multiple screens

[Ron Akkerman]

First of all working with SCS is a delight. It keeps better and better. Version 11 is again a nice improvement. I can now choose 4 screens. In one of our productions we need 4 beamers. But what do I need to adress these beamers. Since the laptop has only one vga-out. So my simple question is: how to accomplish the use of four beamers within SCS?

[Mike Daniell]

A product I'm planning to purchase and test with SCS is a Matrox 'Multi Monitor Adapter', such as the TripleHead2Go. I believe the extra monitors with this equipment can be accessed as extensions of the Windows desktop, but cannot confirm this until I get the adapter. I'm not sure if Matrox have a product that supports 4 displays. How are you planning to use the 4 beamers? Will you be running 4 video/image cues simultaneously? If so, will you have enough power in the laptop to do this? It may be worth considering running SCS on 2 laptops with each laptop handling two beamers, using two DualHead2Go adapters. You could link the laptops via Telnet (if you have SCS Professional Plus).

[Ron Akkerman]

Thx for the reply. We are planning to use all 4 beamers simultaneously using videocues. I too considered using two laptops, but wouldn't it be great if you could do it all using one. Since there isn't a proving solution yet, I will do some testing too. I will keep you posted with the findings. And please keep me informed how the matrox is doing. Our premiere is due end of may, so we still have a bit of time.

[enigmatheatre]

Hi,

I have used something like This
It is cheap and works well. I have not tried more than one but I cant see why it would not work.

Greig.

[lttton]

Hi Mike,

today my Matrox Dualhead2go was delivered, and i can tell you this: since the Computer still "thinks" there is only one secondary display, scs fails. If i could tell scs the resolution of one (virtual) display (1024x768) and the physical display is twice as big (2048x768), this should work. but if i use a second video-device in scs, scs stretches the two displays and add a black area above and underneath, even if the resolution of the physical device would be enough to show both displays next to another without the black areas.

best regards,
Uwe

[Mike Daniell]

According to the info I've read about the Matrox devices, you should be able to configure the multiple screens as required by SCS. However, I'll get a DualHead2Go or TripleHead2Go so I can check this functionality. It'll take me a few weeks to do this.