The Crystal Method!

VJ Nexus · Post by **VJ Nexus** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 21:47

I just used resolume to provide video and visuals on Friday, the November 19th for The Crystal Method's performance while on tour for their new album. BIG PROPS. I used resolume2 beta2 and it was awesome. The Crystal Method was very impressed with the video as well, and were intrigued by the software

Great job guys.

This was my setup. Athlon64 3000+, 1GB ddr, radeon9800 pro 256, 80GB Maxtor 7200 8MB, 80GB WD 7200 8MB, 250GB WD 7200 8MB, USB 2.0 webcam, ATI tv wonder pro, Hauppauge WinTV card. The case has 12 fans in it.

I had 3 cameras - one usb mounted directly on their mixer, a canon xl-1, and a canon gl-2 going into the tv cards. Capture cards work much better than direct firewire I've found.

Resolume was processing at 640x480 and outputting at 800x600 all in 32-bit with very little frame loss. Everything was midi controlled from a yamaha rm1x sequencer and a roland midi controller keyboard.
Clips rendered at 640x480 indeo 5.10.

I had resolume running strong for over 5 hours straight without any problems (besides a very hot computer)

HUGE PROPS TO THE PROGRAMMER!! Resolume 2 kicks ass - much more stable than previous versions. And The Crystal Method digs it too, feel good man, feel good...

(sorry guys I wasn't allowed to record any of it

- I will post some pics when I get them)

[Edited on 21-11-2004 by NexusIntent]

[Edited on 22-11-2004 by NexusIntent]

levon · Post by **levon** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 02:51

thats awsome, i would love to be able to get resolume running at 640x480, but atm resolume 2 (both beta's) crash when i do full screen.

you have two tv cards you say: ATI tv wonder pro, Hauppauge WinTV card

which out of these are better? or would you say they are both equal? and how many inputs on each.

thanks, levon

VJ Nexus · Post by **VJ Nexus** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 03:06

The ati tv wonder pro gets a slightly better picture quality than the hauppauge (which is 5 years old btw) the ati is brand new. However, in resolume the hauppauge actually seems to get a slightly better frame rate - not much, but a little. The major problem I had was finding 2 tv cards that would actually run at the same time. There are very few chipsets used in these cards, and if you use 2 of the same or similar ones you run into big driver problems. Drivers are pretty poor across the board for capture cards - inter-compatibility is often an issue.