Guide · projection mapping for Mac and WindowsFree projection mapping software

Short answer

In VJ-Link choose OUTPUT → Projection mapping. On the picture of each projector you lay canvases and drag their corners onto the wall, the box or the column. Curved surfaces get a 3×3 or 5×5 grid, doors and people are blacked out with masks. Each canvas can show its own picture with its own layers.

Projection mapping step by step

1. Connect the projector and open it under OUTPUT as an output.
2. Choose the arrangement Projection mapping and add a canvas with + Canvas.
3. Drag the four corners onto the edges of the surface. Arrow keys move a point by 1 pixel.
4. Switch on Grid for alignment: the grid test pattern lies distorted on the canvas, so the edges can be matched exactly.
5. For round surfaces choose the shape grid 3×3 or 5×5, for doors and windows add a mask.
6. Put a stage photo behind the canvases as a guide – it never goes to the projector.

Several projectors and LED walls

Every connected projector, screen or LED processor can be an output in its own resolution. As a canvas the picture runs seamlessly across all of them; in projection mapping each projector gets its own canvases. Up to five pictures with their own layers can be distributed onto the canvases, and scenes recall all of them at once.

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