montage video projection

>hey all!
>
>So i am loooking into doing a large video projection project, on 3
>screens. All 3 screens might have everything from live straming
>video to images to projections of actual things that are going on in
>the space.
>I keep getting conficting suggestions about what to use to diplay
>all of this. People keep telling me to use Montage, and then others
>tell me that Montage is a hack program and should be avoided at all
>costs.
>As i do some research on this, because i know nothing at the
>moment… I thought i would put the question out to you all.
>Curious if there are answers within the rhizome community.
>thanks.
>-jeremy
>


director rocks hands down.

it'll run about any kind of video (pre-recorded or a live feed with
the coolest xtra (TTCPro, does screen shots, and shockwave), reads
files from the web or local. and super easy presentation/authoring
functions. (warning, using it for more than a few seconds requires a
hefty mac. win version can't hold up for long. nothing for
unix/linux obviously though)

max with jitter sounds close, but not ideal for presentation or a lot
of web functions. do the screens need to be coordinated? could you
have one program (like max) handle the local feed, one like
(quicktime) handle pre-recorded stuff, one (like perl) handle the web
feed, and write a mother program that switches between these (in
about anything)?

i wish director would just come with computers, because it is by far
the best stuff can be done with them. 99% of what makes computers
not just boring boxes of wires. lingo should be one of the required
languages in school. other programming languages do much more but
are much more difficult and development takes too much. there's a
lot you may want to customize (like C/C++ would let you do) in an app
but especially for staged performances, it's not worth all the extra
work.

if you don't own a mac, but do these a few times a year, it's
probably even worth getting one of those $500 mini's or something for
shows, just to run director.

It's a little pricey, but I recommend Derivative Touch over at
derivativeinc.com

It has its limitations, but for multi-scree, and flexibility, it really rocks.

—- judsoN <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >hey all!
> >
> >So i am loooking into doing a large video projection project, on 3
> >screens. All 3 screens might have everything from live straming
> >video to images to projections of actual things that are going on in
> >the space.
> >I keep getting conficting suggestions about what to use to diplay
> >all of this. People keep telling me to use Montage, and then others
> >tell me that Montage is a hack program and should be avoided at all
> >costs.
> >As i do some research on this, because i know nothing at the
> >moment… I thought i would put the question out to you all.
> >Curious if there are answers within the rhizome community.
> >thanks.
> >-jeremy
> >
>
>
> director rocks hands down.
>
> it'll run about any kind of video (pre-recorded or a live feed with
> the coolest xtra (TTCPro, does screen shots, and shockwave), reads
> files from the web or local. and super easy presentation/authoring
> functions. (warning, using it for more than a few seconds requires a
> hefty mac. win version can't hold up for long. nothing for
> unix/linux obviously though)
>
> max with jitter sounds close, but not ideal for presentation or a lot
> of web functions. do the screens need to be coordinated? could you
> have one program (like max) handle the local feed, one like
> (quicktime) handle pre-recorded stuff, one (like perl) handle the web
> feed, and write a mother program that switches between these (in
> about anything)?
>
> i wish director would just come with computers, because it is by far
> the best stuff can be done with them. 99% of what makes computers
> not just boring boxes of wires. lingo should be one of the required
> languages in school. other programming languages do much more but
> are much more difficult and development takes too much. there's a
> lot you may want to customize (like C/C++ would let you do) in an app
> but especially for staged performances, it's not worth all the extra
> work.
>
> if you don't own a mac, but do these a few times a year, it's
> probably even worth getting one of those $500 mini's or something for
> shows, just to run director.
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