Suggestions on Interface Monitor View

I have an upcoming installation with a multiple projector output. The mosaic driver in the system I am using makes all the graphic cards see only one monitor. Not really an issue, but when i go into performance mode using the Kantan mapper (which is what im using to map multiple vids) it takes away my interface view. Any way to send the information over from another machine and control the interface from that station or just advice on how to handle being able to view my interface while it performs? In case adjustments needed to be made or simply on the fly modifications without taking performance mode down. Any suggestions would be appreciated . Thanks!

This one is hard to answer as a lot of it depends on how you’ve set up your network as well as your system proper.

Calibration is a hard question, and I think you’ll be able to get some more feedback if you can help us better understand how you’re currently set up.

Regarding on the fly controls - if you know what you want to make changes to, you can use a Touch IN / Out combination or OSC in / out to send and receive data from another machine on the network.

There’s a few ways to approach it (not Kantan specific).

You would generally make a UI on the system and add it somewhere to the perform window you’re using, and maybe make a hotkey that can show and hide it.

You can do as Matthew said and send OSC/data from another system.

If you’re looking to edit the network itself, there’s no real way to do that while getting the benefit of perform mode. Perform mode is more than just putting up a big window, it shuts off all the rendering happening in the network editor (which is quite expensive). So you’re either going to lose the benefit of perform mode, and then you may as well just use another Window COMP or similar.

For your Kantan situation, if you’re losing windows behind the perform window, you should be able to get to them with Alt + Tab, or make sure in your perform window settings that “Always on top” and is turned off and that “Cursor visible” is turned on while you’re still adjusting things.

OK . Thanks Guys. So if I wanted to send nothing but my display or (performance window) from the Kantan mapper through a touch out or OSC out to another system . I would need too…? :astonished:

I know Touch out and touch in steps with the ports # , I just curious how to send the display or is this even possible?

Thanks guys , let me know if i need to be more specific.

Woof… well, one way would be to touch out each of the tables in /project1/kantanmapper/default. Then touch in on your receiving side, in the same place in kantan. Terminate your touch in DATs with Nulls, and change the names of the nulls to the matching table, and delete the table. This means your replacing the tables on the output machine with TouchIn DATs attached to null’s that have the same name. This should keep your paths from breaking.

Next you’ll need to think how to make sure your assets live in the same path space as your project. Some careful organization should make that work.

That should get you 90% of the way there in terms of using a remote machine to drive Kantan across the network. Doing a little testing that seems to work for me, but I’m sure there are some gotcha’s that I’m not thinking about.

Let us know if you get stuck again.

Thanks , I’ll give that a whirl , I did get it to work with a select Top and Top out to in , but the latency was bad , tried with the audio as well , clipppung - Argg !
Thanks for your help! Do appreciate the quick replies :slight_smile:

To clarify, I wouldn’t send the video over the network.

I usually end up building systems that control another headless rendering machine - in this configuration, your render machine doesn’t need an interface since it’s all controlled by another machine on the network.