Hi,
I was told about Catalyst by a collegue who recently worked on a tour using it.
I am producing a UK tour of a musical next year, and need to run 2 projectors with quite complicated projections - for example going from day to night on a cue, then back from night to day. A building fine one minute, then the next it starts setting on fire.
What I need is a system that will let me layer videos (so, using the example above of the building on fire, I have the sky and other buildings as one layer, then the main building as another, and when I hit the cue a new video clip takes the place of the main building with is starting to burn). Also I need to use various transitions from 1 video to another.
As the musical director (as well as the producer, and CG animator, and and and.... :09: ) I need to cue all the videos from a MIDI keyboard.
I would alos, if possible, like to play back multichannel audio with the projection. If this cannot be done within Catalyst, I will need to sync the triggering with a soft synth on a PC system to play back the tracks...
I will be doing the projection sequences in various programs - Maya and 3DS Max for the photoreal 3D sequences (using Mental Ray and RenderMan to render), Manga Studio for the manga sequences. Post work and compositing wll be done in AE, Premiere, and Vegas.
Ok - basically, is this possible? :D
Cheers!
Martin
