I just had my first gig with my new setup which consists of a Mac mini with 16gb of ram, VDMX b8,an analogue dualhead2go, an extron 8x8 matrix, an iPad and two 7500 ANSI lumen projectors. Before I had been using a 2007 MBP and b7.
Before the gig, I had nothing but trouble with b8. Reason was a QuickTime bug. Thanks to VDMX's great support in the person of Ray, I was able to get it to work the day of the show which was last Saturday. Setup was Monday before and that was also a day filled with headaches. When I started my mini, it was stuck in a starting loop. After disconnecting everything including mouse and keyboard as well as all connected monitors, the Mac started and everything seemed to work. No signal from the projectors though. Thanks to the matrix, I was able to check whether the dualhead was outputting a correct signal which it was. The problem was the VGA via cat 5 connection. We replaced it with two 50m VGA cables and then everything worked as planned. I took the mini home and when I re-connected it, nothing worked. After some minutes of frustration, I found out that I had mistakenly connected two cables wrong. From that on, everything worked like a charm. The band played four 45 minute sets starting at 21:30,mother last ending at about four in the morning. During the breaks, I put on some audio reactive qc comps I found here on the forums. So all in all, VDMX ran for more then 12 hours straight without any hiccups. The only problems I had were some of my older clips coming from my USB hard drive (codec was pjpeg), the ones I had reencoded to prorez from my internal disk worked without any problems. Resolution was 2048x768. I had an iPad with touchviz and vjay as a backup solution, but I didn't need it at all. Still it felt good to have the matrix to switch signals just in case. I only have two pics:
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