Hi Steve, nice show! Thanks for sharing.
How are you finding Beyond compared to QS?
Hi Steve, nice show! Thanks for sharing.
How are you finding Beyond compared to QS?
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You're welcome mate!
Well...
It's quite difficult to me to compare Beyond vs QuickShow.....
QS is.... the essential. Sinply and clear.
Beyond is.... over and "beyond"!!!
Its greatest feature is: 3d animator. A great feature!
Just right in these days I'm learning to use it. It's really hard to use (to me). This is because it has A LOT of settings.
Also the "Create new abstraction" feature is quite complex.... I'm still understanding how it works...
A little boring difference I found between them is, when you create a show by QS and then you load it into Beyond, sometimes you have to "refurbish" some settings about frames into timeline.
Example: sometimes you have to re-set the FPS settings, as the frame seems to be "slowed" compared the QS version... (this is because I surelly still have to learn more about how to use Beyond....)
QS allows "MP3" and ".wav" both music files onto timeline. Beyond always self convert all MP3 files to ".wav" mode before to load it into timeline.
And then, as you can easily to imagine... Beyond needs more RAM memory from your computer. I have 2GB only and I'm just right to the limits to work fine!
Anyway...
I think Beyond really deserve the greatest attention from all Pangolin users.
I personally think that, talking about available features, its place is just little little under LD2000.
But this is my personal and inexperienced thought!
Greets!
Steve
my webpage
http://stevemilani.jimdo.com
Skype ID: stevemilani957
my RGB analogue projectors:
3.9 W (640/532/445) 30kpps
2.6 W (655/532/450) 30kpps
2.5 W (638/532/450) 30kpps
0.7 W (test unit)(635/532/473) 18kpps
I agree.
All you said is true.
Beyond is much more powerful, a lot more, than QuickShow.
Apparently they SEEM very similar.... but there is a great ocean between them.
About to ask to Bill...
I don't think Bill wants to do a sort of "downgrade" of his software... He surely will answer you: "No.... It is not possible".... And he would be right.
It would means like you have Windows 3.1 and you want to load a Windows 8 program.... It doesn't work.
my webpage
http://stevemilani.jimdo.com
Skype ID: stevemilani957
my RGB analogue projectors:
3.9 W (640/532/445) 30kpps
2.6 W (655/532/450) 30kpps
2.5 W (638/532/450) 30kpps
0.7 W (test unit)(635/532/473) 18kpps
my webpage
http://stevemilani.jimdo.com
Skype ID: stevemilani957
my RGB analogue projectors:
3.9 W (640/532/445) 30kpps
2.6 W (655/532/450) 30kpps
2.5 W (638/532/450) 30kpps
0.7 W (test unit)(635/532/473) 18kpps
Yeah and there's a lot that's not obvious. eg from memory keying in Beyond has 100x the maximum resolution in QS.
Most people probably will never consciously notice this. But if you place a long cue on the timeline and zoom right in to place a key then the difference is clear. The problem this poses for importing Beyond shows to QS is of course that if you have 2 key positions in QS, there are possibly 98 positions between those 2 in Beyond that simply don't exist in QS. So importing a show then poses a problem as to how you get QS to relocate all of those keys in places that don't exist to places that do.
There are of course many entire features that don't exist in QS as well.
Maybe you see the problem now Swami? It's not easy to down import from something so different.
Hi all guys
Strange but real...I found some little time to do it...
"Highlander v.1" beamshow for Pangolin Beyond is ready. One central projector (master) + 2 or more side projectors (satellite). 18-20Kpps scanspeed.
Here's the video (simulation)...
http://youtu.be/Wev1nsFQdGg
Any comment welcome
Enjoy you & greetings!
Steve
my webpage
http://stevemilani.jimdo.com
Skype ID: stevemilani957
my RGB analogue projectors:
3.9 W (640/532/445) 30kpps
2.6 W (655/532/450) 30kpps
2.5 W (638/532/450) 30kpps
0.7 W (test unit)(635/532/473) 18kpps
Thank you, Steve!
I am curious, when people are designing beamshows, do they design for direct viewing, expecting the audience to be below the image, or do they design for audience scanning, or use beam masks for the seating/viewing area, or just expect it to be videotaped and not have anyone actually staring at the projectors? Or maybe some of all of the above?
Here is another video....
My last beamshow...
http://youtu.be/DEI3EQtI4e8
my webpage
http://stevemilani.jimdo.com
Skype ID: stevemilani957
my RGB analogue projectors:
3.9 W (640/532/445) 30kpps
2.6 W (655/532/450) 30kpps
2.5 W (638/532/450) 30kpps
0.7 W (test unit)(635/532/473) 18kpps
Well... Everyone has his own way-to-think about lasershow...
When I create a beamshow I think that people have to see it "directly", in front of them.
In my mind, a beamshow have to be a sort of "psichedelic" show.
So I divide all the frames/animations in different zone. Some of them are projected in audience, some are overhead, some are "full in front".
On top zone are the most powerful projections, using bright colors like cyan, white and green for hot beams, full power sheets, etc.etc.
Overhead I use medium power/speed effects.
In the largest zone (audience) I use the quickest effects, attenuated by B.A.M. on bottom side. I use dark colors like red, violet, blue. This is because a brigther color could "hide" other figures projected in remaining zones over it (ovehead and top zones).
I always plan my show thinking that:
- projectors will be placed at minimum distance of 20 meters from people;
- will be not not less than 3 meters from the floor level;
- divergence of my projectors is not so good...... from 1 to 2 mrad).
- QuickShow and Beyond have safety zone settings.
Up now, everything has always gone fine...
my webpage
http://stevemilani.jimdo.com
Skype ID: stevemilani957
my RGB analogue projectors:
3.9 W (640/532/445) 30kpps
2.6 W (655/532/450) 30kpps
2.5 W (638/532/450) 30kpps
0.7 W (test unit)(635/532/473) 18kpps