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TDC Masters Video Complexities of ‘The Voice Australia’ using d3 4x4pro

TDC Masters Video Complexities of ‘The Voice Australia’ using d3 4x4pro

[caption id="attachment_279999" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Voice 2017 in Australia[/caption]

SYDNEY – Part of the hit international franchise, ‘The Voice Australia’ debuted in 2012 attracting millions of viewers to the show, which culminates in a six-week live competition phase leading to the grand finale.  Season 6, which wrapped up in July 2017, used a rack full of d3 4x4pro media servers with DVI VFC cards (16 outputs each) to master the show’s video complexities.

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Mark Cunniffe works magic with Robert Juliat Lancelot and Merlin for Ed Sheeran and Robbie Williams

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UK – English singer-songwriter and global superstar, Ed Sheeran’s current world tour in support of his third studio album ‘÷’, is a huge 187-date tour which started in Turin, Italy in March 2017, and will play stadiums across Europe, North and Latin America, Asia, and Australasia before returning for a second European leg throughout summer 2018. This is a mammoth adventure by the solo singer whose every move on stage will be followed by two of Robert Juliat’s heroic Lancelot followspots, supplied by UK-based lighting hire company, Lights Control Rigging (LCR).

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Robe Finds Another Voice

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SOUTH AFRICA – Robe was the moving light of choice for the second season of The Voice South Africa. Multi-Media were again appointed as technical production company by TV producers AMPN, with Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier once again appointed as lighting designer. The show, aired on M-Net, and this year moved from a 500 capacity studio to the 3000 seater Mosaiek Teatro in Fairland, Johannesburg, reflecting the popularity of and anticipation for the popular singing contest. With that came the creative brief from series director Darren Hayward to “go for it” with more drama and excitement.

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PR Lighting Adds 350 Beam To New Aqua Waterproof Range

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PR Lighting has announced a new addition to its successful IP65-rated AQUA range, which has enjoyed a spectacular launch at key trade shows around the globe this year. The waterproof and dustproof Aqua 350 Beam moving head features a 350W lamp (6800K color temperature), and thanks to its advanced optical system delivers a precise, tight and powerful 2.1° parallel beam. This makes it ideal for all outdoor situations, particularly where an outdoor searchlight and big air looks are required.

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4Wall Purchases Lighting Assets of Paramount On Location – New York

NEW YORK, NY-  4Wall Entertainment, a national provider of entertainment equipment rentals and sales, has purchased the lighting assets of Paramount On Location – New York, a provider of TV/Film equipment rentals to major motion pictures and television shows in the New York market.  Paramount will continue to service clients in Los Angeles and surrounding markets. As part of the transaction, 4Wall has also entered into an agreement with the newly formed company Insight Equipment, Inc. 4Wall will be the primary provider of all lighting and grip equipment for Insight, while also continuing to serve and maintain all current clients in the film and TV market.

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Felix Lighting Stays on Leading Edge with ProPlex

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LOS ANGELES – This year, Felix Lighting has added significantly to their rental inventory of ProPlex Devices and Cables.  In addition to their ProPlex IQ Two 1616 and 416 Nodes, Opto-Splitters, hundreds of Ethernet cables and ten runs of ProPlex Fibre cable, nine EZ-LANs form the heart of the California company’s state-of-the-art portable networking systems.  “ProPlex makes complex show networking easier and more reliable, and our lives easier,” says Ryan Herrera, VP of Business Development at Felix Lighting.

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Chris Reade Lights Vidya Vox Tour with Chauvet Professional Fixtures

[caption id="attachment_279982" align="alignnone" width="800"]VidyaVox gets an assist from Chauvet gear[/caption]

DURBAN, South Africa – Vidya Vox, born in India and raised in Virginia, has been captivating fans around the world via YouTube with her unique music, which started with a mashup of Ellie Goulding’s “Love Me Like You Do” with traditional Hindi and Tamil music in 2015. The artist is now on tour in support of her first EP, Kuthu Fire, lit with a Chris Reade and Jay Ballinger-designed light show that features a Maverick MK2 Spot, Rogue R2 Wash and Strike 4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

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LD Victor Fable Chooses Elation LED for “Survivor: Game Changers” Finale

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LOS ANGELES – For the season finale of “Survivor: Game Changers” earlier this past summer lighting designer Victor Fable decided the time was right to add more LED fixtures to the lighting rig of the popular competitive reality television series and turned to new generation LED fixtures from Elation Professional for the task. “We wanted to move to more LED and try something different without taking away the success of past live shows,” said Fable, who has traditionally used a profusion of discharge lamp fixtures on “Survivor” finale shows. “We wanted to see how much could be rolled over to LED and see how much more bang we could get with the extra fixtures it allowed us to use.”

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Bergen Avinor Now Benefits From Power of AV Stumpfl Wings Player and Avio Master

[caption id="attachment_279976" align="alignnone" width="800"]Bergen Airport gets an assist from AVStumpfl[/caption]

WALLERN, AUSTRIA,-  In August 2017, Avinor opened the new terminal at Bergen Airport in Flesland, Norway. Construction has been ongoing since 2014. Designed to be modern, spacious and logical and feature a wider range of restaurants and shops, the new terminal adds 63,000 square metres of space to the existing 22,000 square meters. It also benefits from state-of-the-art video provided by audiovisual systems integrator Stagelab with Bright Norway, and powered by AV Stumpfl’s Wings Player Pro and Avio Master show control system.

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Lady Gaga Tour Expected to Resume Nov. 3 with Lavish Production Design, Robe Gear

[caption id="attachment_279973" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robe beams in work on the Joanne Tour[/caption]

MONTREAL – Although Lady Gaga’s Joanne tour has been on hold since Sept. 11 as the artist recuperates from body pain caused by fibromyalgia, her fans are wishing Gaga a speedy recovery, and the tour is set to resume with a show in Montreal on Nov. 3, 2017. Along with Gaga herself, fans will be treated to a one-of-a-kind production design, which includes lighting effects from more than 200 Robe lighting fixtures supplied by Solotech for LD/production designer LeRoy Bennett’s design.

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