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Hello,

I am a brand new user to Resolume so please excuse my lack of knowledge of the program. I did attempt a search before this post but did not find what I was looking for.

I am working on some text and animation for a venue which recently installed an LED video wall as part of their signage. The resolution of the wall is 1040 x 104. How would you recommend rendering animations for this size and how would you adjust the output to fit this resolution.

Thank you in advance for your time and attention to this matter.

rebelguy wrote:How would you recommend rendering animations for this size and how would you adjust the output to fit this resolution.

Since you're creating the artwork for this installation, I would render all the animations to 1040x104 in DXV codec and create a 1040x104 Resolume composition with a 1040x104 output to match the 1040x104 LED controller.

What Resolution does the processor show in your display settings? Standard club processors(Chinese ones) max at 1024x768. Which means one of your panels can't be spanned like that. Your last panel may actually be below the first 104 pixels.

Still create your content as noted above, just be ready to use the advanced mapper to move slices around.

Depending on how type of LED screen, most will accept up to 1920x1080, its how you set the processor card in the software, however if the case that yours is stuck in that mode, the easiest workaround is to let them "wrap" the screen so that it will stop at 1024 x 104, then the remaining tiles will start from 104,0, thus in your advanced output, you will have it looking like
Of course this is dependent on that your tile with is 16 pixels wide or else it won't work, so your first slice will not take the full 1024 pixels wide thus leaving the second slice will be larger, to be the pixel width of your remaining tiles....

my 2 cents

Greetings from Sunny Jamaica

Thank you for all the help everyone. I have been able to get things working on my setup at home but as usual with install work they have not purchased the gear for the venue.

My next question is...would I be able to run the LED video wall input from a mac mini. This will be the only function of the computer. I will basically be using one video output to drive a monitor and the second output (HDMI) to drive the screen. It will basically be a loop of text files that will run continuously during business hours. Will a base model Mac Mini be able to handle this? Are there other recommendations on the Windows side that might be better?

Dedicated Graphics cards are always officially recommended when using the advanced output in Resolume Arena. Skew can get weird i've been told.

While we still advise to use dedicated GPUs as much as possible, it seems the Iris cards don't have the issues with warping that the Intels had.

But the Iris cards still can't drive anything substantial so anyone wanting to use Resolume should clearly assess their needs before they invest in a Macbook Pro without dedicated GPU (or any other Apple product) or they're bound to be disappointed with the results.

Joris wrote:While we still advise to use dedicated GPUs as much as possible, it seems the Iris cards don't have the issues with warping that the Intels had.

Very good to know!