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14 March 2016

For the Gran Finale show, XL Video was tasked with providing a spectacular projection on to the Cathedral above Dalt Vila.

Unlike the usual preparation for a projection mapping project, the mapping had to be done based on photographs and on-site measurements, and then line-up and programming were done on location in Ibiza by XL Events' technical director, David Mulcahy.

Special permissions were required to turn off the architectural lighting on the buildings and a set of custom masks were applied to ensure the projections didn't spread t

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14 March 2016

Farnborough International Air Show took place on the 9-15 July, welcoming both trade and consumer visitors. Digital production company Mediastation worked alongside BAE Systems' event partner Rapiergroup and trade AV rental specialist PSCo Rental to design the content and manage the logistics for this iconic screen.

Mediastation ensured that the 152" plasma was used to its full capabilities, designing 3D and interactive 4k resolution content using the Hummingbird platform to transform the screen from a static display to a gesture recognition hub.

Doug Fidler, creative director of Mediastation explained, "Nothing like this has ever been seen before in the defence

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14 March 2016

Included in the range are new compact 75-ohm coaxial contacts for mounting in Harting's latest DIN41626 compatible high-density 12-way multi-module, which increases existing packing density by an additional 50% within the rugged IP 65 Han-Modular(R) series connectors.

Different coaxial contacts are suitable for use with specific industry standard RG-59 and lightweight RG-179 video cables, allowing SMPTE 292M HD-SDI 1.5 GHz and up to SMPTE 424M HD 1080p/60 3.0 GHz signal transfer.

Associated crimp termination tooling is also available. Harting ensures controlled connector mating through the use of additional alignment gu

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14 March 2016

Over the four-day weekend at the Goodwood Estate, the Red Bull stand played host to their Gridsters contest, which saw 16 young finalists compete against each other for the title of the UK's best racing gamer.

The site also played host to appearances by F1 drivers, Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, and Daniel Ricciardo, as well as a visit from moto trials rider Dougie Lampkin, who crashed the upstairs VIP area on his bike!

"Having worked with Innovision on a number of projects, we love the challenges which both they and Red Bull set us," states

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14 March 2016

"Suzy finished her studies at the end of July 2012 and 'really enjoyed her time as an intern' so was excited for the opportunity to work at Green Hippo once she had finished her course. Suzy's previous experience made her ideal for the position and is already experienced within the technical support area. She enjoys rock climbing and often works as a lighting programmer for shows, therefore truly embracing the whole live entertainment industry," says the company.

Another new recruit is Ryan Bye, who joins the development team. Ryan studied at Warwick University and recen

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14 March 2016

Building on the success of Pandoras Box Version 5.0 launched at PLASA last fall, over 50 distinct improvements and upgrades have been added, including Media Encryption, 3D Warping, and a new Matrix Patcher.

"The new user-friendly Version 5.1 software package makes Pandoras Box a yet more powerful creative tool, uniting state-of-the-art rendering technology with intuitive live media and show control," says the company.

Features and improvements include:

New Matrix Patcher: Relocate individual pixels for creative setups when working with conventional LED processors, e.g. Barco, Daktronics, Galaxia/Winvision etc. A time-saver for repositioning pixels, even with unconventional LED fixture shapes.

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14 March 2016

The first session to be revealed in The Olympics Uncovered programme at PLASA 2012, Backstage at the London 2012 Ceremonies is your chance to hear technical director, Piers Shepperd, and team present an overview of the mega staging, flying, audio, AV and special effects behind the London 2012 Olympic Ceremonies.

The bumper line-up includes:

Piers Shepperd - technical director

Jeremy Lloyd - technical manager - technical design and staging

James Lee - technical manager - aerial & closing ceremonies

Nick Jones - technical manager - lighting AV and power

Scott Buchanan - technical manager - services and special projects

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14 March 2016

The retail space marks the debut of the sofa brand's new design concept that has been developed to complement the company's latest advertising campaign.

