Getting away from Watchout

[Grimm90]

Hi, ive been a long time Resolume fan (with ups and downs but the latest R7 is running smooth on all my systems.
Lately ive been working a lot for a client who does large permanent mapping installations across the globe, and it all runs on dataton watchout. I hate it. Its stuck in 2005, its slow, a lot of features in it suck ass.
Now the client wouldnt mind switching to resolume (as many of the projects dont have such a large budget for a D3 server or the likes), there is only one feature missing in Resolume which holds him back = timeline.
Yes i know u can fake a timeline with autopilots and blanks, but thats too complex workaround as the installations require handover to local operators, often badly trained and underpayed employees of the end client (cant help that..)
Besides this, the system of production / display computers is also a nice feature in Watchout, making your system much more scalable if you have 60+ full hd projectors.
So wanted to rather spark a discussion than a feature request.
Is a timeline down the roadmap, any idea when?
Could the display computers over network become a thing?
I mean i would love to present him a Resolume "pro" license which holds these features and i think Resolume could win a lot of new customers from Watchout.
One of the main reasons he uses watchout is many people can program it, easy to find freelancers, but this would be easily won by people knowing Resolume by now..
Just a thought, curious how the devs and other users see this..

[Zoltán]

60+ full hd projectors in sync is not a plug and play setup with Resolume currently.
You can get a setup going, but that will require OSC, and probably Quadros, with sync cards to get frame sync. You can find suggestions on many outputs here viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15035

Is a timeline down the roadmap, any idea when?

We have our eye on this, though not on the roadmap currently.

Could the display computers over network become a thing?

NDI should be quite good for that, right?

[Grimm90]

In some sense NDI can work, the main thing with watchout is the internal clocks are synced so you can even do blends over all these watchout display computers.
As it see it in layman terms.
The production pc pushes the content to the hard drives of all watchout display computers.
When they are all ready receiving the data and you press play, it's like a marching army.

Production pc shouts "y'all ready bros??" - bro's reply "jup boss lets move" and then the production pc is going "1 2 3 4 how far is it to the floor ? 5 6 7 8 whish is was a Resolume mate" and they all start running in sync.

That seems tricky on NDI , the delay's are too unpredictable and varying.

[gpvillamil]

Chataigne (https://benjamin.kuperberg.fr/chataigne/en) is a free open-source package that can add excellent timeline functionality for Resolume. It also lets you easily build web-accessible show control dashboards.

Resolume is supported directly as a module, and you can always use OSC directly if you need a specific custom command.

[Grimm90]

been fiddling just a bit with it but looks very usefull, great job

[Arvol]

https://imimot.com/vezer/

If you want to have a master computer driving the show via timeline and then sending out commands to your slaved computers.

[Grimm90]

A cool , thanks for the link, vezer seems like a nice tool.
Just got more into chataigne lately and should be capable of the same