US Legal Audience Scanning Effect

[Photonbeam]

In the early '70's we used to go to the drive-in movie on a foggy night, park backwards facing the projector and watch the lightshow in the air, often better than the imagery on the screen, depending on your state of mind.

[Bradfo69]

In the early 70's.... I hadn't been "corrupted" yet. That wasn't until about '78. LOL

[TechJunkie]

Professional?? That made me giggle. (And probably a few others on her too!) Professional hack... perhaps. I just figured out how to make a few extra bucks with this silly assed hobby and pretend I know some of what I'm doing kinda goodly.

If you fill out paperwork before you do a show I consider you a professional. Plus you dont need money to be a professional, you just need to love what you do, which obviously you do.


Sorry for being a Dick. Freakin internet melts my mind. This is the only social network I roam, as was LPF, and you can see what happened there. I'll give them credit them for putting up with me for 5 years.

I'm hopping I can get a few years out of you guys. I have no where else to go. I'm way to addicted to lasers. Now you guys got me hooked on projectors. *Bastards*

[Bradfo69]

Start saving your SELEM money! If you're addicted...it's the light you need to move towards!

I didn't view you as being a dick by the way. This forum is a lot about trying things and learning so, yes it may be possible to create the effect in software other than BEYOND. I wasn't saying it wasn't because, I don't know. It will be interesting to see what results are if people experiment with it. And yes, to a room full of novices, it may very well look like lasers. That's what was so impressive at SELEM. I'm willing to bet a bunch of high school kids at their prom who are being scanned by a video projector emulating a laser are going to go home thinking what a badass time they had dancing in the laser beams. Half shot in the ass bridesmaids probably will too. I was simply saying for me... I'm not going to try and experiment with other software because I know how well it works in BEYOND and I already own it. I can appreciate someone that doesn't yet, may still look for a less expensive alternative. Emulaser is but one very, very tiny part of what can be done with BEYOND so, it's still a software package to aspire to get someday down the road though.

[TechJunkie]

Half shot in the ass bridesmaids probably will too.

Those are my favorite type. *Nyuk Nyuk*

I'm so broke I cant leave town. Maybe next year though.

[Stiffler]

I'm so broke I cant leave town. Maybe next year though.

Don't feel bad, I'm so broke I can't afford to pay attention!

[norty303]

Remember that this is not new to use a Beamer for video effects. Laser Electronics have had V3D for years but up until recently it was a $1500 piece of software. There are at least 2 other pieces of software that do this, one of which was freeware afaik.

[TechJunkie]

Don't feel bad, I'm so broke I can't afford to pay attention!

LOL Seems like its going around. Living from paycheck to paycheck is not fun.

There are at least 2 other pieces of software that do this, one of which was freeware afaik.

What are those Adam?

[norty303]

See this thread from about 4 years ago from a forum that I used to admin...
http://forum.speakerplans.com/using-...145_page1.html

[swamidog]

how much does this differ from just mirroring the laser preview window to a video projector?