I finished each of your videos and I have to say thank you very much for your time and for the way you explain each topic, now I would like to know if you have a more complete course, if so I would buy it without thinking. Thank you again for an excellent tutorial.
Thanks so much for your support - I appreciate it. I don't currently have a course, but maybe in the future. If you're subscribed, you'll be the first to know 😁
I did a little rear projection work this year for Halloween onto some of our windows. It was a huge hit, and wanted to up my game next year with a projection mapped display. These tutorials are amazing, and I can't wait to get started! Thanks for such clear instructions!
I am diving into mapping now for a 2022 Halloween and Christmas show. I imagine a year will allow me to learn the software and hardware. Thanks for the playlist. Just knocked out House Projection Mapping Tutorials 1-5. Cheers.
Thoroughly enjoyed these tuts! Well explained and to the point. Looking forward to doing my projections. These are priceless towards my goal. Thanks for that.
i've done projection mapping for the first time and i did it on my house. primary results are going well. Can you give some tips or do a tutorial on doing this setup with MadMapper? i'm curious to see how you would approach it! Great job and great series. These are honestly the best house projection tutorials on the internet
Adapting this workflow to MadMapper would be very easy. Take your animations made in tutorial 3, bring them in to MadMapper and set up meshes for each section of the house (the same sections identified in tutorial 4), mask out unnecessary bits (like in tutorial 4) and start mapping!
This is a great starting point. Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks. I'm curious how you might do a multiple-projector setup that can wrap content around a corner or complex object. I live on a corner and would love to have things interacting from the front to the side.
That’s totally possible with this method. If you’ve watched the second video in the series about making a guide, instead of exporting an image for just the front, you’d also do one for the side. Then you’d make outlines for the side surfaces too and arrange them next to the front surfaces. The aim is to make a set of outlines that are as if your projection surfaces were made of paper and you have unwrapped them and laid them out flat
@@LumaBox Yes! Since I wrote this comment, I've also seen your tutorials on using two projectors on the wedding cake which helps tremendously! I've had to do similar things with LED video boards, but the mapping was "built in" to the boards themselves so the setup isn't something I really had to deal with. I just made an After Effects template to fit the mapping that was already there :) Thanks so much for the reply!
I wonder how one person can master so many softwares.... u are an inspiration Luma!! Can you help us with a tutorial utilising the animations of Resolume and madmapper to apply to this house mapping in After Effects. Thanks.
Wondering if you do any adjustments to the projector settings itself (such as keystone) - and if you do, is that performed on a flat surface first, or do you make those adjustments while it's on the building?
Thank you for these videos! They were inspiring! I don't think I would have attempted this without seeing them. I really enjoyed the house mapping/animation parts in videos 1-3, but I got lost starting in video 4 when you started grouping things into compositions. Specifically, I'm having difficulty getting the corner pin effect working in step 5... I'm not immediately sure where I went wrong. To simplify for now, I'm starting only with one region of my house (the garage), with only 2 mins of one simple free video downloaded from UA-cam... - I believe I exported it properly into a PNG sequence at the end of video 3... - I think I imported it right at the beginning of step 4. (in video 4 I didn't see you import it... it looks like you had done that "off camera" between ending video 3 and starting video 4.) - I didn't follow exactly what your reasoning was for combining layers/compositions the way you did... It looks like you were trying to crop extra video to save storage/render time and then apply corner pinning to multiple items instead of just one item. Can you provide additional documentation/description of what your intent was here? Thank you again!
Hi Tim. I think you've pretty much grasped the reasoning. I'm making compositions for the 4 surfaces that need to be mapped separately: left house, left roof, right house, right roof. By trimming off everything that doesn't belong within those areas I'm preventing unwanted content going on the wrong surfaces and by putting them all inside a comp, I only have to apply the corner pin to that comp for it to affect everything inside.
Thanks for the incredible videos! The way you express your knowledge is not only extremely intuitive but you easily communicate complex topics in a very understandable way. I've been wanting to get into projection mapping for some time and I'm binging your videos. :) Quick question on how to set up for multiple projectors. The face of my house is fairly wide and my current projectors are too dim when moved back far enough to cover the entire house. I fortunately have two projectors. I would like to let each projector take one half of the house. What would your suggestion be to have a content somewhat seamlessly play across the house yet be rendered for each individual projector? I can handle the actual syncing and playing of the videos, I just am not quite sure how to set them up in After Effects so that the content is fairly well stitched together. I'm a little afraid if I do two different house images like you suggested in a comment down below for someone on a corner that it will be hard to align the content across the two different images. Is there a way I can lay the content out across the house much like in your tutorials, yet somehow export a section just for one projector or the other?
