What's up guys!
Today I'm gonna talk about two ways to project single images, single queues across multiple
laser projectors.
A lot of times when we're projecting certain animations, sort of like a lot of text or
something, you're gonna get a lot of flicker from the laser.
And it may not look very good.
One way to remedy that, is to scan those images across multiple projectors and multiple scanners.
To get a much more solid look.
The first way to do that, is with the also to function.
As you can see here, I've got two projectors set up.
And I have them aligned side-by-side.
In my zone settings here, I've got them outputting to fb 3 controllers.
I rename them laser one and laser two.
To make it easy.
Projector three is gonna be my also to zone.
I actually just have this outputting to a demo projector.
It's not actually outputting any laser hardware.
In my also to tab.
I'll just show you this real quick.
I'm not gonna go too far into it, because there's actually already tutorial made about
also to.
That's really good you can watch it, to learn how to get this set up.
I've got two zones.
Laser one and laser two.
I've got 50% sending to laser one and 50% sending to laser two.
What you want to make sure you do, is just keep everything aligned as best as possible.
And that's really going to be done in this tab here.
The geometric correction tab.
Basically just a lot of resizing and repositioning.
To make sure that those lines and everything are even.
If I go to laser one, i'm just gonna select one of these Cues here.
I'm gonna select the city Cue.
I'm just projecting that one laser.
You see that it's getting quite a bit of flicker.
This particular Cue is pretty heavy on the scanners.
I'm using 30k scanners.
One way to remedy that is to project it across multiple lasers.
The way I do that, is I'm going to click on my also to zone and then when I click on the
Cue again, that Cue is split across laser one and laser two.
I'm getting much less flicker.
The image is just much more clear.
It looks a lot better.
That's how you're gonna set up the also to.
When you're using also to.
I'm gonna click on this dinosaur right here.
You will probably see where the lines break in the middle of the image.
Where the two projectors are meeting.
Depending on what Cue you're using or what surface you're projecting on to, this may
be a little bit more noticeable.
The best thing to do is just try to keep your alignment as best as possible to reduce that.
This next method is what I like to call the overlapping method.
What that really entails is, I've got my two projectors here.
Laser one and laser two.
I just have them lined up right on top of each other.
Just overlapping.
You're just gonna want to try to get everything aligned as best as possible.
It's not perfect in this example.
I know.
I'm just gonna set it up this way, just for this tutorial.
For the logos that I'm gonna be projecting, they're really centered mostly.
For the outer edges of the projectors it's not really that big of a deal right here if
they're perfect.
I really want to make the center aligned as best as possible.
I'll show you why.
In this method, it's pretty simple.
I've got these logos here, that I built for a corporate event.
Some of these are actually using three projectors.
A few of these are our two projector logos.
I'll use those as the examples.
I'm gonna go into my frame editor here.
The way this is done is, it's actually just splitting this Cue or this this frame into
two frames.
The way I'm going to do that is.
First thing i'm gonna do is to drag this and copy it over here.
I don't want to mess with my original image or my original frame.
I'm going to go back.
I am to go to edit frames.
All you're really doing here is, breaking this into two Cues.
You're doing this by selecting certain points, deleting them.
With these Cues here, I went in and basically just deleted certain points.
I turn that into two Cues.
I'm gonna select multi Cue up here.
I'm gonna select laser one.
That's going to be half of my image.
I'm going to go and select laser two.
Click on the second half of the image.
I get my complete logo and it looks real nice and clear.
There's not a whole lot of flicker.
Actually this key wasn't too bad on one laser.
I'm getting pretty good flicker there.
When I project across two, it looks real good.
That's how I would do that