[Andrei Zakow]

Great, thanks.

So I got QC to work and I have the live video inputting with the animation on top but now I can’t figure out how to successfully get this composite to play out of the projector. Is it really just something like enabling “mirror” etc for the display…

I’ve been looking online to for answers to no avail.

[Andrei Zakow]

Walter,

Thank you for your help. So I checked out Boinxtv but unfortunately it only seems to run on leopard and not snow leopard yet which I think is the only operating system now available. I’m using Mac OS 10.4.11.
QC as well seems to only run on Leopard.

I tried a demo of Arkaos and I got exactly what I needed but the demo version water marks every so often which I can’t have. I would buy it but I’m not sure I really love it.

I also tried Max/Jitter, which is insane, and I got interesting results but I don’t think I can output through VGA to the projector. It seemed that I could only output through the component/composite cables from my camera(attached via firewire to the computer) to the projector and I can’t have that since I need a composite of images from the camera mixed with an animation sent out to the projector.

Are there any other options?…Software?… I could find a copy of Leopard somewhere I guess and then try Boinxtv…

If I do use software, I would ultimately like something that I can grow with because now I’m so into the possibilities of video art with this mixing process.

Thank you kindly.

[Andrei Zakow]

Thank you everyone for your responses, hope you all had a great weekend.

So, the gallery would like a live video feed of people at the show projected onto a screen in realtime. Additionally, there would be a white moving animation of ghost like figures superimposed over the live feed projected onto the screen.

Is this better achieved with a video mixer/switcher or with additional software from a computer? Can FCP do something like this?

The projector being used has multiple in’s from composite to vga.

Hope this is more clear.

Thank you.

[Andrei Zakow]

Thank you everyone for your responses, hope you all had a great weekend.

So, the gallery would like a live video feed of people at the show projected onto a screen in realtime. Additionally, there would be a white moving animation of ghost like figures superimposed over the live feed projected onto the screen.

Is this better achieved with a video mixer/switcher or with additional software from a computer? Can FCP do something like this?

The projector being used has multiple in’s from composite to vga.

Hope this is more clear.

Thank you.

[Andrei Zakow]

Thank you for responding and sorry for my delay.
This project is for a gallery opening and they are renting a projector but I don’t know what kind yet. As for my set up, right now I just have a dvx100a and a macbookpro. The gallery however, will be able to rent or purchase any other necessary equipment that I might need.
Hope that helps.

Thank you.