Live Video Capturing & Mixing Software

[P_Cherry]

Hi,
does exist any good program for live capturing DV video through computer to projector...to be able mix this signal with another video or add some titles or effects etc.....???
Peter

[junkmalle]

Serious Magic used to have some simple live video mixing software but they seem to have become more specialized. Maybe you'll find something of their's that does what you want:

http://www.seriousmagic.com/

[P_Cherry]

Maybe DV Rack from them...but ideally I would like something more specialized mainly for live performances of concerts (projections etc...) mixing live video with titles or effects....

[junkmalle]

Here's another one I couldn't remember earlier:

http://www.globalstreams.com/

Their GlobeCaster device does exactly what you want. It's hardware though...

[P_Cherry]

But I need SW solution only (( Any ideas ?

[P_Cherry]

I saw this weeknd on some party, man with notebook, who was mixing video streams to special projections during DJ performance....one of the stream was live, because DJ was part of final projection on the screen....nobody knows about any SW ???

[Richard_G]

Do a search for VJ Software, there's quite a lot about but none of it is cheap.

[P_Cherry]

I tried demo of Resolume and it´s not very user friendly, also I found VJamm from Ninja Tune and I´m not so satisfied with its environment.....

Do you know any other good and intuitive VJ programms ?

[liquid217]

There are a bunch of VJ programs listed under the linux section in the tools. Some of them have been ported to win32 also.

[P_Cherry]

Do you have any experiences with concrete programs, please, can you recommend me any with live DV input (and for XP also) ... ?

[P_Cherry]

Nobody works with any VJ programm ?

[liquid217]

I have little to no experience with them, except for what i have read. The best advice i could offer is to just try one out. FreeJ looks very interesting, as it actually has a live cd you can boot from, downloadable from here: http://dynebolic.org/ (apparently there are other multimedia tools on that live cd also). Gephex is another one, and I believe it has a win32 version also.