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[Ron Bolte]

We had a luddite show up at SLSO who said he was bringing his "drive" for  his presentation. He showed up with his work tower computer, no monitor or keyboard.  VGA iirc.

After it was working the auditorium saw confidential HR info for quite some time while he found the correct Word doc for his presentation.  He was department head at a local university.

...and his tax return if you remember correctly...
We still share that story when people want to bring their own.

[brian maddox]

I've told this story here before but...

I was doing a HUGE medical conference.  Multiple delay video screens as well as fiber runs to remote locations.  No expense spared.  Since it was an international conference, the video department was well prepared with virtually any kind of video/graphics display system you can find in multiple formats.  Picture a 24 foot table with an endless array of computers and video decks of all possible flavors. There was also a couple of very experienced people available to do nothing but sort this out for the show.

Show is in full swing when this bigwig doctor that had been flown into the conference at great expense shows up, three minutes before he's about to be announced, and hands the graphics department a cocktail napkin with some scribbles on it and says "i need you to deesplay dees on da screens".  Much scrambling ensued while the suitable "Overhead Projector with Video output" was sourced and routed.  As i recall, they got the image into the system about 30 seconds before he called for it.

Moral or the story.  Be prepared for anything, including having to scramble for the thing you didn't prepare for....

[Tim McCulloch]

I've told this story here before but...

I was doing a HUGE medical conference.  Multiple delay video screens as well as fiber runs to remote locations.  No expense spared.  Since it was an international conference, the video department was well prepared with virtually any kind of video/graphics display system you can find in multiple formats.  Picture a 24 foot table with an endless array of computers and video decks of all possible flavors. There was also a couple of very experienced people available to do nothing but sort this out for the show.

Show is in full swing when this bigwig doctor that had been flown into the conference at great expense shows up, three minutes before he's about to be announced, and hands the graphics department a cocktail napkin with some scribbles on it and says "i need you to deesplay dees on da screens".  Much scrambling ensued while the suitable "Overhead Projector with Video output" was sourced and routed.  As i recall, they got the image into the system about 30 seconds before he called for it.

Moral or the story.  Be prepared for anything, including having to scramble for the thing you didn't prepare for....

I'd have made photocopies and taped them to the projection screens, fulfilling the good doctor's request.

I guess it didn't occur to anyone to frame a camera shot of the napkin and use frame store?

[Stephen Swaffer]

So here is what is really frustraing to me with Apple.  (I wasn't directly involved in the video aspect-so not 100% sure what was up).  Our pastor just bought a bround new "latest and greatest" Macbook-last night he decided to use it to show some pics/video.  We sorely need to replace out house projector, so we went with a makeshift projector on a table that was a better projector.  The Epson projector and new Macbook refused to play nice, even using Apple's little dongle thingy that is supposed to bail people out with the new USB-C.  An older Macbook with an HDMI out worked fine.

Looking at Q-Labs documentation they specifically caution against using USB-HDMI solutions for video with Q-LAb.

What are we missing/needing to make the newest Apple iteration work in this situation?

[Cailen Waddell]

So here is what is really frustraing to me with Apple.  (I wasn't directly involved in the video aspect-so not 100% sure what was up).  Our pastor just bought a bround new "latest and greatest" Macbook-last night he decided to use it to show some pics/video.  We sorely need to replace out house projector, so we went with a makeshift projector on a table that was a better projector.  The Epson projector and new Macbook refused to play nice, even using Apple's little dongle thingy that is supposed to bail people out with the new USB-C.  An older Macbook with an HDMI out worked fine.

Looking at Q-Labs documentation they specifically caution against using USB-HDMI solutions for video with Q-LAb.

What are we missing/needing to make the newest Apple iteration work in this situation?

usb video is not the same as thunderbolt to hdmi. 

What do you mean they refused to play nice?  I’m doing latest and greatest MacBook with a thunderbolt3 hdmi adapter and Qlab and it works fine. 


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[Jonathan Johnson]

Can you take a CGA input? How about SCART?

There are so many possible connectors and output formats it's hard to keep track of it all, and hard to ensure that you can display whatever output someone brings you.

[Stephen Swaffer]

usb video is not the same as thunderbolt to hdmi. 

What do you mean they refused to play nice?  I’m doing latest and greatest MacBook with a thunderbolt3 hdmi adapter and Qlab and it works fine. 


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Once we got a display (trying to mirror displays) after that it wouldn't recognize the display.  Is the USB-C different than USB and actually Thunderbolt?  I am somewhat confused by Aplle's description. 

Found out we were using the Apple dongle that converts the 2 USB-C to a couple of full size USB and an HDMI.  Not using Q-Lab in this case-but I need to find a way to reliably use Q-LAb in the future.

[brian maddox]

I'd have made photocopies and taped them to the projection screens, fulfilling the good doctor's request.

I guess it didn't occur to anyone to frame a camera shot of the napkin and use frame store?

I suppose nowadays we would just shoot a pic of it with an iPhone and AirDrop it to the display computer. 

I do think that what you are suggesting was their plan B, but someone was able to get the in-house AV guys to run a Overhead Projector thingy [basically a video camera suspended over a tabletop surface with built-in lighting; i'm forgetting what they used to call those things...] over and they got it patched in.

[Caleb Dueck]

I suppose nowadays we would just shoot a pic of it with an iPhone and AirDrop it to the display computer. 

I do think that what you are suggesting was their plan B, but someone was able to get the in-house AV guys to run a Overhead Projector thingy [basically a video camera suspended over a tabletop surface with built-in lighting; i'm forgetting what they used to call those things...] over and they got it patched in.

Document camera?

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[Tom Bourke]

Document camera?

Had a show a couple of months back.  The presenter had the latest and greatest high end Apple laptop with the best display money could buy.  I had break out room grade 12K projector and rear projection.  On the plus side I had a Barco S3 for processing.

Really the projector was the kind that traded bright for any semblance of good color rendering.  I could get accurate color but at a severe penalty in brightness.  He just could not understand why I could not match his high end mac AND have it really bright!

The document cams just plain sucked.  We were using them for demonstration.  First one was VERY low resolution and so old I had to pull an old Folsom image pro out of storage just to get it into the S3.  Second one had HDMI out but the internal processing was painfully slow.  About a 3 count from moving your hands to movement on the screen.

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