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About IMERSA
IMERSA is an international professional association advancing the art, science, profile, integrity and common interests of large-format digital immersive media and group interactive entertainment and cultural experiences including (but not limited to) immersive digital theaters and digital dome (fulldome) planetariums.
Featured News Items
IMERSA Official Sponsor of DomeFest 2009
Albuquerque, NM (Sept. 25-27, 2009) - IMERSA is proud to announce that it is an official sponsor for DomeFest 2009, one of the leading Fulldome film festivals in the world. During DomeFest IMERSA will lead a standards summit for Fulldome content production...
Dome Day at Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH (Sept. 24, 2009) - As a part of the GSCA 2009 International Conference and Trade Show, organizers have added a Dome Day to be held in the Cincinnati Museum Center's Omnimax theater...
ASTC Fulldome Video Showcase VI
Fort Worth, TX (Nov. 2, 2009) - The 6th annual Fulldome Video Showcase will feature a sampling of work of the world's best digital dome artists, including scientific visualizations, show excerpts, music/ art, and experimental productions...
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IMERSA Events
6th European Meeting of Small and Portable Planetaria
Chorzow, Poland
Sept. 1-4, 2009 – M. Copernicus Planetarium
The aim of the conference is to exchange knowledge and experience in the field of working with small and portable planetaria...
2010 Fulldome Festival
Jena, Germany
May 4-8, 2010 – Jena Planetarium
For the first time, full-length feature shows will be admitted. The Festival thus offers an opportunity to producers to present their latest, unabridged shows to a jury and to the public. The Festival is open to all fulldome producers worldwide...
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FULLDOME Forum
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SpacePark360 Fulldome Thrill Ride Show Now Available
Elmhurst, IL (March 8, 2010)- Dome3D's show SpacePark360, is a 38 minute, 9-ride customizable show, that takes audiences on a wild immersive ride through the
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:20:51 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
Or maybe license one of Paul Bourke's (typically very inexpensive) command line utilities, use that to warp the source to the dome master size, and then bring
Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:32:15 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
It may appear 3200 square on the screen but AE still has to stretch, squeeze, bend, and otherwise deal with the 11300x56560 source image every single frame. If
Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:36:37 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
I know, but when I apply the fulldome plugin the large panoramic image goes into a round image of 3200 by 3200. It worked once in CS2 but I guess these 32bit
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:12:34 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
Hi, As far as i know, there's hardly any need to use pictures w/ such a high definition (11000x6000), because, regardless of After Effects troubleshooting (and
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:09:40 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
The image buffer error is a pain to deal with. There are some poor workarounds (splitting and stitching). Try reducing color depth, turning CM off (if
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:48:03 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
11300x5650?? That's huge!!! Check your project comp settings. Your image buffer should never be greater than your frame size (unless you are processing an
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:38:42 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
Hi Patrick Even when converting the files to JPG, AE comes up with the error; unable to allocate space for a 11300x5650 image buffer I have tried playing
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:29:35 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
Hi Eric I don't actually render anything for this type of fulldome work. All I need to do is import (as a composition) the large photoshop file, and then using
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:20:23 GMT
Re: first show
it was a rollercoaster ride all the way. the content was a political minefield and we had to find a careful balance between being local and national, authentic
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:57:47 GMT
Re: Anyone use After Effects for creating fulldome content?
We've had some similar issues. Unfortunately Aftereffects is still a 32 bit program. That means it has a low memory limit (3GB). We've noticed it has memory
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:55:40 GMT
Re: first show
Congratulations - looks like a very cool project. I'd love to hear a bit about the production pipeline and also the projection system you used.... Thanks! andy
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:36:57 GMT
first show
Well done! Well done! That's something to be proud of! -- Ron Proctor Producton Coordinator Ott Planetarium - Weber State University weber.edu/planetarium Sent
Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:51:04 GMT
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