AV News 191 - February 2013
The second night was a presentation to the whole club and its visitors - a more
general show of nine very varied and beautifully made AVs. All of Charles’ AVs
very effectively used narration in a documentary style presentation and with
superb photography, we were treated to two very instructive and entertaining
nights. A new higher standard of AV presentation has been shown and
established a higher bar that we all should aspire to match.These were two
nights of wonderful AVs.
One of the results from Charles’ visit is a better understanding of how ProShow5
has changed our understanding of the AV projection quality issues. The Club’s
large screen and big venue HD+ digital projector has provided a far better
environment for seeing the quality or lack of it on screen. Charles was very
surprised when several of his HD (1600x1080) EXE AVs made in ProShow5
were being shown with a low resolution of 800x 480 !!
The answer lies with the new direction PhotoDex has taken with Version 5 of
it’s ProShow Gold and Producer software packages. It is a great concern for all
AV makers that we make AVs with as higher level of quality that we can produce
output in our EXE files. Now it is the Presenter 5 software wrapped up in the
EXE output file when using ProShow5 that decides what the playing computer
is capable of and de-tunes the AVs resolution in some cases and plays it with
software rendering rather than graphics acceleration. A special discussion
paper was reported on & presented at the recent VAPS AGM. This discussion
paper has been further added to with more experience and details of all those
using or contemplating using ProShow5. One aspect of this new ProShow5
initiative is that at long last we are now able to establish GPU Benchmarks for
our computer systems. For all the problems and inconsistencies that ProShow5
has in calculating this GPU benchmark on various computer systems we at least
have a process and method for saying this or that computer system does not
have enough ‘grunt’ to run our AVs correctly. The full disscussion document can
be found at http://www.melbournephoto.org.au/audio-visual-group/
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