You'll use the nvidia control panel to configure your surround or spanned display that stretches across either two or three displays. 1 screen is the control screen and the other three are the output screen. If you want to actually set it up on three screens, you'll need an NVIDIA graphics card that support four displays for triple wide or three displays for double wide. You can also setup any song, presentation or theme to be triple wide by clicking on inspector in the editor, then selecting a triple wide aspect ratio under Presentation. If you are just playing around, you can go into options and set a custom position with a triple wide resolution. Images: Courtesy of Asbury United Methodist Church/Invisible Element.There are a few ways to get a triple wide display for EasyWorship. MediaMaster does it all for you, everything you need is built into the box – simple!”
It is super-versatile, looks good on entrance, engaging during performance and even takes care of some of the decoration of the room – how else could I cover a 300ft wide wall with fir and holly so easily and quickly? It's like painting on the surface of a building and I can’t think how I would do this without ArKaos. MediaMaster is an easy way to provide and control powerful images in an impactful way. “ArKaos makes environmental projection simple as well as spectacular. “Environmental projection is an exciting medium for a church as it transforms the environment and mood of the services from a passive experience to an engaging one that engulfs the congregation and draws them in. It makes the whole thing very fast and easy to use and I can achieve stunning and very different effects in a very short time. “MediaMaster makes it easy to tinker with the idiosyncrasies of a building as a projection surface, and once I had the templates in place I simply use them as the basis for dropping in new images. Ottley created the surfaces and masking for each area of projection in the room using MediaMaster’s video mapping function. “We put the still images on one channel and the video clip on the other and I can crossfade from one to the other directly from the lighting desk with MediaMaster running in the background over Art-Net.” I can then replicate the output multiple times, having first removed the foreground detail and edge-blended the background imagery, and merge the repeats so they blend seamlessly into a backdrop that fills the space. We can choose on a week-by-week basis which picture we want as a welcoming image on each side of the room and, using the ‘Output’ function, I can output the same image to two different places. “We achieved this using MediaMaster to put each picture on its own surface and layer them on top of each other. We use these individually as static images on each sidewall to change the appearance and mood of the room, and also transpose them in layers to build a more detailed picture, for example, adding the Wise Men or Angels to the scenic backdrop, which we can also run as a video sequence. “ We then break the video down into pieces. “Our aim was to create a short video clip as an opening sequence to the services over the five week period of Advent,” he says.
This Christmas season sees the interior of the church awash with imagery, produced by Jason Yang of Invisible Element, based on the Christmas story and depicted in colourful visuals reminiscent of stained glass. Advent is a season of anticipation and Ottley’s theme is to present a beautiful and welcoming environment as the congregation enters each week in the build-up to Christmas. Lighting Director, Tim Ottley, uses it to present some stunning visual backdrops across their 300ft wide/30-60ft tall walls to enhance both modern and traditional services.
ArKaos PRO brings environmental projection to Asbury United Methodist Church.Īsbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma has chosen an ArKaos PRO Stadium Server running ArKaos MediaMaster 4 software to handle the environmental projection mapping at their church.