some kinda' Blood Drive, like hey everyone let's start a fun thing. 'Design for Blood Plasma' to help poor kids get the plasma they need. :)
- JazX0
although seriously, I had the same problem, not knowing whether to keep my export setting for a video I created at 720 or 360. Which is best and which is standard?
- vespa0
As far as i know, for broadcast graphics everything currently has to be delivered at 720 x 576.
Now if you are designing for widescreen you design at 1024 x 576 and then render it out at 720 x 576, and if you are designing for 4:3 then you design at 768 x 576 and then render out to 720 x 576.
- JazX0
thanks
- lizer0
Thanks for all yah help Vespa..
will let yah know :)
- vespa0
no probs
- lizer0
Ok just spoke to the fella...turns out to be a total unhelpfull prick...which is great!
All he said is i need to give him a Mpeg2 file that fits Pal Res 720 x 756....when i mentioned 1024 and then saving to Pal size...he said that is shite and if u are doing a video piece then computer size isnt relevant at all and i am talkin out my arse..."i have been doing this for 15 years mate" (prick) !!!! so working is working on this piece at 1024 and scaling to 720 correct....when i play it its all sqaused...but then i presume once played on plamsa this streches back ok....
1 last thing....any help with converting a .mov file to a mpg2 file?cheers
- corazon0
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