"It allowed us to focus more on the important creative side." "The difference was night and day for us," Lerner said. Thirty of Panasonic's large venue 3-Chip DLP SOLID SHINE, 30,000-lumen laser projectors brought the Luma Festival to life. You can network the projectors, you can address any ones you want, you can address them in tandem. “Whether it's on a curved screen, flat screen, or a building mapping, everything is at your fingertips. “The Geometry Manager Pro software does everything from focusing, lens shift, all the way through to geometry, to color matching, just every one of the steps that you may have to touch or you may have to do to set up a projector,” Meehan explained. “When you're in the dark with a bunch of projectors and you're trying to set them up on a timeline-there's never enough time,” Meehan said. "They brought in those tricks and the things we didn't know how to do, that saved us an immense amount of time," Lerner said. Panasonic projectors are known for easy setup and easy-to-navigate menus. Panasonic Visual Systems engineering manager John Meehan was one of three Panasonic team members who helped set up the projectors at the 2019 LUMA Festival. "That gets you maybe 30 to 50 percent of the way there, so by the time you're entering the mapping software, you're dealing with the fine details of getting the animation to fit," Lerner added. The Panasonic software proved to do an exceptional job than the mapping software on the PC at correcting a lot of the initial distortion and from the angles of the projectors and brightness variations caused by overlapping.
"The biggest advantage of using Geometry Pro is that you've got the advantage of the full power of the software that Panasonic built into the projectors," Lerner said. Panasonic's Multi Projector Monitoring & Control Software was used for networking, and Geometry Manager Pro was used for mapping.
It was streamlined, efficient and extremely accurate," Lerner said. "When the Panasonic Visual Systems Engineering team came along in 2019, they networked all the projectors together and used Panasonic software to align the grids with the projectors and the hardware versus the way we were doing it. In the four years of events leading up to the 2019 LUMA Festival, the LUMA team would design all edge blending and mapping in software on a PC.
Tice Lerner, co-founder of the 2019 LUMA Festival (opens in new tab) that transformed Binghamton, NY, into an interactive, immersive art scene, knows firsthand how projection software can make a difference in helping an event launch on time.
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