For the past month or so I've been working on the projections for another theater project. I did a preshow loop, and two cues for the show that ended up being about 10 cues. The producers hired a person to mount the projector. The guy also made a really neat dowser for the projector. It's like a little door that slides up when you pull up the string. This makes life so much easier. Now the stage manager (who's running the show) simply connects her laptop to the projector and pulls up a Quicktime movie. By using the space bar, she is able to stop and go. Then when she needs to change movies, she just dowses the projector and pulls up a new video. SO much easier than the way we did it in the last show. Problems with that show---
1. I should have kept video separate from the audio. We were trying to make it easier for the show runner, but the software we used isn't there yet.
2. It is really easy to make a dowser. Part of the reason the other show was tough was because we were trying to run in true two-screen mode. A dowser is a low-tech, but pretty fool-proff system.
3. Running Quicktime movies out of Quicktime player was easier and cheaper than running out of cueing software. Plus, we were able to use any old computer (in this case a Dell laptop).
4. It was really easy to send updates down. I just sent QT movies via the internet when I had to make changes. No fooling around with cue lists and no having to show up.
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