"now if someone can tell me how to trigger 6 minis playing a synched video (in Keynote, for ease) on demand, without using the apple remote from 2' away, I'll kiss you!”
I vote for 6 x third party (RF, non-bluetooth) wireless clickers which have a USB dongle receiver that you plug in—for example I have one made by kensington. They **may** all use the same signal, so you could fire them all with a single click. I don’t know if you can pair a bluetooth clicker with multiple Macs. The apple remote is IR, hence it’s limited angle of use. This all goes a bit beyond the purpose of the QC list, so any more questions on this line I would be happy to answer via email. Keith On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Michael Sime <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2009, at Tue9/15/093:08 PM, > [email protected] wrote: > >>> re: Video in Keynote, I *believe* that the video input is disabled in >>> some uses of Quartz Composer, for example when rendered online, for >>> safety. >>> >>> /Keith. >> >> Keith's correct here -- Safe Mode is enabled in Safari, QuickTime, and >> Keynote, so compositions that use "unsafe" patches (anything that >> takes in user-side private input -- audio, video, filesystem, midi, >> etc -- not mouse, keyboard though) won't work as expected, and you'll >> see some cute messages in the console (Console.app). >> > is there a way to disable that? even as an experiment? mannn to get this gag > to work in Keynote would just be peachy... > >>>> >>>> this worked like a charm in Tiger, but seems to have died in Leopard >> >> >> Can you elaborate a bit more than just saying "it died"? As in, does >> it kernel panic? that's a pretty lousy death, but it's unlikely >> (unless you're on Snow Leopard ;). Does it crash? Does it not >> operate as expected? If any of those are true, please provide a >> kernel panic log, a crash log, a screen shot, or a description of what >> it's doing/what you expect. > > play the Quartz quicktime and no video, just a sad, sad black screen, on a > Tiger, I get whatever's jammed into the firewire spigot ...no hard crashes, > just no workee > >> >> >> Some of the function calls to float windows over the desktop may have >> changed from Tiger to Leopard, but it's nothing insurmountable. a few >> lines of code to change, and you should be back in business. We'll >> need more details to know which lines those are, however.... :) > > yeah, and as much as a geek as I am, I draw the line at hard > coding....scripting for director is hard enough thankyouverymuch.... > > I'll try and get some source code & detailed description of what happens > from my on-set operator & let you know > > I'll play with the Kineme plug & report back > > it never ceases to amaze me how something that -I- think should be a simple > use of a program, because it's not really designed that way, always creates > huge hurdles to surmount in order for me to get it to do what _i_ want it to > do > > now if someone can tell me how to trigger 6 minis playing a synched video > (in Keynote, for ease) on demand, without using the apple remote from 2' > away, I'll kiss you! > > M > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Sime <[email protected]> > Video Schmideo! <www.videoschmideo.com> > Visual Alchemy, LLC <www.visualalchemy.tv> > --------------------------------------------------------------- > It's not the time it takes to take the takes, > it's the time it takes BETWEEN the takes, > that takes the time to take the takes. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/songcarver%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
