Dan VTuser
03-15-2003, 04:09 AM
Let me start by saying I’m a big toaster fan from the first revolution. I owned three toasters 4k and a flyer. And went thru software puberty with that system. Life went on and I bought a trinity. And again there was much grief at first but things got better. I even sold some wipes that my brother and me made. Some one may have heard of them, we called them Monkey Wipes.
So now we have two T2 boxes with the works (2 P4 zeon 2.4 1gig ram and so on)
I’ll give you some back ground on what we do, each system is doing two two-hour shows a day, that are taped live to 45 VHS and 8 DVDs to be sold right after the show. (Live music shows in Branson Mo.) We do the shoots with only two people. The cameras are remote control; my hands are busy so I have a foot switch concted to the gpi port to fire off wipes. So it’s a live two-hour shoot every day with ALL fx, playback, audio mixing, cg, still store, ect. Done with the toaster live to tape. No second chance. Witch brings me to my list of request. First I must say so far the software has bin very stable in a live shoot.
But of all the systems I’ve used (Toaster4k Trinity Toaster2) this one is the hardest to shoot with live. For some of the reasons that flows:
Why can’t the wipes remember the last speed you ran it?
Wipe speed gets me every day. Because for one I disagree with most of the default speeds and find the need to move the slider up or down depending on the wipe. But if I forget to check it, the next wipe is fired of at the wrong speed. Most of the time way wrong.
Why only 25 wipes to a bin.
Why cant I have a my_wipes bin with shortcuts to all my fav wipes, and duplicates of some, so I can lay out my entire show, turn on auto advance and just hit my gpi foot switch for each wipe, that would be so cool, and it so close it makes me ill.
Click and bang.
That’s what we call it any way. What we mean is you surf the bin, see something you like, click it, it loads and you bang it out there with auto. And that goes for stills too, I agree that the DDR is a great tool but, not so great for off the cuff shooting, I do shows where I don’t know what still the star of the show is going to ask for, and I need to find it, bang it out to the screens, and load the next, so I can wipe to it. To do it now, one: I need to know witch still he wants in what order. Two: Because for me to wipe from one to another the first one hast to be in DDR one, the next one in DDR two and so on, it was just a lot easer with the frame buffer style of still store.
DDR storyboard.
It just that the little filmstrips in the DDR are hard to see. I have a lot of stuff in my DSK DDR and once again I need to accesses it at random. If the clips where large icons like on the storyboard view of TED that would be nice.
No preview monitor?
I have an idea, flip the tally light out to the preview bus, and link that to a passive switcher. You’d only get live in puts, but for us live switchers it would make all the deferent’s in the world.
I’m going to stop here; if I can get these fixed I’ll be very happy.
Thanks for reading and keep up the good work.
So now we have two T2 boxes with the works (2 P4 zeon 2.4 1gig ram and so on)
I’ll give you some back ground on what we do, each system is doing two two-hour shows a day, that are taped live to 45 VHS and 8 DVDs to be sold right after the show. (Live music shows in Branson Mo.) We do the shoots with only two people. The cameras are remote control; my hands are busy so I have a foot switch concted to the gpi port to fire off wipes. So it’s a live two-hour shoot every day with ALL fx, playback, audio mixing, cg, still store, ect. Done with the toaster live to tape. No second chance. Witch brings me to my list of request. First I must say so far the software has bin very stable in a live shoot.
But of all the systems I’ve used (Toaster4k Trinity Toaster2) this one is the hardest to shoot with live. For some of the reasons that flows:
Why can’t the wipes remember the last speed you ran it?
Wipe speed gets me every day. Because for one I disagree with most of the default speeds and find the need to move the slider up or down depending on the wipe. But if I forget to check it, the next wipe is fired of at the wrong speed. Most of the time way wrong.
Why only 25 wipes to a bin.
Why cant I have a my_wipes bin with shortcuts to all my fav wipes, and duplicates of some, so I can lay out my entire show, turn on auto advance and just hit my gpi foot switch for each wipe, that would be so cool, and it so close it makes me ill.
Click and bang.
That’s what we call it any way. What we mean is you surf the bin, see something you like, click it, it loads and you bang it out there with auto. And that goes for stills too, I agree that the DDR is a great tool but, not so great for off the cuff shooting, I do shows where I don’t know what still the star of the show is going to ask for, and I need to find it, bang it out to the screens, and load the next, so I can wipe to it. To do it now, one: I need to know witch still he wants in what order. Two: Because for me to wipe from one to another the first one hast to be in DDR one, the next one in DDR two and so on, it was just a lot easer with the frame buffer style of still store.
DDR storyboard.
It just that the little filmstrips in the DDR are hard to see. I have a lot of stuff in my DSK DDR and once again I need to accesses it at random. If the clips where large icons like on the storyboard view of TED that would be nice.
No preview monitor?
I have an idea, flip the tally light out to the preview bus, and link that to a passive switcher. You’d only get live in puts, but for us live switchers it would make all the deferent’s in the world.
I’m going to stop here; if I can get these fixed I’ll be very happy.
Thanks for reading and keep up the good work.