Projecting your DJ name...

[Karlos Santos]

Heh i though this thread was gonna be about promoting your name , as in, projecting it into the public consciousness .
I was wrong.

[CerebralExcretion]

I was hoping to find some program that was like a ticker where I could edit the text on the fly...

You could probably knock something like that up in flash pretty easily. Tile an animated gif as the matrix background then just stick in a text field with a matrix like font. You could have that display anything you wanted, scrolling text, flashing messages, etc...

[BentoSan]

If you build it in flash you could also make it interactive that will change when you press a button on your keyboard or something.

[CerebralExcretion]

better yet set it up with a script to display text messages, tweets, or even comments from a web page, that would require an internet connection though.

[BentoSan]

Yeah use it to stay tuned into djtt lol

[laurens]

mmmmm http://vvvv.org/tiki-index.php

vvvv is amazing, a graphical programming environment. The options are endless and you can come up with some stuff very quickly. It's a bit of a learning curve but for scrolling text it would be very easy and triggering it all with midi is no hassles.

PC only though. It's all real time programming as opposed to runtime so everything can be changed on the fly.

If I had a projector I would definitely be integrating it into my own sets. Getting a gif or something into the renderer takes a couple of clicks and the you could setup a basic HSL slider that responds to midi so when you are mixing with eqs the colour would change and ramp up the atmosphere. it's endless. You can stream XML and RSS feeds and all that pretty easily too. All the example patches come with the free download so you can see how it all works and make your own patches.

Just gave away my super dj secrets *doh* Good luck.

[CerebralExcretion]

Not seen vvvv before that looks exactly like what your looking for and its free!

[laurens]

It's so open in terms of what you can do with it. I know this is a bit off topic but it's capable of some very powerful stuff.

check out http://www.flare-facade.com/ all programmed with vvvv I believe.

[CerebralExcretion]

wow thats insane imagin a wall like that behind your setup!

[mr_coops]

Depending on what you want to do look at progs like resolume http://www.resolume.com/
or arkaos
http://www.arkaos.net/
Or if you're on a mac
Modul8
http://www.modul8.ch/

that said however if you set your projector to the second display and turn off monitor mirroring then you can run apps in this second 'display' open up some kind a movie player and make it full screen and off you go, you would need to make your film first for this to work though, and wouldn't move to the beat as it were