Provideoplayer v21/18/2024 ![]() ![]() There is a multitude of display technologies available today, and we want you to be able to take advantage of any of them. Additional options include specifying a default layer for all content played within a playlist ensuring that content made for a specific screen is never played anywhere else. Because the target sets that you build are global throughout the application, you can easily change target sets on any given layer at any time and save this mapping as part of the cue so content always plays exactly the way you want it. This allows for fine-tuned design of content across rotated screens, screens of various shapes, and odd aspect ratios. The media triggered in any layer can be mapped to one or more screens… either full screen or within one or more targets (rectangle, polygon, circle, bezier path). That means you can connect as many displays as your computer can handle, including graphics-direct (DVI, HDMI, VGA), broadcast (SDI), network-based (NDI, Syphon) outputs, or any combination therein. PVP3 is a multi-screen, multi-layer video playback and processing tool. We set out to see if we could make a single product that would provide the tools needed for many productions when the complexity of more expensive solutions is unnecessary. ProVideoPlayer (PVP) is a Mac-based multi-screen media server application designed to play back and manipulate video across one or more screens.įor over a decade PVP has been powering multi-screen playback and video effects for live events and fixed installations, many times feeding video to expensive dedicated hardware (such as screen control systems) for further manipulation. Hey guys, we just got done with a week of rehearsals and shows for Oceans Edge’s Not So Silent Night.ProVideoPlayer 3 for macOS - the standard for multi-screen media servers. Everything went great! In this show we tried out some new ideas that we haven’t done in a show yet. ![]() The biggest one being some pretty heavy automation thanks to Ableton Live and MIDI. We ended up with Ableton Live sending out MIDI commands to our lighting console for lighting cues. To another machine running ProVideoPlayer for videos on our stage screen. Then to yet another machine with ProPresenter for lyrics which was a master for two other machines running ProPresenter in slave mode connected to our side screens. We didn’t have video cabling to those areas so we wirelessly connected to them. In the end Ableton Live on one machine was triggering a grand total of five other machines running different programs and performing different tasks. Pretty cool stuff! This allowed us to have the precision of automated cues but unlike timecode we could easily change the order of cues, repeat cues, skip cues, change the tempo, all things that timecode is too rigid to do well and simply. This involved some testing and extra work on the front end but resulted in a better show that was very easy to run. We only ended up with about 100 lighting cues, about 5-10 were manually triggered. If Ableton Live wasn’t triggering most of the lighting it would have been at least 175-200 cues. This is because we used Ableton Live to repeat cues (for easier programming) and trigger presets saved to our submasters that could then be triggered as individual lighting cues or looks. Just like you can hit the bump buttons to make the submasters go Ableton Live can do the same thing through MIDI Show Control commands. So one song that would have been 50-100 cues was simply 23 presets triggered remotely in different arrangements. This even allowed us to divide up the programming between several people. I was able to focus on lighting looks and programming the lighting console while other people carefully placed cues into Ableton Live to trigger the lights.Ĭonnectivity was pretty simple as well. In fact only the lighting console itself had a physical MIDI cable plugged into it. The rest of the machines received MIDI commands over the network using Apple’s Audio MIDI setup that’s built into the OS. We have used this a lot and it has proved to be very reliable provided that you have a good network connection and not a lot of network congestion. ![]() We created our our network just for these machines in order to make sure everything worked as fast as possible. Everything in the lighting booth was hard wired together and the two remote machines connected over the wireless N WifI network. ![]() My buddy WIll Doggett and I put together this short video where he walks through the setup. We just set up some projectors for our next Night of Worship. We rented three 12,000 lumen projectors and blended the image together resulting in about a 70′ wide by 18′ tall image. Everything is being fed from a MacBook Pro running ProVideoPlayer using a Triple Head 2 Go. ![]()
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