What presentation medium is appropriate?

You can play back the show at any time during the design to check the results of your creative activities. Certain situations, however, require a separate presentation file to be produced. This may be the case when the show contains a great number of simultaneously running videos or when the show is to be played on a different computer. But it may also be necessary to pass on the show to a customer for acceptance or for participation in a competition or festival.

Wings Vioso RX offers a variety of options for output of media: Which type of output media you choose depends on the application or on the media and functions used in the show:

possible, with restrictions only, - not possible; advantages and restrictions are explained below:

Playback from the timeline

Except for a few restrictions for videos and picture sequences, everything contained in a timeline can be played back at full quality and controlled.

Restrictions/conditions:

• Extremely complex picture and video arrangements, as well as high-resolution output put very high demands on the computer hardware, frequently pushing it to its limits.

• Depending on the computer performance, currently about two to five DV videos can be played on one computer at full quality. Also HD videos in MPEG-2 or WMV format can directly be played at high quality.

• A picture sequence, as a rule, consists of an extremely high number of high-resolution pictures (25 to 60 per second). Therefore, playback from the timeline is exclusively possible on the basis of low-resolution display data. The resolution of Intermediate Video data must be reduced to the display or video projector resolution, otherwise the computer's performance is not sufficient to ensure playback without hiccups.

Playback via video file

A mixdown of show into a high-resolution video file contains the entire visual information. So even highly complex shows can be played back this way. In principle, all types of player software can be used for playing, provided the corresponding decoder (MPEG, WMV, H.264, etc.) is installed on the computer. Usually, however, playback in Wings Vioso RX works much more reliably in Presentation Mode, with more extra options, such as multi-channel sound or control of peripheral devices being available. For high quality video creation you should preferably use MPEG 2 or WMV compression. The results are distinctly better than for an AVI video compressed with DivX.

Restrictions/conditions:

• Multi-channel sound and device control are only possible for playback via Wings Vioso RX. The mixdown video can be played from a video track in Exclusive Mode. In practice, virtually all tracks for audio and show control are played in addition to the mixdown video. Moreover, all functions for remote control, Control Panel and Trigger Scheduler are invariably available.

See Methods for producing videos