AmeliaGP Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Hi there. I'm designing a theatrical experience for music festival goers and wondered if anyone could offer any advice on the kind of software and set up that would best suit my needs. The experience involves two rooms. In the first room, visitors have their images recorded against a green screen. In the second room, these same images are projected onto mannequins to give the illusion that their images have been captured three-dimensionally. There are two cameras recording two different visitors. What I need is a program that can manage two camera inputs, key out the green screen and send the images to one projector on a short time delay (2-3 minutes). The system will be embedded in the installation without a pilot, so it needs to be self-sustaining. I've started to mess around with Max MSP but wondered if anyone had any other suggestions or experience with Max. Thanks for any help!Amelia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 This is a job for Isadora. [Website] But... Even though 2.0 is now (finally!) out it still looks like it can only handle 2GB or RAM, so you may need to compromise on resolution or colour depth to get your required delay. [helpful link], Mark's post about 3rd down. Edited to add: Another possibility is v4 [website], which is another patching system, it has a function to delay video which stores that frame in the graphics card memory, and theres lots of graphics cards with gigs of memory. There is a few patch examples [here] and they seem quite similar to what you're doing. V4 has a hell of a learning curve, but it does the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shez Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Are the cameras capturing a single still image of each visitor or moving video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmeliaGP Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Moving video, ideally.Are the cameras capturing a single still image of each visitor or moving video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I think someone did this at uni with a consumer DVR/hard drive dvd recorder . Basically time shifted the camera feed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmeliaGP Posted July 23, 2015 Author Share Posted July 23, 2015 Thanks for all the links - super helpful! This is a job for Isadora. [Website] But... Even though 2.0 is now (finally!) out it still looks like it can only handle 2GB or RAM, so you may need to compromise on resolution or colour depth to get your required delay. [helpful link], Mark's post about 3rd down. Edited to add: Another possibility is v4 [website], which is another patching system, it has a function to delay video which stores that frame in the graphics card memory, and theres lots of graphics cards with gigs of memory. There is a few patch examples [here] and they seem quite similar to what you're doing. V4 has a hell of a learning curve, but it does the business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave m Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I have also seen it done on a DVD /hdd recorderIt certainly worked. Call be simple but I don't understand the two camera thing ?I can see one camera sent to a projector with a delay but what does the other camera do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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