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Is Premiere the way to go for this live event?
Maybe this is slightly off topic. I am involved in a fundraising banquet coming up at a restaurant. We will have background music through the dinner, a skit with video clips at various points in the skit (projected behind the actors – not continuous), as well as a projected power point slide show as people are arriving. Finally, a DVD presentation projected during the dessert.
I am trying to streamline this and started thinking maybe I should just bring my desktop computer with PremPro and use it to run all of the AV instead of seperate DVD player, Powerpoint etc.
I just purchased a Canopus ADVC 110 so connecting to the sound system/Projector shouldn’t physically be a problem.
Since the skit requires individual clips to start on a dime (rather then being a canned length) I was thinking I could make a sequence with each clip fading up, then a 5 sec chunk of black between them. Hit play at the right moment and the clip would fade up, then simply cue to the beginning of the next clip (which would be black for the fade up) at the appropriate moment in the skit. Am I thinking this through correctly?
Also, would I be able to project the DVD with the Setup I have (PC DVD drive out to ADVC110 to projector)? Something tells me that won’t work (The ADVC110 arrives Monday — the event is Tuesday night).
Any advice is gratly appreciated!
David Oulashian
PS – the computer is a Dell360 Precision, WinXP, 3.0 Gig processor, 1.5gigs Ram, lots of HD space on 3 drives.
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I have found that a perfectly running setup often runs amuck when a client is watching…you will have hundreds of clients watching!! Switching between analog out (PowerPoint) and firewire out (Pro) might complicate things even more. I would put everything on a DVD (including PowerPoint Jpegs)) with menu and play off a single DVD stand alone player.
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If you can find someone local who has a Tricaster or a Video Toaster 4, those two will do everything you’re looking to do. Rent it off ’em and you’re good to go.
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Have a look at the Arkaos VJ software. http://www.arkaos.net
You encode your cilps to Photo JPEG in Quicktime format and it runs perfectly.
Your will have to deinterlace your footage though.I used a Arkaos system on a BIG live event where 18,000 persons were watching and
it ran smoothly.
Arkoas is developped juste for these things, runs of a standard PC (but you’ll need
some horsepower) and can be triggered by a lot of input devices. I used a MIDI keyboard
to map all the clips and had 400 clips at the tips of my fingers instantaneously.
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