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At the Wavehouse in Durban, lighting and video freelancer Thomas Peters assisted with the lighting.

"Reading through the Skrillex rider and adjusting accordingly for Durban, Vimal Rawjee (Insane Sound) and I came up with what we thought would be a viable rig for the show, which the production's management (Skrillex's Production Manager is Baptiste Chavaillaz) quickly approved," explained Thomas Peters. "While we did not have most of the first-choice fixtures available in the quantities requested, the substitutes we offered were all perfectly acceptable. The MMXs blew the touring LD aw

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Vivid Sydney highlights include: the lighting of the iconic Sydney Opera House sails; 3D mapping projections on Customs House and the Museum of Contemporary Art; interactive light sculptures and installations; public talks, debates and workshops from innovative global creatives and thought leaders in collaboration with Vivid IDEAS; and performances from local and international musicians at Vivid LIVE and Vivid MUSIC.

The 18-day event, the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, is a major celebration of the cr

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Brand experience agency, SSG Create, producers of the global event, brought in XL Events for the London launch to provide projection, media servers, plasma screens, HD camera system/PPU, and HD recording system.

To unveil the new device, XL Events provided a two projector blend using XL's new Barco HDF-W26 units on to a screen behind the presenter.

This front projection was particularly challenging due to the requirement not to cast any shadows from the presenters including HTC CEO, Peter Chou.

This requirement, coupled with the restricted rigging at the venue, meant the projectors had to be flown from an angle and the images warped via a Coolux Pandora's Box supplied by XL to achieve the desired image quality.

The main show content was delivered fr

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The festival site will be Pendley Activity Meadow - owned by event sponsor Pendley Manor - with a capacity of 7000 for each of the two nights. The programme for Friday 5 July will include a line-up of contemporary pop artists including Little Mix, Loveable Rogues and Heather Small, while Saturday's 1980s themed evening will feature Tony Hadley, Howard Jones, Rick Astley, Midge Ure, Carol Decker and Hazel O'Connor.

All the technical infrastructure for Ch

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TEDx is a series of events organised in the style of TED, a non-profit organisation devoted to "ideas worth spreading". It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The TEDx events program is designed to give communities, organisations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at a local level, sparking deep conversation and connections.

The TEDx events' celebrated format includes a suite of short, care

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SCAN has over 25 years of experience in providing PC based solutions to the audio and video markets and will focus primarily on supplying small format AV switchers such as the VR-3 AV Mixer, VR-5 AV Mixer & Recorder and V-40HD Multi Format Video Switcher, the VC-30HD Video Converter and the M-200i iPad Controllable Digital Mixing Console.

Taking advantage of the growth in the popularity of web-streaming, especially in the education sector, the expanding lineup of streaming-ready AV Mixers and Converters from Roland fit perfectly

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14 March 2016

SquareZero previously created holograms to tour as part of the Abbaworld Touring Exhibition, but the new holograms will be even more lifelike than their previous incarnations, having been created using advanced motion capture techniques, followed by full CGI builds and rigging in 3D. Fans will be able to perform alongside the band in the museum, and performances with the SquareZero holograms will be captured and stored on the interactive tickets, which can be accessed remotely post visit.

The award-winning creative company spent nearly a year researching and animating to create the installation, which is expected to be one of the museum's most popular

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14 March 2016

The Xavity Audio platform for Xilinx Spartan-6 is the first end station platform/product to enter AVnu Alliance's Pro A (professional audio) certification tests for conformance and interoperability (C&I). Once successfully through the testing program, Lab X will apply for use of the AVnu certification mark to denote that Xavity is AVnu-certified.

"Forging Xavity in the fire of AVnu C&I testing will make it an even stronger platform," states Lee Minich, president of Lab X Technologie

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The line-up of international stars included music artists Ryan Adams, Kasabian, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, and Paul Weller as well as comedy stars Russell Brand and Noel Fielding.

Flown above the stage, XL supplied an 8m x 4.5m Lighthouse R7 LED screen which showed IMAG footage of the shows combined with information films about Teenage Cancer Trust's work helping young people with cancer. Below the screen a 28m wide LED banner, formed from Pixled F-25, provided an additional scenic element as well as showing details on how the audience

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14 March 2016

The new D4K models are the first projectors to combine 4K resolution, high frame rates at 60 frames per second (fps) and three-chip DLP technology. Both the Christie D4K2560 (25,000 centre lumens) and Christie D4K3560 (35,000 centre lumens) provide razor-sharp image detail - and video with smoother motion and transitions - for unsurpassed image quality and a more vibrant and appealing visual experience. The new projectors replace the Christie D4K25 and D4K35, respectively, and are perfect for any application requiring 4K, 60 fps, three-chip DLP projectors with high brightness.

"Christie is the only man

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Jan Markus Jahn, director of visual systems solutions business unit of Panasonic Systems Communication Company, explains "Panasonic will show display solutions that are at the very forefront of new technology and show our focus on meeting the needs of exhibition rental and staging markets. With everything from our hugely successful and award winning PT-DZ21K projector which lit up the London 2012 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies to our new display technology, we offer a massive range of innovative AV sol

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For the first time at the Berlin finale, a Christie YK200 and Christie MicroTiles were used, the latter serving as a podium for the duet between one of the finalists and international star Nelly Furtado.

It was last year that Manuel da Costa first experienced the YK200, using the powerful moving head projector in the course of a live TV show. The Christie YK200 from the Nitro Soluti

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The Ayrshire rockers' sixth studio album has been their first to take the Number One slot creating huge excitement. The sold out tour featured a set created by show designer / director Misty Buckley, an intricate tree-like structure at first glance which at second squint could morph into of a pair of lungs, complete with the arterial / branch complexity of both structures. This set piece also featured integral video elements.

