Video playing software - multi display

[sloop]

AVS player will do that and it's free.......

http://www.avsmedia.com/DVDPlayer/index.aspx

[kwotipka]

I am starting to use Pro Video Player (Mac Only):

http://www.renewedvision.com/pvp.php

It is a bit pricey (USD $999 for the Highres version). I chose to bite the bullet and go with this because I have seen so many people using it for mission critical applications. The interface is pretty easy to navigate and I haven't hit any limitations yet.

Had an issue with the registration code and tech support was on it in about 4 hours.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

kw

[SoftJanis]

Hey!
I do have a theatre play with live acting. There are few video backgrounds, one projector at the time, only. The actor timing might be different from performance to performance, therefore I have to have control to fade out and start to play next previously prepared video file.
There will be assistant, who will do playback timing. Should not be too complicate.
I have heard that exist different computer software for playing back video to projector/s.
2 questions:
*should theatre buy MAC or PC?
* what software to go for?
Thanx!

[Eric]

Take a look at Isadora: http://www.troikatronix.com/isadora.html

[TimMiller]

Believe it or not, you can set up windows media player along with powerpoint (i know 97, 98, 2003, and 2007) to do exactly this. I also use divx player on my laptop because it runs faster and its free will also do exactly what you want it to also. It shows the video playing on your computer screen with all the video controls and then it also shows just the video on any display set up as monitor 2.

[bobgaggle]

Originally Posted by SoftJanis

Hey!

*should theatre buy MAC or PC?
* what software to go for?
Thanx!

Don't start the mac/PC thing, too many burned bridges
but I'm with TimMiller, this setup works pretty well

[len]

I can't tell you about software, but I've used the newer Numark system http://www.numark.com/video and it's fairly decent. It has some good transitions and was stable the one time I used it.

[dbaxter]

Cue Player Premium Plus will also do video from two video cards - one for control and one for the projector. You can fade in/out and pause the videos as well as display still images. It's an addon option to the sound control program. It can also send control signals to a second computer to run another projector for two projector shows.

[wadeace]

if your on a mac you can check out que lab my td showed it o me, and wow i cant believe its free.

since I'm a pc only guy, i cant use it.
i hope someone could tell me of a piece of software for the pc that dose the same.

[scottmcleod]

Originally Posted by wadeace

if your on a mac you can check out que lab my td showed it o me, and wow i cant believe its free.

since I'm a pc only guy, i cant use it.
i hope someone could tell me of a piece of software for the pc that dose the same.

QLab is the best thing I've ever spent money on, period, bar none.

I used QLab for EVERY show in my theatre last year. Not one crash during a show. (only during programming if I did something stupid, like create a recursive cue... OOPS!)

I'm not going to sit here and preach, but all I'm saying is that my booth has 2 Macs (Mackie TT24 Control & SFX (QLab + Midi), A Projection Controller (also running QLab + Video), and my personal laptop, which acts as a backup for both, in the case that crap hits the fan)

... and 2 PC's in it. The 2 PC's are: Strand 300, and Strand 300 Backup.

'nuff said?

The guys at QLab have never taken more than 24 hours to solve a problem, and once I even had a SUPER critical issue, and they called me to help me resolve it.

Oh, and stuck on PC? Ditch it. You'll be happier on a Mac. If you need "pc". Dual-boot your mac (not hard), then install a copy of Parallels for 59.99$, which will let you boot your WinXP partition inside of a window while running OSX. That's how I use the Mackie TT24 software on my iMac while running QLab for the sound effects.