EN: Project on Ice

or under Ice and it might get crushed completely.

why? i am sick of running behind the latest greatest most expensive hardware to still have jittery compressed lowres video showing up on screen that I spend zillions of hours preparing in a 8x quality.

why else? I am sick of crashing uncomplete programms that are so overly complicated that someone who is very profficient (read using computer daily since he is 8 (now almost 30) and video and moving image applications since 16 years) has trouble understanding it all and that one has to relearn the "instrument" with every .0x release and that incorparate geeky technology that make it even more complicated and only 1% of the user MIGHT use. Programm that are supporting more and more collage technologies but don´t have a single though on how to make a montage in a vj context.

ConclusionMeans for the foreseable future Kalkin: Revelation is on ice on backup harddrive in my storage room and will not be shown or presented. If and when technological things are stable in this field I might come back to it if normal jobs have not taken my full attention until then.

Sorry to say that but this whole things pisses me off to no end. I am waiting since 6 years for something that can make live visuals in a good enough quality without fuss and jitter and crash. Something reliable stable that is professional and portable. Here we are in the next millenium and there is still no way to sufficently manage trigger and mix 3 video streams in normal SD resolution with at least 4:2:2. I know that most vjs just don´t care or carry around huge amounts of gear to achive this or whatever. I want it portable I want it stable and I want it cheap enough to justify an investment into a sector that pays you shit for tons of work. I don´t spend my live working so I can give all the money to kapitalistic fuckshit companies that pile up billions of dollars - a certain fruit company comes to mind.
I perfectly happy with my current laptop for anything but vjing/livecinema. A new setup (nearly 5000 euros for 2 lappies) would just barely get me to jitterfree 2x3 channel mixing with the guarantee that with the next OS update or the next visual eyecandy plugins that can do even more to destroy your picture this generation is again too slow to make a good jitterfree performance.

So you can also take out this blog from your RSS feeds as there will be no more updates to it until maybe I decide so in another six years or such...

PS: the theory is also NOT going to be published..... No time to correct errors and no motivation to work on it in general.