Hi Matt. A good question as you start to think about more advanced mapping setups. To help me answer, can you first tell me if you've decided to go with the orthographic method (like I show in these tutorials) or have you outlined your house from a static point of view?
@@LumaBox No worries. Took me forever to respond to your question too! 😂 I am using the orthographic method like you showed. It looks much easier in the long run to have a single compilation of the front of my house while being able to somehow export multiple portions from the view of the projector at that location. And, of course, adjust if the projector moves between seasons.
Thanks so much for the videos Georgia. I've watched more times than I can count. A question though regarding content that you want to have span multiple sections that are at different distances from the projector. Do you replicate the content for each area (like the left and right side of the front of your house) and mask out the appropriate content? Or do you simply have the content span both areas at the same, causing a bit of a size difference between the 2 areas. Thanks again!
I compose the show across a large composition that contains my surfaces laid out side-by-side. The surfaces are the correct scale relative to one another in the composition so the scale of the content is also consistent when it moves from surface to surface. Note that I work orthographically (without perspective) so distance from the projector, for me, causes no issue of changing scale.
You are SO AMAZING.... GREAT JOB... YOU´RE THE BEST DOING MAPPING... AWESOME SKILLS IN AFTER EFFETS, BLANDER, 3D ETC... THANKS FOR SHOW HOW TO DO IT...
Please make more house mapping tutorials! I just saw your halloween 2021 video and it looks amazing. I'm reallt inspired to do house projection mapping, but aside from the tutorials are a bit lost as to where to start. It is definitely a hobby I really want to get into
@@LumaBox Maybe cover some other things for mapping content onto the house? I've found that I'm struggling with adding normal video content and making it "mapped" to the house when it's not using a spotlight (e.g. your Thriller video doesn't use the spotlight effect like video 4 in this series) E.g. I'm trying to do a snowfall effect on my house, but currently the video is just a big square and not mapped to the areas of the house. But if I were to use the spotlight effect like in the previous video it wouldn't show.
Really good tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to create this. I've wanted to do something like this for a long time. Not only this but I also would like to gain more experience with After Effects.
Well adding multiple displays would be very simple if you were using mapping software like MadMapper. With After Effects... that's not something I've done, but I'd imagine you'd use a display splitter like a DualHead2Go and then set that (double) display as your display output from After Effects. It would be treated as one output but it actually contains two projectors, thanks to the splitter. Does that make any sense?
Hi Luma, thank you so much for these tutorials! I am using it for a fashion project for my senior thesis capstone. I was wondering, if I were to turn on the projector at a specific time, would I have to set up the video playing every time i turn it on, or would the setting just resume to what it was last set up as? I basically want to avoid the menu screen being projected and want to go straight to the video if that makes sense. Thank you so much!
I think it would depend on your projector model. If you’re turning the projector on from and off state, I think it’s quite likely you would see some sort of branding or message when you turn the unit on. I think a better idea might be to keep the projector on and turn on the video signal when your are ready for the show to start
Respected Miss! Kindly teach me how the video mapping on building is prepared.....which simple software is suitable for beginner....how the projector and laptop are connected to each other....???....Each and everything from start to end may kindly be taught plzzz
Hi Azhar. If you watch the 5-part series this video is a part of, those questions are covered. As for connecting a projector, Windows: ua-cam.com/video/HoCHFjCTXNY/v-deo.html, Mac: ua-cam.com/video/yhG7fsR7sM0/v-deo.html
Thank you very much for those tutorials ! I’m planning to do a big Christmas show this year and I need 2 beamers. I haven’t found out how to project from 2 different sources with your method. Would you mind giving me some tips ?
You could go through the steps of this tutorial twice, once for each projector. Or you could use dedicated projection mapping software like MadMapper to handle the output of two projectors - see this other tutorial ua-cam.com/video/YVgUWpfaRNU/v-deo.html
Thanks for this tutorial, It's great and really easy to follow! i may have missed this but one question I have is can you show us how to do the final set up with multiple projectors, I don't have enough space at the front of the house to span the full house with 1 projector :(
great videos! u deserve much more subs! im an 2d animator too, work on projection mapping. i ll be glad to see more tuts on houses with destruction or abstract effects.
You could just go through the steps of Tutorial 5 again but for the second projector. Or you could use something like MadMapper ua-cam.com/video/YVgUWpfaRNU/v-deo.html
Thank you so much for creating this set of videos. I do have a question about the size of the house you are projecting on. I was I looking to get the BenQ HT2150ST as recommend on your site but wanted to know if it would cover my whole house. Can you tell me the total size you projected on to.
