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Substance Church in Minneapolis Installs a 47-Foot-Wide PixelFLEX Video Wall

Substance Church's Northtown campus installed the new PixelFLEX wall

Substance Church in Minneapolis Installs a 47-Foot-Wide PixelFLEX Video Wall

MINNEAPOLIS — Adam Frey, technical director at Substance Church in Minneapolis, worked with integration partner Reach Communications to install a 47-foot-wide PixelFLEX video wall. The wall, which nearly fills the proscenium stage of the recently-built auditorium at Substance Church’s Northtown campus, measures 11.5 feet tall and is made with FLEXTour LED video panels. It can also be raised when not in use via a stage rigging system.

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LightParts Upgrades Victory World Church with Fixtures from High End Systems, Claypaky and GLP

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NORCROSS, GA – Statistically the most diverse worship facility in North America, Victory World Church in Norcross, GA seats up to 12,000 parishioners a week. They broadcast their services to over 6,000 online viewers. Victory recently turned to LightParts for assistance in upgrading their lighting system, and a mix of new gear has now been installed in their worship facility. Included in the system are 16 High End Systems SolaWash Pro 2000 and 16 SolaSpot Pro 1500 LED fixtures, an HES Axon HD Pro and DP8000s, Hog4, Road Hog 4 and HedgeHog 4S consoles, eight Claypaky B-Eye K20s and 16 GLP X4 Bar 20 fixtures.

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ONErack Adds New Dual Redundant, Hot Swappable Power Supply at ISE 2017

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ERLANGER, KY, – tvONE a leading designer and manufacturer of cutting-edge video and multimedia processing equipment, solved the AV world’s rack mounting nightmare last year after revealing the ONErack, a universal racking mounting solution with power and cooling. This year at ISE in Amsterdam, tvONE makes enhancements to the award winning solution; generating even more appeal on stand 5-S60.

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XYZ Cultural Technology Now an Authorized Dealer of ETC Lighting Products

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MONTREAL – After several months spent demonstrating the quality of its integration team and solid organization, XYZ Cultural Technology has officially been invited by ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) to join the exclusive ranks of its authorized distributors. Joe DiNardo, Regional Manager for ETC, explains that “it is very difficult to become an ETC dealer, but once you’re on board, you have the backing of our Sales, Marketing and Manufacturing force. We were very impressed with how XYZ presented themselves and we are very proud to welcome them as partners.”

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Leading Mexican Rental Company Invests In Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Wash

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MONTERREY, Mexico –Serpro Producciones, one of the largest audio and lighting rental companies in Mexico, has taken a major step toward increasing its ability to serve customers by adding 90 Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Wash fixtures to its inventory. The company invested in the RGBW LED moving washes after carefully evaluating a wide variety of options. The fixtures have been specified for Justin Bieber’s “Purpose Tour” appearances in Mexico later in February.

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Ron StageMaster from Eilon Engineering Monitors Large Rig for 2016 ‘Swedish Idol’ Finale

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – With a history of pop music success, including multiple Eurovision Song Contest victories, perhaps no country embraces reality song competitions like Sweden. One good example is the well-known Idol franchise, which has been one of the most popular shows on Swedish television since debuting in 2004. The 12th Swedish Idol season started airing on TV4 in August 2016 with a finale show held Dec. 8 at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm.

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Lawo V_Pro8 8 Channel Video Processing Toolkit Debuts at ISE 2017

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AMSTERDAM – At this year’s ISE show in Amsterdam, Lawo will debut its V__pro8 8-channel video processing tool armed with a comprehensive software update. With its latest update, Lawo’s V__pro8 became even more powerful, further increasing its features-per-RU density. Amongst the latest additions is an updated A/V sync tool, which, in addition to the native V__line sync pattern and the EBU pattern, can now also read the Vistek VALID8 format. Furthermore, the integrated quad-split multiviewer now features multi-colored Tally lamps, which are switchable via Ember+, allowing to integrate the MV tally in the overall tally system of your installation.

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Lightware Unveils Compact MMX4x2-HT200 Mini Matrix Switcher

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Lightware USA has introduced the MMX4x2-HT200, an HDBaseT-compatible, single CATx-based mini matrix switcher designed for smaller collaborative places.  Lightware USA, based in the town of Lake Orion, MI, is the US sales and support office for Lightware products. The new matrix switcher has a uniquely small footprint that makes it ideal for classrooms, meeting and conference rooms, control rooms and home cinemas.  It easily handles laptop, PC, videoconferencing and cloud sources and outputs to videoconferencing systems, monitors and speakers.

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A Perfect View

Back in 1990, I was working for a theatre complex that opened a brand new multi-million dollar venue with two state-of-the-art theatres. Each theatre was designed with a booth that included large windows and built-in desks for the consoles. We were all shocked to find that the nice, new tech booths did not allow a good view of either stage. It seemed that the architects did not understand the diagonal view that was required. We ended up building a raised floor into each booth so that our viewing angle of the stage was correct. Since that time, I have programmed and operated lighting consoles in a variety of locations with various types of views. It is very important when setting up your front of house location that you consider your view of the stage.

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Justin Kitchenman served as LD and lighting director for Luke Bryan's 'Kill the Lights' tour. His new company is called Align Design Group. Luke Bryan 2016 photo by Todd Kaplan.

Kitchenman Creates New Company; CMA Touring Award Winners, More…

Production, lighting and media designer Justin Kitchenman started the New Year by creating a new company, Align Design Group in Nashville. “The focus of the Align Design Group is going to be live production, mainly concert touring,” he told PLSN. “But, as with all ventures, the future is a great mystery, with many twists and turns! I look forward to the future and all of the opportunities it brings.”

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Illustration by Andy Au

The Politics of Color Selection

I heard about a tragedy the other day. A designer lost a tour based solely on color selection. A particular band that chooses a different color for each album cover hired this person to do their tour. During a televised promotion for their upcoming tour, the production manager mentioned to the designer/programmer that they would like the color of their album to be in every single song. The designer chose to go against the band’s wishes.

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Video shoot in Bandit Lites rehearsal facility for Taylor X

Bandit’s Venue One Rehearsal Facility Hosts Video Shoot for Taylor X

NASHVILLE — For Taylor X’s recent video shoot capturing her performance of her urban pop dance song, “No Ceiling,” which took place at the rehearsal facility that Bandit Lites provides to its clients, LD Erik Parker availed himself of the some of the light fixtures that Bandit has in its inventory, including Vari-Lite VL3000 Spots, GLP impression X4S, Martin Atomic Strobes and ETC Source Four Pars.

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