Thetechmanmac
Active Member
My high school is using projection this year for the first time, in our production of 9 to 5 the musical. I have experience with projectors, but not in a theatrical setting. We don't have a super fancy projector, just a basic Epson home theater projector. It does the job, and it is plenty bright for our stage.
I figured we would use Qlab for video playback. I use Qlab all the time for audio, but have never used it for video. I was planning on doing the video license rental this week, since it's our production week. Should I go ahead and update to Qlab 4 (on Qlab 3 now) or just stick with Qlab3? How difficult is it to set up a basic video surface?
The other dilemma we have is getting video signal to the projector. Right now our 50ft VGA cable reaches our SR tech desk. Unfortunately our booth is another 200ft in cabling away. I thought about buying HDbaseT extenders, but they are a little pricy. My idea so far was this: Putting one mac at the SR tech desk that is actually running Qlab, and remote in (screen share over network) to that mac from another Mac in the booth. The only foreseeable issues I could see with this setup are lag (which in test was not very significant) and losing connection. Should we just bite the bullet and get HDbaseT extenders and cable?
I figured we would use Qlab for video playback. I use Qlab all the time for audio, but have never used it for video. I was planning on doing the video license rental this week, since it's our production week. Should I go ahead and update to Qlab 4 (on Qlab 3 now) or just stick with Qlab3? How difficult is it to set up a basic video surface?
The other dilemma we have is getting video signal to the projector. Right now our 50ft VGA cable reaches our SR tech desk. Unfortunately our booth is another 200ft in cabling away. I thought about buying HDbaseT extenders, but they are a little pricy. My idea so far was this: Putting one mac at the SR tech desk that is actually running Qlab, and remote in (screen share over network) to that mac from another Mac in the booth. The only foreseeable issues I could see with this setup are lag (which in test was not very significant) and losing connection. Should we just bite the bullet and get HDbaseT extenders and cable?