These are amazing tutorials. I'm trying to connect all the dots still and while I think most of it makes sense...still a few questions. Do you have any tutorials that show using a 2nd projector with the various house pieces you have 3d rendered and created layers for? I'm assuming that the corner pinning helps adjust the angles of content to show correctly on the house. I think this resolves the issue I've had where some masks have to be rotated because of physical skewing. Thanks again...great stuff.
I don't have any tutorials on that topic yet - but I'm sure I will in the future. Are you using After Effects for the mapping or another application? Either way, you're right - the corner pinning is used to adjust content for the skewing caused by projecting from an angle.
@@LumaBox Thank you. Yes, using AE. I think my challenge is determining where to break the house into planes for corner pinning. It's all basically at same plane except that with single projector as you move from the middle it skews slightly...but no clear point to put a break. It's more of a gradual thing....It's always improving...but challenging :-)
I think I read over on Facebook that you're taking your projector in each night. Are you going to re-corner pin each time or try to match the projector position as much as possible?
@@LumaBox I've been just matching the position every time. I have an "alignment" clip that plays for about two minutes at the start and it works ok. I have about an hour of content playing and having to re-export that every time with new corner pinning would be a pain. BUT...if/when I get that configured, it will make a 2nd projector much easier to coordinate I believe.
Thank you for this great tutorial, and this is super valuable and easy to understand. I have one question. Why did you use a media player and a projector separately? I imagined that some projectors have USB ports so you do not need to use a media player. I am a super beginner and just started to learn this topic so it might be a stupid question but it would be great if you share your knowledge. Thank you.
I think that's true about being able to play from a USB or SD card (although my projector doesn't have this capability). The media player also gives you control over how the media plays back (looping, random shuffling etc) which might be needed for your show.
Great tutorials!! If I wanted to use two projectors to get better detail across the front of my house, should I use after effects to create the content and then madmapper to map across both projectors? Or does after effects have the capability to map the video across two projectors?
You *can* use AE to map with the two projectors but I think you're definitely on the right track if you're thinking about using MadMapper to handle the mapping - it will be much more straightforward
@@LumaBox I see, that's why I was a bit confused...it seem so advanced to be just from After effects. I will continue to practice and maybe have more questions in the future...but, in the meantime thank you! And I look forward to more of your inspiring works. ❤
I have a question, I don't know if it's a silly one but I don't know anything about projectors, in my school we used to use projectors for our presentations and when the background of the slides was totally black you could see the color black, kind of like what you get with LCD screens compared to OLED screens that the color black is off. I see that in the video the dark parts are not seen or emit light, if I buy a projector to do this should the projector have a special feature or is it just a setting on the light that most projectors have?
Often you can see light emitted by projectors in areas that are supposed to be black. My blacks are not in fact truly black but they are pretty good and hardly noticeable. The video helps with this because the shot is exposed to capture the details of the bright projections and crush the black or close-to-black areas down to levels the eye interprets as black. Using a good quality projector that is bright with a good contrast ratio will help with this issue.
HELP, LUMA!! I followed all you tutos, finished all my project and was about to go outside with my projector then realize that the menu In the "video preview" on my After Effect CS6 does't match yours ( ie. don't have the "enable Mercury Transit" box , etc...) Can't even see the two displays, even if I have extended my desktop. Any advice? Can I stiil configure ( and finish) my project in CS6, or am I stuck?
Stupid question but you have a projector correctly connected don't you? I don't know off the top of my head. If you're not finding any results by googling the issue, I'd recommend getting in touch with adobe support because they'll know much more than me
@@LumaBox To answer your question, yes, I made a test with a second monitor connected to my laptop via HDMI. Know what? the strange thing is, In Premiere CS6, it works fine! It is not called Mercury transmit, but I do can select my output on one of my two options. Strange. I wonder why the dialog box is different in AE CS6. I will keep searching in Google. Thanks for trying to help, it's much appreciated. And even if the outcome wouldn't be a happy one, Still I've learned à LOT of Stuff. Thanks again. Wish me luck.
Aside from environmental situations such as where you have available to set up the projector, are there other advantages to using a short throw projector in these situations? I have seen that BenQ offers 1080p projectors with the same or higher lumen count that aren't short throw for $100-$200 less. What is your opinion on this? Thank you!
Don't take this as gospel, but I think if you've got the space to use a standard lens projector and the unit is cheaper, then there's no reason why you wouldn't... I think there is a myth (?) that short throw projectors are 'brighter' www.reddit.com/r/projectors/comments/98heci/are_short_throw_projectors_brighter/
is it possible to use the masks in Resolume and the animation is automaticly applayed to these? So you dont have to render the video on site which can take really long.
