I am on-staff as a technician at a bay area theatre. Many directors want to use video projection in their shows, and I inherited the theatre's existing method for running projection during performances: straight off of Final Cut Pro into a projector. My problem is this: I find Final Cut to be a clumsy and error-prone way to run projection for shows, particularly as I turn over the running of shows to overhire board ops of varying experience and aptitude. Does anyone have an idea as to the best (perhaps standard) way of running video projection for live theatre? I thought of burning shows to a DVD with chapters as individual cues. Is this the best there is?
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Re: Video Projection for live theatre
Wed, January 11, 2006 - 3:06 PMThe DVD approach is the most fool-proof method without going into higher budget hardware. Get a decent DVD player and you should be good to go.
Even better would be 2 decks and a video mixer so you can crossfade the video smoothly and have the aqbility to go to black.