Video capture device

[blockfisher]

I am looking to get live video output of photoshop from one PC and into MMV on my PC. I am considering using a video capture device such as Black Magic but I'd like to know if MMV will support this as an input device. I would like to have someone live painting in photoshop and then add effects in real time to that through MMV. I have tried using a webcam to film the other PC's screen but it is difficult to get a quality video this way. If there are alternatives I would be interested in hearing suggestions as well. Other possibilities include using a tablet and painting app going into MMV. I have also considered using a program like splashtop to share the screen between PC's but any movement in that kind of software has too much lag.

[Magic]

Good question. You might want to try my free BlackSpout utility: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=201. It's a standalone program that lets you capture video from a BlackMagic device, and then send the video to any Spout-enabled application (Magic or otherwise). It's almost 2 years old now but it works fairly well for most purposes.

Keep in mind though, even with this solution, there will still be a bit of a lag.

[dj0le]

Another option would be to look into OBS to do a live-stream of your Photoshop performer on their computer, and then use SpoutToNDI to send it over the network and receive the input in your computer. I haven't tried it with Magic, but it works for Resolume so it should work in Magic too.

https://obsproject.com/

http://spout.zeal.co/download-spout-to-ndi/

[Magic]

...And yet another thing you could try is using VLC to set up a desktop streaming server on the Photoshop computer, and use Magic's VideoStream module to connect to that stream. https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... ng_the_GUI. It works, but there can be quite a bit of lag depending on your setup.