Live Event Mixing: Club Vj / Concert - Datavideo se-500 Instruction Manual

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Live Event Mixing: Club VJ / Concert

In our final example we are looking at a typical V.J. set up. Increasingly in clubs video images are used to
add to the overall effect and atmosphere, they are combined with light displays and other audio / visual
effects.
In the set up above we see two cameras being used, one on the audience and the second on the V.J, it
could just as easily be a second angle of the audience.
There are two DVD or VCR sources, these could be showing animated patterns or backgrounds, promotional
videos, music videos, just about anything. The audio from one of the DVD decks is being fed into the aux
audio input; although it is more likely you would run both the DVD player audio feeds into an external audio
mixer, together with CD players, keyboards and other audio feeds. The mixed output from the audio mixer
would then be fed into the SE 500.
The job of the V.J is to control everything that is seen and heard. Combining video and audio images
together in an entertaining way. It is possible the V.J may control the SE 500 via MIDI control from a
Keyboard, or sequences the whole show via RS 232 and run it all from a PC.
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