phanatical

12th September 2004 14:13 UTC

AVS and Text/Image
I'm part of a concert in two days time (www.eclecticbit.com - techno:centric // musicians plugged in), and I am hoping to use an AVS plugin for a background in some of the works.

What i'd Really like to do is impose over the top of it, the text techno:centric // musicians plugged in in the appropriate fontage for the concert.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to use something like PowerPoint and arrange text like I was arranging it for a black background, with the AVS in place of it. While that works great for static images, I don't know about the technical feasibility of doing this with a real-time visualisation.

So would anybody have any suggestions as to how I could go about putting the logo of the concert over the top of the visualisation?

phanatical

12th September 2004 14:58 UTC

I've worked out a solution - I've placed AVS into overlay mode, and then set Powerpoint to the background colour which acts transparent - so that when the slideshow is playing, instead of the solid colour, the background is replaced by the visualisation. Very cool.

PAK-9

12th September 2004 17:56 UTC

Nice idea :)

I would have suggested a fixed effect list after the end of each preset that had the title in it, but that would be a small fps drain whereas your idea is not.

phanatical

13th September 2004 10:50 UTC

Because it's not in fullscreen mode, the thing runs a lot faster - excellent for a laptop without a great graphics card or processor.

Only problem is that I can't control the visualisations.

Mr_Nudge

13th September 2004 11:01 UTC

control them how? If you want them to change between only a few presets, put those presets in their own folder and tell avs to only use the presets in that folder instead of the main one.

Warrior of the Light

13th September 2004 17:21 UTC

Positive thing here is that blendmode also blurs away the pixels a bit.

Wasn't there some external plugin for manually switching presets? Try searching for it. (not sure)

Crazy Dave

14th September 2004 16:51 UTC

Well if you can get a video mixer? Or a titler?

The other way to do it is make images at the screen res you are using. Then use ACDSee (an image viewer) to select and sequence them.