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Hello,

 

I'm wondering if you could help me decide which software solution would be most appropriate for a forthcoming 'gig'...

 

My college is staging a fashion show as part of a local film festival, and during the fashion show images are to projected onto a screen behind the catwalk.

 

I have been tasked with running the projections.

 

There is a different projection for each 'act' (I.e each time someone walks down the runway), each act is approximately 45 seconds long, and I think there are about 60 of them.

 

Some acts use a clip from a film as the projection, whereas others use a still image with a separate audio track.

 

A couple of the acts do not have a defined length, so I will need to change/fade to the next projection/sound combination on the fly.

 

I have a few options for running this, and I would like it to be as straightforward and reliable as possible.

 

Any thoughts appreciated,

 

Dave

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This isnt my usual area to post in but I came across this software for DJing and it happens to have a video mixing capability on it this also allows music and video to be controlled together and the video output can be put on to an external desktop so that you can control on one screen show on another. Link below

 

http://www.virtualdj.com

 

Callum

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Sounds like a job for QLab to me.

 

You can download it for free and try it out before hiring a day license for as long as you require.

 

You can control all the audio, video and stills/graphics, and by managing auto follows and auto continues you can cue multiple files with one go button. You can also add graphic fades to any files so you can fade in and out any element on the fly. Also by managing pre and post waits you can fade in audio before the video fires all with a single go button etc..

 

Give it a go and see if it does what you need it to...

 

Enjoy !!

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Hi thanks for all the replies.

 

I've been having reliability problems with screen monkey (probably the fault of my PC rather than the software), and so I am leaning towards renting a Q-Lab licence for the time required.

 

One thing though, does anyone know how to get a cue which fades out a video/image cue rather than stopping it dead? I can't seem to find it...

 

 

Thanks

 

Dave

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You want an "Animation" cue.

 

Place the "Animation" cue within the timeline and associate it to the video/graphic cue, by dropping that file onto the animation cue.

 

You will need to set what properties you want to animate. So under the Setting tab of the animation cue, ensure that Opacity is ticked, and drag the level to 0%, this will take the video file from whatever opacity it is currently set at and take it to the new level of 0%.

 

A couple of things worth noting:


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  • An animation cue only fades the video content, if it has audio within the video you will need to add a "Fade" cue also. You can make them fade together by ensuring the animation cue (if this is first in the timeline) is set to "Auto-Continue" within the Info tab, then you will only need to press GO once to fade both the audio and video.
  • If you are not going to fade the video back in, tick the "Stop Target When Done" box in the Setting tab, as this will stop the file once it has faded out, ensuring it doesn't run in the background wasting valuable process power.

 

Hope this helps...

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