Re: Digital Signage with Quartz Composer?

Subject: Re: Digital Signage with Quartz Composer?

From: Manjit Bedi <email@hidden>

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:28:07 -0300

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Hello,

I recently worked on a "Now & Next" live display for the Vancouver International Film Centre in Canada. It was done using Quartz Composer and a web-site blog for the dynamic content.

Not quite what you are aspiring to but similar in terms of some of the details.

1) the movie titles and image URL's are in a RSS feed

2) QC patches were used to extract the content from the RSS feed and get the image URL and download the images

3) there were movie clips resident on the hard drive of the Mac that would play "idents" in between the movie information. These names were fixed in the composition

4) the content would refresh dynamically

It is all projected on large screen display at the cinema. This was production of Urban Visuals who I work with as a freelancer.

What you are proposing to is very doable in my experience. Using _javascript_ gives you the control to have things like multiple 'play lists' and content that can be displayed at certain times.

regards

Manjit

On 31 Oct 2007, at 17:39, Michael Spryn wrote:

Hello all,

I'm in the process of developing a sigital signage solution with some mac minis, and Quartz Composer caught my eye after an apple store genius told me that's partially what they use to drive their signage.

So my question is... are there any existing solutions that we might be able to implement in a short period of time? Anyone know how the apple store creates and schedules all their content?

Initially my solution is to render quicktime videos, and then playlist them with iTunes in full screen. Then its easy enough to use an alarm clock type software to trigger different playlists at different times. I'm just looking for a more elegant solution, that lets me add quicktime videos, but also still images, and maybe even dynamic content. That way maybe we can skip a lot of the extra time required to render out everything to quicktime videos.

Am I fishing in the wrong pond here?

Appreciate any help at all!

Best,

M. Robert Spryn
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