Nah, this is at Scott Theater. The show I'm doing for TA is actually going to be at Nolan high school. Its their musical. I haven't seen the space yet, but I've been told by multiple people that its a "challenge."
I'd prefer to do it with
Qlab, so that I can trigger it as part of my show file, but VLC might be an option. I have it for
Mac, but I can't tell how to get it to do that. Let me know if you find out.
Ah, okay. Actually one of the youth from church is in that one.
Nolan is quite an, ahem, "interesting" space. The
venue is about on
par with a junior high
auditorium. They have some audio there; I think it was a
Mackie 1604, maybe a Mixwizard at most, and a few wireless. Some
Sennheiser EW100, some others; quite a mishmash if I recall right. Lighting, there's an assortment of fixtures, but not a whole lot. There aren't any moving linesets; they're all
dead-hung. I don't remember what they have for loudspeakers and processing and amplifiers. Yippee-hurrah. I don't think the room was too terrible to RF; that's a good thing.
I'm drifting way off the video topic here .. I'll see if I can get some old pictures of the space during the day. It was probably four or five years ago now I helped get a show up there. I'd love to help you guys know what you're getting into on the production side.
We can PM or email on that one to keep the forum chatter down.
Back to video, VLC under Linux can
play a particular chapter of a DVD, and it can
build a playlist of files and such to run. In a production application, it all depends on having an X11 graphics server dedicated to your "program" output, so it can direct the video content fullscreen to that X instance, so that means an "extended desktop" in the traditional sense doesn't work. I don't have any dual-screen Macs to try it out on .. I've got it working under Linux at the church, though.
If
Qlab works, go with it, especially if you've got it.
VGA is realistically your most
practical signal ..
NTSC is usually fine, but the scaling circuits in most projectors are cheap these days, so it's best to talk to it at its native resolution and frame rate and all. That said, I run
NTSC at the church and it's fine (not perfect, but fine enough for now).
If you end up going to the Apple Store, go ahead and get the
NTSC adapter for your computer; some day you'll need it.