This year's agenda included strategy and product line presentations, as well as hands-on workshops on some of the latest Barco products, including the revolutionary MiPIX LED block, the ViewScape, Barco's Events Controller and Solaris LC40. With Barco's recent acquisition of Sacramento-based Folsom Research, this year's agenda also presented Barco's rental partners with the opportunity to get hands-on demonstrations of the Folsom ImagePRO and Scree
Canegreen Commercial was tasked with ensuring speech and music could be heard by a room full of loud (and possibly drunk!) rock 'n' roll stars. Andrew Frengley, MD of Canegreen Commercial, designed and co-ordinated the system set up for the show's event director Paul Corrick of production company, Reality, the pair having worked together on numerous projects in the past, including last year's NME Awards. Corrick commented: "Andrews' ability to solve problems made Canegreen Commercial the obvious choice to ensure we
The company is expecting a huge demand for this new technology from an identified market for large screen displays used in high ambient light areas, including theme parks, museums, trade shows and exhibitions. Independent research carried out by SRI has estimated the professional market for large display screens using existing te
Anna Valley Displays, part of the Shooting Partners Group, introduced their Sanyo HD10 - the world's first true 16:9 high definition LCD projector. Currently only available in the UK from Anna Valley Displays, it delivers a 1920 x 1080 native resolution image and with 5,500 Lumen output. Tom Bird, Shooting Partners' head of sales and marketing, says: "We have already had a great response to the HD10 with applications ranging from the viewing of daily rushes to highly realistic back
The Future's Bright is the brainchild of Jon Thirsk, a locally-based graphic designer who's keen to stimulate tourism, business and interest in the town. He and other interested parties formed the not-for-profit organization, Y Grael Cyf (The Grail), to stage the initial pilot event. Thirsk approached E/T/C UK's Ross Ashton to help realize the idea on the visual front. The proposed Caernarfon 2004 events aim to stretch Caernarfon's tourist season, in similar fashion to the Blackpool Illuminations, which attracts many millions of visitors. Th
In addition, the automation capability of the SuperHub has been enhanced with the advent of a 'relative' time stamp to complement the existing 'absolute' time events that were previously available. Both features are in direct response to requests from established customers. SuperHub's hardware has also been updated, with the release of its issue two main board. The product now utilizes the latest revision of its eight-bit processor, which, accord
The LVS-400 offers four S-Video/Composite (BNC) inputs, MIDI I/O (V-Link), S-Video output and 2 composite (BNC) outputs - switchable to NTSC or PAL. It offers a basic set of transitions, four picture-in-picture locations as well as black, white and chroma-keying functions. The LVS-400 features two separate frame synchronizers that enable stable, smooth and noiseless video cuts and transitions. The illuminated button pads make it easy to use, even in dark locations. The LVS-400 is also equipped with a preview monitoring section allowing the user to check video source content before switching to it live.
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The Kramer VA-256 audio delay, from the Kramer Tools product line, complements the company's line of ProScale digital scaler/switchers. It provides a user programmable delay ranging from 10 milliseconds to 2.5 seconds in increments of 10 milliseconds. High quality anti-aliasing and output smoothing filters are employed, and the unit digitizes to 24-bit resolution at 48kHz to achieve hig
Paul Hutton, managing director of Blitz Communications, said that the widescreen environment, complete with three Barco RLM G5 DLP projectors and a seamless 10m screen, has been designed and fitted in response to client demand over the last few years. "Blitz has recognized that event organizers and production companies have seen a decrease in the production value of events over the last few years, and we see widescreen seamless vistas as a way of bringing back creative production standards and as a USP in providing presentations."
"Blitz is not aligning itself to one particular widescreen product and as a result the facility has been designed to disp
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With backgrounds in manufacturing and production, managing partners Gary Mass and Nick Freed will head efforts to solve the many man-hours spent sourcing equipment for production purposes. Working in tune with an extensive worldwide vendor base and an easy-to-use web design for locating the most cost-effective, and logistically suitable rental equipment, Rental-Source promises to ease the ever-growing process of completing a production.
"Over the past 10 years or so, we've noticed an incredible incline in the need for product
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Thus the station felt comfortable in asking the Hertfordshire-based resource to devise and project manage a rear-projected display wall solution for their newly revamped ITV News main studios at their London HQ. While on site, the company was also tasked with providing a similar infrastructure for the London Tonight studio.
