macsound
Well-Known Member
Looking for a simple solution for a congregation member who has trouble reading from the front screens, but says he would be able to read it from up close on his iPad.
Their first solution was to export a PDF and email it to him so he could follow along, but that's clunky and didn't look forward to the future of having a solution for the masses, should the need arise.
First I was looking into NDI because I was just messing around with it in another scenario. My understanding is shaky, but I think if I had multople receivers all receiving the same video, there would be multiple streams of video, so multicast, not broadcast. Sounds wrong in my head but not sure.
Then I figured Pro Presenter must have a feature. They do and it looks good for actual text, but looks horrendous for pictures. This wouldn't be an issue except the sermon notes are made in powerpoint and exported as jpgs, so the entire sermon isn't actual text.
Then I ventured down the AirPlay path. This could work but I didn't spend enough time to make sure - the aspect ratio is different on an iMac than it is on an iPad. My test showed that when AirPlay was enabled, the output resolution changed, but I was testing using a MacMini, not an iMac, so I only had 1 display connected vs the "2" when an iMac is also outputting video.
Any thoughts?
Their first solution was to export a PDF and email it to him so he could follow along, but that's clunky and didn't look forward to the future of having a solution for the masses, should the need arise.
First I was looking into NDI because I was just messing around with it in another scenario. My understanding is shaky, but I think if I had multople receivers all receiving the same video, there would be multiple streams of video, so multicast, not broadcast. Sounds wrong in my head but not sure.
Then I figured Pro Presenter must have a feature. They do and it looks good for actual text, but looks horrendous for pictures. This wouldn't be an issue except the sermon notes are made in powerpoint and exported as jpgs, so the entire sermon isn't actual text.
Then I ventured down the AirPlay path. This could work but I didn't spend enough time to make sure - the aspect ratio is different on an iMac than it is on an iPad. My test showed that when AirPlay was enabled, the output resolution changed, but I was testing using a MacMini, not an iMac, so I only had 1 display connected vs the "2" when an iMac is also outputting video.
Any thoughts?