[SML] Super Titles

[Dorian Kelly]

Two or three closer mounted cheap projectors will be fine, splitting the signal with a mapping programme. Plenty bight enough.

Dk


> On 6 Aug 2015, at 22:29, e-mail frank.wood95 via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> As an engineer, LD, and opera goer, I am baffled by this topic. All
> the opera houses I visit have, or seem to have, a long, shallow back
> projection display. With my engineer's hat on, I can see ways to do
> this, but they need seriously specialised equipment. In no case have I
> detected front projection.
> 
> Again with my engineer's hat on, all the proposed solutions seem to me
> to be grossly inefficient. Using perhaps 1/8 of the frame is not only
> inefficient, but presents problems as to where the other 7/8 of the
> frame goes. Projector black is not real black. Look at your computer
> monitor. Before you turn it on, it looks dark grey, depending on how
> long it is since you last cleaned the screen. Once on, it shows a
> strong black and white image, when told to.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6 August 2015 at 17:51, Villem Teder via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>> Here at the Canadian Opera Company, we use a medium-dark grey screen the
>> full width of the prosc. Often it is also used as the first border.
>> 
>> We use PowerPoint 2010 (PC). It has nicely variable fade speeds.
>> 
>> 
>> Villem Teder
>> Toronto
>> Local 58
>> 
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