TEMPE, AZ – Pixel Perfect LLC has launched Show Pro, an OS X native digital cue sheet application and free iPad companion app created for the live events industry. Show Pro promotes efficient communication within the production team by connecting every crew member electronically to the stage manager or director.
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BOSTON – It wouldn’t be the Fourth of July without the “Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular,” and Robert Juliat Cyrano followspots helped light up the annual event, which was televised live from the Charles River Esplanade.
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UK – Avolites Media’s Ai infinity 8 Server has powered the video mapping of a giant robotic Spider Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. The 30 ft Spider Stage, constructed by ‘sculpture-based organization’ Arcadia, featured eight metal legs surrounding a core-like DJ box, all of which were video mapped by Ai Infinity 8 via a mixture of preprogrammed sequences and live-control.
Read More »TV One is now shipping its CorioMaster Mini compact all-in-one video wall processor that is able to perform a range of video tasks simultaneously, including real-time 360 video rotations and multi-projector edge-blending. It is one of the industry’s first videowall processors to fit up to 12 High Density Universal DVI or 10 HDBaseT and 2 High Density Universal DVI ports in a 1RU frame, controlling full-scale 3×3 video walls without a rack’s worth of discrete video components. TV One also announced that it is supporting the rollout of this processor with training opportunities to ensure that all users are aware of, and can benefit from, the unit’s many features and functions.
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HITCHIN, UK – Set manufacturer Brilliant Stages has played the leading role in supplying the stage set for Robbie Williams’ Take the Crown stadium tour. Brilliant Stages’ General Manager, Tony Bowern was tasked by the tour’s production manager, Wob Roberts, to oversee the design, construction and delivery of elements including a series of replicas of Robbie Williams’ head, on-stage tracking solutions, a multi-tiered main stage with protective roofette and a curved header topping the massive back wall.
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COLOGNE, Germany – To create “Lux Eucharistica,” a dynamic audio/visual show gracing Cologne Cathedral’s recent Eucharistic Congress 2013, the management called on illumination-art specialists Friedrich Förster and Sabine Weissinger of Casa Magica of Tuebingen, southern Germany. They, in turn, enlisted Matthias Strobel, an ETC Ion control desk expert to help program the projections and Selador light.
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NEW YORK – The plight of refugees may not be a high-profile topic on a given day, but WorldStage teamed with Art Works Projects to ensure that the problem had a larger-than-life platform during World Refugee Day, June 20. WorldStage was the media projection provider and sponsor for a public event at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City.
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ORLANDO – Alcorn McBride is launching its Carbon 4K video player. The new High Frame Rate (60 fps) UltraHD 4K player delivers the ultimate viewer experience to large video and LED walls, museum exhibits, theme park attractions, corporate centers, 4D theater and digital signage. It joins the single channel model, Carbon 1080p 60 player, in Alcorn McBride’s Carbon product line.
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ANAHEIM, CA – Christie has launched its QuadHD84 flat panel display. The quad high definition LCD flat panel provides an interface for true 60Hz performance at a full 3840 by 2160 resolution with compatibility with both computer and video sources. The 84-inch size can accommodate the most demanding collaborative needs of research and development, government, education, business and industry.
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NASHVILLE – The 2013 CMT Music Awards, staged at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, featured a lighting design by Tom Kenny. In the rig were 24 of Robe’s newest moving light fixtures, the Pointe, along with a variety of Robe’s other Robin series moving heads. VER supplied the lighting equipment, with all of the Robe equipment located on the deck of the multilayered stage set.
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