Thread: Hallowindow 2008 in production

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Originally Posted by kciaccio

Received mine the other day. Great work. Only two things I would have liked added was the wide screen format and play all feature so the video could run longer than looping a 2 minute version and having to change manually to other versions on the disk.

I imagine he would take "feature requests" seriously, if this works out for him financially then I would bet that next years version will be quite the package.

If you would like to do the things you mentioned yourself you can, you just need a ripper and a converter. With the ripper you can rearrange the files to run in any order you like, with the converter you can change the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 (or whatever)

I just respectfully ask anyone who does this to keep it to themselves.....you know what I mean.

Firstly I love the DVD!

A suggestion I would make would be to have different formats instead of the traditional 4:3 ratio. Such as something that would fit on a Front Door. I have a full glass front door that I would love to have something projected onto. Just a suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion. I actually had to do that because I do not have time on Halloweeen to mess with the dvd player( too busy running other parts of my haunt) I also wanted to keep that on the d-low. lol

Well, being late as usual, I finally ordered the dvd this morning. Can't wait to get it.

My husband brought home a projector from work last night and we experimented with the set up and sizing on our windows using the various versions of the DVD. We didn't have the shower curtain set up yet so projected it through the white paper pleated shade we have in that window right now. You noticed the pleats but it worked fine for visualizing purposes. Sorry no video or picks. It was very late and we were very tired.

Here's the window we had to work with:
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We decided:

Hallowindow I (includes moving eyeball) -- best centered in the middle window. Looked best when positioned at top of window so movement seemed to come from room's ceiling. Think this DVD variation works better for taller than wider windows in general. The window frame bar in the middle didn't affect the overall look very much.

Hallowindow II -- didn't work well in our window either centered in middle or spread out among all windows. Too much of the key images were blocked out. Too bad because I really like the vampire and his cape.

Extras:
eyeball -- best centered in middle window area and centered top to bottom. Since this variation is only the eyeball it didn't need to be moved to top of window.

pumpkin -- this worked okay with middle window area. Looked best when positioned at top of window. Not much animation other than fire going on so not a favorite choice for us.

spiders -- looked good in either center window or spread out over all windows. If used in center window liked best when positioned at top of window. Liked best spread out across all windows for a nice large image.

ghosts (white) -- looked good in either center window or spread out over all windows. If used in center window liked best when positioned at top of window. Liked best spread out across all windows for a nice large image.


Easter Eggs:

ghosts (red) -- same as white ghosts above. We thought the red showed up better in the window and was more attention getting so preferred it over the two. Ghosts are traditionally white however.

hallowindow zero (with frankenstein monster walking across room) -- looked good in either center window or spread out over all windows. If used in center window liked best when positioned at top of window. Liked best spread out across all windows for a nice large image. We love the monster image so this was also high on our list of choices to use.


My husband doesn't feel comfortable checking out the projector each day for Halloween week so said this year we'll have to settle for using it just Halloween night...sigh...Now the big decision is which choice do we make.


As for the DVD images in general, really loved all of them. Seeing them used in our window I would have like to have slowed down the movement on some giving it more time "on screen". Kind of went by fast. Definitely a keeper DVD however and know the neighborhood ToTers will love.

I got my DVD on Thursday and it's fantastic. I went to Wal-mart and got 2 shower curtains and borrowed a projector from my boss. It really is spectacular. I can't wait to run it tonight (didn't get it done until midnight last night...). It's literally going to stop traffic. My only problem now is I can't use his projector on Halloween night, so now I MUST find another one. It's too good to not run every night, especially Halloween!

I've had good luck on "fleaBay" with minor used projectors,Infocus DPL 24 & a26 for $225 & $300 and locally an infocus c77 LCD $350.All 3 had maybe 20-60 hrs max & came with soft case all connections,remote & cd ! Been happy with them & they are 1800,2200 & 2600 lumens. Did mine when i got home,careful though,i had mine going (only plan on fri & sat nites for an hour or so ), but had an officer came to my front door & said that it was very cool,but if an accident happens due to drivers stopping to check it out (which i was getting ),that i could be held responsable......thankfully it turned out i knew him,is a customer-take care of his boat... so he was cool about it,but still took it for what it was worth !

Am I too late?...Only 18 days left...I am in US

I also need to know if I can project on my house?....Not in reverse

Originally Posted by vader

Am I too late?...Only 18 days left...I am in US

I also need to know if I can project on my house?....Not in reverse

You could project it on your house with a powerful enough projector. I live in the bay area,calif. & i got mine in 8 days,mark is really on it & before his wedding no less !!
Email him ,but i think your ok time wise.

Ordered mine today...Did express mail!! Can't wait to see the window in action!!! Woo! Hoo!