[dance-tech] Re: Multiple Projector Staging Question
- From: Kirk Woolford <kirk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: nadjam@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:36:38 +0100
Dear Nadja,
The easiest and cheapest way to do this would be to put 2 dual-head
graphics cards in a Mac or PC. Plug in your 3 projectors and set the
cards to extend the desktop across all 3. Mac OSX does this
automatically, most ATI and NVidia cards can do this under windows.
Set each screen to 640x480 resolution
Then use Finalcut, After Effects or an other editod to make a single
1080p video with all 3 of your videos in a row at the top of the
screen. 1080 HD format is 1920 pix wide, or exactly the width of 3
640pix wide images. You can then play a single video across all 3
screens. You can also edit the video to allow you to have images start
and stop on different screens as if you had 3 synched projectors.
The Max/MSP - Jitter version would work, but you can do the same thing
with Processing and the OSC libraries if you want to stick with Open
source.
Good luck,
-Kirk
On 18 Apr 2008, at 04:59, nadjam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dear Dance-tech list,
I have a quick question for the group. Is there any software (or
hardware) that would allow someone to link three digital projectors
together, so that they could be cued to run at the same time?
(Linked to one computer.)
I'm working on a show where we have three projectors and three
screens, and
will be running three Flash movies on them. Our solution so far is
to have
three people on headsets at three laptops, and to have them all hit
"go" at
the same time. But this seems clunky, and could give us un-
synchronized
results. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Dr. Nadja Masura
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