At some point we will be installing a permenant setup and we have been researching projector options. We have been renting projectors to use for environmental projection for Nights of Worship. Always cool when you can incorporate a little branding into the effects. The moving line was probably my second favorite. We actually used it on a song where it was the only light in the whole room and it was great. This created an awesome starry, twinkly, kinda look.
I think that my favorite effect was the small dots falling. You don’t need 17,000 lumens (but it helps, ha ha) you can try it out with a smaller projector just to see the effect.
#Projector edge blending with q lab free
Feel free to rip them from YouTube and play around with a projector you may have lying around. I’m pretty sure we didn’t use everything but we wanted lots of options. Searching through stock content is sometimes more work than just creating stuff yourself if you know what you want.īelow is what we made.
#Projector edge blending with q lab full
Creating everything ourselves also gave us full control over the look. Things rendered nice and fast since they were so simple. Taking away a color from white to change the look is way easier than creating content in a specific color and then trying to get white instead.Īfter seeing what worked and what we liked I created some simple stuff in After Effects. Take away green and you’re left with magenta for example. White is also easy to color correct into other colors. This gave us the most contrast possible for the beams to cut through. I was really interested in beams for this show so white graphics with a black background seemed to work best. Not that all colored content look bad, color bars through the air actually looked really cool, ha ha. Instead of individual beams you can end up with a frosted look. The really busy gobos may look good on the ground or wall as a texture but probably don’t look as good in the air through haze generally speaking. The gobos that give the most distinct beams are typically the least busy ones. The more negative space in the image, the easier it was to read. We started to find that the simpler the better since we’re trying to discern images in mid-air using haze. We loaded up some content into Qlab and tried full color, complex stuff along with black and white, really simple stuff. This made it easy to add into our Ableton show control rig.
It’s also controllable from a variety of ways, MIDI notes, keyboard shortcuts, MIDI Show Control, iPad app, lots of options. We used Qlab since it is a very reliable media player and the new version adds a lot of on the fly controls for manipulating content. Stuff you just can’t do with a normal moving light. With the room hazed out we were able to create some pretty sweet animations. We took a 17,000 lumen projector, put it upstage center, and faced it towards the audience. For Not So Silent Night this year we played around with using a projector as a light source.
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