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Author Topic: Rear projection with DCP Andres Kauts Film Handler Posts: 3 From: Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia Registered: Jun 2012 posted 09-28-2016 06:00 AM                     In relation to a special event we have been asked if it is possible to use rear projection for DCP film. I didn't find this option with our projector (Barco DP2K-20C with Alchemy) nor did I find any info on the google. Am I correct to assume that this option is not available in dcp projectors?  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 09-28-2016 06:43 AM                     I did a screening for a festival with a Barco with n0 problems  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-28-2016 08:14 AM                     Since you say it is an Alchemy, I cannot say for certain. For normal Barcos (or any DLP based projector with an ICP module), it is certainly doable. On the Barco, in Communicator, go to the Advanced>Misc Settings and you will have the option for reverse screen projection. And via the ICP/Enigma program you can even specify Ceiling mounted.  |  IP: Logged Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 09-28-2016 02:26 PM                     not all communicator software revisions have the above-mentioned misc. setting, at least not for default / service tech modes. should be doable from the ICP software tho. post which communicator ver. you are running.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-28-2016 03:44 PM                     Can you name one that doesn't?  |  IP: Logged Andres Kauts Film Handler Posts: 3 From: Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia Registered: Jun 2012 posted 09-29-2016 08:04 AM                     Thank you. Steve instructions worked perfectly. Exactly what I needed.  |  IP: Logged Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 10-01-2016 08:11 AM                     probably every version before 5.x.x ? we have a 4.9.9 and 4.4.11 running without those features. so 2014 and before versions.  |  IP: Logged Ioannis Syrogiannis Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: Reykjavík, Iceland Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-01-2016 09:27 AM                     My guess would be that 4.9.9 would have this feature. I 've just read in a January 2014 revision of the communicator manual (R59770483/09) about the feature, giving both rear and upside-down projection capabilities, and I remember them also. January of 2014 wouldn't be after a 4.8.13 version of communicator for PC. I've seen one DP2000 that was originally installed upside-down, but I don't know if the settings were via the communicator or the ICP and Enigma Program. A tough one to change the cooling liquid, that one... It goes without saying that the ICP software gives that setting too. Alchemy gives only the rear projection alternative via the communicator 5.3.0. An ICP software might give more options.  |  IP: Logged Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 10-02-2016 09:18 AM                     as said  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 10-02-2016 10:42 AM                    What does the ceiling mount setting do?  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-02-2016 10:48 AM                       Ceiling mounts allow the unit to run upside down.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-02-2016 11:02 AM                     You can't run a liquid cooled Barco series 2 upside down, so with their ceiling mounts - projector upright but the top un-openable - makes convergence adjustment "challenging". Less challenging than on a DP2000 though... regardless of access ease. Changing DP2000 coolant is no problem with it upside down, if you can find a place to sit two bottles.  |  IP: Logged Ioannis Syrogiannis Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: Reykjavík, Iceland Registered: Jun 2005 posted 10-02-2016 01:02 PM                     quote: Dave Macaulay Changing DP2000 coolant is no problem with it upside down, if you can find a place to sit two bottles. Well, maybe it was me, but I had to put there an extra effort, not to leave any air bubbles there.  |  IP: Logged

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