The wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge!
THAT’S RIGHT FOLKS – the wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge is HERE! We’re challenging you to make an awesome video using wysiwyg R28’s Camera Path and Cue List tools! This is your chance to shine – so get your best lighting design built in R28 and be creative!
In order to enter the contest, you need to have the venue .wyg file.
DOWNLOAD THE wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge .WYG file HERE – [right click, save as]
Create your awesome lighting design with wysiwyg R28, then make a video using R28’s Cue List and Camera Path features. Be as creative as you want, just make your video two minutes and use R28’s features only! You get to be the LD, the producer, AND the director this time (and every time) with wysiwyg R28!
wysiwyg R28 is made for you – here’s your chance to shine! Show us your light!
HERE’S THE SCOOP:
- Using wysiwyg R28, create a lighting design using the arena drawing provided on The CAST Software Blog. The file has been made using R28.
- Using the Cue List and Camera Path features, create a two-minute video of your lighting design, and post the video on your YouTube account. You’ll need a YouTube account to enter. You’ll also need a Facebook account. No lighting consoles – be creative with the Cue List and Camera Path features!
- Go to the CAST Software Facebook Page and LIKE US!
- Post a link to your video on the CAST Software Facebook Page and label it: wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge – Your Name Here — Once you’ve posted your video, you’re entered into the contest!
- The deadline for video entry is March 14, 2012. We’re ready to be rocked!
wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge Official Rules
- You can enter this contest ONE time only.
- To enter the contest, you must have a valid copy of wysiwyg R28.
- We will supply all entrants with the same venue file which you must use. It contains the arena space, in which you are to design, and a band setup on a riser. You may arrange the band setup however you wish inside the arena, but you must use only the arena and band setup we have provided. We believe this approach levels the playing field and facilitates an easier comparison of all entrants’ creativity as demonstrated by your lighting and/or video rig. Anyways, you have to admit, is representative of the realworld because you always design for the space provided! Those are your only two creative limitations
- You may only use wysiwyg R28 to produce their video, using the Cue List and Camera Path features to create your list of Looks for a two (2) minute video for the contest entry.
- All cue sequences may only be created with the wysiwyg R28 Cue List feature. You may not connect to a console for this contest.
- You may use a video finishing program to add your name, title and other credit information to your entry. You can also add a soundtrack. Remember, this is your opportunity to show off your work — so be creative, and do it in no more than two minutes!
- To enter the wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge contest:
- Like CAST Software on Facebook at facebook.com/CASTsoftware
- Post your video entry to your YouTube or Vimeo accounts with the following name format:
• wysiwyg R28 Video Challenge – Your Name Here - This is an important step! Use the tags wysiwygR28challenge, CASTSoftware, CueList, and CameraPath in your entry post as well.
- On the CAST Facebook page (facebook.com/CASTsoftware), post your name and a link to the YouTube or Vimeo link of your entry video.
- Your entry will be voted upon by two groups: CAST’s Pick (a small panel chosen by CAST) and the People’s Choice (where your peers and friends can TWITTER their vote for you to CAST).
- Prior to announcing the Winners at ProLight 2012, you will be notified by email and required to deliver a digital copy of your winning wysiwyg R28 file for review and verification by CAST. The Winners will be announced only after CAST completes this verification / authentication step.
Please Note:
By submitting your entry, you are confirming to CAST Software Ltd. that you are the owner of any material you submit in all forms (video and audio, including credits) and that you have the right to use the content you are providing to CAST. You also give CAST the right to use your submitted content for the purposes of the wysiwygR28challenge, as well as for training and other purposes, related and unrelated to the contest, and that CAST may post the link or otherwise make it available to others via its website or by other communications.
ROCK OUR FACES OFF, wysiwyg R28 USERS!
WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOUR WORK!
Are YOU Coming to TSE in Tampa? COME SAY HI!
2012 is here, and with it comes the start of the Tradeshow Season! CAST Software will be demonstrating our great event design and management suite, Vivien Virtual Event Designer, at The Special Event show (TSE) in Tampa, Florida this week! If you’re coming to the TSE Show in Tampa this week, please drop by the CAST Software booth, #601, and say hi to Jim, Igor, John, Gil, and Bruce! We’d love to show you how much Vivien Virtual Event Designer rules its world. I bet Jim has a free hug for anyone who comes by, and one of us can conjure up a good joke to help you on your way!
