Chamsys

[Peter]

Hi all,

Has anyone had catalyst programming experience with a chamsys?
What's to like and what's not?

Thanks,

Peter

[Mr_P]

Chamsys software is free to Download and use from their website.

Best to try it yourself and see how you get on with it.

Simon

[MattMills]

Did they ever get it sorted out so you could view Catalyst clips on the Chamsys? Seems like they were promising that about 2 years ago. Better yet, are any consoles doing that with Catalyst?

[samsc]

Did they ever get it sorted out so you could view Catalyst clips on the Chamsys? Seems like they were promising that about 2 years ago. Better yet, are any consoles doing that with Catalyst?

my thumbnails come from a web server

clips no- - people seem to be trying to use citp - but citp is not great - and whenever i talk to people they cant seem to make it work well

[Paul Breen]

I use it as often as I can. Whenever catalyst is specced for a show an mq50 or 100 is automatically booked for it. Its quite easy to get around although if the media page could be arranged a little differently. Best bet is to download it or borrow a desk and mess around with it yourself

[ljb2of3]

I've used MagicQ PC for the past 3 (maybe 4) years to run a catalyst in my theater. I love it... 8 encoders per page is great for programming. A couple of years ago I added the mid-size PC wing and a touch screen, sped things up quite a bit. I haven't used any other console to control Catalyst, MagicQ seems perfect for it.

[Eric Holmberg]

Did they ever get it sorted out so you could view Catalyst clips on the Chamsys? Seems like they were promising that about 2 years ago. Better yet, are any consoles doing that with Catalyst?

Isn't the whole ?thumbnails in lightning desks? thing a patent issue?

[Paul Breen]

Dunno, I cant get chamsys to pluck the thumbnails at all. really bugs me. Havent a clue what to do

[Mr_P]

The Chamsys manual describes a step by step guide as to what to do...

The thumbnails are extracted from the catalyst webserver - and it does take about 5 mins to read ALL of them in.

Ensure that you have the correct IP address and port selected in chamsys for the associated catalyst webserver - and it reads them in.

Im not infront of mine until tuesday/wednesday

Suggest calling chamsys if you get stuck.


re Patent -
PRG hold a patent relating to thumbnails which MA challenged and may have won?
I believe that Chamsys has an agreement with PRG to enable them to do this...
The patent is more to do with the desk end than the server end...


Simon

[Paul Breen]

Been in touch with matt. I may have had one lkttle thing wrong all along. Wont be back at it till early next week. Once im there ill repost on this

[samsc]

It should be really really easy

I use the exact same format as every single web image and a web page gives the structure of files

Also the address of web server is broadcast using zeroconf or bonjour