Participants:

PERFORMANCE: SOUNDING
February 17-March 13 2010  -  $18 8:30PM

HERE Arts Center at 145 6th Ave (entrance on Dominick Street).
http://www.here.org

I know this show has a lot more than the video design to offer, but so far the video aspect is all I've gotten to see.  It's a lush abstract immersive video that plays to the theatrical non cinematic.  In other words worth seeing.

It's nothing short of amazing the amount and variety of video surfaces and environments that can be packed into a small blackbox like HERE. 

Directed by Kristin Marting 
Written by Jennifer Gibbs
Video by Tal Yarden

Featuring Bessie Award-winning Okwui Okpokwasili* as Ledaand an ensemble cast featuringTodd d'Amour, Ana Kayne, Irene Longshore, Rudy Mungaray, Michael Pemberton*, Stephen Reyes*  
Music Kamala Sankaram Set Nick Vaughan Light Rie Ono Seo Costumes Elizabeth Bourgeois Sound Jane Shaw Technical Direction Nate Lemoine Stage Management Emily Rea Casting Judy BowmanAssistants Jane Jones, Jennifer Kraus, Elenna Mosoff, Zarrin Whyte, Taili Wu

DPI lost it's former space but thanks to our great friends become great partners at One Arm Red, we've got a new office at:

10 Jay St 9th Fl. suite 903
Brooklyn , NY 11201
Vox (530) 324-2701

The One Arm Red facilities are fabulous, it's nice to be our here where things are happing, and good things are to come.

There are many ways, from the brute force anolog.
Downsample your Montior output to Composite or S-Video and Capture it on another Computer with a frame grabber.
Or Output your Monitor to HDMI (or convert your DVI -> HDMI) and re-capture that on a HD capture card on another computer.

But that's a mess, uses 2 computers etc...

Or if your using Jitter there is a option to capture a portion of your desktop as a Matrix source. That's a perfect solution, but only for Max/Jitter.

I used to use Camtasia which included a live output driver. I've been using a venerable old V3 version for years. But I recently had to purchase V6 to edit some files for a client.
And I was disappointed to find that they had abandoned the live feature in V6 (v5 still has it)

I've never used the other features of camtasia much and it's seemed like an expensive solution, but I could never find another software option like it.
However this go round I did find a source for what looks like a better and free alternative!

http://www.splitmedialabs.com/vh-video-sdk/vh-screen-capture

Actually the features and performance of this tool are awesome, way better, though just as confusing as Camtasia ever was.
The multi-mix option is a whole new feature set to explore. I've needed those exact features in the past. (say to get multiple camera inputs into a VJ app.) Isadora my favorite application supports multiple inputs, and native capture drivers so I don't need this feature as badly now but it's still nice to have in a bag of tricks.

For instance you can change the video settings, and even some effects on the video input source in real time.
Scale and mix multiple cameras. (need a picture in picture this will do it with more options than you could hope for.)
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As I've mentioned before I'm keeping my eye out for that elusive super cheap projector that I'd be willing to use in situations where it would very probably be destroyed or stolen.   Not that I want any projector to suffer that fate, but even though I've extremely cavalier with $500 and even $2500 projectors I'll generally only do things with them that I have a pretty high expectation of them surviving and being used again.

Perhaps for some people that price point for being able to say "oh well" is higher but for me it's ~$50.   none of the above projectors have hit that mark yet but they are getting close.

I don't really want to dispose of the projectors but I imagine using them in street installations, or party installations where the likelihood of them walking away or just getting smashed is >25%. And based on my experience with occasionally killing a $50 component of a robot I think I can take that.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/37579286/stranded-abroad-help-us-get-back-home

" An epic journey is just a hair’s breadth from coming to a close! "

PRECIOUS CARGO…

Jim Findlay’s set is a
tour-de-force of moving parts. Together with Peter Norrman and Mirit
Tal’s video and Mallory Catlett’s staging, it is mesmerizing. But it is
big! It contains singing sculptures! And tube-driven oscillators! (All
part of Christina Campanella’s haunting score.) To get to Noorderzon,
it was packed into a 10’ x 20’ container and shipped from the port of
New York to Rotterdam. From there, it traveled north by truck, to the
Romeo Tent in the Noorderplantsoen park in Groningen, where the piece sang. Now we need to get it safely into storage, ready to go back out into the world again…

Times are tough, but it's time to help each other with cents and dollars because it's likely to be you asking next month.