For all the Ventuzians whose mother tongue is French, this little detail might be especially interesting: our friends from Avant-Garde Imaging in Toulouse have made a little Ventuz-space on Alatechnique.com, the number one French website for Event technology and equipment.
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Start Ventuz Presentation without Ventuz Installation
June/4 2010It is possible to start a Ventuz presentation without having installed Ventuz on the target computer.
All you need is a USB stick (if the presentation contains Ventuz Professional features, you need the Ventuz USB dongle) and another computer with a Ventuz installation.
You have to copy all files from the Ventuz installation to the USB stick. You can copy it directly on the USB or to a dedicated folder. Copy also your VPR file to the USB stick. In the next step you have to create a shortcut to the VentuzPresenter.exe on the USB stick. This shortcut must reside on the USB stick as well. Open the Properties dialog of the new shortcut file. In the Target field of the Shortcut tab you will find anything like: I:\VENTUZ\VentuzPresenter.exe. You have to extend this to e.g.: I:\VENTUZ\VentuzPresenter.exe “My Presentation.vpr”. Press the OK button. That’s all!
If you now double-click the shortcut, your Ventuz presentation will start. There are certainly some constraints: the computer which has to start the presentation from the USB stick needs to have DirectX 9c and .Net 3.5 SP1 installed. And the security settings must allow an application to start from USB.
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ATI FirePro V8800
April/14 2010we just received our V8800 flagship. First tests are very promising! Four Display Port outputs spanned as one desktop / Ventuz output. wow!
Combined with 4 Matrox DualHead2Go, we’ll get 8 times 1920 x 1200 … (or use TripleHead2Go: 12 times 1440 x 900)
Stay tuned!
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Panic everywhere – Ventuz keeps going…
March/10 2010Another hint from our friends at Cat&Mouse, UK show control solution providers using Ventuz Broadcast. Confusion and Panic everywhere at last weeks EPT Poker Event in Berlin where 6 armed men stole the prize money. I wonder whether there is a ISO certificate for software being “robbery proofed”….. If so we should receive this certificate as Ventuz kept keying all the time :)
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Actual recording of realtime 3dLive system
February/15 20103DLive system powered by Ventuz in use at an awards show. 2 x 1920 x 1080 outputs overlap and blend inside Ventuz. HD live camera texture mapped to camera ‘pip’ with reflection underneath. All other content produced and run from inside Ventuz. Show controlled from Lemur touch screen interface and programmed in OSC. Full videos available at www.joys.gg
More details email wide[at]joys.com
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Programming and Emulating the EDID
February/10 2010We received lots of hardware for testing during the last couple of month … now we received something that really rock’s and could make the life of some of you a lot easier.
The “Eyevis DVI EDID emulator” (we don’t know any device name or model No.) emulates the selected/programmed EDID to the attached PC computer (emulating a DVI display) for continuous video output, even if the attached display is disconnected or powered down.
These emulators become very helpful if you want to test or setup your configuration whitout the output devices being present or if you want to switch displays without loosing the DVI signal from the source. Because most computers will deactivate the DVI output when no device is attached to it.
The EDID emulator allows the user to set up any DVI output resolution, regardless if the used device supports these resolutions or not. Most PC or DVI sources are reading the EDID of the attaced display and then limit the selectable output resolutions of the graphic card. The EDID emulator will solve this problem.
The Eyevis EDID emulator does not use presets in conjunction with a switch. In order to program the emulator, you’ll need the eye-ddc device. The eye-ddc is able to read the current EDID from the emulator or display and write the modified EDID onto the emulator or display (if the display has an EDID that is not write-protected).
UPDATE: It is not officially released yet, therefore please contact Eyevis for further information, availability and pricing.
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Mediafloor at the Best of Events
January/27 2010Our friends of the agency Mediafloor really impressed us with their many fancy Ventuz applications on their stand at the Best of Events in Dortmund.
But see for yourself:
We expect to see more of them in the near future!
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VBOX
January/25 2010The question regarding the right hardware in order to run Ventuz has been asked a thousand times and our answer has always been -> “Take whatever you like as long as it works out for you” !
This hasn’t changed and will not change, but we also know that not everybody was happy with this answer. Our intention was to give you the chance to take whatever you like, to buy from your local hardware supplier or stick to the partner you always worked or made good experiences with. The second reason was to distinguish ourselves from competitors who bundle their software with hardware. And last but not least, we are software experts but no hardware gurus.
But hardware is a very important part and we lost a couple of deals simply because we did not commit ourselves to any particular hardware configuration. Therefore, it was one goal for 2010 to find a solution for that.
We tested a couple of hardware-manufacturers and configurations during the last couple of weeks.
It took a couple of attempts until we found a partner who understood what we do, who listened to us and delivered an exceptional piece of craftsmanship. It was a little bit like finding the lid for the pot.
Our choice: XI-MACHINES, a small premium workstation manufacturer who’s primary focus is to combine quality, functionality, power and quietness. The boys are really living for this! Their pretty impressive reference list contains companies from both the professional and broadcast market, containing companies like AUDI or the philarmonic orchestra of Berlin and Vienna.
Together we created the VBOX which is available from now on. The website to order will be online soon! If you need a VBOX now, please call us or drop us a line.
The basic workstation contains latest technology like Intel’s Core i7 CPU, Tripple Channel memory or hot-swapable HDD’s built into a 4RU chasis. The workstation is ultra silent due to special noise canceling modifications, temperature controlled fans etc. The quality is impressive and the VBOXs are leaving the XI-MACHINE workshop only if they have passed their extensive 36 hours system stability test.
All in all, you can continue buying your stuff wherever or from whoever you like, but if you don’t feel like building it yourself or buying it from a source you don’t know, just have a look at the VBOX.
We wouldn’t stick our head out if we weren’t so proud and 100% satisfied with our newest baby.
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