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For those who are using video in your display this year. Are you going to have a video element for every song in your show? or.. Will some have video and other songs have no video at all?
i'm not, but my reccomondation is no. Save the video for the best songs!!! wow your audience on certain songs, not all. Also, maybe just have a video break.
I am planning on using it on all songs, kind of. I will have my songs where it is the focus. On other songs I will use it as a video sign for the Radio Station with a moving background and the radio station flying in and out, etc.
Ken W. Good wrote: I am planning on using it on all songs, kind of. I will have my songs where it is the focus. On other songs I will use it as a video sign for the Radio Station with a moving background and the radio station flying in and out, etc.
Ken
That is a good idea. I have been wondering what to do instead of a blank screen.
If i had it, i would put scripture verses up on it, and the slow fade pictures of nativity. I'm assuming this is going through AL? LOR doesn't have this feature right?
Ken W. Good wrote: I am planning on using it on all songs, kind of. I will have my songs where it is the focus. On other songs I will use it as a video sign for the Radio Station with a moving background and the radio station flying in and out, etc.
Ken
What are you using for a moving background?
I like the scripture verse idea too. Thanks ryanshow
Last edited on Monday October 15th, 2007 07:12 pm by roberson3
I am just putting together about a 10 minute show that is a timeline, from Gabrial talking to Mary, to the people rejoicing at the end. There are 5 songs, that go in the order of biblical events. It will be pretty cool. If i had video, i would put scripture and pictures up.
I am using a projector and running it through a window. I have a rear projection screen on the front porch. I am using slide shows, some music videos and on songs the video screen will just be a video sign for the radio station.
roberson3 wrote: Ken W. Good wrote: I am planning on using it on all songs, kind of. I will have my songs where it is the focus. On other songs I will use it as a video sign for the Radio Station with a moving background and the radio station flying in and out, etc.
Ken
That is a good idea. I have been wondering what to do instead of a blank screen.
Personally, I WILL have a video for every song I play.
I can also state, there is a dark blank space between songs with the lights but there are some interesting tips for smooth sailing between videos.
For one, encode all your videos to the same resolution if possible... I found for some reason 640 X 480 videos want to sync exactly on 85 htz, make your DUAL VIEW setup on the projector set to the same 85 htz and the same 640 X 480 resolution, this will keep your projector from thinking it lost video and goes looking for it via other ports.
Your background "could" be blank but could be something like this image I am uploading. This is my actual background on and its full screen on the projector screen. Between songs the Animation Director will briefly flash this screen, but in order to lenthen its duration on screen, well at the end of a video, the screen "freeze frames" for about 5 seconds... I embedded this image at the tail end of every video and the transistion from the same image at end of movie to the dual view backdrop is seamless and unnoticable.
For songs you DONT want a video for and just play an MP3 instead of MPG, well the same backdrop displays for the duration.
I must say, I was anticipating problems but I just got finished burn testing the computer playing animation director, all my control boxes are connected and powered and playing, except no lights on them and output to the projector on a monitor.. it played and played and played for 48 hours straight with no glitches or crashes... I went about doing my homework, browsed the web, multitasking with it running... still no problems so I must stay I am really impressed at how rock solid Animation Director is at playing videos instead of MP3's and our hack trick of using Nvidia GForce cards to play the video in full screen for projectors. Now I have lights on the house, its obvious all my work so far making videos... ALL went off without a hitch, all the lights keep sync, there is no workload or sluggish video or lights that cant keep up. I am really impressed that its all working actually SO WELL!
Also for those of you in need of LONG VGA or SVGA cables.... http://www.compusa.com I got a 50 ft VGA cable for my projector for about $35 delivered. They also have SVGA cables but they are more expensive and also prone to line noise that VGA cables arent, so when I do my video, the entire show is run comfortably from my desktop in the house and I deliver the video way out in the yard.
CompUSA also has reasonably priced 75 and 100 ft cables, up to 200 ft VGA cables at nearly 50 cents or less per running foot of cord and they delivered mine in about 3 days after order via second day air.
Hints on keeping projector from searching for lost video between videos. Find a way to keep ALL your videos on the same resolution, for me 640 X 480 works perfectly, find what htz rate your windows media video is going to, in my case its 85 htz and set your windows backdrop screen to the same exact resolution and htz rate. I only just discovered the problem 2 days ago, and this was my fix.
Those are all great points. Maybe you could post all the system requirements that are needed to make video work such as video cards, laptop speeds, ram, projector makes and cables needed. It would be kind of a check list for those who will be taking the video plunge. I love your idea of the santa still with the fm info on it.
I agree, those are some good ideas Joseph, thanks for sharing. I did have the problem on my halloween video, when the song ended, it breifly flashed the desktop screen, which didn't look too cool...the idea of changing the desktop to something the video ends with is a great idea. Thanks
