Environmental Projection Install Part 1

Ok, it’s been an exciting week!  After over a year of planning and demoing equipment we finally moved forward on our permanent install environmental projection system.  It’s not set up quite yet but the gear is here!

The highlights of the system are the two Green Hippo Hippotizer HD media servers and four Panasonic PT-DZ21K 20,000 lumen projectors.  This will be set up in our main Fort Lauderdale sanctuary.  The final result will be a seemless image that’s 100′ wide and 18′ tall.

The goal is to finish the install this week.  Once it’s installed I’ll post up some better pictures and videos of everything in action.  We did get as far as racking up the gear and mounting the projectors temporarily on the catwalk.  Ultimately the projectors will get mounted underneath our catwalk.

While testing the Hippos and getting them to talk to each other I played around with sending the outputs to Light Converse, my virtualization program.  It’s pretty cool, the hippos can output a video feed over the network to LC.  Then LC will show you the video on your video wall or projectors in the simulation.  So not only can you preview all your lighting, you can preview video as well!

That’s it for now.  If all goes well I’ll have some more pictures and videos of the setup soon!