Hi all, especially any Brightsign engineers watching this forum! I have trouble combining video and graphics to achieve the effect I want. I have an image with a picture of a television. And I have a video that should play "through" the screen of the TV. The TV is slightly rotated in 3D which means that the image plane is not flat but also rotated in perspective. I'll attach an image to show what I mean. Firstly I had the zones created with the video having the lowest ID and an alpha cutout in the image. This worked for a while, until I upgraded to the 3.2.67 firmware. Which I needs because the other zones need the It seems pretty random if the video can be displayed behind graphics and shown through the 100% alpha of the image. So I decided to try another way. The video is created by me in After Effects. In AE the video is rotated in 3D to match the rotated TV in the image and then rendered. What I did was to cut out the parts of the TV from the image covering the corners of the video. That way the image of the TV in the picture would line up with the parts of the TV from the image rendered in the video stream and thus it wouldn't matter if the video was shown above or below the image, the corners of the TV would be the same. The problem is that my video is always shown with an additional top and bottom white (I have the background set to white) border, apparently about 10-20 pixels in height. And it doesn't matter at all what aspect ration I encode the video with, it is always shown with the same proportions and with the bop and bottom border. What is going on with this? The players are both a HD110 and a HD210. The presentation is set up as 1920x1080x29.97p and is connected through HDMI. The rendered video is MPEG2-TS 720x576 25i and the zone the video is assigned to is set to 720x576. Overscan is set to no. Should I encode for a different frame size? Any other suggestions? The photo showing the current status is at http://db.tt/tvXgdd
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RokuLyndon
The frame rate of the video wouldn't affect how it's displayed in the zone.
Can you do a file save as and send me the project file you're using? Do you have a sample video file I can use as well?
On the issue that started after 3.2.67, do you have sample images I can use to see this problem also? In this case, were you using a video only zone when you had the overlay, or did you use the default videoorimages zone?
You should be able to play a video in a zone and set it not to scale. -
tomme
The view mode is set to LBandCentered as I didn't want the CPU to have to re-scale video. Maybe I should try to change that.
I'll send you a pm with a link to both the project file and a rar with the output.
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tomme
Tried to change the zone properties to "resize" but I still cannot get rid of the white border, or border/margin from the white background, to make the video fit with the background.
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