Film/Post Help....

[nbguitar]

Does anyone know if I can link a second computer to Nuendo or Cubase 4 and have that computer handle just the video playback part of my project. I am working with huge video files and wanted to set up an external moniter other than my computer moniter to play back the video on a large screen. I have seen setups like this in major studios but have no idea what hardware is involved. Thanks...Ryan

[by-tor]

http://www.virtualvtr.com/

[MATTI]

http://www.humatic.de/htools/ChainGang.htm as a cheaper alternative
Matti

[nbguitar]

what hardware will i need to use this stuff?

[SiliconAudioLab]

Originally Posted by nbguitar

what hardware will i need to use this stuff?

For Chaingang: Mac or PC

Virtual VTR: PC

I use a DLP projector. It's the Ask Proxima C170 and big HD sized remote controlled roll-up screen.

The projector is brighter than the surface of the sun. About the same amount of heat too.

Next project; vent exhaust into crawl space above.

[nbguitar]

Ok...So I am using PC's. I use Nuendo and most recently started using cubase 4 which is great for composing. With chaingang would i just set up my main DAW as the master and my video PC as the slave and use midi between? I would imagine that all I would need is a midi interface on each box. Also would these programs just play the video with quicktime and use a timecode sync to sync to my audio program? Sorry for all the questions but I am completly new to this stuff. I have never had a need to worry about video until I started getting these scoring gigs.

Thanks for all the help,
Ryan

[MATTI]

http://www.humatic.de/webapps/htm/app/doc/ChainGang.htm
Search here for additional / alternative approaches http://www.nuendo-post.com/

Matti

[SiliconAudioLab]

Originally Posted by nbguitar

Ok...So I am using PC's. I use Nuendo and most recently started using cubase 4 which is great for composing. With chaingang would i just set up my main DAW as the master and my video PC as the slave and use midi between? I would imagine that all I would need is a midi interface on each box. Also would these programs just play the video with quicktime and use a timecode sync to sync to my audio program? Sorry for all the questions but I am completly new to this stuff. I have never had a need to worry about video until I started getting these scoring gigs.

Thanks for all the help,
Ryan

I use Logic on two computers. To answer your question, yes, both computers have a midi interface (the Unitor and an AMT both eMagic/Apple units). They are slaved via MTC and the slave computer plays the movie running Quicktime and Logic.

I'm going to look into putting chain gang in instead of launching Logic on a second computer. But it will probably see the midi interface and the MTC for sync. I wouln't count on it being super scrub tight, for that;

My usual bread and butter working set-up (read faster and less involved) is Logic on the one computer w/ two screens. In that same computer is a Quicktime movie (MPG1) on the second screen (the right one) running within Logic. That second screen (which comes out of an Appian Jeronimo dual monitor card) is also split-off via a splitter to a large plasma screen. No second computer required for this.

When the clients/directors/producers come over, I then roll down the large screen and fire up the second computer as above. As I mentioned above it's not going to be "super glue" tight for constant rapid fire scrubbing but it will be synced non the less.

Have the video house render you out (or do it yourself) an MPG1 for scrubbing and working on.