ATLANTA – PPi announced the departure of senior sales event production manager Jason Shadix, pictured here, who is leaving to form Jason Shadix Designed Spaces, a new company.
Read More »Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Switcher Update 6.1 software includes new features for Camera Control such as copying of color settings across cameras, white balance display and synchronized fading of audio and video using Fade to Black. ATEM Switcher Update 6.1 is available now for download free of charge for all existing ATEM Switcher customers from the Blackmagic Design support page on the website.
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QUEBEC CITY – After first putting test units through a serious of tortuous trials, including more than 500 floor-drops from different angles, Show Distribution, based here, has been incorporating Harting’s Han-Yellock 60 connectors into the chain and gear box components purchased from another Germany-based manufacturer, Liftket.
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VALENCIA, Spain — For the pool area at Las Arenas Hotel-Spa here, José García from Sistec Lite used Work Pro’s LightMouse LM 5 to control the architectural lighting in the area.
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LONDON — When London’s Royal Court Theatre (RCT) sought to upgrade their existing lighting stock they turned to White Light for more than 50 of ETC’s Source Four LED Series 2 Profile fixtures across two venue spaces. LDs Peter Mumford and James Farncombe were the first to make use of the new energy-efficient fixtures. “Now is the right time to invest in LED,” noted Jack Williams, RCT’s head of lighting. Pictured here, a scene from The Wolf From the Door.
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MEXICO CITY — The lighting crew for Ricky Martin’s latest tour are making good use of the pixel-mapping capabilities of Chauvet Professional’s Nexus 4×4 and Next NXT-1 panel fixtures. The Nexus panels are arrayed in various-sized wall configurations upstage; the Next NXT-1 panels are used with the geometric overhead truss.
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ETC says its ColorSource PAR LED luminaire uses a proportionate blend of red, green, blue and lime LED emitters to produce a richer, more natural and consistent light output than other budget LED fixtures. Along with the color calibration that ETC does on all its LED luminaires, the company is touting its round-the-clock customer and technical support.
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LONDON — LD Nick Gray of Renegade provided five different lighting designs for five distinctive architectural spaces during the most recent London Fashion Week (SS15), held Sept. 12-16. He used gear provided by Neg Earth, Panalux and White Light. For the Anja Hindmarch show, pictured here, Gray used Martin MAC Viper Wash DX fixtures fitted with UV filters.
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Analog Way’s AW Toolbox is a mobile app designed to control the LiveCore series of presentation mixers. The wireless app lets users fine-tune any multi-projector Soft Edge Blend, recall presets and master presets and configure the processor’s inputs and outputs, all via WiFi. The company has also released a series of free tools including AW Gateway, AW Screen Frame Cutter and AW EDID Editor.
Read More »People are always asking me what to charge for a gig. I have my certain rates for various jobs and prefer when I can obtain… Read More »It Can Pay to be Flexible on Fees
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LONDON — Creative Technology’s London operation announce the expansion of its account management team with the return of Mick Jones. Jones, a 27-year AV industry veteran, started his career at Mediatech AV in the late 1980s and most recently worked for Chaos Visual Productions. He worked previously for CT in the late 1990s.
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