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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Babcock" data-source="post: 209268" data-attributes="member: 46"><p>Sorry to bump an old thread, just noticed this. Ron, you may find it useful. Have done some shows with these and so long as you approach it for what it is it can be pretty cool as an effect. You just have to take the time to find content to display that suits it. Lots of canned motion graphics etc can work well.</p><p></p><p>An alternative (for an indoor venue) would be to rear project with several ultra short throw projectors and something like the Matrox TripleHead2Go or similar. This will give you much higher resolution. I used to have a DIY setup like this with a custom screen that was 28' wide by 8' high, and it looked pretty decent considering how inexpensive it was.</p><p></p><p>Here's a really old youtube clip (10 years ago) of this in action (with a smaller version of that screen) and some cheap 1500 lumen $300 projectors. Yes, the footage sucks (a kid's ancient cell phone lol). Total cost for this including the DIY screen was about $1500. Jump to about 1/2 way through the video.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]p85fjluNxSk[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>You could obviously do MUCH better than this with modern gear, and a custom-sized pro screen would be far superior to my DIY screen, albeit at a higher cost. Regardless, you can do quite a bit without a huge investment, and stuff like this can really make a difference in the look of your show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Babcock, post: 209268, member: 46"] Sorry to bump an old thread, just noticed this. Ron, you may find it useful. Have done some shows with these and so long as you approach it for what it is it can be pretty cool as an effect. You just have to take the time to find content to display that suits it. Lots of canned motion graphics etc can work well. An alternative (for an indoor venue) would be to rear project with several ultra short throw projectors and something like the Matrox TripleHead2Go or similar. This will give you much higher resolution. I used to have a DIY setup like this with a custom screen that was 28' wide by 8' high, and it looked pretty decent considering how inexpensive it was. Here's a really old youtube clip (10 years ago) of this in action (with a smaller version of that screen) and some cheap 1500 lumen $300 projectors. Yes, the footage sucks (a kid's ancient cell phone lol). Total cost for this including the DIY screen was about $1500. Jump to about 1/2 way through the video. [MEDIA=youtube]p85fjluNxSk[/MEDIA] You could obviously do MUCH better than this with modern gear, and a custom-sized pro screen would be far superior to my DIY screen, albeit at a higher cost. Regardless, you can do quite a bit without a huge investment, and stuff like this can really make a difference in the look of your show. [/QUOTE]
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