Says Scott Blair, HES DL.2 product manager: "This new feature differs from the existing edge-fading feature in DL.2 in that Collage Generator allows the user to define a panorama using a selectable array of fixtures and then manipulate the panorama as if it were one single fixture. This special form of edge-blending is optimized for this fusion of images into one."
Providing an example, Blair adds: "The user could link 4 DL.2s to create one large Central Panorama that offers a screen luminance of 20K lumens. Horizontal and Vertical Panoramas may also be configured using 2, 3 and 4 DL.2 fixtures. No longer will presentation professionals have to budget the hours necessary to set up a panoramic projection system, balancing projector white balances and aligning pixels to pixels."
Most panoramas can be set up during preproduction in under 25 minutes, say HES, while multiple panoramas can be called up as cues on one show setting the new visual standard.
(Lee Baldock)
