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Because when you are running video out to a 150" LED wall, that orange dot is a very large dot. And even were it not, you are not building your presentational e
by eropple 5y ago
Because when you are running video out to a 150" LED wall, that orange dot is a very large dot. And even were it not, you are not building your presentational elements around "having some orange dot on screen".
"I mean, jeez. They just left the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, what's the big deal?"
- quadrangle 5y agoThe mouse cursor on the side of the screen is stupid indeed. But it doesn't make presentations impossible. I think all the objections here are objecting to hyperbole rather than defending the dot.
- ehutch79 5y agoNot presentations, Think big musicians/festivals.
- quadrangle 5y agoYeah, I get it. Not gonna be accepted in practice. Could be accepted though, it's not literally useless. Being not as bad as literally-useless doesn't mean anything about the situation is good.
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- sixothree 5y agoHow are you going to a 150" LED wall and not processing the output? I think that's the part I don't get.
- kfarr 5y agoWell they may be processing the output but the raw input has an orange dot so at the very least this is additional labor to configure additional custom processing.
- dkonofalski 5y agoThis is not true. If you're processing, you likely are using hardware I/O so you're not getting the display output, you're getting raw output.
- Macha 5y agoWhat's the processing system going to do? Blur that side of the screen? I don't think Photoshop context aware fill is real time. And both are hacks that will lead to situations of clearly wrong outputs
- dkonofalski 5y agoAnyone outputting to a 150" LED wall will have a hardware I/O card that allows them to control the output 100%. This doesn't happen in professional settings, only in consumer (and maybe prosumer) settings. Professionals don't leave things like that to chance.
- dave78 5y agoI've been involved with several live productions in large arenas where there were multiple very large LED screens (48 feet wide I think) as well as being webcast to a significant audience. The A/V budget for these events was 7 figures. Several semi-trucks full of equipment for A/V. I don't know if that's professional or prosumer, but it seemed very professional to me. 100% of the computer graphics at these events came from PCs and Macs with their default video output. Some even came from the HDMI output on a Raspberry Pi. I worked a lot with the production companies behind these shows and it seemed to be SOP to use a regular Macbook with Powerpoint to drive the displays.
- thepasswordis 5y agoJust want to echo this story. Maybe at the super bowl, or the opening of the olympics, or at some major pop stars tour where everything is time coded and planned and is the same production every night, sure. But at festivals? Clubs? Whatever NYE party you go to this year? No.
- dkonofalski 5y agoAt festivals, clubs, and my own NYE party, a tiny dot in the corner is not a dealbreaker and wouldn't make the display "unusable". If it did, I would bring a dedicated hardware I/O device.
- thepasswordis 5y agoWe go to different festivals, clubs, and parties I think.