Easter 2011 / What's Your Status?

For Easter of 2011 we decided to have the band on top of a mini video wall. It was an engaging look that was pretty versatile.

I apologize for the poor image quality, most of the pictures in this blog were shot with my Moto Droid, yes the original one, and it's not so hot in low light.


We had recently upgraded to High Definition in the main auditorium so I had a couple of extra Sony FX52 projectors sitting around. On the video side we used the Matrox Triple Head to Go, Digital Edition, to send the content to the platform the band was on out of ProPresenter 4. I would have sent two separate feeds out of the Matrox but one of my Extron twisted pair transmitters had bitten the dust. It was going to have to be one feed for both sides of the wall. Since the feed was from the same machine as my main program screens I didn't have to worry about any sort of sync.

Here's a video of the set in action from during sound check:



The platform was pretty much constructed like a stage

but faced with some white sheeting and scrim fabric. It did a pretty good job acting like a screen material and it withstood a little bit of abuse during the 5-6 weeks this set was up.

The most difficult part was aligning the image on the center of the platform and making the mask identical for both sides. If the image was a separate feed this wouldn't have been as big a problem but since the mask for the middle seam was the same mask for the right hand image on the Stage Left side it had to be a really good symmetrical alignment. At one point it seemed that ProPresenter 4 had a bug with the mask "moving". I'd correct an issue, save the file, close PP4, reopen it and the change wasn't there or it was different than before in a new way. It was the most frustrating part of the set.