Quote Originally Posted by Improve
Hello,

I was playing around the V3 software lately after a show with two DL1's and two servers. I just got my hand on a manual for the V3 right after this show. Then I found out that movies can be sync'd even from two servers. I also found out that you can select a playmode with audio. But you can't sync from a movie wich is played with audio. Is there a way around this or will this be possible in the future.
You dont need to sync different computers together, because they playback accurately at 25fps or 30fps - unless the drives have to do too much.
Software is designed for accurate playback of movies - as long as your drives are fast enough.

Im at eurovision in istanbul + turkey + and we have 8 ( eight ) g5s outputting onto a single huge seemless video wall..
And there is only a very tiny difference between movies.
movies playback at the correct time - not using the 'sync' function.
But we may have to use it with certain movies where image continuity is critical.
You really would notice it in this type of environment.

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Audio - in the professional environments that this software is used in - is a huge can of worms - that i have addressed before.
It is something i have been doing for years in my show control stuff, i do not feel comfortable having high end support one more feature right now.

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If you want to sync to a professional audio source such as yamaha or other hard disc playback units then you use the midi time code sync function that is in catalyst.
I have used this on shows.