What mixing panel ??!?!

[broadcaststorm]

Hey Guyz / Girlz,

Hope you all can help me out here i want to buy a Video Mixing panel but i dont have a friggin clue bout what to buy.
Last time i was at a techno party i chatted a bit with the V.J. That night and asked him about his gear.

Well that morning i went surfing the web and came up with this panel.

Does anybody know if it's any good?

http://image.conrad-electronic.com/pix/351/G1/351806G1.JPG

It's an DataVideo SE-200 Video Processor

These are the spec's

Product Information

5 appliances in one for an unbelievable price! You can save 99 scenes with the Video Editor, change and manipulate their sequence. With the colour processor you can alter the colours red/green/blue as required, the colour intensity and contrast can be adjusted using the slide control. The B/W button allows you to give your videos that nostalgic touch. The Special Effects Generator is pre-programmed with 24 wipe patterns, 24 animation patterns and 30 effects. Blending in/out in 8 colours is of course also possible. Let your creativity run wild!. 99 text pages (2,600 characters) can be saved using the colour titler. With the audio mixer you can adjust the sound of the video to suit your personal tastes. Technical details: more than 5 MHz video bandwidth ? compatible with all video sources and tape formats ? 2 x video inputs with S-Video and normal video (4-pin mini DIN/RCA) ? 3 x audio inputs L and R (RCA) ? 1 x audio input jack 3.5 mm (microphone) ? 1 x video output with S-Video and normal video (4-pin mini DIN/RCA) ? 1 x audio input L and R (RCA) ? 1 stereo audio input jack 3.5 mm (headphone) ? 3 x jack control socket source/recorder and 1 x GPI trigger ? dimensions (WxHxD) 280 x 57 x 228 mm. Including: 9 V power pack, microphone, 2 x Sony control cables, 2 x Panasonic control cables, GPI cable and one IR transmitter.


Pls peeps help me out. if this is a piece of crap pls tell me.
I need an affordable mixing panel.

[eXhale]

hmmm i'm no expert in video mixers but this one seems to have way more functions than you'll ever need. for example i don't see how you'd use a 99-page titler in a live situation ;) did you check the mixers reviews at vjcentral?

[sleepytom]

this thing is rubbish it doesn't mix two sources together it just fades one source to black (or one of 8 colours)

for good cheap video mixers look out for a panasonic av 5

theres a review on vjcentral

[hamageddon]

yeah i wrote a review bout over it @ vjc.
no tbc, afaik as expensive as the whole unit.

@exhale: can't get rid of the feeling most of our new members
don't get the fact that there's a vjc beside vjf.....

btw: wanna get something really cheap and cool?
go for a hama dvm-1000, take it from me :)

[sleepytom]

have you got a link to anywhere that actually sells the hama units - i can't find anything about them on hamas uk webshite are they out of production? or only avalable on the continent?

[eXhale]

Originally posted by hamageddon
@exhale: can't get rid of the feeling most of our new members
don't get the fact that there's a vjc beside vjf.....
yeah indeed :p but they have to signup through vjcentral, i thought it would be enough to make them realize there was another site :) maybe i should put the vjcentral menu at the top of vjforums but i'm afraid it makes the pages too long to load.

[broadcaststorm]

lol thnx dudes.

And yeah i didnt know there was a V.J. Central.

I'm new to these sites.


Cool tips im gonna check out VJ Central.

And i think im gonna hang around here some more.
you guyz seem to know what you are talking bout. :D

[hamageddon]

Originally posted by sleepytom
have you got a link to anywhere that actually sells the hama units - i can't find anything about them on hamas uk webshite are they out of production? or only avalable on the continent?

yep, there out of production, i acquired 2 of 3 units thru ebay
for about 150 euro each.
i don't know where WellREDman from Brighton bought his unit, but i don't think he went to the continent 4 it.

and the best documentation on the dvm is there @ vjcentral yet.

[hamageddon]

Originally posted by eXhale
maybe i should put the vjcentral menu at the top of vjforums but i'm afraid it makes the pages too long to load.

just the text menu headlines? really?
but i think putting it on the vjforum would suffice
and would be worth the time and effort, heh heh :)
but just my 2 eurocent

[eXhale]

Originally posted by hamageddon
just the text menu headlines? really?
but i think putting it on the vjforum would suffice
and would be worth the time and effort, heh heh :)
You mean, putting the menu only on the main page?

This menu seems rather simple but if you go to a VJC page and look at the source code, you see that the whole menu code takes a lot of lines, between 1/5 and 1/3 of the code depending on the size of the page... For people on a dialup connection (like me at the moment, aaarggh!), it can make quite a change.

[hamageddon]

due to the "made with macromedia" layer dropdowns i guess :)
well, as i meant to say in my last post, i don't really want to change the current state, so what about creating a newbie
sec on vjc?

[infopocalypse]

Why not put a text based VJ Central menu BELOW the posts and a reference to VJC on the top

VJCENTRAL.COM > VJFORUMS.COM > TECHNIQUES > HARDWARE > BOY HAVE WE TAKEN A SIDETRACK FROM THE TOPIC HERE

&&& @ the bottom:

something a lot like:

SOFTWARE_REVIEWS|HARDWARE_REVIEWS... etc

Also I think there are a fair number of tweks you can make to the Macromedia code to make them A LOT shorter