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    Kevin Bishop
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Media for little guys

Some of the Dance Companys that I work with are using Power-point to run jpegs and video for there shows does anyone out the know of a way to control Power-point from an ION (ie forward ,back,goto cue ). I have looked into Media Servers and for the most part it would not be cost effective for my theatre and clients maybe half a dozen are doing it.Does anyone know of a way to do this on a more simpler level (Power-point ,Open Office , Media Shout ) .Rosco used to make a unit that would only move a slide forward and had a chance of sticking .Just think it would be an awesome thing to be able to do this on a basic level for those of us that are not doing tours or arena shows

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  • If you're very short on budget (as I certianly have had many zero touring budgets) I've had great results using a freeware program called Phlumx. Basically, it's a much-simplified and less flexible Hippotizer, with media clip banks, layers, and editing options, and has MIDI in and out capability plus hotkeys, meaning you're able to define plenty of behaviour through the ION. Even Phlumx's fade-to-blackout is a massive improvement upon Powerpoint at no cost.

    http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/PHLUMX-Download-49275.html

  • in reply to ZiggyJacobs

    If you are on a mac, you can try KATRIN.  It's a media server with a lot of options. Pretty simple.  The manuals are horrible as they are translated from russian.  It talks to your console thru Artnet.  A good art net understanding is crucial though to get the networking to work correctly.

    katrin.logvinov.org

     

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