I do volunteer lighting work for Spiritual Twist Productions, a Christian youth theater group local to the Raleigh, N.C. area. We just concluded a production of the story of , re-set in 1920s-1930s America, and the director of the program wanted to try using the side screens in her auditorium as part of the scenic design for the play. This seemed like an excellent opportunity to do a review of a media server, and as we use Jands Vista for lighting control, the Arkaos Stage Server seemed like a good choice because both are distributed and supported in North America by A.C. Lighting.
Media Master Software
The Arkaos Stage Server is basically a Windows 7 rack-mount PC with a high-end graphics card adding two additional DVI outputs, and a DMX interface built in. Our evaluation server came with Arkaos Media Master Pro software installed.
The idea of a media server is to provide almost a video editor-style layering environment. The Pro version of Media Master gives you 12 layers of video, each of which can hold any standard graphic, still image or video clip. Transparency in the images or videos is honored, allowing the layers underneath to come through. The opacity of each layer is adjustable from 1%-100%, and mixing effects like chroma and luma keying can be applied to any layer. The position of each layer is adjustable, special effects can be applied to each layer, and the color composition of each layer can be adjusted as well.
When the initial lights on the scene came up, I had a cue that also faded up the background videos on layers one and two. (I had two separate videos for the background that were originally one video that I cut in half down the center for the two sides.) This cue also assigned media for the other layers, zoomed in to be large, and rotated quite a bit from the orientation I would eventually want them.
When the narrators mentioned the first headline, I ran the next cue, which would fade up the first headline in layers three and four, and change the rotation to be in the end position I desired and zoomed the layer out. So, the newspaper would rotate and shrink into its desired position as the cue ran for .5 seconds. Each consecutive cue faded in the next headline similarly, with the final position rotated a little further than the previous. This way, I could adjust the timing of the fade in, rotation, and zoom via the lighting console as I programmed the show. No modifications of the media were necessary to adjust any of these things on the fly.
(I also found a bug in the software. The train clips mentioned previously started out with showing a driveway leading to a house through the doors of the boxcar, which I wanted to skip over. I set the layer start point to be in about 10% from the start of the clip. However, instead, the clip started that far in from the end of the clip, which was not at all what we wanted. Arkaos has been notified of the bug.)
Jim Kumorek operates Spreading Flames Media, providing video production, photography, writing & training on theatrical lighting systems. He is also Technical Director for Southbridge Fellowship Church. Reach him at james@spreadingflamesmedia.com
Thanks to this new powerful module, you can create great sounding masters or mixes in seconds, sounding every bit as good as your preferred tracks, without the need for any previous audio engineering experience or specialized skills.
The standalone suite makes T-RackS 5 a complete, self-contained, one-stop mixing and mastering workstation that allows you to load a set of audio tracks and perform several operations, a typical method of top mastering studios. It's all in there: from an ever-expanding series of great sounding processors, to the most basic, but always necessary, waveform editing functions (like fades and length trimming of the audio file). Add to this a set of astoundingly precise and smooth, easy on the eye industry standard professional meters and you have everything you need to finalize your work from A to Z in one place.
The plug-in suite allows you to tap onto almost all the standalone mode features within the environment of your DAW of choice as the most powerful channel strip or mastering chain available today as a plug-in.
All T-RackS processors (including metering) can also be used as single plug-ins in any compatible DAW for multi-track mixing and stereo mastering duties. From equalizers and compressors, to reverbs, delays, harmonics enhancers and stereo processors, the choice is yours.
The spectrogram, the real-time analyzer, the phase and correlation meters will also help you visually spot frequency imbalances and phase problems you might need to address before printing your masters for both digital and physical distribution.
Previous users, owning some or all modules, can go straight to T-RackS 5 and take advantages of all the new features. This version is also ideal for beginners or users getting into mastering for the first time since it includes the 4 new modules along with 5 additional classic T-RackS modules (for a total of 9 processors) to jump-start things right away and let you mix and master taking advantage of the finest analog modeling technology and classic sound that we are known for.
Voordat je aan de slag kunt gaan, heb je eerst een licentie nodig voor het installeren van Windows 10. Vervolgens download je het hulpprogramma voor het maken van media. Zie de onderstaande instructies voor meer informatie over het gebruik van het hulpprogramma.
Windows 10 installeert op een pc met Windows XP of Windows Vista, of als je installatiemedia moet maken om Windows 10 op een andere pc te installeren; zie onderstaande sectie Het hulpprogramma voor het maken van installatiemedia (USB-flashstation, dvd of ISO-bestand) gebruiken om Windows 10 op een andere pc te installeren.
Volg deze stappen voor het maken van installatiemedia (USB-flashstation, of dvd) waarmee je een nieuwe versie van Windows 10 kunt installeren, een schone installatie kunt uitvoeren of Windows 10 opnieuw kunt installeren.
Voordat je Windows 10 installeert is het raadzaam je werk op te slaan en een back-up van je pc te maken. Als je het hulpprogramma voor het maken van media hebt gebruikt om een ISO-bestand voor Windows 10 te downloaden, dien je het bestand op een dvd te branden voordat je verder kunt gaan.
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MediaMaster Pro provides real-time media playback and video mapping and turns any powerful computer into a full-fledged professional media server capable of running video shows in sync on multiple servers, featuring up to 36 layers. All controlled from any lighting desk.
The theater mode interface of MediaMaster marks a new phase in software development allowing you to make use of the latest dynamic visual effects combined with an efficient and intuitive library management system and with simple front end control via DMX, MIDI or even a computer keyboard.
MediaMaster' Theater Mode interface allows you to prepare your visual show in the software itself and then simply take control of your visual presets using a few channels on your lighting desk or notes on a MIDI controller.
Take total control of your media: position, scale, rotate, adjust transparency, alpha, colors, compose with other layers etc. MediaMaster supports major media formats, multiple video inputs, and provides more than 60 effects with controllable parameters.
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The master transport provides the master timing information that other parts of Cantabile can synchronize to. For example the master transport provides timing information to any loaded plugins and is used to control MIDI output clock signals.
By default the master transport controls Cantabile's built-in metronome. When using media files however it is often desirable to use timing information from the playing file. To change the master transport, simply select the required transport from the drop down on the main toolbar: 2ff7e9595c
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