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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pmehrhardt over 13 years ago

Have you investigated a product called KEYSTROKE from Rosco Labs:

http://www.rosco.com/us/software/keystroke.cfm

I've never had the opportunity to use it but I thought it to be a clever idea.

Peter
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Kevin Bishop over 13 years ago in reply to pmehrhardt

Thanks for the tip i will try out the PC progams first .I do have someone with a MAC and will look at that to .Rosco has stoped making KEYSTROKE and i have been told that it would only move a slide forward looking for a little bit of control GOTO CUE would be awesome .Lowel with ETC during CUE thought it might be possable using ACN and a fixture profile If you want a Ferrari go buy one but what to do if you only have mony for a Chevy.Not worried about having lots of fancy features just the basics would be cool. thanks again for the replys
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Kevin Bishop over 13 years ago in reply to pmehrhardt

Thanks for the tip i will try out the PC progams first .I do have someone with a MAC and will look at that to .Rosco has stoped making KEYSTROKE and i have been told that it would only move a slide forward looking for a little bit of control GOTO CUE would be awesome .Lowel with ETC during CUE thought it might be possable using ACN and a fixture profile If you want a Ferrari go buy one but what to do if you only have mony for a Chevy.Not worried about having lots of fancy features just the basics would be cool. thanks again for the replys
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RichardJ over 13 years ago in reply to Kevin Bishop

We use SCS (http://www.showcuesystems.com/index.html) for sound and video playback.
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jpgagnon over 13 years ago in reply to RichardJ

I actually wrote my own mini media server with 4 layers, (2 with video and 2 with images). This was all done on the Mac in Quartz Composer from the Xcode Developer tools from Apple.(which are free) and a great plug in from SyntheFX called PixelNode which adds ArtNet receive capabilities to Quartz Composer. Using on a show right now that opens this weaken and have had great success. There is a great resource out there called at http://kineme.net/ that has lots of blogs and tools to create your own.
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