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dr.grimm

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hi all,

was just wondering can anybody advice me on the best most user friendly software to create Advertisements in...like spar have on its big plasmas....
 
a bit more info needed......like spar have on big plasma's? whut?
 
he wants to do video for instore displays.
you'll want something that does motion graphics and can render out to some kind of vfw codec no doubt.
use after effects & premiere for pc or motion and final cut if you use mac.
software will set you back R50-20k.
assuming there's no audio...
most of the stuff i've seen in spar runs in a loop off wmp.
they've probably got some kind of wan or vpn set up to do remote admin and content updates.
 
haha aa sorry...was not thinking...

well its a project for Total 24/7 shop...the current adverts runs on 42" plasmas but they used power point and it looks really dull and sluggish. i saw spar has these 42" plasmas with there adverts and local specials running on it (so brilliant and vivid) so was wondering what program did they use to make it? and run it on those monitors?
 
murraybiscuit said:
he wants to do video for instore displays.
you'll want something that does motion graphics and can render out to some kind of vfw codec no doubt.
use after effects & premiere for pc or motion and final cut if you use mac.
software will set you back R50-20k.
assuming there's no audio...
most of the stuff i've seen in spar runs in a loop off wmp.
they've probably got some kind of wan or vpn set up to do remote admin and content updates.
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-precisely what i was going for...so noob questions...vfw codec? so what kind of programs must i go look for? corel draw? adobe flash?
 
I have used flash for advertisements displayed on electronic billboards before

I sent in the .fla and they exported it to what ever they did, so I have no idea about formats or whatever :P
 
Well I'm currently developing a system for my wifes small business. Using LINUX, mplayer & Python to render videos, photos and ticker stream with latest weather and news RSS feeds. Really easy and it runs Full HD on a Celeron.

Our company has done a similar project that even allows remote update via 3G - very succesful.

Just be cautios of licences - for example its illegal to use Adobe AIR (check their licence).
 
Murdoc said:
I have used flash for advertisements displayed on electronic billboards before

I sent in the .fla and they exported it to what ever they did, so I have no idea about formats or whatever :P
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LOL - Adobe licence even prevents this. So where is this deployed?


4.1 Adobe Runtime Restrictions. You will not Use any Adobe Runtime on any non-PC device or
with any embedded or device version of any operating system. For the avoidance of doubt, and by
example only, you may not Use an Adobe Runtime on any (a) mobile device, set top box (STB),
handheld, phone, game console, TV, DVD player, media center (other than with Windows XP
Media Center Edition and its successors), electronic billboard or other digital signage,
 
cbrunsdonza said:
Well I'm currently developing a system for my wifes small business. Using LINUX, mplayer & Python to render videos, photos and ticker stream with latest weather and news RSS feeds. Really easy and it runs Full HD on a Celeron.

Our company has done a similar project that even allows remote update via 3G - very succesful.

Just be cautios of licences - for example its illegal to use Adobe AIR (check their licence).
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- nice...damn i want to be able to do that...i am doing this thing as a favor for someone, i have no idea where to start or which programs to use
 
cbrunsdonza said:
LOL - Adobe licence even prevents this. So where is this deployed?


4.1 Adobe Runtime Restrictions. You will not Use any Adobe Runtime on any non-PC device or
with any embedded or device version of any operating system. For the avoidance of doubt, and by
example only, you may not Use an Adobe Runtime on any (a) mobile device, set top box (STB),
handheld, phone, game console, TV, DVD player, media center (other than with Windows XP
Media Center Edition and its successors), electronic billboard or other digital signage,
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then what the use of adobe air?
 
dr.grimm said:
-precisely what i was going for...so noob questions...vfw codec? so what kind of programs must i go look for? corel draw? adobe flash?
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video for windows codec. don't worry about it.
spa's ones look good because they've been rendered out to hd and probably aren't interlaced.
the programs are in the 3rd line down of my initial post.
flash and other non-rendered output will always battle with lag and dropped frames (if you're doing gradients and moving fullscreen images around) on slower systems.
they also don't do motion blending, so the tweens will look jagged.
just ask the media owners what spec their machine is, what formats they'll allow.
i'm sure you could hack something together in flash or powerpoint.
but then it'll look like it was made in flash or powerpoint. no offense.
the reason the spar ones look good is because they spent money on skills and production and have probably been doing this for a few years.
 
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dr.grimm said:
- nice...damn i want to be able to do that...i am doing this thing as a favor for someone, i have no idea where to start or which programs to use
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Our company wanted to use a 3rd party AIR player, and then the lawyers said NO - we did contact the 3rd party and they are dodging our emails.

This is why I'm developing my own system BTW, the SPAR uses Windows XP with Media Player running on startup. Its just a looped playlist. As I'm still working on my wifes system, I'm doing the same (startup a mplayer on boot and then just loop).
 
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murraybiscuit said:
video for windows codec. don't worry about it.
spa's ones look good because they've been rendered out to hd and probably aren't interlaced.
the programs are in the 3rd line down of my initial post.
flash and other non-rendered output will always battle with lag and dropped frames (if you're doing gradients and moving fullscreen images around) on slower systems.
they also don't do motion blending, so the tweens will look jagged.
just ask the media owners what spec their machine is, what formats they'll allow.
i'm sure you could hack something together in flash or powerpoint.
but then it'll look like it was made in flash or powerpoint. no offense.
the reason the spar ones look good is because they spent money on skills and production and have probably been doing this for a few years.
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Good advice. I first bought my wife her Full HD screen (its just 21.5" Sammy but still the same) to do development on.
 
aa okay ja that make sense...i just want to improve on what they have! see i am great with a pen and paper (designing the whole thing, and they liked it ) but software haha ja ...
 
adobe air is a cross-platform runtime for ria's i don't see much point in using it for animations.
if you're going to use flash, just compile to exe or swf and loop it.
the problem with a standalone file is that it can't be playlisted with other vids using a standard os player like wmp.
(okay, if you really wanted to, you could play it back through vlc etc. but that's not really the point of this thread).

o.p. just ask the petrol station what codec they want the file in, file size restrictions and pixel dimensions.
if all else fails, use imovie on a mac or windows movie maker on pc and render it to the required video format, or transcode it from the intial render.

does this buddy of yours own the petrol station or has he bought space on their display?
 
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"(okay, if you really wanted to, you could play it back through vlc etc. but that's not really the point of this thread)." like the idea, it could solve the dual screen problem i am having with power point
 
cbrunsdonza said:
This is why I'm developing my own system BTW, the SPAR uses Windows XP with Media Player running on startup. Its just a looped playlist. As I'm still working on my wifes system, I'm doing the same (startup a mplayer on boot and then just loop).
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- nice man sounds great
 
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