SELEM 2024 timeline show tips and contest?

[telmnstr]

Heya everyone,

I had an idea that I threw at Buffo the other day. He said post it here.

I edited my first Beyond timeline shows a few weeks ago for an event. Nothing crazy. I mostly used the tip videos on youtube when I had questions, but still would love to swap tips with others.

Which led me to the idea, what if we had a Beyond timeline show tip swap thing, followed by a timeline show contest? Maybe everyone gets half a day, or 2 hours, or whatever some set amount of time to create a new beam show. We pre-define the projector setup or share workspace or whatever keeps it most efficient to be able to load the files afterwards. Then we run all the shows back to back? After this, we tag them with the SELEM year and push them to the Pango cloud? I am sure it has been done before in the past.

It's always been my guess that all my laser friends are also huge music fan friends, the two go hand in hand. So it could also be a chance to share some music as well.

Just a way to use the time to generate some content, force-learn more about tools some of us use, and leave a little SELEM mark on the history of lasering.

Thoughts? Feedback?

[buffo]

I think this could be a lot of fun!

If people are concerned about the whole "contest" part, well, I think Ethan was using that term loosely. We could just go around the room and have folks demonstrate their approach; we don't need to actually grade / score everyone's effort.

Adam

[telmnstr]

Exactly!

I had a little private shindig a few months back and edited up shows for 4 songs, 4 projectors.

My setup was different than most probably, I had Beyond running on one computer with my timeline shows. I was using a video file (youtube download) for the media track. Beyond was set to show the video in a window, and I had a NDI utility running that screen grabs the Beyond video window and sends that video across the network to a 2nd computer running Resolume Arena. I use Arena to drive my video wall since it can chop the video up to match tiles and what not. plus it's fun. But with Arena's native NDI input ability I could hit a cue in Arena and bring up the video from Beyond media. So my show files use lasers in parts but not all the time, if that makes sense.

But I feel there is more to learn, and I wouldn't mind making a few more to build my inventory. And I don't mind sharing what I make but I don't consider it super high value since it's mostly overhead beams to go with music video content.