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.
This seems to reflect some ignorance regarding church productions. Some churches are essentially doing a full theatrical and broadcast production every week and many church's technical staff, systems and capabilities exceed most theatres. In fact one of the most high tech theatres in this area is part of a private school and used as a church on Sundays. So don't dismiss something just because of the context for which it was originally developed or what the facility is called.I'm really trying to avoid the free options, and this will not be for a church environment. This is going for a theatre environment, and if a director/set designer wants a set with 3 windows that each have an independent still image projected onto it, plus an overhead movie running, I'd like to get an idea of hardware and software that would provide this, preferably with a single PC and multiple video output hardware.
Nothing of my previous posts said or suggested that I was belitting or downgrading church productions at all.
In the production I have been working on right now, we are using 2 digital projectors, connected to 2 computers, each running power point presentations to display images that do not contain any motion video (hence, still image). To the audience, director, etc, these are still images. If another production were to come up where the director would like to have 5 projection screens, each with their own digital projector, and each projector could possibly display image files without motion (still images) or movie clips, I would like to be able to have an idea of what I would need in hardware and software to make this possible. Ideally, I would prefer not to have multiple computers. So, would the single computer need to (or could it) contain multiple video boards? Or would there be an external multiple output video device with outputs that could be independently referenced? And what software program would allow a cueing sequence that would, on each firing, change one, two, or all of the projector images to either a new still image picture file or some kind of movie clip?
Does this clarify?
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