Catalyst v4.2 m257 -

[samsc]

osc is extremely specialised - there is nothing standard about it -
so it depends on what people ask for-
i have used it with oscemote and iphone

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the text colour - looks like safari is not doing something correct with the default css style.

[jimi2cans]

My 4.2v only appears to be one layer?

please test and report issues-

beta2

http://homepage.mac.com/goatee/.Public/m257.dmg

password peru-

this has been around a while in private testing-

PRO up to 32 layers 16 mixes 12 video inputs -
DV 8 layers 8 mixes 12 video inputs-
XP 4 movies 6 submixes 12 video inputs
Lite 2 movies 4 submixes 12 video inputs

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Main changes

Layers and mix count adjustable in preferences.
Most mix parameters available over dmx- see webserver docs page- including curved mix and offsets etc-

Experimental spherical mapping for puffer fish
Support for phoenix sdi hdsdi cards.
BRC300 camera control
Some OSC protocol support.

4th July 2009.

[ryanww]

Go to the preferences and you can change how many layers and mixes you want. Then re-launch the application.

[jimi2cans]

cheers

[samsc]

cheers

did that work?
make sure you use m257.

[FinnRoss]

beyond cat seeing OSCmote in my iphone what can you actually get cat to do with it? Can't see a way to patch the input to anything. It would be great to be able to fire off a few presets and control mix settings for a neatly made app?

[ryanww]

Mrmr is a free iphone app that does OSC. You can create multiple pages of anything on them.. I downloaded it but haven't made any template pages yet but it would be cool to see what commands are mapped or maybe an interface in cat that would allow customization of the command structure for use with that program. Just a thought.

[prodigal2]

Hello Richard will there be a chance of implementing mixes intensity on a update soon? Also a means of controlling the screen settings would be great if this is implemented as with LED screens you need to be ontop of the gamma setup, or you incur the wrath of sparkles.

Although the full mix controls via DMX are great I tend to use presets for all of those elements as it saves so much time, compared to dialing on a desk.

Over the summer, doing so many festivals with TV companies filming, it would be great to have a means of stomping back the intensity, and maintain how all layers work together without having transparency cropping up, and still have the overall normal LED screen setting stay the same for certain key moments. Nothing worse than having far too much LED flare on a well composed image. Plus we never get a chance to line up the screens with racks engineers, on the broadcast trucks, and having the juggling act of starting in daylight and finishing the show in the dark.

Phil

Philip G Haynes
Live Visual Design and Direction

[samsc]

beyond cat seeing OSCmote in my iphone what can you actually get cat to do with it? Can't see a way to patch the input to anything. It would be great to be able to fire off a few presets and control mix settings for a neatly made app?

you can- OSC is such a wierd and open protocol- which leads to all sorts of ways of doing things.
everything has to be customised
there are no standards-

... so you need to ask me directly .... what you want to do-

[samsc]

Hello Richard will there be a chance of implementing mixes intensity on a update soon? Also a means of controlling the screen settings would be great if this is implemented as with LED screens you need to be ontop of the gamma setup, or you incur the wrath of sparkles.

Although the full mix controls via DMX are great I tend to use presets for all of those elements as it saves so much time, compared to dialing on a desk.

Over the summer, doing so many festivals with TV companies filming, it would be great to have a means of stomping back the intensity, and maintain how all layers work together without having transparency cropping up, and still have the overall normal LED screen setting stay the same for certain key moments. Nothing worse than having far too much LED flare on a well composed image. Plus we never get a chance to line up the screens with racks engineers, on the broadcast trucks, and having the juggling act of starting in daylight and finishing the show in the dark.

Phil

Philip G Haynes
Live Visual Design and Direction

indeed. you arent the only one to ask
but if you 'dim' in mixes dont you come up against the other problem with LED much sooner- limited colour sampling resolution - at low intensity values?

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the transparency is something that is a problem

maybe i just thought a way around it.