Yes "P" would be progressive....looks like the author of that article made a typing error.;)
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its a little complex. as not many people do 1080p.
most people do progressive using 1080i.
my sony V1P does progressive using 1080i.
When we tried to get blackmagic cards, and zandar multiimage units to talk to each other last year.
they wouldnt because one needed 1080i, the other only did 1080p....
so its a complex subject.
Hey Scott,
I've dealt with this quite a few times.
The first solution is capture the Keynote or Power Point through the Video input of catalyst. I do this with my Decklink HD card when I'm doing large edge blended screens and don't get anything but a laptop with a presentation.
The second solution is something similar to what Richard pointed out about creating a quicktime file. This is the method I prefer doing because I can put the whole thing on my laptop and create a quicktime movie at whatever size I want so that I don't loose resolution.
The secret is to count frames and create cues that stop the file at each point when the transition stops. Using a Hog 3, I'll build the main cue to Setup as an InFrame on one list. Then I create a second list with Play modes setup as follows:
Cuelist 2
01 Forward
02 link --> 06
03 InFrame 00000
04 Pause
05 Forward
06 link --> 09
07 InFrame 00000
08 InFrame 00300
09 Pause
10 Forward
11 link --> 15
12 InFrame 00000
13 InFrame 00300
14 InFrame 00600
15 Pause
16 Forward
17 link --> 21
18 InFrame 00300
19 InFrame 00600
20 InFrame 00900
21 Pause
As you can see, the inframes I set with 10 second offsets foe example. The link cues I create a wait time of 10 seconds which skips to the next pause.
Then using a MIDI trigger device, I have a remote with two commands, play and back. This way a user can play forward or skip backward for up to three slides (or more if I add them).
Literally, I can create a cuelist for 100 slides like this in less than 5 minutes.
I have never had a situation where it didn't work.
im going to try and create a playmode that does this automatically. ( when i get time )Quote:
The secret is to count frames and create cues that stop the file at each point when the transition stops. Using a Hog 3, I'll build the main cue to Setup as an InFrame on one list. Then I create a second list with Play modes setup as follows:
after peeking around it seems keynote does dump frame information for the slides into quicktime chapter tracks - as part of the movie export.
Oh WOW! I'm excited. Granted, my work-around works but it's a pain in the ass and not something I can easily teach to many of the clients I work with for permanent installs.
A playmode that jumps to chapter indexes would be pretty damned cool.
The only issue I could think of is that I would still have to create a MIDI interface for a trigger device to give to a speaker.
I know this might sound ambitious Richard but since Catalyst can manage Serial and MIDI out so well, what about deriving an interface tool that allows one of the many standard USB presentation devices to trigger forward and reverse steps by chapter when the programmer assigns "Presentation Playback mode."