"We realised that the limited space behind the four large displays also had to incorporate walkways for fire exits,&quo
Hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and broadcasted in High- Definition on ABC, the 2004 Oscar program featured DPI's Lightning 28sx displays projecting video images onto a variety of projection surfaces throughout the venue. For the first time in the show's history, DPI's projectors also displayed the High-Definition signal for the viewing audience on the 'Best Picture Screen' inside the Kodak Theatre.
The most intriguing projection element was a 24-foot tall trapezoid-shaped screen
No less earth moving is the video content for the play, devised and designed by cinematographer Jon Driscoll. XL has worked with Driscoll on a number of other West End projects including Madonna's Up For Grabs the Madness musical Our House, and most recently; Jerry Springer The Opera.
Featuring both front projections using Barco SLM G5's and rear projection using NEC XT5000's. The latter is located behind the set and features wide-angle lenses throwing a single, wide screen image onto a 7 x 3m upstage surface. The 3m deep set frames the rear proje
The Catalyst stores video clips, graphics and animations on its hard drive, which can then be called up and manipulated as easily as a moving light, via any DMX lighting desk. Fusing the technology and ideologies of lighting and video is creating an exciting and flexible presentation medium: up to this point, lighting and projection have been treated as separate departments in television - now, lighting and video cues can be changed simultaneously and instantly from the lighting desk.
Kenyon, Charles and their Catalyst systems are in action on the current series of the BBC
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Lighting designer Stan Crocker went for a highly flexible mix of powerful fixtures and short moving trusses. "I gave up lighting instruments to get the ChainMaster Vario-Lift motors in the budget," recalls Crocker, "and I don't regret it!" His rig consists of four Coemar SuperCycs, 33 Martin MAC 2000 Profiles, 32 MAC 2000 Wash fixtures and 11 MAC 300s - all run from a Martin Maxxyz console, programmed and operated by l
Premiering at Hammersmith Riverside, Age-Sex-Location is aimed at a young audience who might not necessarily be attracted to conventional theatre productions. Writer Marcus Markou decided he always wanted projection to be a fundamental element of the production; it seemed an obvious theatrical mechanism for a story set in cyberspace.
Video and lighting designer, Sven Ortel and video co-designer Dick Straker (both of Mesmer Productions) came onboard via director Pip Pickering, and all worked closely with Markou to define the design of the performance space. Straker and Ortel asked XL Video to supply the video kit, with hardware co-ordination handled by XL proje
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The hugely experienced Derrick Zieba was brought in again by MJK to design and co-ordinate the sound system. Also returning to the fray, Britannia Row Productions provided the sound and co-designed the system with Zieba, this year fielding an EV X-line speaker system. Zieba has been an enthusiastic user of Yamaha mixing desks for many years and was one of the first designers to make the transiti
For the in-your-face, hi-energy performance - more akin to an AC/DC or Offspring gig than a pop show - the video is directed by Ruary Macphie (who's other 'recents' include Robbie Williams, David Gray). He's using one of XL's three-camera packages for IMAG, with one camera at FOH and two in the pit on track-and-dolly, to produce action-packed visuals that match the band's intense energy.
There are two side screens, and a large 60sqm LED screen onstage. All screens take a collage of IMAG and pre-recorded
Zinc, where the top club nights such as Hed Kandi, Funk-U, CocoCuba and Rewind attract a capacity 400-plus crowd, has three bars, a semi-outside terrace overlooking the seafront and a chill-out area. Essex-based club installation specialist Xtreme AV were asked to design and install a new system on long lease, having successfully provided the venue with rental systems in the past. A new EV Rx system was delivered; six Rx 212/75 high-output full-range cabinets, stacked three each side of the DJ booth, with four RX 218S subwoofers. Two Rx 115/75s provide infill where necessary.
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"We are enormously proud to have MiPIX associated with a high profile artist such as Britney Spears," says Stephan Paridaen, president of Barco's Media & Entertainment division, adding: "Our Rental Partner
DL1 bridges the worlds of video and automated lighting. The digital light engine is housed in a moving yoke fixture that has the look and feel of a moving light and the versatility of a moving projector. Users are able to take images from DVDs, videos and other types of media and display them onto a stage, wall, prop, screen or set - with complete control over image size and shape. DL1 also provides the ability to project Digital Aerials and provide uni
![Rory Bremner (left) presented the Awards, while the 84" screens provided support.](/newsarchive/images/news/db/00e/ba4/00eba47892tn.jpg "Rory Bremner (left) presented the Awards, while the 84" screens provided support.")