This is my kit if it's any help www.lumabox.com/house-projection-mapping-kit/ Short throw and as bright as you can afford, is my general advice. Maybe borrow one if you can while you're just starting out or pick up something second hand 👍
Hello! Thank you for the tutorial! A few questions....my home is 50 feet across. Would you recommend 1 projector or 2? Also, if using dual projectors, will the home mapping need to be done with 1 or both projectors? Lastly, if using dual projectors, will both need to be placed exactly in order to get the perfect picture? Thanks for any help you can provide!
Hey, I love your videos. I want to start this year on my house. But another question, would you do anything different for a motorhome? I'm considering doing the side of our motorhome when we camp for halloween.
Hello, I have a true beginner question. I want to use music as the foundation of my mapping. How or where do I put the audio and then add the mapping and animation to it?
To be honest, if you're starting to get into using multiple projectors, your life would be made much easier to move over to a professional application for handling projection mapping specifically - something like MadMapper, Resolume, etc. There are a few ways you could approach using multiple projectors in AE. If you intend to play your video off a media player (like I do in the video) then the simplest way is to go through the process shown in tutorial 5/5 for one projector, and then go through it again for each additional projector.
@@LumaBox I know this is a very basic tutorial but it would be awesome to know to scale it up with multiple projectors new designs. Maybe make an “advanced method” where you would map something bigger and include more effects?
If you wanted to still use After Effects, I imagine you would use a display splitter (like a DualHead2Go or similar) to make a double-wide display made up of both projector outputs, then select that as your output display in AE. But I should say I haven't done this myself.
Is it possible to apply this concept using mad mapper or lightform creator instead of Adobe AE? Or are there other ways to do it on these other platforms?
Yes it absolutely is. The principles are the same and usually even more straightforward with applications tailored towards projection mapping exclusively. I decided to do everything in AE to keep the costs lower (assuming one had already purchased AE to create the animations)
Would love it if you could kindly do a series on madmapper highlighting the same work done in this series. Your absolutely a beast in mapping, would love to learn from your awesome tips..
Fantastic! Amazing. You clearly taught projection mapping PLUS after effects and photogrammetry AND blender!?! Amazing. Thank you.
He he. No problem!
this series and channel is top-notch! thank you
You're top notch for saying so 😁
I finished each of your videos and I have to say thank you very much for your time and for the way you explain each topic, now I would like to know if you have a more complete course, if so I would buy it without thinking. Thank you again for an excellent tutorial.
Thanks so much for your support - I appreciate it. I don't currently have a course, but maybe in the future. If you're subscribed, you'll be the first to know 😁
I did a little rear projection work this year for Halloween onto some of our windows. It was a huge hit, and wanted to up my game next year with a projection mapped display. These tutorials are amazing, and I can't wait to get started! Thanks for such clear instructions!
No problem :)
most underrated channel
Thanks Mario!
Thank you. Now the world will not be the same.
Bring it on! 🔥 😄
I am diving into mapping now for a 2022 Halloween and Christmas show. I imagine a year will allow me to learn the software and hardware. Thanks for the playlist. Just knocked out House Projection Mapping Tutorials 1-5. Cheers.
Have fun!
I have really enjoyed your tutorials, very easy to follow. Thank you nice lady! 👍
You are so welcome!
By the way, I appreciate these tutorials. It has helped increase my creativity and step back from the news of 2020.
Super glad to hear that 😊
Straightforward and thorough! Thank you so much for this tutorial!
You're very welcome!
You are a genius. Hats off.
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Thank you! Watching your series has really stoked my interest in projection mapping! Very informative and easy to follow.
Great to hear!
Thoroughly enjoyed these tuts! Well explained and to the point. Looking forward to doing my projections. These are priceless towards my goal. Thanks for that.
Glad to hear it and good luck with your projections
Very good tutorial, thank you!
You are welcome!
i've done projection mapping for the first time and i did it on my house. primary results are going well. Can you give some tips or do a tutorial on doing this setup with MadMapper? i'm curious to see how you would approach it! Great job and great series. These are honestly the best house projection tutorials on the internet
Adapting this workflow to MadMapper would be very easy. Take your animations made in tutorial 3, bring them in to MadMapper and set up meshes for each section of the house (the same sections identified in tutorial 4), mask out unnecessary bits (like in tutorial 4) and start mapping!
@@LumaBox awesome thank you!
Amazing videos!! So easy to follow.
Happy to hear that!
Thank you for these tutorials I’ve been want to get into projector mapping for a while now and I think with you teachings I’ll be doing it.
Glad to hear it! 👍
This is a great starting point. Thank you for sharing your tips and tricks. I'm curious how you might do a multiple-projector setup that can wrap content around a corner or complex object. I live on a corner and would love to have things interacting from the front to the side.
