Hello Resolume friends, from Hollywood.
I have multiple clips that are H264 Quicktime compressed .mov files. The clips are all in perfect, frame-accurate sync.
The other night, I had an emergency and had to stop the news clips (this was not a DJ/music situation, but showing multiple news feeds simultaneously recorded last week). It is important that all clips rolled at the exact hour, minute, second and frame AS THEY WENT ON-THE-AIR and were recorded as "Airchecks."
After stopping for the executive to point a mistake out, I was asked to move forward about 10 minutes. Since I am new to Arena, I had to cue each of the 3 clips one at a time, and I couldn't find an EASY way to just type in a SMPTE time code or a timeline cue point, and have that CUE ALL THREE SEPARATE layers clips to the same point, and just click ONE "Play" button to have them all start in sync, simultaneously. I ended up fidgeting with the mouse to move the time line to get it close, then trying to type in a cue number, and doing that 3 times, one-at-a-time. I made typo mistakes, so it took about 45 seconds for me to resume, and the presenter was not happy with the delay.
If you look at the attachment for a competing product, Pro Video Server (2 screen grabs), I can set the program up to "Link to Channel 1" and then scrub the timeline ANYWHERE or type in a TIME CODE, then hit ONE button: "SYNC" and all channels are within 1-frame of the lead Channel 1 - then hit PLAY. This can be done in less than 5 seconds!
Is there a simple, magic way to do this so I can get things back up on the screens and playing when I am stopped? There are more of these presentations coming up soon.
Thank you for your knowledge and valuable time!
Stay safe and take care of you and your loved ones,
-Jon