[SML] Mapping/Cropping projection to flats/other

[smash]

The best solution I have found is using video mapping software.  The 
best bang for my buck so far has been a tool called "MadMapper" for 
macintosh, and it's companion VeeJay software called "Modul8" made by 
the same programmers.  In fact you get a decent discount if you buy them 
together.  Both pieces of software take advantage of the "Syphon" 
architecture which is only available on the Macintosh, which allows 
multiple programs to manipulate the output of the GPU simultaneously.

So, you get Modul8 to handle multiple inputs.  On current/late model mac 
pro with USB3, that can be up to 4 HD inputs via device like a 
Blackmagic Design.   ... THEN...  MadMapper acts like a lens, shaping 
the output to your one or many projectors.  On a late model Mac laptop, 
you can get 2 HD projectors to run off each thunderbolt using a Zotac 
2T-DP2HD in each.  Plus you have the HDMI output, so 5 HD projectors, 
and still have your on-laptiop display as a control.

Now here's the cool part.  You can take your one or many inputs in 
Modul8 and send them via syphon to one or many sources in MadMapper.
You just set your syphon to some obscenely big display size, and map the 
input(s) on any combination of outputs in madMapper.

This link is to a video showing what i did mapping ore than 6 video 
loops to different facets of walls fro a single off-axis desktop 
projector using Syphonn for source controls, and playback, and MadMapper 
for mapping and geometry alteration.
http://youtu.be/y3A5zlMfgnU
The projector was laying at a cockeyed angle on my balled up winter coat 
on the table.  The mapping software allows me to correct each output 
zone for any geometry flaw imaginable.  And I did this with a single 
laptop, and projector.

-smash


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On 2/27/15 7:21 PM, Scott C. Parker via Stagecraft wrote:
> I have a project to project images to various areas on the stage. One 
> projector. I want to map/crop to an object here, the CYC over there, 
> etc... Various images to various locations. Cueing will be fairly 
> straight forward, in order so a single cue list works. I've even 
> thought about PowerPoint or Keynote with masks and/or cropping.
>
> Options? Thoughts and suggestions?
>
> Thanks, Scott
>
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