That’s totally possible with this method. If you’ve watched the second video in the series about making a guide, instead of exporting an image for just the front, you’d also do one for the side. Then you’d make outlines for the side surfaces too and arrange them next to the front surfaces. The aim is to make a set of outlines that are as if your projection surfaces were made of paper and you have unwrapped them and laid them out flat
@@LumaBox Yes! Since I wrote this comment, I've also seen your tutorials on using two projectors on the wedding cake which helps tremendously! I've had to do similar things with LED video boards, but the mapping was "built in" to the boards themselves so the setup isn't something I really had to deal with. I just made an After Effects template to fit the mapping that was already there :) Thanks so much for the reply!
My skills on AE are limited, but I'll definitely try to do something like this, so inspiring...Thank you.
There are loads of tutorials out there to help you on your learning journey in AE 👍
Thank you for all the tutorials ! Sad to not have seen the eyes/mouth in it ! But is was GREAAAAT !
Yes that animation is more advanced. But glad it was helpful
I wonder how one person can master so many softwares.... u are an inspiration Luma!! Can you help us with a tutorial utilising the animations of Resolume and madmapper to apply to this house mapping in After Effects. Thanks.
Yes I can try to do this in the future. Thanks for watching!
Wondering if you do any adjustments to the projector settings itself (such as keystone) - and if you do, is that performed on a flat surface first, or do you make those adjustments while it's on the building?
No keystoning on the projector since that is done digitally in the mapping process
The way you work is so professional... Thanks so much for sharing it . Greetings :-)
Thank you very much!
Thanks for those tutorials …..really helpfull
My pleasure!
I love this approach to mapping! Great work with the tutorial series!
Thanks. I'm a fan of yours too! 😀
Thank you for these videos! They were inspiring! I don't think I would have attempted this without seeing them.
I really enjoyed the house mapping/animation parts in videos 1-3, but I got lost starting in video 4 when you started grouping things into compositions.
Specifically, I'm having difficulty getting the corner pin effect working in step 5... I'm not immediately sure where I went wrong.
To simplify for now, I'm starting only with one region of my house (the garage), with only 2 mins of one simple free video downloaded from UA-cam...
- I believe I exported it properly into a PNG sequence at the end of video 3...
- I think I imported it right at the beginning of step 4. (in video 4 I didn't see you import it... it looks like you had done that "off camera" between ending video 3 and starting video 4.)
- I didn't follow exactly what your reasoning was for combining layers/compositions the way you did... It looks like you were trying to crop extra video to save storage/render time and then apply corner pinning to multiple items instead of just one item. Can you provide additional documentation/description of what your intent was here?
Thank you again!
Hi Tim. I think you've pretty much grasped the reasoning. I'm making compositions for the 4 surfaces that need to be mapped separately: left house, left roof, right house, right roof. By trimming off everything that doesn't belong within those areas I'm preventing unwanted content going on the wrong surfaces and by putting them all inside a comp, I only have to apply the corner pin to that comp for it to affect everything inside.
Really cool and useful series, thanks!
My pleasure!
Thanks for the incredible videos! The way you express your knowledge is not only extremely intuitive but you easily communicate complex topics in a very understandable way. I've been wanting to get into projection mapping for some time and I'm binging your videos. :)
Quick question on how to set up for multiple projectors. The face of my house is fairly wide and my current projectors are too dim when moved back far enough to cover the entire house. I fortunately have two projectors. I would like to let each projector take one half of the house. What would your suggestion be to have a content somewhat seamlessly play across the house yet be rendered for each individual projector? I can handle the actual syncing and playing of the videos, I just am not quite sure how to set them up in After Effects so that the content is fairly well stitched together. I'm a little afraid if I do two different house images like you suggested in a comment down below for someone on a corner that it will be hard to align the content across the two different images.
Is there a way I can lay the content out across the house much like in your tutorials, yet somehow export a section just for one projector or the other?
Hi Matt. A good question as you start to think about more advanced mapping setups. To help me answer, can you first tell me if you've decided to go with the orthographic method (like I show in these tutorials) or have you outlined your house from a static point of view?
P.s. sorry my response took a while!
@@LumaBox No worries. Took me forever to respond to your question too! 😂 I am using the orthographic method like you showed. It looks much easier in the long run to have a single compilation of the front of my house while being able to somehow export multiple portions from the view of the projector at that location. And, of course, adjust if the projector moves between seasons.
