2 questions, 1 beamer-, 1 photo-related

silva · Post by **silva** » Sat May 26, 2007 19:29

Hi all,
Currently we're using Resolume and a beamer for ourselves, doing roadshows. But many people want to hire a system, so they can show photo's without a lot of effort. Is it possible for resolume, to make it "look" into a directory or something, so that it shows pictures that are in that directory? So if someone has taken another i.e. 50 photos, and he puts them into that folder, resolume goes and sends them to the beamer?

Question 2:
In a few weeks I'll have to do a show containing visuals, but also some karaoke-numbers in between. Can I hook up my karaoke-player to my resolume-computer, so that I can mix the karaoke-stuff with the visuals?

Thanx!

nwonknu · Post by **nwonknu** » Sat May 26, 2007 22:06

misunderstanding, sorry

[Edited on 26-5-2007 by nwonknu]

pfelberg · Post by **pfelberg** » Tue May 29, 2007 14:15

Originally posted by nwonknu
misunderstanding, sorry

[Edited on 26-5-2007 by nwonknu]

I believe I understand him.
What he calls "beamer" is just the multimedia projector.
On his roadshows there are probably some photographers taking pictures of the crowd and sometimes he is being requested to show these pictures while he is playing his on visuals.
Well, he wants Resolume to be able to recognize a photo sequence inside a specific directory and perform some kind of automatic play/performance.
As far as I know, Resolume does not do that, specifically.
Silva, you will need to quickly load all images into another package and create some avi files to play in Resolume.

VJair · Post by **VJair** » Tue May 29, 2007 21:13

just drop multiple images into the same video slot, playback speed is then controlled by the speed fader.

pfelberg · Post by **pfelberg** » Tue May 29, 2007 23:51

Cool!
This actually trully works. That had never crossed my mind.
Anyway... even 1 FPS is still too fast for a sequence.
It may be desired to show them slowly. Like 3 secs per image...

Paulo

VJ Nexus · Post by **VJ Nexus** » Wed May 30, 2007 00:33

to slow it down even further (or speed up faster than 100) change the playback mode to bpm, and then change the number of beats to some outrageously high number! (or low number for faster play)

CaptainPants · Post by **CaptainPants** » Wed May 30, 2007 01:19

For the karaoke system you are going to want a video capture card. Then you'll just dedicate one layer to the karaoke system.

nrrtv · Post by **nrrtv** » Wed May 30, 2007 06:19

Once i saw somewere out there a flash file for resolume that looks into a dir to show pictures, but i dont remember were it was, sorry :/
At least, I know it exists somewere.

nwonknu · Post by **nwonknu** » Wed May 30, 2007 22:24

Originally posted by pfelberg
Cool!
This actually trully works. That had never crossed my mind.
Anyway... even 1 FPS is still too fast for a sequence.
It may be desired to show them slowly. Like 3 secs per image...

Paulo

'Stopmotion' plugin

silva · Post by **silva** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 20:45

Hmm...
That would be an option, but I would have to switch between resolume and xp right? This is not possible I think? Or do I connect my camera and just look into that folder with resolume?

The karaoke-stuff will be different. I'd like to buy (Karafun) Studio, to make your own songs. But since resolume won't play audio, I wanna use a second laptop, and a simple video-mixer.

Any simple (read: cheap) solutions for mixing 2 video signals? And I do not mean like switching a TV to another channel

Thanx!