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We’ll see you in TAMPA!
What Do You Think of wysiwyg R28?
So… wysiwyg R28 has been out for about a month now. What do you think?
We’re constantly trying to improve your design experience in the virtual world, and we’d love to know which of R28’s features you’re digging the most! Have you been trying out the Camera Path and Cue List tools? Post your images and video on our Facebook wall, we would LOVE to see what you’re up to with WYG!
Click HERE for CAST Software’s Facebook Wall and post your videos and images! Also feel free to leave a comment here on the Blog!
HAPPY 2012 from CAST! Let’s ROCK IT!
The CAST Family is really looking forward to 2012, and now that we’re in it – it’s time to WIN IT!
For every single cue you write, every button you push, every focus palette you update, and every lighting design or event that you create this year, CAST hopes that it is the best one yet, and the next one puts that one to shame. We believe in you, we know you’re gonna rock it, and we want you to have the best tools at your side! We have some fierce competitors in the market, that is no fable – but we look at it all like this: if you need the best in lighting virtualization and complete lighting production design, you need wysiwyg. If you design, sell, or manage any event of any size and you need control and creativity, you need Vivien Virtual Event Designer. We promise you this: if you’re using a competitor’s products to design and manage your hard work and creativity and you’re not satisfied with how it’s helping you do what you need, Call us at 416-597-2278. Or Email us. Send a letter via carrier hipster to our offices in Toronto if you need. Let us show you how we help you live and thrive in both the real and the virtual worlds of lighting.
If you happen to be looking for a way to completely control and coordinate your production of any size and scope, you need to give us a call about BlackBox - and if you need to track thousands of anything of any size and scope in any size of venue, we should talk about BlackTrax. We promise you this – BlackBox and BlackTrax will blow your mind. We promise.
HAPPY 2012 EVERYBODY!
wysiwyg R28: Video – New Features!
Good morning everyone! Check out this video of some of the new wysiwyg R28 features that we’re most proud of – Cue List and Camera Path tools!
wysiwyg R28 is HERE for Members Only!
Good afternoon, wysiwyg Users! wysiwyg R28 is here and available for MEMBERS ONLY! Remember, Membership certainly has its benefits!
We’ve been working our tail feathers off on R28, building off of R27’s huge five-fold speed increase and adding a bunch of feature improvements to make your work flow faster and easier.
Let’s look at a few of these improvements!
CAMERA PATHS:
Sometimes you just want to be able to tell the camera exactly where to go, how fast to move, and when to move. Now in wysiwyg you can do all of those things with ease. Simply draw the path that you would like your camera to take around the venue, assign movement times, and you’re done. You just told the camera how, where, and how fast to move. Cake. Check out this image – it’s a camera path drawn in Shaded View:
The line represents the camera path itself in Shaded View. If you look closely at the line, you will notice a lot of little reference points. These are used to give detail, to allow the camera to change speeds, to allow the camera to refocus on a subject – imagine them as little keyframes that allow you to assign actions to that specific keyframe. It’s a pretty cool system and we’re having a lot of fun with it!
Here’s a screen shot of the Camera Path with the Keyframe timing strip attached to the bottom – see what we mean by keyframes?
SEQUENTIAL LOOKS:
For many years now you have been able to make looks in wysiwyg Design and wysiwyg Perform – and for many years you have been able to fade between the looks you’ve created. Now, with wysiwyg’s Cue List, you can simply play your list of looks sequentially, out of order, or however you’d like. It’s your choice, and it keeps getting better. When you play back your looks while using the Camera Path tool, you literally have complete control over your design environment!
Here’s a shot of the new Cue List box, full of cues from a sample showfile:
…and here’s the Cue List attached to a window full of awesome:
LED and MEDIA IMPROVEMENTS:
We have turned our Light-Emitting Surfaces and Media Wizards into new streamlined interfaces with lots more great features, all easier to use!
SHUTTER CUTS and BARNDOORS IMPROVEMENTS:
If there’s anything we hate, it’s having to fight through a program’s shutter cuts dialogue. We’ve fixed all of that and made the process very fast and efficient. You can now wrack a shutter on an angle (or ALL shutters on an angle) so that cuts are easier and take less time! We’ve also made the Shutter Cuts dialogue box accessible like any other parameter editor in Design or Perform mode (like the Intensity Designer tool, Prism Designer tool, etc – the “designer” tools). All you do is open it up and you can make cuts without having to dive into the fixture’s parameters like before. Check it out – here’s the dialogue box itself, which you all know:
and here’s the Shutters and Barndoors dialogue on top of a QUAD window!