DFS appointed design consultants 20.20 to devise the in-store experience, with the overall aim to appeal to the urban demographic. The furniture retailer had aspirations for technology that could be easily incorporated within the shop fit to display their digital media content, devised by advertising agency Krow Communications.

Following previous project successes with 20.20, the PAI Group was asked to realise the technical visions of the design team, successfully harnessing tech

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14 March 2016

"The assembly of dispersed LED pixels to form very large video images has been with us for some time," explained Frederic Opsomer, CEO of Tait Technologies, who drove the development of this new device. "But never before has it been done on such a scale, and with such organic animation." Opsomer is referring to the fact that the LED Pixel Tablets

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14 March 2016

The World Responds - The UK's TV audience for the opening ceremony peaked at 26.9m, the BBC has said. The average viewing figure for Friday's four-hour show was 22.4m, making it the UK's 13th most watched programme ever. The programme also had an 82% share - almost twice that of the previous high for an Olympic opening ceremony, in Barcelona in 1992. UK viewing figures for the opening ceremony of

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14 March 2016

Falling Star is billed as "an incredibly bright star" and is available in 10 different colour versions, that falls under gravity over 30ft.

8' Ice Gerb is a dazzling spray of silver sparks with a bright white flame, projecting upwards to 8ft high.

Saxon offers a 20ft spray of projected rotating silver sparks - similar to a Catherine Wheel effect.

Gold Glitter Waterfall gives a 12 second stream of gold glittering stars falling 16ft.

13mm & 23mm Flashpots feature red, green or white -with rolling smoke, flame and a report.

SPD#1 is a 'robotics' effect - also known as an Electric Fault Simulator, producing a small flash and a spray of directional silver sparks to 10ft.

"We are really excited about the new additions to the PSII range as

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14 March 2016

The building selected for this spectacular show was The Maritime Hotel in New York's Meatpacking District (South Manhattan). Pearl Media Productions, a subsidiary of Pearl Media, managed and produced the entire project from concept to completion, including media content, installation and operation. Pearl Media's real estate division negotiated with the residential landlord of / and the hotel on which the projection and control area was placed, taking great pains to ensure the integrity of the even

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Tait Technologies specialises in combining video and scenic technologies and provided the technology behind the largest ever video screen at the Opening Ceremony, which literally engulfed the audience. The screen is composed of 70,500 individual, full colour Pixel Tablets with a resolution five times that of HDTV and a height of 413ft.

Crystal is a creative agency which specialises in digital imaging and 3D animation. Crystal London created the stunning ani

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14 March 2016

Operating from 27 July to 12 August, in addition to being the Canadian Olympic Committee's space for athletes, their friends and their families, Canada Olympic House hosts business leaders and government dignitaries and showcase Canada's leading industries and businesses. Christie is among the select technology companies invited to participate.

Christie's partnership with DFAIT at Canada Olympic House in London includes a large lobby display of up to 37 Christie MicroTiles and four 72" diagonal Entero cubes, the world's first LED-based ultra-high resolution pro

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The Centre, a collaboration between Crystal CG and BIE and 100 percent funded by Crystal CG, will be dedicated to the history of world expos. It will house a permanent exhibition highlighting BIE's accomplishments, presented on the latest multimedia technologies from Christie. It will also feature meeting rooms to discuss expositions, large-scale events and a comprehensive digital research library for delegates, scholars, students and future Expo organisers. The Centreheld its official grand opening on 27 July 2012.

Crystal CG is a major Christie AV partner in China and the Official Digital Imaging Service Provider

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14 March 2016

"Tri-Ed/Northern Video is one of our most established partners in the security products marketplace," says Shawn Dahya, key account manager with Bosch Security Systems, "and expanding their portfolio to include Bosch Public Address, Electro-Voice pro audio, and RTS intercom products makes it easy for our customers to add a communications component to their purchase, and all with the high level of support and service that Tri-Ed/Northern Video is known for. We are very pleased to take this important partnership to the next level, and look forward to passing the advantages on to our customers.&

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14 March 2016

The National Disability Insurance Scheme rally, with the Prime Minister as a guest speaker, saw the stage positioned in typical fashion at one end of the arena. The PA system comprised of two hangs of five JBL VRX 932LAP speakers and some VRX subs.

