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Thanks everyone for your responses! I guess the image is going to appear inside the ball with the original configuration I pictured. I do have a rather cheap projector I got from Bed Bath and Beyond a few years ago, so that may be an option for this... Thanks so much for your responses. I'll...

Thanks for the advice! I'll definitely keep that in mind when sourcing materials for this. This is a good excuse to tear something apart :)Thanks again! Tommy

Thankfully our house is only slightly raked and we don't have a mezzanine.I kind of designed this to be similar to a teleprompter. I will post pictures when built. Thanks for your response! :)Tommy

Hello everyone!I have been tasked with making a crystal ball for my theatre's production of The Wizard of Oz. We need it to be able to display prerecorded video for Aunt Em's appearance. This is the setup I was thinking of building... do you think it will work or do you have any other...

Hi! Everything is working as planned, so far. This setup worked well, and I ran the video off of an external hard drive with FireWire800. I highly recommend this - It worked well with two standard definition streams at the same time. In addition, the two projectors that we rented for the...

Thanks for your responses.The theatre has acquired a 7200 rpm Firewire800 external hard drive. Will this work well with my 15 inch Macbook Pro that I'm running the projections off of?

The main (center) screen will be showing one image/video, while the two side screens will both be showing another image at the same time.

Hi!This is the configuration of projection equipment I created for an upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz. Does this look like it will work from your experience? I am pretty new to projection design... The blue lines are representative of VGA cable, and the black surfaces are projection...

Thanks everyone for your replies!Our solution is as follows: We set up a projector, which we borrowed from a cast member's business-it had a wide lense, on the grid about 25 feet away from the cyc. The projector had an HDMI input, so we used my AppleTV and streamed my laptop onto the cyc...

Thanks for your reply!The problem with the projector being in the booth is that it will definitely be washed out, and the possibility of shadows. Its an older projector, and our TD has trying to get it replaced for a while now, because the image is just not that sharp and bright. The image...

Also, there is NO way around using the projections. The play is based off a book, and we paid a lot of money to get the rights to the original illustrations, and having them put onto actual backdrops would be way to expensive.

Hello all.I am stage managing a show, and I have been put in charge of the backgrounds, which are to be projected on the cyc. I was thinking of doing this on a PowerPoint presentation. There is one thing that seems to be an inconvenience, and that is that the projector is set up in the booth...

Marshall,Thank you for your reply! I was just texting my colleague on this production, and she brought up the Aadams family as well...She also brought up having the bike and child on a platform affixed to a floor jack, which would be right up against the black out curtain? What is your...

Hi everyone!We are in pre production for a show in which the script requires a child, and his brand new bike which he received for Christmas, to fly. We plan to do this part up against the black-out curtain, with only a single follow spot on he bike and our actor. Does anyone have any advice...