Projection Software

E/T/C Paris Previews New Arts Space Le Cent Quatre (104) is an exciting new international arts space opening in Paris’s 19th arondissment this coming autumn where 10,000 visitors were treated to La Traversee (The Crossing)—a two-day sneak preview of the project featuring a series of specially-commissioned interactive video installations ... > more

Live! Technologies, Inc. Steps It Up With Multi-Display Software

Live! Technologies, Inc. has upped the ante in innovative visual solutions. Multi-display options are no longer a pipe dream, logistical headache, or costly challenge for Live! Technologies’ customers. Theatrical set designs step into the next generation of technology, from set flats to display monitors and customized projection surfaces....

Serious Solutions

With Bob & Colleen Bonniol

Our last article covered our adventures with Microsoft Powerpoint for serving media in a show context. Powerpoint enjoys a cue-based interface that lends itself to show operations, and its compatibility with most popular file formats makes it a compelling choice as well. Where Powerpoint begins to fall short is in productions that demand more than one projector, split projection surfaces, or multiple monitors. It quickly becomes cumbersome to try running multiple, simultaneous Powerpoint shows to achieve this....

The Revolution Starts With One

By Zachary G. Borovay

recently designed projections for a new musical called Nerds: A Musical Software Satire for the Philadelphia Theatre Company. The show is a lighthearted satirical retelling of the history of the personal computer starring mildly truthful, but mostly fictional, characterizations of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak, etc. The show featured a 20'×10' rear-projection screen fed by a two-projector Watchout setup. The RP played several roles within the show. Most of the time, it was an animated backdrop, but occasionally, it became a character in the show....

E\T\C UK Debuts Onlyview In UK

Large format projection specialists E\T\C UK debuted their new multi-screen video control software–OnlyView–on a show projected onto Senate House in London, for the Royal National Institute of The Deaf (RNID) last week. Onlyview was launched in the UK in March, and this was the first show to combine both methods of projection for a single creative result....

AV Concepts And Scharff Weisberg Lighting Embrace Digital Lighting

Both AV Concepts and Scharff Weisberg Lighting are on the leading edge of digital lighting, thanks to High End Systems. AV Concepts has acquired Axon Media Servers, and Scharff Weisberg Lighting has taken delivery of DL.2 Digital Lights. The Axon Media Servers integrate AV Concepts’ video and lighting elements and maximize the value of projection. Designers can incorporate video stills and clips into the overall look and feel of the program in realtime from the lighting console. The device corrects for shape distortions when projecting onto surfaces that are not flat and enables projection onto convex or concave cylinders, angular screens, spheres, and disk-shaped surfaces. ...