Using Cantabile to trigger Video Clips for live performance, questions!

[zorkiii]

I have a few larger performances coming in a few weeks, and I want to use Cantabile to trigger video clips when I hit transport play.

The transport play will be sent from one PC that is being used for the audio routing and that starts the song, it will be sending a signal via MIDI to another laptop running Cantabile that will receive it and then trigger a video clip to play immediately upon receiving the signal.

I have a few questions, has anyone used it in this way live at all?

What would be the easiest or best way to make this happen?

Thanks in advance, for any help.

[humphrey]

Hi,

I read your posting several times and do not really understand what you need. You wrote:

"...Cantabile that will receive it and then trigger a video clip to play immediately upon receiving the signal. "What shall cantabile do in this setup?

If you think cantabile has a media file player implemented that is able to replay vidoe formats: I'm not aware that cantabile would be able to do something like that (the manual says: "Cantabile supports the playback of audio and MIDI media files") (page 15).

If cantabile only is used as a MIDI sender for another instance that receives a MIDI signal and is then able to replay a video file I don't understand the need for cantabile as you could directly send the MIDI signal from the first PC (??).

kind regards, humphrey