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Offline bassnbuck

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whole house projection help video
« on: May 11, 2016, 08:08:25 AM »
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I was wondering if you are still going to do a video talking about how to use projectors on your house and how to use them with the FFP?  on the Vegas seminars it was the one i was most looking forward to, or are you going to just put it on the dvd?  thank for all the great work on the other videos.
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Re: whole house projection help video
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2016, 10:31:19 AM »
I thought it was going to be a session on whole house modeling but a whole house projection session would be interesting as well.

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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2016, 12:45:29 PM »
i just double checked the agenda and it was for whole house projections.  I am hoping to do that this year so that is why i was hoping for a video to help figure it out.  it was the last thing on the agenda and they never got to it.

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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2016, 12:56:24 PM »
Easiest way is probably to just create a video you want to project.  Place it in an FPP connected to a projector.  Run the FPP in slave mode and name the video with the same base name as a sequence you are running.  If you want to get fancy you can capture some video of your house from the perspective of the projector and then use a video editor to create a mask so that the video only shows on the portions of the house you want.  Sean was probably just going to give these same steps but take an hour to do it. ;)

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Re: whole house projection help video
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2016, 01:27:04 PM »
Easiest way is probably to just create a video you want to project.  Place it in an FPP connected to a projector.  Run the FPP in slave mode and name the video with the same base name as a sequence you are running.  If you want to get fancy you can capture some video of your house from the perspective of the projector and then use a video editor to create a mask so that the video only shows on the portions of the house you want.  Sean was probably just going to give these same steps but take an hour to do it. ;)

Gil has it right. When i do the video it will show playing a movie from two FPP's, one projector each. You need to mask the movie, i use power director 14. You need to take a still of your house between where the two projectors will be. Suppose you want "Let It go" and will have a projector on the left side of your house and a second projector on the right. You take the full size video and apply a mask made from teh still picture of teh house. You make a left mask and a right mask. Apply mask to video and make a left video and right video. FPP will keep two projectors synced to within 1 frame. Left projector plays something like frozen_left.mp4 and right projector plays frozen_right.mp4.

adjust projectors so edges touch in the middle. You now have a panaromic projection wrapping around the house.

The tutorial may need to wait, 20 days until my daughter gets married. it is getting busy.

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