Readers of this blog will recall my fascination with Robert Hodgin’s Magnetosphere visualizer. He’s a true genius when it comes to tastefully visualizing music (so few visualizers actually look good). The story of its purchase by Apple for iTunes was broken right here on this blog last year.
As part of my role at the Palau Association, we needed to find some ways to webcast content generated on a Mac. I found the excellent, free and deep CamTwist to excel at taking the output from one region of the screen or application and routing it into “fake webcam” (essentially a QuickTime component that acts like a DV/Firewire source). Heyyy… ProPresenter will take a Firewire DV input! Let’s make some music, then…
Here’s this concept put into practical use by the geniuses at WorshipVJ. If this stuff excites you, then consider joining the WorshipVJ Facebook group.
I still haven’t found the Holy Grail of being able visualize live audio with iTunes in a music setting. In a future post, I’d like to look at some of the practical problems that this approach creates (namely doing all that crazyness on one machine) and explore some alternatives. Got any other ideas?
Posted in Art of Presenting, Tools, Toys, and Geekery, Worship Media
and making a live feed to Arkaos as a mixer.
