Nicholas Rivero
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Paul,
We use two programs produced by a company called Renewed Vision. That back three screen wall is done with ProVideo Player. What you do is run a Mac (MacMinis in this case) per screen, you run the software and then it allows remote triggering of the content via another mac also running pro video player. The software allows, as the call it, grid mapping in which it will split footage across all of your displays, hence allowing for the three screen wall.
The two outside screens are running ProPresenter which is a presentation/video playback program. It is meant for presenting slides, lyrics, videos, countdown timers, etc. We use a special module that allows ProVideo Player to interact with ProPresenter. So when we trigger our back video wall’s computers it triggers the ProPresenter computer running the full 5 screens worth of content.
You can check it out over at http://www.renewedvision.com!
ProVideo Player supports MIDI In if you’re looking for remote triggering!//nick
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We have animated about 8 other songs in total over just this one. We just worked it through with the band in rehearsals as to how we would work out cuing each song. Some songs require more warning than others to fire the cue and so we ask the band to give us more lead time before starting in, etc.
It’s the simplest method without going to a full on show control system which we attempted to build ourselves but opted out just for this theory instead.
Hope this helps.//nick
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I can attest that I have done content in sync with a live band over the past 4 months. What we do because of how our show works, is the band’s drummer will fire their click track out of itunes which then routes to our video assist. He’ll listen to it and trigger it content at the beginning of the song. Our content is built as one track the length of each song.
The other options we worked on was to build the click track to your video so that when you play the video, you just route your click track to whoever needs it. If your event has this amount of control, then you’ll be fine.
All it comes down to is whether or not your talent can stay on their click track, as we have learned.
If it helps here is one of our events in which we triggered 5 screens worth of content in sync with the band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMq3vs5Kkow&fmt=18//nick
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I’m pretty sure that if someone is trying to build a simple multiscreen display, ProVideo Player is more than enough.
Can i buy a 3 screen ProVideo Player setup for a weeks rental on a Watchout…. hmmm…
I don’t feel that the solution is always in high end gear. Sometimes it’s the simple things that work better.
Can your wings, watchout, catalyst, hippo, axiom, DL3, or whatever do everything you’ve described. Yes. Does the average person need all of that? Probably not.
//nick
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I would think that if you break up your clip into multiple cues it would work well; the sunset, night scape, etc. Just trigger each cue independently, and let software cross fade each one.
With Renewed Vision’s ProVideo Player you can manipulate speed in realtime if you wanted your cue to be just one clip. By default, you can set a clip to play and when it reaches the last frame, it will hold on it. Therefore, waiting until you click the second cue which it can crossfade into.
You can check out a free demo at: https://www.renewedvision.com
//nick
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I keep recommending Renewed Visions ProVideo Player. It is a program for Mac OS in which you hook up a mac to each projector/display, you put their software on each machine, then you take another mac, and via ethernet or even wireless (not highly recommended) you can play back multi-screen content in sync.
The software can play individual content so each machine plays the same clip, for instance, or at the click of a button, the software can stretch a single image across all of the displays. It can also do things like tile, color/hue controls, and asymmetrical screen placements.
You can download a full working, free demo at https://www.renewedvision.com
My second recommendation is Figure 53s qLab. It is a bit more sophisticated than Pro Video Player in terms of set up, but via some add on modules can do multiscreen setups, as I’ve seen it done.
To give you an idea, the tour that I’m working on right now, uses 5 projection screens and 3 plasmas all synced together at times with ProVideo Player.
You can find some pics at https://gallery.mac.com/nicholasrivero#100008&bgcolor=black&view=grid
Hope this helps!
//nick
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Oh btw, there is a feature in qLab called a wall clock trigger. If all of your mac’s computer clocks are atomically set (which can simply be done in system preferences) then the wall clock trigger basically just triggers a cue at a given day and time.
So, if your just playing a playlist, need no external control, this could work. You can check out an example here…https://figure53.com/qlab/showcases/submarine-bunker/
I’m not quite sure if you can do it with the basic version. If you don’t know, the baseline version of qlab is free. I believe you need the $20 upgrade to get the wall clock feature. To do video, it’s $150 more and to do MIDI I/O is also $150.
//nick
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You could do it with Figure 53’s qLab and some computers. You can check it out at http://www.figure53.com.
I highly recommend Renewed Vision’s ProVideo Player but you will need 9 licenses and 9 computers, such as mac minis. It is probably overkill for what you need. You can check them out at http://www.renewedvision.com and their recent MacWorld best of show… https://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/16/renewed-vision-creates-a-display-with-provideoplayer-propresenter/
You could also use 9 DVD players of the same make, get a remote and hit go at the same time? I’ve seen it done before… Don’t know how accurate your sync needs to be…
//nick
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I have been recommending Renewed Vision’s ProVideo Player. It does multi-screen arrays very cost effectively. I’ve looked into both the Watchout and the Wings and for the cost of a one week rental we were able to purchase our own 3 node-setup. Their software runs on just about all apple computers (we are using 3 mac minis and an iMac). It’s just a software program that allows the synchronized playback of multiple computers at one time. It also offers features such as live color correction, mapping of a single image across multiple screens, and even MIDI triggering. If you have access to 4 apple computers, then all you need is this software to do a multi-screen setup. You can check it out over at http://www.renewedvision.com.
//nick
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The Edirol V-4 is a good little 4 channel mixer but it’s prob closer to a thousand. I’d agree on the DataVideo’s especially with the fact that it combines the quad split output so you can view all of your sources on a single monitor.