Here's my dilemma. It's for a movie shooting at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. They want to use DL2s to project onto the entryway wall under the porte cochere, where all the taxis and limos drive up to drop off hot chicks. The original idea (attached) was to hang them under the porte cochere far enough back to hit the wall nicely and use collage generator. The problem that came up was the cinematographer loves the architecture of the porte cochere's ceiling and does not want to see the DL2s hanging right in the middle. If they were brighter, I'd put them further back, but that's 72 feet, way to far for these units. Also, they don't want them on the ground because of all the extras and cars that will be passing by. They don't want anyone walking in front of the beams, which would especially look strange in collage mode. So the thought came up to hang them off the side of the porte cochere (attached). While this does solve all these problems, I am concerned about the keystoning of the fixtures in order to use collage generator. Base on the drawing I attached, can any of you tell me if this is going to be a problem?
[quote=barnes2000]Marty, I do remember about using the sync function, but just so I don't miss anything, can you explain the sync function again and I'll take any tips you can give too.
Sure thing.
Sync basically allows you to have all the units playback a media loop together by assigning one single fixture as the master clock. So that when this "master" fixture hits the inframe of the loop it forces all the others to do the same at the same time.
In order for this to work you need to have the fixtures connected via Ethernet, with each fixture assigned a unique network ID ##. I highly recommend using Gigabit-Ethernet switch (1000 Mbs) and not a Fast-Ethernet (100 Mbs) or slower to maintain data speed.
To make one fixture "listen" to the other you set the Sync value in a graphic layer. The value you set is the fixture ID (1-255) that you want that fixture to respond to. You can set multiple fixures to respond to a single source.
You can further change the type of Sync with Sync Mode, but this can ONLY be done in graphic layer #1
[quote=barnes2000]Marty, I do remember about using the sync function, but just so I don't miss anything, can you explain the sync function again and I'll take any tips you can give too.
Sure thing.
Sync basically allows you to have all the units playback a media loop together by assigning one single fixture as the master clock. So that when this "master" fixture hits the inframe of the loop it forces all the others to do the same at the same time.
In order for this to work you need to have the fixtures connected via Ethernet, with each fixture assigned a unique network ID ##. I highly recommend using Gigabit-Ethernet switch (1000 Mbs) and not a Fast-Ethernet (100 Mbs) or slower to maintain data speed.
To make one fixture "listen" to the other you set the Sync value in a graphic layer. The value you set is the fixture ID (1-255) that you want that fixture to respond to. You can set multiple fixures to respond to a single source.
You can further change the type of Sync with Sync Mode, but this can ONLY be done in graphic layer #1