Thanks so much for the videos Georgia. I've watched more times than I can count. A question though regarding content that you want to have span multiple sections that are at different distances from the projector. Do you replicate the content for each area (like the left and right side of the front of your house) and mask out the appropriate content? Or do you simply have the content span both areas at the same, causing a bit of a size difference between the 2 areas. Thanks again!
I compose the show across a large composition that contains my surfaces laid out side-by-side. The surfaces are the correct scale relative to one another in the composition so the scale of the content is also consistent when it moves from surface to surface. Note that I work orthographically (without perspective) so distance from the projector, for me, causes no issue of changing scale.
You are SO AMAZING.... GREAT JOB... YOU´RE THE BEST DOING MAPPING... AWESOME SKILLS IN AFTER EFFETS, BLANDER, 3D ETC... THANKS FOR SHOW HOW TO DO IT...
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching and for all your enthusiasm!
Please make more house mapping tutorials! I just saw your halloween 2021 video and it looks amazing. I'm reallt inspired to do house projection mapping, but aside from the tutorials are a bit lost as to where to start. It is definitely a hobby I really want to get into
I'll try. It's finding the time! What kind of house mapping content are you particularly keen to see?
@@LumaBox Christmassssssss. Liked and subscribed, thank you for all your tutorials
@@LumaBox Maybe cover some other things for mapping content onto the house? I've found that I'm struggling with adding normal video content and making it "mapped" to the house when it's not using a spotlight (e.g. your Thriller video doesn't use the spotlight effect like video 4 in this series)
E.g. I'm trying to do a snowfall effect on my house, but currently the video is just a big square and not mapped to the areas of the house. But if I were to use the spotlight effect like in the previous video it wouldn't show.
Really good tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to create this. I've wanted to do something like this for a long time. Not only this but I also would like to gain more experience with After Effects.
Awesome. Hopefully I can bring you some more tutorials that will help 👍
Thank you so much, you are awesome!!
You're welcome!
Thank you so much for making this tutorial! It is by far the best one on UA-cam. You mentioned using multiple projectors. How would that work?
Well adding multiple displays would be very simple if you were using mapping software like MadMapper. With After Effects... that's not something I've done, but I'd imagine you'd use a display splitter like a DualHead2Go and then set that (double) display as your display output from After Effects. It would be treated as one output but it actually contains two projectors, thanks to the splitter. Does that make any sense?
@@LumaBox Yes. Thank you!!
Hi Luma, thank you so much for these tutorials! I am using it for a fashion project for my senior thesis capstone. I was wondering, if I were to turn on the projector at a specific time, would I have to set up the video playing every time i turn it on, or would the setting just resume to what it was last set up as? I basically want to avoid the menu screen being projected and want to go straight to the video if that makes sense. Thank you so much!
I think it would depend on your projector model. If you’re turning the projector on from and off state, I think it’s quite likely you would see some sort of branding or message when you turn the unit on. I think a better idea might be to keep the projector on and turn on the video signal when your are ready for the show to start
Respected Miss! Kindly teach me how the video mapping on building is prepared.....which simple software is suitable for beginner....how the projector and laptop are connected to each other....???....Each and everything from start to end may kindly be taught plzzz
Hi Azhar. If you watch the 5-part series this video is a part of, those questions are covered. As for connecting a projector, Windows: ua-cam.com/video/HoCHFjCTXNY/v-deo.html, Mac: ua-cam.com/video/yhG7fsR7sM0/v-deo.html
Thanks for the tutorial!
No problem!
Thank you very much for those tutorials ! I’m planning to do a big Christmas show this year and I need 2 beamers. I haven’t found out how to project from 2 different sources with your method. Would you mind giving me some tips ?
You could go through the steps of this tutorial twice, once for each projector. Or you could use dedicated projection mapping software like MadMapper to handle the output of two projectors - see this other tutorial ua-cam.com/video/YVgUWpfaRNU/v-deo.html
Thanks for this tutorial, It's great and really easy to follow! i may have missed this but one question I have is can you show us how to do the final set up with multiple projectors, I don't have enough space at the front of the house to span the full house with 1 projector :(
You just go through the stages of tutorial 5 with the second projector. Good luck!
You are AMAZING!!! Thank you so much for this 🥰 I'm going to try it in a lower scale, since I've never done it before hahaha but I'm so excited!!!🤩
Awesome! Go for it!
great videos! u deserve much more subs! im an 2d animator too, work on projection mapping. i ll be glad to see more tuts on houses with destruction or abstract effects.
Thanks for watching. I’ll be releasing more tuts like that in the future 👍
Which projector are you using for this show? The link posted contains multiple options. Thank you
This was a few years ago now so I was using two BenQ W1080ST+ overlayed
Could you make a video on how to do this with 2 projectors on one house?