"The system was actually too loud," commented Michael Papas, managing director of AVCorp. "You could hear low frequency reflections from the roof which muddied up our sound. We dropped the level a little and it gave us very good speech intelligibility with good coverage. I knew we would get the cove

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14 March 2016

Leinster appointed Andy Tonks to the project for Chaos: "Antony Randall, Tinie's show producer consulted with myself and Alex and led the realisation of W

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14 March 2016

Stars of the music world, including musician and songwriter Richard Stilgoe OBE and Julian Colbeck, joined opera singer Dame Felicity Lott DBE for the official opening of the new £3.2m Monkton Senior School Music Centre. Located at the prestigious Monkton Combe School in Bath, the new centre will provide facilities to pupils of all musical abilities under director of music, George Bevan, but will also be available as a rehearsal and performance space for professional musicians.

Over 1000 guests attended the weekend opening event and were tr

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14 March 2016

Ibiza 123 is the first music festival to be held on the island, and played host to a diverse line-up of artists featuring global superstars Sting, Elton John and Lenny Kravitz; live performances from chart stars Labrinth and Tinie Tempah; plus sets from DJs including Tiesto, Fatboy Slim, Chase & Status, Luciano, and David Guetta!

For the three-day festival, held on the San Antonio coast, XL Video was asked to provide an LED package which would highlight not only the first 123 Festival but also herald the first ever full music festival in Ibiza.

To achieve this XL Video specified an LED backdrop measuring 16m wide by 9m high, made from Pixled's F-30. F-30 was selected due to its suitability for outdoor use.

Three circular LED displays of decreasing size were

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14 March 2016

CPL already has a large stock of Yamaha LS9 and other desks. One reason the CL5 was chosen is that it runs on the same operating principals as these, so all their engineers who are used to working with Yamaha digital consoles will be able to use the CL5 immediately, and quickly familiarise themselves with its many advanced features.

The CL5 system was supplied to CPL by the Birmingham office of LMC Audio Systems.

CPL managing director Matthew Boyse explains that they were keen to be among the first AV rental operations in the UK able to offer their clients all of the benefits offered by the new CL series.

"The compact size and weight for 72 ch

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14 March 2016

"We've been more than happy with our Vista I3 and it made sense to purchase another console that was already in line with what we were using," commented Jordan Renouf from Scene Change. "By adding the Vista S1 we've gained more functionality and because it is the same software as the Vista I3, the ease of usability for the guys has been very simple."

Renouf states that the surface of the Vista S1 is particularly good with a good number of playback handles for such a small surface.

"Again, it has a similar surface to the Vista I3," he added. "The Vista is such an intuitive console - easy to use and quick. Because of this intuitive design it's very quick to patch and program and have a show up and running quickly. Als

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14 March 2016

Danny Boyle said: "Every Olympic ceremony aims for a major technical breakthrough. Our remarkable audience pixels have opened up amazing new images, effects and spectacle, but most of all they have enabled our live stadium audience to be part of the ceremony in a way that's never been possible before."

Directed by Kim Gavin, the Closing Ceremony assembled stars of the British music scene from 1967 to 2012 performing their biggest hits. Working closely with Gavin's creative team, Crystal created 27 animated sequences, totalling the length of a feature length film to accompany the songs that brought Britain's musical heritage to life.

Over 10,000 pixels wide, the animations requ

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14 March 2016

MediaMaster Pro 3.0 is the latest version of the software that powers ArKaos' complete range of media servers, and which can also be used to turn any powerful computer - Mac or PC - into a fully-fledged media server capable of running live or programmed HD video shows.

"A key feature of MediaMaster Pro 3.0 is the ArKaos Video Mapper extension, which allows easy mapping and masking of video onto irregularly shaped surfaces, whether that be an unusually shaped screen or an entire building. The Mapping Editor provides a fast, intuitive user interface complete with undo/redo implementation, making creating even the most complex maps a breeze," says the company.

"The ArKaos Stage media s