So I just got my hands on a projector and I was wondering if anyone uses a projector to project their DJ Name, Venue Name, etc…???
If so what program do you use. I have a PCso any suggestions would be great. I was at a club in Houston and the DJ had scrolling text projected up on the wall. It was like a flash slideshow with just words… the letters looked like the Matrix…it looked pretty cool.
Anyway any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Erik Cardenas
A gig away from buying my first VCI-100…
Yeah, I’m going to whip something up on Illustrator. I was hoping to find some program that was like a ticker where I could edit the text on the fly…that’s probably to much to ask for…
Thanks for the tips…that matrixtext wasn’t bad…using that on my bulletins and stuff.
You could probably knock something like that up in flash pretty easily. Tile an animated gif as the matrix background then just stick in a text field with a matrix like font. You could have that display anything you wanted, scrolling text, flashing messages, etc…
better yet set it up with a script to display text messages, tweets, or even comments from a web page, that would require an internet connection though.
vvvv is amazing, a graphical programming environment. The options are endless and you can come up with some stuff very quickly. It’s a bit of a learning curve but for scrolling text it would be very easy and triggering it all with midi is no hassles.
PC only though. It’s all real time programming as opposed to runtime so everything can be changed on the fly.
If I had a projector I would definitely be integrating it into my own sets. Getting a gif or something into the renderer takes a couple of clicks and the you could setup a basic HSL slider that responds to midi so when you are mixing with eqs the colour would change and ramp up the atmosphere. it’s endless. You can stream XML and RSS feeds and all that pretty easily too. All the example patches come with the free download so you can see how it all works and make your own patches.
that said however if you set your projector to the second display and turn off monitor mirroring then you can run apps in this second ‘display’ open up some kind a movie player and make it full screen and off you go, you would need to make your film first for this to work though, and wouldn’t move to the beat as it were
so any suggestions would be great. I was at a club in Houston and the DJ had scrolling text projected up on the wall. It was like a flash slideshow with just words… the letters looked like the Matrix…it looked pretty cool.