Hi Simon,<br><br>Where Can we see the video patches you talk about? I´m very interested.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Enrique<br><br>On 25 Feb 2008, at 10:32 PM, altern wrote:<br>
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>>> I need to have several video outputs that run in sync. A friend who<br>
>>> works in a art exhibition space told me there would be couple of<br>
>>> solutions for this but both involve buying pretty expensive<br>
>>> equipment<br>
>>> like special DVD players.<br>
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>>> I thought then that a solution for this issue could be to have<br>
>>> several<br>
>>> computers on a local network playing video (with GEM) and<br>
>>> synchronise<br>
>>> them via OSC. But I dont have any experience doing such a thing,<br>
>>> never<br>
>>> used OSC for anything similar. Also I dont have a clue about how to<br>
>>> synchronise together videos.<br>
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>>> Has anyone done anything similar? any experiences to share?<br>
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>> yes.<br>
>> we used a dual-head machine (actually it was a quad-head, so we had<br>
>> plenty of space for editing...) running a single gemwin covering both<br>
>> screens and 2 [pix_film]s that were controlled by the same counter.<br>
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>> since Gem allows you frame-accurate access, the 2 videos were in<br>
>> perfect<br>
>> synch.<br>
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> but we might need up to 6 to 8 video outputs, thats too much for the<br>
> same machine. Thats why I thought about having a machine per video<br>
> output connected to a LAN and synchronised via OSC.<br>
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I've done it often, the basic principle for keeping the LAN machines<br>
in constant frame sync, allowing scrubbing etc, is each projector has<br>
a slave patch that uses [pix_film] to play by frame number rather<br>
auto, and receives those frame numbers (via [netreceive]) from a<br>
master patch which has a metro counting the frames and which plays<br>
any sound required. Works very cleanly and doesn't put much data<br>
through the network. Two [pix_film] Gem-chains in each slave will<br>
give you X-fades etc.<br>
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I could post the set of patches which add quite a bit more<br>
functionality than that if you like, I've built up a collection over<br>
several projects.<br>
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simon<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Enrique Franco<br>Telefono/Phone: +572 5552334 ext 388<br>Webpage: <a href="http://richie.idc.ul.ie/~enrique/">http://richie.idc.ul.ie/~enrique/</a><br><a href="http://www.iua.upf.es/~ffranco/pfm.htm">http://www.iua.upf.es/~ffranco/pfm.htm</a>