Nicholas Rivero
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Check out ProVideo Player over at http://www.renewedvision.com. It’s a great product, really affordable that does the basic aspects of what you’re wings/watchout would do.
//nick
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You could check out Media Shout (www.mediashout.com) for PC. It’s $429. You can play videos, slides, dvd cues, but im not quite sure about live video ingest. On the mac side, there is ProPresenter (www.renewedvision.com), which can do all of the above as well as ingest a live video signal via firewire.
//nick
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You can also check out Renewed Vision’s ProVideo Player. While it might not have as many features such as DMX control or timecode support, it is very easy to setup and configure. The software has Master and Slave/Node versions. You tell one to be the master and then the rest follow that master. You have one computer per display device, IE projector, plasma, monitor, etc, and then connect all the machines via ethernet cable. The Master computer connects to each one allowing you to either build a self contained-automated show or a remotely-user controllable show. You either split up your content as you mentioned before hand and load each custom created piece to that computer or you can load one large piece of content and let this software break it up for you. You can load still images and videos, both in the same playlist. Check it out and a free demo of it at http://www.renewedvision.com
//nick
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I meant to add also that what we did was have a guy with in-ear monitors listen to the click track from the drummer, and so he would fire accordingly. I’ve also seen it done that the video is built with the click track for audio so that one can fire both at the same time. Click is definitely the only way to maintain perfect sync. There were some songs that we attempted to moderate speed as no click was used by the band, but it’s definitely not the way to go.
//nick
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There is a program out there by a company named Renewed Vision. Their product ProVideo Player allows you to do multiscreen video content very easily and very reliably; it’s even MIDI trigger-able. I did the same thing this spring. Took the software out and did 8 screens of content with custom song animations for about 10 songs. You can check it out at http://www.renewedvision.com
//nick
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Concerning switchers, I haven’t anything too hot concerning the Slate series. A few people that I know who own them have had stability issues and are not entirely fond of the fact that it runs on full Windows XP. That aside, it is a very reasonably priced solution. Have you checked into the For-A HVS400? It will do HD-SDI. I would say that or the Panasonic 400 you’re talking about. These will sit you around $15k and under (base line). If you were to go with either of these choices you could go component out into a Sony deck perhaps? I thought one of them had a component input, maybe I’m totally wrong. My idea would be to stick digital with your acquisition versus going to tape. That’s what we do around here if we need to capture anything above SD.
//nick
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that’s why i said…
Don’t know whether it helps or matters but…//nick
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Don’t know whether it helps or matters but you could check our Renewed Visions ProVideo Player. It runs on Mac OS so you could run it on a Mac Mini. You can sync together as many nodes as you want and it’s MIDI controllable so you could remote control it. It’s not a dedicated hardware solution but just a thought… http://www.renewedvision.com
//nick
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It sounds like your camera sources are coming in composite and that, possibly, your MX70 could be set to component or S-video input sources instead. Just a guess. If you reference your manual it will tell you how to switch your sources back and forth. I haven’t done it in a while that I couldn’t tell you a step by step off the top of my head without pulling out a manual myself.
//nick
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