LIBRARY ITEM REPLACEMENT:
So did you lay in a few hundred flower centerpieces and then realize that you didn’t want to use the ones with purple flowers? With the new Library Item replacement, you can just select your library items needing changing and make them whatever other library item you want! You could stick in a bunch of road cases is that was your wish, you’re completely in control!
Stay tuned for more on R28 – we’re excited about it, and we hope you are, too!
Membership has its benefits!
Historically, CAST *usually* has a price increase around the first of the year, so make sure and keep your membership current! If you’re a current member, head on over to the CAST Members Only Area and download wysiwyg R28!
THE WINNERS of the CAST Software Booth at LDI 2011!
We have some WINNERS to announce! Thanks for coming by the booth, we had so many people give such great feedback on BlackTrax, BlackBox, wysiwyg R27 and R28, and Vivien 2011. Thank you over and over again!
WINNERS from the LDI 2011 Drawings!
Katrina Herron won a wysiwyg Design 1 year lease!
Parker Stegmaier won a wysiwyg Design Student Edition for 1 year!
Mario Senra won a Vivien Virtual Event Designer 1 Year Lease!
Bruce Aleksander won a wysiwyg Perform 1 year Membership!
Congratulations to EVERYONE!
LDI 2011 Has Come and Gone, and We’re Still Excited!
The positive response from the audience at LDI was very exciting – you know how to make people feel at home, Orlando! We hope that you came by the booth and saw BlackTrax, and if you were in one of Jim Hutchison’s wysiwyg courses that you now love and know wyg like we do!
Thanks, everybody. You are awesome. BlackTrax is here.
Did You Have Fun at PLASA 2011? Our WINNERS Did!
We’re back from PLASA 2011. We had so much fun this year that we can barely believe we’re still standing from that kind of excitement!
Check out some images from PLASA this year – and a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our booth scan WINNERS!
CONGRATS to Naomi Nash!
Winner of a 1 year lease of Vivien Virtual Event Designer
From Callington, United Kingdom
CONGRATS to Tom Mulliner!
Winner of a 1 year wysiwyg Design Student Edition
From Sutton Farm, United Kingdom
CONGRATS to Ben Freer!
Winner of a 1 year lease of wysiwyg Design
From Crawley, United Kingdom
…and a last but not least CONGRATS to Calle Brattberg!
Winner of 1 year wysiwyg Perform Membership
From Stockholm, Sweden
How’d you enjoy PLASA this year? Let us know, drop a line in the comments!
PLASA! PLASA! PLASA! Will YOU Be at PLASA 2011?! CAST Will!
Okay, so we’re only gonna say this once – PLASA IS AWESOME! We have such a good time at PLASA every year that we look forward to it all year long! This year at PLASA we’re going to be giving away some of our awesome wares to the people who come and get scanned at our PLASA booth, which is right over by the PLASA 2011 Bar around the Shure booth, MA Lighting, and Clear-Com.
Here’s a map of the full PLASA 2011 floorplan in case you realize you might need to look things up and plan your attack of the tradeshow. PLASA is HUGE!
If you swing by our booth and get scanned for more information, we’ll get you signed up to win some awesome gear!
How this works:
We will scan your show pass. You can only win if your information is complete and accurate when scanned. If we can’t contact you (by email, text or cell) then you simply won’t be eligible.
Draws for one of a 100 T-shirts occur throughout the show on a day-by-day basis. So make sure you check the list of winners and pick up your shirt the same day you are scanned – CAST will not deliver T-shirts to winners.
At 2PM local time on the last day of the show, CAST will contact the winners of a Big Prize. If you are a winner but not present or if you cannot pick it up, then we’ll deliver the prize to you. To participate, you MUST be scanned and pick up your Draw Ticket from a CAST Product Specialist. Each Draw Ticket has a unique number which you’ll be asked to present to get your prize. Unless otherwise stipulated, CAST will not be responsible for shipping, customs duties or any taxes levied with regard to prizes.
Are YOU gonna be at PLASA? Drop us a comment, let us know!
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