What color of Cyc white off-white natural ?

I wish we had a studio that the rear wall could accommodate a real projection screen,
but we don't. The rear wall is curved and so we have to go with a cloth cyc.

The discussion now is, do we go with a pure white or 'off white' cyc?

We had an off white and currently have a white. White make the projections brighter,
but it also shows ever little bit of light leak from our fresnels and also the bounce off our floor.

What do you all use and feel. There is no right answer, but we are about to go with yet another new cyc and what to get some other people's reads on this.

Bon Jour,

Jacques
 
Do you have the ability to color correct on your projector? If not, go with white. If so, then it doesn't matter, go with your preference for lighting.
 
You may ask yourself; what do i do more projection or theater. White is bright however you cant project black.
 
If you feel like the projector you have is either barely cutting it or slightly underpowered I would go with white.

If you feel like you could sacrifice a bit of projection brightness, I find a light gray or even medium gray to be indispensable if you ever need the cyc to "disappear" if any stage lights are on. Personally I prefer to sacrifice projection brightness.
 
If you feel like the projector you have is either barely cutting it or slightly underpowered I would go with white.

If you feel like you could sacrifice a bit of projection brightness, I find a light gray or even medium gray to be indispensable if you ever need the cyc to "disappear" if any stage lights are on. Personally I prefer to sacrifice projection brightness.

I'm in the same school thought. A white cyc, unlit, looks wrong to me. It's like the Chekov's gun of stage curtains. Don't put a white cyc behind the set if you aren't going to light it.
 
We're lucky to have a shop space upstage of our cyc and many of our lighting designers love to take advantage of that and throw things on it from behind. We always go with a seamless white cyc. MNicolai is right, don't drop a cyc if you're not going to light it. If you need to go black for some scenes, put a black scrim in front of it - though that won't make it disappear completely.
 
We are purchasing a new cyc and wondering what difference between white and natural would be. (besides price) We color our cyc with typical cyc lights but lately we use projections a lot as we have a new ultra short throw projector. Im guessing we want white muslin.
Most of the responses here, in my opinion, are very on point.
I personally will only use a white cyc if I am lighting it, which is a boon during certain performances. If I am doing a concert normally the cyc ends up being the border for promo art and band recognition banners. Nevertheless, I still light around that.
White is most useful as it does not create a problem with color scheming, blue is blue etc.
Good luck.
 
I wish we had a studio that the rear wall could accommodate a real projection screen,
but we don't. The rear wall is curved and so we have to go with a cloth cyc.

The discussion now is, do we go with a pure white or 'off white' cyc?

We had an off white and currently have a white. White make the projections brighter,
but it also shows ever little bit of light leak from our fresnels and also the bounce off our floor.

What do you all use and feel. There is no right answer, but we are about to go with yet another new cyc and what to get some other people's reads on this.

Bon Jour,

Jacques
go with a light grey, it fits both situations great
 

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