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Re: OT: VJ Programs, tested... by me!!
On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, mark francombe wrote:
Bare in mind the caveats, Im looking for very specific functionality,
but I think that my reviews were really all about overall impressions
rather than detailed analysis.
Hope some of you find it useful.
That was informative, thanks for the research.
For what it's worth, I'm doing a television taping of my Dayglo Orange
Plastic show this coming weekend
(three studio cameras and two hand held HD cameras)
In that show there will be three sources of visuals all related to live
looping:
1) Tim Thompson will using his Loopy Cam which is a real time Video
Looping Camera that allows for very sophisticated
real time control of up to 8 video loops that the operator is in control
of creating. Regrettably, it does not have
real time synchronization, but anyone familiar with live looping can
run it and it looks amazing (ask the people who saw it
projected at the last looping festival
2) David Tristram will be use his innovative Real Time Graphics Looping
software (lol, he refuses to name it) that he used
two nights ago in my 'warmup' performance. It is really beautiful and
it is so stark looking that it looks fantastic projected
ONTO a performer. I did a piece blowing bubbles and he immediately
started using a plethora of self create small circles
that match the performance perfectly and then used me as the
screen......very cool. I'll post a couple of examples of that
at youtube in the next couple of days and let you all know about it.
3) I'll be shooting my own videos that I've created (shown first, for
those who saw it, at the 1st Rome Live Looping Festival)
which were created in Sony Vegas which treats video exactly as Sony Acid
does...........with all of the stretching algorithms
and ability to syncrhonize.
4) Unfortunately, do to logistics, I won't be able to show off the
Video Projection Tracking system that I invented (developed by
Bill Putnam and programmed by Phoenix Tows) that allows one to project
video onto a performer that tracks their movement.
It's a very hip system but needs to be used with fairly specific venue
requirements (you have to be 17 feet from the projection
source so you have to either have a center isle or the ability to
project from the roof of a venue)
All three of these systems have the potential to be used by other
people. I'd be more than happy to connect anyone
to these artists to inquire about that possibility. I don't guarantee
it but I think it's a definite possibility.
I'm already beginning to use the Loopy Cam with my assistant Maha
Taitano running it in my life shows.
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I am fascinated by the idea of creating live video looping that can
synchronize with current paradigms of live looping audio.
There is not currently a solution that does this effectively or the way
I think would be coolest to manifest.
Soooo, I am working with Bill Putnam (Universal Audio) and a brilliant
young CCRMA grad student, Chris Carlson
investigating these possibilities. This will take some time even if we
achieve a solution but we're on it.