You could just go through the steps of Tutorial 5 again but for the second projector. Or you could use something like MadMapper ua-cam.com/video/YVgUWpfaRNU/v-deo.html
This is amazing. On the list for next year. Thank you!!!
Excellent!
Thank you so Much for this! I want to apologize in advance for any hate mail you get from my Neighbors next halloween.
He he 😁
Thank you so much for creating this set of videos. I do have a question about the size of the house you are projecting on. I was I looking to get the BenQ HT2150ST as recommend on your site but wanted to know if it would cover my whole house. Can you tell me the total size you projected on to.
I'd recommend using a tool like this to check your set-up www.projectorcentral.com/projection-calculator-pro.cfm
These are amazing tutorials. I'm trying to connect all the dots still and while I think most of it makes sense...still a few questions. Do you have any tutorials that show using a 2nd projector with the various house pieces you have 3d rendered and created layers for? I'm assuming that the corner pinning helps adjust the angles of content to show correctly on the house. I think this resolves the issue I've had where some masks have to be rotated because of physical skewing. Thanks again...great stuff.
I don't have any tutorials on that topic yet - but I'm sure I will in the future. Are you using After Effects for the mapping or another application? Either way, you're right - the corner pinning is used to adjust content for the skewing caused by projecting from an angle.
@@LumaBox Thank you. Yes, using AE. I think my challenge is determining where to break the house into planes for corner pinning. It's all basically at same plane except that with single projector as you move from the middle it skews slightly...but no clear point to put a break. It's more of a gradual thing....It's always improving...but challenging :-)
I think I read over on Facebook that you're taking your projector in each night. Are you going to re-corner pin each time or try to match the projector position as much as possible?
@@LumaBox I've been just matching the position every time. I have an "alignment" clip that plays for about two minutes at the start and it works ok. I have about an hour of content playing and having to re-export that every time with new corner pinning would be a pain. BUT...if/when I get that configured, it will make a 2nd projector much easier to coordinate I believe.
Thank you for this great tutorial, and this is super valuable and easy to understand. I have one question. Why did you use a media player and a projector separately? I imagined that some projectors have USB ports so you do not need to use a media player. I am a super beginner and just started to learn this topic so it might be a stupid question but it would be great if you share your knowledge. Thank you.
I think that's true about being able to play from a USB or SD card (although my projector doesn't have this capability). The media player also gives you control over how the media plays back (looping, random shuffling etc) which might be needed for your show.
@@LumaBox Thank you so much for your advice! Super clear!
Great tutorials!! If I wanted to use two projectors to get better detail across the front of my house, should I use after effects to create the content and then madmapper to map across both projectors? Or does after effects have the capability to map the video across two projectors?
You *can* use AE to map with the two projectors but I think you're definitely on the right track if you're thinking about using MadMapper to handle the mapping - it will be much more straightforward
Interested to know how you did the lighting and ooze out of the windows.
That was done in 3D with Cinema 4D. It’s one of the harder effects to achieve because it ‘interacts’ so much with the geometry of the house
@@LumaBox I see, that's why I was a bit confused...it seem so advanced to be just from After effects. I will continue to practice and maybe have more questions in the future...but, in the meantime thank you! And I look forward to more of your inspiring works. ❤
Wow I would like to do videos mapping for a musical play
Sounds great. Good luck!
I have a question, I don't know if it's a silly one but I don't know anything about projectors, in my school we used to use projectors for our presentations and when the background of the slides was totally black you could see the color black, kind of like what you get with LCD screens compared to OLED screens that the color black is off. I see that in the video the dark parts are not seen or emit light, if I buy a projector to do this should the projector have a special feature or is it just a setting on the light that most projectors have?
Often you can see light emitted by projectors in areas that are supposed to be black. My blacks are not in fact truly black but they are pretty good and hardly noticeable. The video helps with this because the shot is exposed to capture the details of the bright projections and crush the black or close-to-black areas down to levels the eye interprets as black. Using a good quality projector that is bright with a good contrast ratio will help with this issue.
HELP, LUMA!! I followed all you tutos, finished all my project and was about to go outside with my projector then realize that the menu In the "video preview" on my After Effect CS6 does't match yours ( ie. don't have the "enable Mercury Transit" box , etc...) Can't even see the two displays, even if I have extended my desktop. Any advice? Can I stiil configure ( and finish) my project in CS6, or am I stuck?
