My future setup/current

[FireStarter9]

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get into PC based video mixing. Hardware wise I plan on using a Matrox G550 or G450 video card. The reason I chose it was for its dual monitor output and its ability to zoom/scale. The computer I'll be running everything off of is a 1 gb pc with 512 mb of ram. I think this should satisfy most processing needs. In the very near future, I'll add a dvd drive as to be able to rip clips and be able to use dvd and video cd. I also have a voodoo tv, a capture and s-video out card, so that I can capture some analog sources. I have a 60 GB harddrive and two cdrw burners so that should suffice storage wise. When it comes to software I have the following:
Adobe Aftereffects and Premiere, neither or which I've used yet.
Sonic Foundry Vegas, which I'm pretty fluent in and would use to edit my video cd and dvd and analog clips before mixing them. Visual Jockey, which I've been playing around with but suck at.
and Artmatic Pro which I also don't know how to use.

What I want to be able to do is generate realtime sound activated eye candy and mix it live with video clips from dvd, analog sources, or video cds, or from my hard drive. I figured I could use the artmatic pro and visual jockey to generate the eye candy and vegas to edit my clips. What I was unsure about it a program I could use to mix my pre-obtained clips with the eyecandy. I may already have the ability to do so in one of the above mentioned programs and I just haven't come across it yet. Any input on what I should get would be of great help
Mark

[WordVirus23]

Originally posted by FireStarter9
What I was unsure about it a program I could use to mix my pre-obtained clips with the eyecandy. I may already have the ability to do so in one of the above mentioned programs and I just haven't come across it yet. Any input on what I should get would be of great help
Mark

-------hey Mark
I've used Arkaos a LOT, and must say I've had a hard time finding anything that comes close (okay, okay, Resolume rocks just as much, but is more of a clip player/looper than performance software.) Check www.arkaos.net

..james...
Pilot/Director
NoInput: Visual Product
Central California

[hamageddon]

not to mention that resolume is now capable of realtime videosampling and instant replaying and is just 120 euro
versus arkaos's 350 euro while struggleing at frame grabbing.
seriously, no pun, james. don't wanna get our debate into something personal.

resolume efx are fairly basic compared to arkaos, but useful in combination with a decent midiboard, f.e. the oxygen or my beloved Yamaha An1x, which sounds great beside of being
a real control freak.

[detsme]

Mark,
You may want to add a 2nd hard drive, I heard lots of people having problems with streaming off the same HD as the OS. Anybody else has views on this ?
Otherwise I think your kicking :p , I wish I bought that Matrox card instead I got the Radeon7500/TV hell it was only $50 so I can always get a scan converter :nod:
I can vouch for resolume as well, it'll do what you want.

-Des

[FireStarter9]

alright I'm thinking I'll get resolume then :-) yea I have two hard drives already, one 20 and one 40 gb. thanks for the advice and actually being friendly to newbies :-)

[FireStarter9]

Originally posted by WordVirus23


-------hey Mark
I've used Arkaos a LOT, and must say I've had a hard time finding anything that comes close (okay, okay, Resolume rocks just as much, but is more of a clip player/looper than performance software.) Check www.arkaos.net

..james...
Pilot/Director
NoInput: Visual Product
Central California

wait wait... Isn't arkaos the same thing as video jockey... does that mean video jockey can mix between avi/mpeg clips???

[hamageddon]

no they are two totally different concepts,
go read the re[vju:]s over at vjcentral.

http://www.vjcentral.com/show/136

http://www.vjcentral.com/show/263