The application I'm looking at is for use in a church, where a Mac
Mini running QC would drive screens in the lobby and meeting areas.
It would essentially be running a template slideshow that would show
schedules; probably a ticker with announcements; and part of the
template would hold video content that would be updated from time-to-
time. I basically want the administration to be super-easy so a non-
tech person could update the editable content, probably through a web
interface.
My limited knowledge of QC suggests this is all very feasible. I
guess I'm really looking for some visual examples of what others
might have done to get some inspiration and get feedback from the
stakeholders before I start building it. If anybody knows of any
good sources of visual samples (the WWDC or Genius Bar ones would be
a good start) as the online samples I can find are mostly VJ oriented.
Cheers, adam.
On 22 Jul 2007, at 03:17, Dan Treiman wrote:
I worked on two applications that sound similar to what you have in
mind. Thought I obviously can't send the files, I'd be happy to
talk with you about dynamic signage in QC, and what I've done with it.
One system I worked on was for a conference. It played an
animation showing the upcoming sessions and speakers. As sessions
completed, the items in the animation would update accordingly in
real time. Apple also uses QC on screens at WWDC for visualizing
the upcoming schedule and providing a scrolling ticker of
announcements.
The second job I did was for a music promoter. The screens were
installed (driven by Mac minis) in bars and concert venues. The
quartz composition pulled show schedules, the band's poster/album
art, and the venue's logo from the web, and cycled through an eye-
catching animation of the upcoming shows.
I've done a couple other ones as well, mostly non-interactive but I
did do one interactive one. I definitely have more ideas for these
than I have time to produce them.
Quartz Composer is a pretty powerful tool, and will be getting a
lot more powerful with Leopard. So in most cases, you can do
pretty much any kind of non-interactive visualization you want,
right out of the box. Do you have something particular in mind
that you are wondering if it is feasible in QC?
cheers,
-Dan
On Jul 21, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in possibly using QC for a Lobby TV type of scenario.
Are there any examples of it being used like this? I know there
was some discussion a little while ago here about the Genius Bar
screens being powered by QC in order to integrate the real-time
"next customer" display. I guess I'm looking for more examples,
not so much for validation (I'm pretty sure QC would be excellent
in this role) but rather more for inspiration to understand what
others may have done and what's possible.
Cheers, adam.
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