Texts effects such as flashing texts, exploding texts etc
Text bank for ease of switching between several different text messages.
(has been suggested before, but i like it and would like to bump that suggestion)
White strobe effect overlay to turn the screen into a giant strobe, for buildups etc
(i have already suggested this one via email and had a positive reply from mr emergency)
Extended media bank, with option of 10, 20, 30 overlays to be shown.
Animated gif or flv overlay.
(Suggested before again)
Subtitles overlay to allow karaoke pub/bar dj's to add song lyrics to videos, similar to the games console karaoke games like singstar and lips etc, & to offer an alternative to compete with vdj's cdg compatibility.
what you think peoples ? please comment and suggest any other features you would like to see below.
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the text bank is super cool, but there needs to be something like an "on the fly" control of texting, like if u wanna wish someone a happy birthday!
the extended media bank is very welcome!
they need some cool text features like vsl 1.2 with positioning and stuff.. and mor eliek the pioneer video mixer too!
good deal stveie g
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btw i love love love the swinging doors!
that way it looks like the swinging door.. but in columns. if that makes sense
maybe doi soemthign liek that with the transitions! mmmm tthat would be banging !
ok. u see in here how there is 3 windows.. to give u the swinging doors
im saying there should be 4.. 1 window(or column) is kesha video(left)
2nd window is daft punk left...
3rd window is kesha right
and 4th window is daft punk right
kinda like how u split the video with the doors.. but ur making each window or column(for lack of a technical name) straight and narrow..no angle or any thing
kinda liek what u did with slide or squeeze, but theres 4 now.. and they are cut like the swinging doors effect. and u make them vertical or horizontal
it just looks boring when its in the middle. also can we get something like that for the flip strip, grid strip, and segment wipe.
that would be super dope!!
I've had a few suggestions for the cube transition - will have a look at what we can do :)
kinda like how the censor feature on ssl works for audio, perhaps something for video. for when you play a video that is mostly safe (for certain crowds) but with the occasional blip of naughtiness.
the button censors the video for the duration that the button is held down.
censoring can either be a quick cut to a jpeg, a preset vid clip (like ambient), qtz, or even a certain effect at max setting (LED, kaleidoscope, blur).
a little more development could include censor markers so you don't have to remember where those naughty parts are and ME will do it's thing at the appropriate time.
You could kind of achieve this now by adding an effect to the master output and assigning a MIDI button to the wet/dry mix control. The only difference would be that you'd have to push the MIDI button once to turn it on and once to turn it off.
but that's only limited to using the fx. and you'd have to press a button twice. not much of a big deal.
but the censor markers would be nice. and an option to turn them on/off.
normally, the channel faders just fade the video signal to black when linked to the video. bring the fader down, video fades to black.....
what if...
when you bring the fader down, it de-saturates the video? or fades into another color? or fades in/out of an effect? or a qtz file?
of course, this feature will have to be turned on/off when you want it.
unfortunately i have been using vsl lately cuz of that stupid little feature and... the fact that u can use the ext feature to place a txt anywhere on the screen
but we can use our keyboard for any of that stuff ?
Or, you could reposition MixEmergency so that this isn't an issue. I've seen quite a few users with MixEmergency semi-transparent located near the top of their screen.
i just dont wanna hide one screen at a time.. that takes up too much time..
i was thinking if we could assign certain fx to the eq knobs, that would be pretty cool. or even 2 fx per eq knob. like turning the bass down would engage a certain effect and the knob would control the wetness of the effect. or perhaps the fx would already be "pre-engaged" and running...which might be taxing resources already? these eq fx on top of the fx per channel and possibly main output might be too much? i dunno...that's why you're the coder and not me...
bass - at 0, nothing
- turning down, desaturates
- turning up, ripple or some distortion effect
mids - at 0, nothing
- turning down, lens distortion inwards
- turning up, lens distortion outwards
highs - at 0, nothing
- turning down, blur
- turning up, um...i dunno...some kinda oversaturation effect...?
There are a bunch of ideas that we have about trying to get effects working in an easier more natural way, but I think it might be a matter of trying/testing them to see which are really the most usable.
and having the user select which fx they want on each control would be nice too. i'm sure only certain fx may be used in this method...or are more usable.
but with the way VSL and SSL work together to give u a bigger library when needed. i find myself using VSL more. which sucks cuz of one stupid little feature.. ME has so much more to offer. please help! i really think it would be great to assign any key we want on the keyboard to make ME hide and come back when we want.
thnx again for ur consideration!
Henry
This isn't something that we're working on right now - mainly because of the issues that it would cause (I think I explained them in another thread - if not, I can explain them again).
however.. 100 percent sure that this needs to be somewhere on the keyboard close to the space bar (like z,x,c,v,b,n,m) and not a midi mappable feature, i mean im sure others might want it midi capable/mappable. but just using the space bar with vsl. and then bam going into the library to select my next song is really useful. especially with 4 decks going on the rane 68. anyways keep up to date. thank you so much
for the random clip bank, having pre-set banks? or possibly being able to choose which clips in the bank you want played?
for school gigs, kinda don't want the clips with t&a to pop up....
or if you have a theme night like 80s or halloween, you can create pre-set banks to pull from
So, right now, you have txt scrolling, but you want to put something else up, you have to go and type out the new one, but if you want to go back, you have to type it out again
I would like to have a text bank of stuff ready to go. Then you could midi map the banks
If you go into the Presets window you can now also assign Text and Image overlay presets (in addition to the Effect and Transition presets added in 1.4).
1. Set up the text overlay as you would like to save (i.e. with text, position, text effect, etc)
2. Go to the Text Preset tab on the Preset window
3. Select one of the slots in the bank (by clicking in the list of available slots)
4. Push the "Save" button (the little disk image)
This should now set the title of the selected row in the bank to the text in the text overlay.
From here you can trigger the text preset by pushing one of the numbered buttons to the left of the preset list.
this time, for the random transitions.
like for random transitions #1 we could choose from transitions that we like for holding a long mix
for random transitions #2 we could choose from all the SE transitions..
or random transitions #3, all the different grid transitions
basically whatever we choose for each bank.
most of the time i'd like to hold mixes and have the random transition feature pull from that set of transitions. then when i feel like skratching, i can select the other random transition bank and ME will pull from all the different SE transitions or whatever i feel fits better for skratching.
It's an interesting idea. I've had something similar suggested to me in the past - so it is something that has been on my mind.