From: "Colin Godfrey" Subject: SIGGRAPH/Boston: touchscreen video production Mon Dec 12 Date: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:43 PM SMPTE & SIGGRAPH/Boston at National Boston Video Center Introducing a New Live Production Technology A touchscreen-based video switcher Monday, December, 12, 2005 Refreshments at 6:30pm Presentation at 7:00pm National Boston Video Center 115 Dummer St. Brookline (near B.U.) 02446 617-734-4800 www.nationalboston.com The upcoming Visual-Venue VV-100 integrated video production system will allow users to use standard DV camcorders to produce live multicamera productions. It can produce live transitions and effects with up to four layers of video (all effects fully previewable), and also includes a stillstore, character generator, two channel intercom (one channel for cameras, another for talent) and full camera tally capability. It will also automatically cue DV tape clips, play them when they're switched to and switch back to live video when the out point is reached. Full audio capability included too. But what makes the VV-100 really unique is its touchscreen control panel. Users select video sources by pointing to the moving images themselves. Complex transitions and effects are easily and intuitively programmed with context-sensitive software panels that present the user with the relevant controls when they need them. The hardware is unique too: The VV-100 uses nonlinear technology to decode, mix and re-encode video with standard PC components and the use of a single specialized add-in card. Craig Cook and Bob Lamm, the founders of Visual-Venue, will be giving us an advance preview as it nears the end of the development stage. (They hope to ship shortly after NAB.) About the Speakers Bob Lamm has spent his entire career in the video business. Formerly Director of Product Marketing at Truevision (manufacturers of the TARGA cards), he has since been associated with a variety of production and post-production products both in the hardware and software realm. Bob will give a full demonstration of the VV-100 with an emphasis on the touchscreen user-interface. Craig Cook is a specialist in computer graphics and performance computing. Craig will speak about the unique challenges of building a live production product on a computer platform. He'll discuss the pros and cons of using PC technology for this application, the unique requirements imposed by the design, the available development environments and how issues such as scalability to HD and compatibility with streaming factored into the product's development. Directions: >From the Mass Pike: Take the Pike to Exit 18 "Allston-Cambridge". This is a left-hand exit. After tolls bear right following signs towards Cambridge/Boston. Go past Doubletree Hotel (on your right). At the light just before crossing the river, take a right onto Storrow Drive. Go about a mile, then take first exit: Boston University. Follow street a short way to stop sign. Take a right onto Commonwealth Ave. At the second stop light (not counting the pedestrian light), take a left onto St. Paul Street (Wayland Golf Store). This will be your first opportunity to go left off Commonwealth. Once on St. Paul, go one block and take 1st right onto Dummer St. National is 50yds up on the right., #115, a tan stucco exterior bldg. From Route 93: Follow Rte 93 into Boston. Stay to the right and follow signs to Storrow Drive/Back Bay. Go west onto Storrow Drive until Kenmore Square exit. Stay to the right on exit ramp. Take a hard right at set of lights onto Bay State Road. Go all the way to the end and take a left. Go to end and take a right onto Commonwealth Ave. Go through large intersection (BU Bridge). Take first legal left hand turn (over trolley tracks) onto St. Paul Street. First right onto Dummer Street. From Kenmore Square: Once in Kenmore Square, stay to the far right (BU Bookstore/Mall). Go straight through set of lights. This puts you onto Commonwealth Avenue. Go through four sets of lights. You will come to a large intersection (BU Bridge). Go straight through set of lights and take your first legal left onto St. Paul Street (this will bring you over the train tracks; Vibes Record Store on opposite corner). Take your first right onto Dummer Street. By MBTA: National Boston is off of the Green line. You want to take the Red Line trains inbound to get you to Park Street Station. Take a Boston College Train (B Train) on the Green Line. After Kenmore Square the train will come above ground. You want to get off at the fifth stop: St. Paul (Wayland Golf Store on the corner). Cross the tracks and take St. Paul Street and take your first right onto Dummer Street. /For more information, please contact Bob Lamm at 617-720-2113 x22 or blamm@bnntv.org ************************************************************************ SIGGRAPH/Boston Contacts WWW: http://www.siggraph.org/chapters/boston SIGGRAPH/Boston maintains a mailing list for e-mail announcements of meetings. Send e-mail to siggraphdistrib-request@cs.umb.edu if you want be added to or dropped from this list. __