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This version concentrates on ease of use.
Standalone operation.
Total backwards compatibility with v3 ( no new DMX channels ).
Show control features.
Tiger ( OSX 10.4 ) compatibility. ( and panther 10.3 ).
DMX Led fixtures and multiple on screen mixes.
Do you recomend upgrading to Tiger for this version?
Regards
Jan Opseth
tiger upgrading is not necessary.
it works ok in 10.3 as well.
there are no features that require 10.4
in my testing so far there is not much performance difference between 10.3 and 10.4
With the recent total change in apple architecture - and consequent unpredictable performance - v4 concentrates on safety for now.
v4 has been tested a little on the new g5's with pci express and seems to work without any serious problems.
v4 works with ATI and nVidia cards, doesnt use any technology specific to any graphics vendor.
I am still waiting for scsi cards and decklink cards that are pci-express.
Dont have a quad g5, and have no idea - at all - what the performance will be.
There have been reports on apple developer lists, of dual graphics cards working, but almost nothing has shipped to end-users yet.
If apple were to produce an xserve with pci-express, that would mean that the xserve would finally be usable.
it may or may not happen.
they may cripple graphics support again?
but the existing xserve architecture doesnt really cut it.
It's worth bearing in mind that upgrading to Tiger will require you to upgrade your memory by 512Mb.
Tiger has it's own set of issues, but so far I have not observed any of the tearing and stuttering issues associated with the later Mac OS 10.3.x builds.
One thing to look at in Tiger is Quartz Composer. Catalyst (run under Tiger) will playback Quartz Composer compositions. RSS feeds/Midi/Audio stuff is not supported.
I have recently acquired a 2.3Ghz Dual Core PCIe Mac, and the performance on the nVidia 6600 is looking okay. Still waiting forward to the dual core 2.5Ghz and SCSI controller card.
Hugh
Tiger requires 1GB of RAM minimum.
But tiger works quite well.
Even on my laptop. Its not happy at all with 512MB.
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In quartz composer layers - audio is supported - apparently - people have tried.
The RSS restriction comes from Apple's security concerns. they thought hackers might use it so they disabled it when quartz composer is in a quicktime application.
What about overlaps and edge blending for multi projector shows?
Cheers
Toby
i had a go.
couldnt make it work well enough in time.
this is a much more complex area than at first glance.
there didnt seem like any way to make this kindof thing foolproof, as too much depends on what is going on in projector world.
What I was really hoping for was just the 20% overlap in Widescreen mode. I always put up a test pattern for the projector guys to do their line up.
At the moment I can only use 4 layers because I have to use the 1-4 on one output and 5-8 on the other output. I then do the 20% overlap manually and record it as a reference position. It then comes down to the projectors to be lined up so the join is perfect.
If we had 20% as an option in Widescreen mode I could do exactly the same but use all eight layers.
Cheers
Toby
ill have a think about it.
it is possible.
there will be a public beta. next week, and it will be open season to hassle me to add things....
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Cool Richard, looking forward to it.
thanks
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- will we need to change the library setups we've made for catalyst in our lightdesk ? / does v.4 require more dmx channels or ?
- can we install v.4 and go back to v.3 easily ?
thanks !
no more dmx channels. at all.
28 parameters? ( 40 channels ) is quite enough for people to get their heads around...
and on lighting desks it is near the maximum that their guis are capable of.
just more fx using same channels.
as long as you dont use anything exclusive to v4 - im hoping there is no difference at all between them.
i consider it a bug if there is a difference - for now.
Any idea when Version 4 will be available for use?
I'm sitting at home with a new Quad G5, and would be more than happy to puch it and test for bugs etc that creap up.