But, Mama. Why can’t I use lasers like that?
This video has turned my world upside down.
The LDs in Europe use light in a way that we in America can only dream about. And for some reason the laws here forbid us from using lasers like that on people. Just because someone could go blind forever, doesn’t mean we should be restricted from shining “lazer beams” at unsuspecting audience and band members. Ok. I take it back. We shouldn’t be able to wildly swing lasers at a the band and audience. No. I take that back. We should with restrictions. But it should easier for me to get permits to do it. Because I would do it a tasteful and safe manner 100% of the time. Whatever!
This video sparked my curiosity to find a way to create a similar effect on stage sans the use of lasers. So after seeing the effects of a video projector shining on an IMAG screen through fog one day . I quickly started researching how I could use that light source to my advantage. And how to do it without breaking the bank.
Enter Pro Video Player by Renewed Vision.
It is a cost effective media server of sorts. It lacks DMX control, but I’m working on way to get around that, with the use of midi and possibly some other network controls. My software of choice in Quartz Composer. QC is one of the building block programs built-in OSX. It was allowed a few of us in my circle of tech-geek-compter-junky friends to repurpose video game controllers to send midi voice commands to PVP to trigger clips with a device other than a mouse. Simple? Yes, in appearance. Rather complex on the back end, or so I thought when we started working on the problem about a year ago. Easy by comparison to the projects I’ve been working now
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