Thursday, August 03, 2006

Believe (the Shamu show)

Mondays are my sacred "day off". A day to recharge and to spend much needed time with my family. This last monday we went to Sea World and it was a blast. What I wasn't expecting was to be mezmorized by the Shamu Show, "Believe". They begin the show with video shown on what looks like two large matching LED screens. When the show gets into full swing, the screens sepparate and move along a track to combine and make one larger wide screen. They also operate as independent screens as well. Oh yeah, they rotate as well. And when they rotate, they are showing both live video from (what looks like) three cameras, plus an overhead camera, as well as a couple underwater cameras. It's all pretty amazing, I am more interested in the software that is used to control the "splitting" of the screens; how and when to split the images and when to combine them. I am not really into the moving, rotating in a live setting, but I do like the idea of having instant recallable screen positions - that would be really cool for a church stage. One part of the service could have two side screens, while another part could have a super widescreen image... (I think Willow Creek has something close to this).

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