Interested in a simple soundboard like video playback app?

peter

Last week I had 2 gigs with my band where we wanted to use a video projection during some songs. I could not find an app that met out requirements which are:

Preview on iPad screen, full screen playback on external display (HDMI or Airplay)
Show an image (our band logo) when no video is playing
Play a video immediately on a button press
Show at least 16 buttons to select different videos
Seamless Looping

So I whipped up a simple app that does exactly that:

Very simple: A preview of the video / image on top of the screen and up to 64 buttons in a scroll view below. Current playing video is highlighted with a white outline and a position indicator. A button to select the image when not playing and a button to allow reordering the video buttons. Tap on a video button to start / stop playback of that video or long press to open the video details:

It is possible to mute the audio, select different play modes (loop, stop or advance to next video) and set a color for the button.

That's all we need and as this app worked flawlessly at both gigs, I am curious if any of you would have a use for such an app?

Chemabazan

Absolutely! And if you could add basic support for triggering the content from ST3, it would definitely solve my one-band case 😊

peter

MIDI trigger maybe, but the thing is that only the app in the foreground can use the HDMI output, so no way to run Stage Traxx and that app on the same iPad.

Ray9s

This is very interesting and something I'd like to play around with. Ideally, I'd want some way to sync it up with ST3 so that I could play a song and trigger the video (even if on another iPad). Would probably need to have some way to compensate for timing if syncing up song videos/lip sync from the original bands (although this may be more work than you're willing to commit to).

peter

I guess midi over wifi would be an option. That is something that I want to add to Stage Traxx 4 anyway.

But my time is limited and I don't want ST4 to suffer from this side project. So I will try to add the necessary stuff for a release ready version whenever I have some time to spare and then just start an open beta. But no estimates yet.