I have been working on quite a few shows lately where I can not see the screens that I am controlling. One where I actually had to run a 1000' Fiber cable instead of Cat 5e to control my clients from a video truck.
If the cameras aren't on, or are busy, I can't see the walls or projectors.
What would be really nice would be something that we could set during the setup of the show that would show us some sort of bounding box - of different colours/shapes/sizes/thicknesses in the Preview of the Manager.
I can see the wireframe of the camera, but sometimes the screen is a wierd size or a weird shape. I am not so concerned about the shape, but I am sure there are one or two shows out there that it would be handy to have the capability for.
Even something as simple as adding a Graphic Layer to the Manager so we can put maybe a white JPEG on it and then use an inverted cropping Effect to shape it the way we need to. I have done this, the only downside is that when you reload the show, It will say that the Local Node cannot manifest because of an incompadibility.
I have fooled around with layers on a Client before, but actually scaling it in instead of being able to punch in a resolution and a pixel position to it is a little time consuming.
I am not sure where, but I have seen this on other systyems - a multi output switcher (not sure which one) - and it looked very nice and easy to work with. Once it is set up, you don't actually need to see your screens.
No rush, just saying... It'd be nice.
Thanks,
J