K, You will have to use something that will take a video in as a source for the tubes, I know other people have used them like this, I believe there is a versatube interface that has a video input. That is the easiest way to get video to the versatubes, besides the point that if you wanted to control them via dmx, the universe count goes up incredibly fast, If you look at a standard high res soft Led curtain, every "pixel" takes 3 channels. and there are 2400 nodes just for a 8'X33' curtain. so that would be a total of 7200 dmx channels.
It is much easier just to use a conversion box to do the hard part.
That being said, it is possible to use a catalyst version 4 server for this. I believe that version 4 pro comes stock with 10 universes stock, via artnet. and you can expand it up to 50 universes for a additional fee.
Hope that answers some of your questions. Joshua Wood
K, You will have to use something that will take a video in as a source for the tubes, I know other people have used them like this, I believe there is a versatube interface that has a video input. That is the easiest way to get video to the versatubes, besides the point that if you wanted to control them via dmx, the universe count goes up incredibly fast, If you look at a standard high res soft Led curtain, every "pixel" takes 3 channels. and there are 2400 nodes just for a 8'X33' curtain. so that would be a total of 7200 dmx channels.
It is much easier just to use a conversion box to do the hard part.
That being said, it is possible to use a catalyst version 4 server for this. I believe that version 4 pro comes stock with 10 universes stock, via artnet. and you can expand it up to 50 universes for a additional fee.
Hope that answers some of your questions. Joshua Wood
