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This is actually quite interesting. The only reason I'm suggesting we might need to figure something like this out is because I was told that projector flare could be worse. It seemed incongruous to what I've actually experienced but I'm new to projection so I didn't question. I think the...

Yeah it would definitely be a purpose-built thing, if we were to do it.Are there really rental houses that would rent projector lenses?

Hey everyone - I've been working on projection for Rent (I'll post more about our solution to control in a few weeks) and hit another problem. Thanks to the amazing Vectorworks 2010 projector features, I have been able to figure out the exact projection placement in advance. This is...

We light a 30'x40' (approx.) cyc with only about 2' of throw. We have a ground row and a row in the air, with Altman cyc lights running the whole way across on top and bottom. You notice a bit of color separation (when mixing) at the top and bottom but it's nothing major. We recently got a...

Frame accuracy is not an issue. As far as I can tell it's "close enough", which is what we need.

Hey guys, thanks again for your help.It looks like we're doing this with the four Mac, four keystroke, 8 projector route.We've essentially secured the 8 projectors (and the three key sources might be 10k or 6ks, which is super exciting!).I've got two of my own Macs and potentially a Mac...

I was worried about the same thing in terms of sync, but I think if I do two separate systems of cuing - in Qlab on each computer, and then in the board - I can keep it in sync. So basically if I need all four videos to move at the same time, I'd just cue that in the board, instead of trying to...

Hey again CB..After all the Hippo-related excitement, we're not sure anymore if it's a possibility. We have connections at Hippo thanks to a student who attended the BPMC but it looks like the show's budget got shifted around and I can't sacrifice the structural elements of the set.So back...

Three days is plenty since we'll have all the media prepped in advance. When I say three days, I literally mean three days too - sitting in the theatre continuously for 72 hours to get this done. That's the type of insanity I'm going to go through for this show ;-)In terms of timing it...

I'll definitely give CB a full report, and maybe a video blog tour, if we can work this out.On the *unfortunate* side (again); in my Googling, the only price I've seen quoted for a two week rental (so roughly three days of programming, six days of tech, five day run) is $2500 for *one* Hippo...

I demoed the hippotizer at last year's USITT and got a business card from someone at TMB.It seemed actually very easy to program ourselves, in fact that was what the hippotizer guy kept emphasizing, how easy it actually was to do yourself.If a hippotizer is within our rental budget (and if a...

I guess what's surprising (well, not surprising since video is still maturing, but frustrating) is that there is no *easy* solution for this. I need four separate, distinct video channels, going to four separate, distinct outputs. I need to be able to set up cues for the videos in these...

That's exactly what I had wanted to do. We would be going with a low-end Mac Pro (they're all quad core and we'd try to fill up RAM, but still) so that's realllllly depressing to hear. Thank you though for sharing this because I know that's now not an option.

SHARYNF: My understanding of Qlab is that it can cue all this up, and spit out directly to up to 8 outputs. I would never be even considering this option if it weren't for Qlab.metti: I'll take a look at that. Being in a university setting, there are dozens of computers lying around, so I can...

We have all the projectors we need (well, we in the department don't, but we'll be able to scrounge them all up from across campus). We have probably a decent amount of cabling, but I'd suspect to make the runs we'll need to make, we'll have to buy a chunk more. We don't have amplifiers...