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Never have I used so much gear for a performance, this Liquid Architecture gig is turning into a Pink Floyd style equipment fest. We got the streaming working the other day, its a bit of a complicated thing, but luckily we have the resources to make it happen.
The chain goes like this:
Jes & I with separate laptop VJ rigs (mine probably with two computers) running Modul8 & VDMX5.
These are mixed together in a edirol HD video mixer and output to the projector, the streaming encoder and a HDV tape deck for recording the performance.
Shannon has his laptop/controller sound rig with a submixer that as well as outputting to the main 7.1 PA also sends feeds to both Jes and I so we can use audio frequencies to control some of the visual FX we have going on. The visual and audio feeds are fed to the encoder machine a Tricaster, which is a mixer in itself and a bit overkill for this job but happily sends out a flash video stream to the flash media server sitting elsewhere on the campus. We got it working the other day and the Tricaster is now sitting down it its room sending out some random stock footage to the server, you can see it working here.
The only thing that remains to be worked out re: the streaming I think is how we might send a different high quality stream out to the screens in the main campus tower and a lower quality one out to the pages it will be embedded in, Kat Baird & I are going to sort this through the week hopefully. A lot of setup for a short performance yes?
