The Rest of the Industry

So, I am siting here, back stage, in the dark, at the Gaylord Texan doing a medium sized medical show. I was called by my buddy Shane to run his Spyder. Now, I am a Barco guy, I teach the screen pro 2 and the Encore, I love those products and I think they are amazing to work with, but Shane thought the Spyder was a better decision to buy, which I can understand, so I learned it as well.

Now, to explain what these two units do, I have a couple of pictures.

What these two pictures are are old encore shows. The top one was a show that I was brought in to do the encore design, engineering, and operating by my great partners at ShowPro (www.showpro.net). What this picture is is a blended two projector screen in the middle, 20 X 60, with 4 outside 16X9 screens, all controlled seperately, so I can put what ever the client wants on each screen. This had 4 Encore Processors on it.

The second picture was a show I was brought in to help design and to do the encore work with and it is a single 30X80 3 projector blend. Both of these are typical types of events done with encores or spyders.

So, onto today and also the title of this blog, "the rest of the industry" which could also be called the medium size shows. I love reading the magazines that show great photos from the huge shows, with unlimited budgets. Mike, who works for us when he's home, is currently on tour with The Fray doing a massive LED wall, really cool!!! But what about the true bread and butter of our industry, the medium sized shows. I have already shown some photos from these types of shows. If you read my May 14th Blog "Ahh HDCP how you take years off my life" you would know what I am talking about because it is that type of show, or like the show I am on here. These are what I am really talking about, smaller budgets but still have to look and sound great and make sure that the attendees think it is a huge show.


This is a picture of what I am currently doing, and what I am talking about. The three screens, because I am using the spyder, I can control each screen individually, even though the side screens do stay the same.

This is what the Spyder or Encore can do. This is the same center screen but with the joy of PIP (Picture in picture)! The client wanted to be able to put the presentations on the screen as well as an IMag (Image Magnification) picture, with a picture of the Dallas skyline behind them. The best way to do this is the Spyder or the Encore and can still be affordable.

This is a picture of what my control looks like for this show. Because of the budget, I am running the show from my laptop. A great way of looking at how you can make a show look great, with not the biggest, unlimited budgets.

Now, if you do have a big budget,




You can always make this your video control area!!

So in closing, I am showing a meeting that we did last year for Best Buy, this is another great example of the medium size show, the true bread and butter of our industry.