Creating one animation over different screen sizes and render all as one file

[Simon Sibelius]

Hi, I need a helping hand!

I have tried to search my way to a soulution, but can't find anything online..

I have three screen monitors in a shopping window that I need to make animations for, one of them is vertical and the other two are horizontal. I'll attach a picture.

One is 1080x1920 px.

Two are 1920x1080 px.

I made three videos that looked "synced" if they all started at the same time. The problem came later when all of the monitors had different start-up-time. One had a startup of 3sec, and of of 5sec etc. So the videos became out of sync.

I need to make these three videos into one and render out to onw movie file. So the monitors act like one big screen, but in different sizes. Does this make sense? Is there even a way to do this in AE?

/Simon

[Mylenium · Accepted solution]

Sure, you could lump the compositions together in one big 8k comp and then adjust the screens' desktop usage accordingly, but beyond that this this has nothing to do with AE. In fact unless they have a suitably powerful PC feeding the screens, which is extremely unlikely, just playing a single clip won't even work. You may want to start by asking the tech guys handling the actual playback hardware on how it's handled. No point in producing yet another clip that is no use to anyone.

Mylenium

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

For synchronized displays, you need special equipment. You cannot rely on just trying to start all of the displays at the same time. Each manufacturer has different requirements for the files. Most of the work I have done for this kind of presentation wanted a separate video for each display that was the size of the display. There were naming conventions. All of the videos were loaded into the specialized player and then simultaneously sent to all of the displays. I have had other multiple display projects that wanted one large video file. It all depends on the playback system. Pick out a playback solution and then follow the instructions. I can't give you any better advice than that. The only thing I know for sure is that you can't just count on just trying to start things at the same time.