cat v4.06 m67 beta 4

[samsc]

Catalyst v4 m67 beta 4:

Greater mix flexibility:

Global keystoning on mix and sub-mix outputs.

Support for Matrox ‘Triple Head 2 Go’ for 3 ‘full screen outputs’, or 2 'full screen' outputs from a mac mini or macbook using a 'Dual head 2 Go'

Picture in Picture mixes. Multiple mixes on screen with no HUD visible.

Preliminary left right top bottom edge blending on keystoned mixes with 10% 20% and 25% overlap
Left right panoramas and Up down panoramas.
Edge blending curve editor.
Mixes can be offset and joined together allowing panoramas.

Editable edge blending percentage, and editable mix offsets.

Much improved sync between layers on local and remote playback layers.
New ability to lock to exact monitor refresh rate.
Fixed artnet universe output mapping incorrectly restricted.
Added MMC ( midi machine control ) device.

Added Leitch video switcher device- uses 16 dmx channels to control the sources and destinations on a Leitch switcher.

Ability to select mix layers from DMX


Tiger compatibility only ( OSX 10.4.6 minimum )
Universal Binary. Intel and PowerPC ( G5 )

http://homepage.mac.com/goatee/.Publ...6_m67UB_HD.zip

whats new pdf:
http://homepage.mac.com/goatee/.cv/g...07.pdf-zip.zip

[tharding]

I have had a quick play with the edge blending feature and the offsets. From my point of view I need to use the edge blending without keystoning most of the time. Is it possible to switch it on in "Flat mode".

I also notice that none of the offsets are equal to the edge blend border. A setting of 1 plus & minus gives me a perfect offset to butt two mixes together but I need the additional amount to account for the blend.

Cheers

Toby Harding

[samsc]

I have had a quick play with the edge blending feature and the offsets. From my point of view I need to use the edge blending without keystoning most of the time. Is it possible to switch it on in "Flat mode".

I also notice that none of the offsets are equal to the edge blend border. A setting of 1 plus & minus gives me a perfect offset to butt two mixes together but I need the additional amount to account for the blend.

Cheers

Toby Harding

i will see if i can make the flat mode edge blend - a different technique is required.
you could drag the points into the corners for now.

i just added -.9 and .9 to the offsets - at the moment the blend is 10% -

[tharding]

For the shows I do we usually have a projector overlap of 20% as a minimum. Seemed to work best with the Barco soft edge system built into the projectors.

Cheers

Toby

[Gian]

I saw 10.4.6 Only ? Any problems with 10.4.7 ? or was just not tested ?

Tks

Gian

[samsc]

I saw 10.4.6 Only ? Any problems with 10.4.7 ? or was just not tested ?

Tks

Gian

10.4.6 or greater.
10.4.7 seems to work fine.

[samsc]

For the shows I do we usually have a projector overlap of 20% as a minimum. Seemed to work best with the Barco soft edge system built into the projectors.

Cheers

Toby

ill try and add overlap options.

i started with 10%, Ill add 20%

[samsc]

For the shows I do we usually have a projector overlap of 20% as a minimum. Seemed to work best with the Barco soft edge system built into the projectors.

Cheers

Toby

m56 added 20% and 25% variable edge blending.

[tharding]

Awesome!

Thankyou

[tharding]

m56 added 20% and 25% variable edge blending.

Just tried it out, looks like it will work a treat. Unfortunately I don't have access to projectors today but will do so during the week.

I have some suggestions for other things that would be usefull alongside this feature.

1. Top and Bottom blends. I have done a couple of shows now where we have done the big portrait look. I can see there may be some issues if you have all edges on at once. The corners would end up over faded perhaps but it would be great to be able to stitch multiple projectors together up/down and left/right. Perfect for those situations when you don't have the rear projection distance for one or 2 big projectors.

2. Someway of saving presets for Mix positions/layout and assignments. I can see the need to be able to change which layers go where during a show. For instance there might be the Corporate bit at the start of the night over multiple screens but at the end of the night you want to have the maximum number of layers available behind a band and just holding logos on other screens.

Also once you have used a particular type of projector in a set up it would be nice to be able to recall the configuration that worked best. Especially with the edge blends.

With the use of the Matrox box I can now free the second output up to give myself a full screen preview of the panorama by using smaller mix boxes. This is especially helpful when you are setting up and there are no projectors up yet. You can preview the whole screen without the offsets or blends and continue to program onsite. Being able to save this as a preset/template would be great.

3. Maybe if the keystone default was to fill the Mix frame then the reset function would always give you a flat picture with edge blending and alleviate the need to have a separate process for doing flat edge blending. Just a thought. I have no idea how difficult that is to do.

All in all this is a fantastic addition and is going to make life so much easier for those of us that have been relying on hardware solutions for edge blends and panoramas. Not to mentioned how much easier the programming becomes when you don't have to incorporate offsets into your palettes.

Thanks Richard!


Cheers

Toby Harding