It was combined with a lighting design by Oli Metcalfe and live camera direction by Richard Shipman to form a colourful and interesting visual aesthetic and backdrop to the band's incendiary performances which earned rave reviews!

XL's project manager

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"The theme of '3' - reflecting the album and tour titles - was very important, and dictated much of the layout of LED fingers and stage graphics," says Thompson. "The Ai is being used to power a mixture of live camera feeds, video and visual content onto the main back video wall, and over the three, three-dimensional LED screens, which are embedded in the stage floor and run above the stage to reach into the audience like outstretched fingers. After witnessing the power of Ai at previous events, I knew we could create a stunnin

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The CPL team headed by Simon Haydon and Lee Gruszeckyj worked closely with Jeff Whiteley from the show's producers, Inteva Productions, for the event, staged in Hall 1 of the Telford International Centre.

Inteva Productions has worked with CPL on this event since 2008 when it was a one day show for 3000 delegates. As the sales have increased and business has expanded, it has now progressed into two days with identical content with over 3500 delegates each day.

"The look of the event had remained the same for a number of years although the technical element became more ambitious each year," explains Whitel

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The new 8mm product is lightweight, low profile and silent in operation due to its fan-less design. With full outdoor brightness and high contrast to ensure optimal operation in direct sunlight, the product has been specifically developed by LiveDots in consultation with CT to service the companies growing portfolio of high profile sports events.

The C8 investment follows CT's successful introduction of the C5 and specially developed C16 as its mainstream indoor LED platform in early 2012. The C5 has established itself as the High Resolution product others are judged against and CT expect the C8 to be similarly successful. The new product is expected to arrive at CT in May and will immediately

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14 March 2016

The sessions will provide an overview of the latest features of the Titan V7 and Ai Media Server as part of the Lighting and Video - the Integration, the Benefits, the Future presented by Avolites Media.

"We will be introducing the latest cool features, including 'AVTO MAP', making mapping tourable; 'wow factor' rotational mapping; and our totally unique 'canvas editor' feature, which brings 3D content editing tools into the Ai tool set," says Avolites Media's MD Steve Warren. "We believe that fabulous productions start with the best ingredients and Ai offers the industry's best, most efficient, high resolution codec and

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The system was conceived in early December as Stewart was flying back from a client visit in Tampa. "Their directive was to 'push the design envelope' and at 30,000ft, inspiration hit," explains Davis.

As the circle on a coffee-stained napkin morphed into a turntable, Stewart then imagined placing an LED wall on the turntable and curving it. "Then we thought, what if we flanked the turntable with more LED and put it on traveller track to have even more reveal and endless walk-on opportunities

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14 March 2016

Chroma-Q's new award-winning Inspire high output, RGBW colour-changing LED House Light and AutoLED II ultra-bright (16,430 lumens) daylight white LED moving head fixture will share their UK tradeshow debut at PLASA Focus 2013. Also on show from Chroma-Q are a selection of other intelligent LED lighting products including the Studio Force multi-purpose and Studio Force Phosphor broadcast-sector ranges of white LED fixtures available in daylight, tungsten and variable white, the hugely popular Color Force range of RGBA colour fixtur

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14 March 2016

The huge tour, which saw Justin Fletcher MBE bring together his favourite CBeebies characters for the very first time, was a brand new Easter egg-stravaganza!

The spectacular rock and roly-poly show, which toured UK arenas across the three week Easter school holiday, playing up to three shows per day, included Robert The Robot and Little Monster from Justin's House.

The main upstage screen was made up of XL's Lighthouse R7 LED, with five additional custom-built moveable screens on the stage constructed from Pixled FX-11.

"As always, it's a pleasure getting the team together for another CBeebies run," commented XL Events' director Rich Rowley.

"This year we changed the mix slightly in

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The show was originally a large format projection extravaganza created by Ashton and projected onto two buildings in the Castle's main courtyard for two short festival events in 2010 and 2011. This proved so popular and accessible that CADW wanted to integrate it as a lasting tribute to the colourful history of the Castle which could be enjoyed by the public all year round.

Says Ashton, "I was very honoured to be asked to revise the show to run as a permanent work. It's fantastic to see it have another lease of life and the chance to connect with so many more people in this re-worke

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To display logos and character images from the movie, the design called for vertical LED "banners" which towered above the waiting crowds in the Square's gardens. Each banner was 3m high and mounted on a 2m high plinth to ensure that the LED was visible from all around the cinema.

XL Events supplied 147 tiles of Pixled FX-11 outdoor LED which was rigged in XL's special 3x2 touring frames - allowing the LED tiles to be pre-cabled ahead of installation - saving valuable time on the day.

Working in the gardens of Leicester Square proved challenging due to the soft ground in the grassy areas, which meant all the LED had to be manually lifted into pla

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14 March 2016

ESL will be exclusively responsible for promoting, distributing and servicing ArKaos Pro's stage and stadium media servers as well as the ArKaos MediaMaster Express and Pro software across the whole of France.

Established in 1992, and with offices in Montpellier and Paris, ESL introduced the first comprehensive catalogue of stage lighting in France and has provided top class distribution and service across the country ever since. The company prides itself on enabling companies of all sizes to have easy access to high performance products at the best possible prices.

ArKaos Pro customers in France will now be able to benefit from ESL's accessibility and

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With more and more of its customers also requiring hardware solutions for multi-screen shows and installations, the link with Calibre UK was a natural progression, according to Prosound's technical director, Mark Malherbe: "Our reputation has been built on using only market-leading products in both our sales and hire departments, so when the opportunity arose to add Calibre to our roster, we jumped at the chance.

"We supply a number of high-end production companies not just in South Africa but in East and West African countries