Feedback on SELEM; thoughts for improvement...

[buffo]

The plan this year is to take Casey Stack's advice and point the end projectors inward towards the middle, giving a "crossing of the beams" effect. Also, the ILDA splitter will be used more effectively this year, I promise.

We will have a dedicated graphics projector at the back of the house, or possibly in the balcony, that will be aimed forward to display graphics and abstract shows on the main screen that rolls down just in front of the main curtain. We will try to leave a "hole" in the scaffold and truss arrangement to allow graphics to be projected.

No set plan for the scrim yet, but it might end up in the audience, if we use it at all this year.

Regarding specific zones, I posted a template a while back for left, right, and center, but I don't know if anyone besides me is actually using it when creating multi-projector shows. I expect there will be a bit of fiddling required to get it right in any case.

Adam

[flecom]

I expect there will be a bit of fiddling required to get it right in any case.

sounds like wishful thinking lol

[buffo]

Ok, maybe a little more that a bit then. But we'll get it working one way or another.

By scheduling the graphics shows earlier in the day, that gives us more time to work on stage (behind the curtain) on network issues while shows are running in the auditorium. Hopefully things will go smoother this time around. (We really should have this down to a science by now...)

Adam

[flecom]

that gives us more time to work on stage (behind the curtain) on pangolin issues while shows are running in the auditorium. Hopefully things will go smoother this time around. (We really should have this down to a science by now...)

fixt

network will not be an issue this year, promise

[allthatwhichis]

During setup I think we should look at arranging the projectors in a good symetrical manner for projections zones in the multiple projector shows while also where the projectors will be that can go on the splitter.

[buffo]

Aaron, you are probably one of the few people who have multi-projector shows already set up on your machine. For the rest of the people, we'll either use the splitter, or if we have time, we'll need to go through each track and assign the output to all zones that have projectors on them.

(My guess is that the splitter will be the easier of the two.)

Also, for anyone who isn't running Pangolin, the splitter is a simple way to run up to 10 projectors at once. And we've got shows that we want to watch that were made using Mamba, Spaghetti, LSX, and even ADAT shows...

Adam

[Stuka]

Aaron, you are probably one of the few people who have multi-projector shows already set up on your machine. For the rest of the people, we'll either use the splitter, or if we have time, we'll need to go through each track and assign the output to all zones that have projectors on them.

(My guess is that the splitter will be the easier of the two.)

Also, for anyone who isn't running Pangolin, the splitter is a simple way to run up to 10 projectors at once. And we've got shows that we want to watch that were made using Mamba, Spaghetti, LSX, and even ADAT shows...

Adam

Hey Adam -

I plan on having my one-and-only custom show (yeah, I know - Christmas in August - blah!) set up for true multi-projector output.
A couple of additional questions before I get too carried away with the show tweaking:

1.) Will we actually be able to have a center RGB projector for beams?

2.) Will the RGB graphics projector be available at the same time?

3.) Are we going to try the show operator station idea? (network drop & power at a single location in audience area)

4.) Any ball-park idea on the number of projectors & type of controllers that will be on the grid this year? (Started a separate thread to help answer this one...)

Thanks!

Randy

EDIT -
Woops, that was more than a couple....

[buffo]

1.) Will we actually be able to have a center RGB projector for beams?

Yes, we should have at least a few. They will be down low, on the first scaffold shelf, or else up high, on the truss that spans the opening for the graphics screen that will be rolled down in front of the curtain.

2.) Will the RGB graphics projector be available at the same time?

In theory, yes. The main graphics projector will be located in the rear of the auditorium (or possibly in the balcony, depending on whether we get the Kr/Ar rig running or not). Thus, you'll need a long ILDA cable to connect to both it and the beam projectors. But it's doable. The main graphics projector will be aimed towards the stage to hit the screen that rolls down in front of the curtain.

If we have time, we could try to put a graphics projector in the middle of the scaffold and aim it out towards the back of the auditorium and then place a scrim in the 4th or 5th row of seats. But this is something we'd need to set up temporarily and then take down, because most people don't want the scrim.

3.) Are we going to try the show operator station idea? (network drop & power at a single location in audience area)

I am going to try it. Not sure how well it will work though. We have limited space in the back of the auditorium. But I'd like to have a single computer station back there at least. We may end up swapping machines throughout the event. Also, for the Live laser show playtime, we'll probably have a couple machines set up back there. Things will probably get crowded. If it doesn't work, we'll go back to having everything behind the curtain.

4.) Any ball-park idea on the number of projectors & type of controllers that will be on the grid this year?

I'm counting on 15-20 RGB rigs, plus 4 or 5 DMX beam rails, plus a few monochrome projectors. As for controllers, we'll have LD-2000's, FB3's, Ryia's, Sound Card DAC's, Easylase USB's, and ADAT's. I expect the ILDA splitter will get a lot more use this year, and yeah, we'll be swapping cables a lot as well.

Adam