sounds live Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I work for a charity in Cardiff. We often run events where we overlay a laptop image (song words) with live video camera images underneath. We hire an analogue way Octofade FX, but looking to buy something similar. But not with the £2300 price tag. We need 2 laptop inputs, 4 composite inputs (3 video cameras & 1 for DVD playback). We can not use picture in picture unless the image is at the bottom of the screen and rectangular. Any thoughts? We did try scaling down to a video mixer but the resolution was awful. Please click on this link to ee what we are trying to achieve: http://www.livesoundservices.co.uk/News.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 For a simillar style church event which we regularly run we use the Extron DVS406A. To get round the fact that the DVS only has three composite/SVideo inputs we use an MX50 to submix the cameras etc then feed that into the DVS. The DVS406A has an RRP of Around £1900 ex VAT. Unfortunately these kinds of units aren't cheap, and even at these prices there are a few compromises usually (The DVS will only fade from Source 1 to other sources and back, going source 2-3 or 2-4 etc will give a cut through black). With the Kramer options, although less, the don't offer Keying, only PIP (Hence having both units in hire stock to offer different solutions), but are cheaper (£899 for the VP-724xl ex VAT), and they only offer fade through black. Unfortunatley it isn't a cheap thing to do with good results.... PM Me if you'd like to chat more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slim_mcslim Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 There is no cheap/high quality solution for what you want to achieve. You appear to be using an industry standard solution already, and if you can get an octo fx for £2300 then you are doing somewhat well as that is £1300 below the retail price and a good chunk below the trade price of the unit. You can get cheaper video switchers as Pete mentioned, from Kramer and Extron for around £1000 but they are just switchers and won't allow you to overlay the text over the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 The Extron MGP units will do what you want - but they are most definately not cheap. I would be extremely surprised if you can find anything that does this much cheaper than £2000 PC-based solutions (such as Arkaos and the like) will introduce a large amount of latency and probably lose a lot of frames from the live camera feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeapvcs Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 maybe can try kramer . vp-725/727 can do it in much cheaper cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Fairly certain that the VP-725/727 don't have a key function that is required for putting the text over the image. And the VP-727 lists around the £3k ex VAT mark here in the UK (from memory of the Kramer price list, which is likely to be wrong). Edit: I Stand Corrected. The VP-727 does have a text overlay function. According to the users manual. Edit 2: From the Users manual:"8.6 Using Text Overlay. Not available at the time of printing 2. " and at the bottom of the page: "2 Go to our Web site: http://www.kramerelectronics.com " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeapvcs Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 VP-725 have a text overlay function by using laptop/pc control ( I tested and demo by kramer technical , but text saiz is limited ) , can download the software from kramer websites. and I have 1 unit Vp-725 . going to take another 2 sets of Vp-727 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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