Posted by David McCall on 11/05/05 16:50

I have a client that is producing some video that will be displayed
on a large screen in a major trade show booth "theater". The
screen will be ~18' wide.

In the past we have been doing these in SD and delivering a DVD
and this has made them happy, so far. It seems to me that we
should move to HD at this point now that HD is getting so much
less expensive to do.

The video is used by a live presenter, so it is only a few minutes
of video. They typically start with a still that sits on the screen until
the show starts, and then the presenter plays a segment and
pauses on a still and talks for a bit, then hits play again. We leave
the still up for a couple seconds to give him time to pause the DVD.
Perhaps not the best way to run a show, but it's what they wanted.

They will be using a big Barco DLP for display. What can We use
as a playback media that will allow this style of playback, or even
allow for a separate operator to play the segments?

Unless I missed something, HD DVDs are not really happening yet.
We could use a HDV player, but I'm not sure about pausing to hold
the still between segments. Is there a reasonable way to reliably
play the HD material directly from a computer in this kind of setup?
Keep in mind that they have been OK with SD on a DVD, so it
doesn't have to be incredibly good, just somewhat better. Much of
the video will just be graphics and 3D animation, with a little video
mixed in.

We are considering wandering onto a limb, and using the new
Panasonic camera that uses the P2 cards. The footage I've seen
from that camera looked very nice, it is much less compressed
than HDV, and we don't have to rent or buy a deck to get the
footage into the computer for editing. There isn't going to be
much actual video, so there really won't be much editing to do.
It may all get assembled in Aftereffects.

Any thoughts?

David

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David

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