[LAU] live video switching? WAS: Re: VJ / VeeJing software alternatives

[drew Roberts]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Sam Mulvey <sam at vis.nu> wrote:

>  On 07/18/2014 02:23 PM, Neil C Smith wrote:
>
> > Any suggestions or experiences?
>
> I don't know if Praxis LIVE (www.praxislive.org) would be of interest to
> you? I know it's been used by a few VJs. It's partly aimed to be a free
> alternative to software like Isadora - patcher style but at a higher level
> to things like PD, though it also has the ability to create custom
> components in code.
>
>
>
>
> This may be a ridiculous question, but I'm not nearly as good at video as
> I am at audio, and I'm actually trying to solve this problem as the thread
> came up, so I thought I'd throw it out there:
>
> Are any of these tools useable for live television production?
>

I was going down that road a while back. (I never solved my problem and
still need to continue...) I came across snowmix:

http://createdigitalmotion.com/2012/10/an-open-source-video-mixer-inspired-by-diy-space-exploration/
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/10/copenhagen-suborbitals-release-snowmix-an-open-source-video-mixer/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/snowmix/

I never could get it to behave as I needed but I did not have a lot of time
to spend fooling around and had to drop it.

If you get anywhere with this, please ping me in your post.



>    I've been requested to add video to the audio capabilities of my
> studio, and I'd like to stick with open source stuff as much as possible,
> sticking with my design goals.   I need the usual stuff-- graphics, maybe
> bring in some desktop things for video conferencing.  I've looked at what's
> out there, and it seems pretty early days.   Not stuff I'd feel comfortable
> someone who's not code-inclined operating.
>
> If I can back that into an OSC interface and just provide some shiny
> buttons that do obvoius things, that changes the situation.   Right now,
> I'm trying to slap together a mac with enough horsepower to run camtwist,
> but that's a bandaid.
>
> -Sam
>
> all the best,

drew
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