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If you donвЂ™t have time to test it fully, donвЂ™t add it to your setup. Whether itвЂ™s learning a new midi controller, or breaking in a new hard drive with thorough testing. Sometimes adding gear might seem like a dream come true, but IвЂ™ve seen it turn into a living nightmare for other VJs and video professionals. You need time to learn and troubleshoot your hardware. Take this with a gain of salt, but this pre-caution comes from my experience in film and video production. Hardware Tip: No new gear for a new show.

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I had a USB SSD that I could boot from without upgrading my MacBook Pro or partitioning my internal boot drive.

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On another occasion, I needed to roll forward my OS version to interface with some recent software updates. We fixed a few disk utility settings, and they were back up and running with their show computer. I was once in Boston and an hour before a show, the DJвЂ™s computer crashed, and one of my bootable thumb drives saved the day.

#Vdmx5 live camera opions mac osx#

If you can, I recommend picking up a few USB thumb drives with decent read/write speeds, and then loading bootable versions of Mac OSX onto them as recovery drives.

That being said, always carry a clear garbage bag with you! Whether you have to wear it as a poncho, pop it over your suitcase when running through a storm, or cover your laptop, a clear plastic bag will allow you to see your laptop screen even if all hell breaks loose. If youвЂ™re working on a crazy punk show with drinks flying all over, a silicone keyboard cover might save your life. And if itвЂ™s a laptop (MacBook Pro, PC, whatever) I definitely recommend some sort of case with protection. Computer Protection! - A bumper case and a clear garbage bag. The rest of the buttons should be self explanatory based on the image above, or you can read through the вЂњUser NotesвЂќ built into the template which explains all of this and more.ДЎ. To trigger to the next clip in the media or move up and down the media bin, redirect your eyes to the вЂњBANK SELECTвЂќ 4 button arrow keys. Beneath that (Yellow) is a random clip trigger. They are also linked to your Audio Analysis Filter 3 and will flicker based on your computers mic peaking. The two buttons beneath that (Green) are page up / page down buttons for moving through your media bin.

Top goes sets destination for Layer A, bottom for Layer B. To switch between Layer A and B, when selecting clips - use the first two buttons on the top right side of the grid under the label вЂњSCENE LAUNCHвЂќ They will light up when they are selected. You can change this later to preference or disable it entirely.Д«oth layers use the same 40 RGB button grid to trigger clips. If it is all the way down, your screen output will be black.

The first vertical slider on the right side of the controller labeled вЂњMASTERвЂќ controls the master opacity. The Master output FX are turned on and off by the top 8 rotary knobs. Both video layer A and B flow to a Master output (Projector, TV, etc.) The cross fader blends between both layers and each layer has its own FX chain presets. This template is structured to be a 2-channel video mixer.