Stupid question but you have a projector correctly connected don't you? I don't know off the top of my head. If you're not finding any results by googling the issue, I'd recommend getting in touch with adobe support because they'll know much more than me
@@LumaBox To answer your question, yes, I made a test with a second monitor connected to my laptop via HDMI. Know what? the strange thing is, In Premiere CS6, it works fine! It is not called Mercury transmit, but I do can select my output on one of my two options. Strange. I wonder why the dialog box is different in AE CS6. I will keep searching in Google. Thanks for trying to help, it's much appreciated. And even if the outcome wouldn't be a happy one, Still I've learned à LOT of Stuff. Thanks again. Wish me luck.
@@jean-francoisleger Good luck! 😁
If I video map with After Effects, does that mean I don't need a Mad Mapper software? thank you
If you follow this tutorial series, no you don't need MadMapper
Cool video. Are there any free SW that can be used instead of Adobe
Maybe look into something like DaVinci Resolve 👍
Going to have to try creating a .OBJ of a (still) human head via Meshroom file and then import into Madmapper and see how it works...
Awesome! Have fun!
Aside from environmental situations such as where you have available to set up the projector, are there other advantages to using a short throw projector in these situations? I have seen that BenQ offers 1080p projectors with the same or higher lumen count that aren't short throw for $100-$200 less. What is your opinion on this? Thank you!
Don't take this as gospel, but I think if you've got the space to use a standard lens projector and the unit is cheaper, then there's no reason why you wouldn't... I think there is a myth (?) that short throw projectors are 'brighter' www.reddit.com/r/projectors/comments/98heci/are_short_throw_projectors_brighter/
is it possible to use the masks in Resolume and the animation is automaticly applayed to these? So you dont have to render the video on site which can take really long.
Rather than map in After Effects, yes you could use a mapping application like Resolume, MadMapper etc.
Great tutorial! I really want to give this a try. What kind of projector would you recommend for someone first starting out with projection mapping?
This is my kit if it's any help www.lumabox.com/house-projection-mapping-kit/
Short throw and as bright as you can afford, is my general advice. Maybe borrow one if you can while you're just starting out or pick up something second hand 👍
Hello! Thank you for the tutorial! A few questions....my home is 50 feet across. Would you recommend 1 projector or 2? Also, if using dual projectors, will the home mapping need to be done with 1 or both projectors? Lastly, if using dual projectors, will both need to be placed exactly in order to get the perfect picture? Thanks for any help you can provide!
Hey, I love your videos. I want to start this year on my house. But another question, would you do anything different for a motorhome? I'm considering doing the side of our motorhome when we camp for halloween.
Awesome! No, I don't think I would do anything differently.
I'm the same, would love to map our motorhome, it would be so cool!! 👍
Hello, I have a true beginner question. I want to use music as the foundation of my mapping. How or where do I put the audio and then add the mapping and animation to it?
You add it like any other bit of media into your composition in After Effects 👍
My projector isnt showing on video preview how do i fix it???? pls helpppp
I'm sorry it's hard for me to diagnose. You might get better answers from Adobe support if you tell them your system spec and the issue you're having
How would we set up after-effects if we have multiple projectors?
To be honest, if you're starting to get into using multiple projectors, your life would be made much easier to move over to a professional application for handling projection mapping specifically - something like MadMapper, Resolume, etc. There are a few ways you could approach using multiple projectors in AE. If you intend to play your video off a media player (like I do in the video) then the simplest way is to go through the process shown in tutorial 5/5 for one projector, and then go through it again for each additional projector.
@@LumaBox I know this is a very basic tutorial but it would be awesome to know to scale it up with multiple projectors new designs. Maybe make an “advanced method” where you would map something bigger and include more effects?
how would you adapt this to multiple projectors?
If you wanted to still use After Effects, I imagine you would use a display splitter (like a DualHead2Go or similar) to make a double-wide display made up of both projector outputs, then select that as your output display in AE. But I should say I haven't done this myself.
Is it possible to apply this concept using mad mapper or lightform creator instead of Adobe AE?
Or are there other ways to do it on these other platforms?
Yes it absolutely is. The principles are the same and usually even more straightforward with applications tailored towards projection mapping exclusively. I decided to do everything in AE to keep the costs lower (assuming one had already purchased AE to create the animations)
But do i need to do the same process as taking pics of the house and using blender first, or is the spacial scanning function on madmapper enough?
The special scanning method is different from this workflow
Would love it if you could kindly do a series on madmapper highlighting the same work done in this series. Your absolutely a beast in mapping, would love to learn from your awesome tips..
@@mohamedsultan3610 Will see what I can do
Make an after effect tutorial where you make it look like the building is falling down
I might do this in the future. Thanks for the suggestion.
@@LumaBox please do, you’re one of the only UA-camrs that makes quality projection mapping video, respect!
How can I get a hold of you for a larger scale project?
Hi. I can be contacted at info@lumabox.com 🙂