Projection Control and Manipulation
Madmapper - Projection Mapping Control Software
There is a free limited demo available, this gives you all the features with the exception of saving. All outputs are also watermarked.
Qlab - Video and Sound Control for Mac
Qlab is the industry go to piece of software for controlling sound and basic projection. There are many manipulation tools built in, however, many of these require a licence. The demo version allows you to control stereo sound and have one video output.
VPT8 - Free Video Projection Tool
VPT8 is a free piece of software for projection mapping and video control. There are guides and tutorials available online
Various Resources for projection Mapping
Lightform Software and Hardware
Software specific to the Lightform projectors and computers
A simple app to draw 'house' maps for use in other software
Korsakow is not just a piece of software, it's a tool for storytelling in a non linear way. It allows the viewew to follow any one of your predefined paths through your narrative.
Stock Content
Mitch Martinez - Free 4k stock footage
Mitch Martinez is a cinematographer who has masses of 4k stock footage that is free to use. You will need to credit him in your work if you use his footage
CleanPNG has a vast aray of PNG images which have tranparent backgrounds. these are perfect for adding on top of other projections to add depth to the image
Archive.org - A massive collection of historical videos, pictures and sounds
Archive.org has pretty much everything you could ask for. It has many different sections for images, videos and sounds, as well as the way back machine to look at historical versions of websites.
Projector Throw Calculator
Click the link below to access my excel spreadsheet, this allows you to select the departmental projector from a dropdown list and enter the distance away from the screen the projector will be and will return various dimensions for the final image.
This calculator assumes a 4:3 aspect ratio
The information provided on this and other pages by me, Stephen Griffiths (stg12@aber.ac.uk), is under my own personal responsibility and not that of the Aberystwyth University. Similarly, any opinions expressed are my own and are in no way to be taken as those of Aberystwyth University.