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It’s because of all these features that we will be going with a dedicated media server when we finally install our environmental projection system. The more advanced features will take some more work but loading and playing media is pretty simple even though it’s a powerful device. I got to demo the Hippo and without and real training I was able to load my media and get things playing back.
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Now with all these features comes some more complexity and there’s a little bit of a learning curve with a media server comepared to the simpler software only options. Just map everything out in the software and it does the rest So if you have LED fixtures throughout the stage and you want them to always match the looks of the videos you can do that pretty easily. The most common use for this is controlling static LED fixtures. Media servers can also control lighting fixtures.
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So you can create a seemless image with multiple projectors side by side, top and bottom, or a combination of both. There’s also the image blending tools needed to blend any number of screens together in any arrangement. The Hippo provides all the warping tools you’ll ever need to correct for any shape surface you want to project on. With some abstract motion graphics that not really a big deal but once you start showing any kind of natual landscapes or text you want a goemetrically correct image. Most stage walls have angles and curves that will distort your projection. Rarely will you have a large wall that’s perfectly flat. Speed up, slow down, change color, apply filters that completely change the look, etc. Now you can manipulate your content in real time. Rock steady playback is just the beginning. Once you step to a real media server you gain tons of features. It’s used all over the place, big award shows, the Super Bowl, some of those singing competition shows, lots of stuff. There are a few options out there but the one that seems to be leading the pack is the Green Hippo Hippotizer HD.
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In order to play back true 1920 x 1080 HD content perfectly you really need a media server. They’re good options but they’re not as good as dedicated media servers with custom software and hardware. The framerate and resolution of your videos will be limited at some point. Both are limited by your hardware though. Timing things out with verses and choruses adds that extra level of production that really pays off.īoth ProPresenter and ProVideoPlayer are packed with a lot of features for the money and really are great tools. This extra level of control allowed us to take our videos to the next level. You have videos triggering automatically and it’s great. Once set up the videos are just playing along with the click track and when everything works right. I’ll go more in-depth with this setup in another post. We used this feature to receive signals from Ableton Live. ProVideoPlayer lets us trigger video clips through MIDI. Videos with lyrics for example need to be timed right or they’ll look pretty silly, ha ha. Then we needed to trigger some videos at precise times. It can struggle with some formats or higher res videos though even on a fairly powerful machine. If you have an iPhone or iPad you can remote control ProPresenter to trigger the videos.
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At our campus we have a site license for the software so that was the best place to start.
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This gives you a lot of options for a reasonable price. We started with ProPresenter running from a MacBook Pro. I’ll run through what we’ve done so far and go over some details of each. We have gone through a few different setups at this point. It’s a lot harder to to get something to reliably feed the projectors the video content. As we go down the road of environmental projection it’s relatively easy to add some projectors.