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TV Academy Honors ARRI ALEXA Camera System with Engineering Emmy®

TV Academy Honors ARRI ALEXA Camera System with Engineering Emmy®

[caption id="attachment_280253" align="alignnone" width="800"]Glenn Kennel (from left) Harald Brendel, and Frank Zeidler accept the Engineering Emmy Award for ARRI ALEXA camera system[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – At the 69th Engineering Emmy® Awards Ceremony in Hollywood, the Television Academy recognized ARRI with the most prestigious television accolade for outstanding achievement in engineering development for its ALEXA digital motion picture camera system. On October 25, 2017, at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, actress Kirsten Vangsness, who presented the award, said: “The ALEXA camera system represents a transformative technology in television due to its excellent digital imaging capabilities coupled with a completely integrated postproduction workflow.

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Venuetech New Elation Professional Distributor for the Middle East

MIDDLE EAST – Elation Professional is pleased to announce that Venutech Audiovisual & Lighting Systems (www.venuetech.ae) has been appointed the exclusive distributor for Elation Professional products in the Middle East. Venuetech has been a leading provider of professional products and services to the entertainment industry in the Middle East since 2003 and has seen immense growth since its founding. Headed by one of the Middle East market’s most experienced and esteemed personalities, Nour Assafiri, Venuetech’s team of industry professionals is focused on all aspects of the audio, video and lighting market, from sales to technical support.

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CHAUVET Professional Showcases Expanded Ovation Series At LDI

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LAS VEGAS – CHAUVET Professional’s Ovation series is taking the color mixing magic of its RGBA-Lime LED system to new places. At the upcoming LDI show, the company will be debuting the industry’s first full-color RGBAL Fresnel and house light fixtures. Joining them at the Ovation booth (1415) will be other groundbreaking products, including a variable white Fresnel and ellipsoidal.

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De Effenaar Upgrades with Robe DL Series Fixtures

NETHERLANDS – In the fiercely competitive world of moving lights, Robe offers a range of quality solutions for a diversity of applications. The DL series of refined and elegant LED luminaires was developed with theatre and television applications in mind, however these powerful fixtures have become popular across a number of different installation genres. Popular live music venue De Effenaar in Eindhoven, Netherlands, is a great example. De Effenaar has recently updated its lighting rig with the addition of 12 x DL7S Profiles, 12 x DL4X Spots and four DL4F Fresnels, together with 42 x Robe PARFect RGBW LED PARs.

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Tash Sultana Takes Bandit Lites On The Road

[caption id="attachment_280243" align="alignnone" width="800"]Tash-Sultana lit with Bandit Lites[/caption]

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Bandit Lites is proud to be lighting Tash Sultana, the Melbourne singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is bringing her exceptional vocals and beatboxing skills to audiences around the world.Following a viral video performance that garnered over a million views in five days, the self- taught artist launched her Homecoming Tour this summer with a lighting design crafted by Cam Anderson designed to be both compact and powerful, with upright trusses providing the backbone and Chauvet Rogue FX-B’s utilized as the main force.

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Mega-Lite Introduces New Matrix Video Panels

HELOTES, Texas- The Mega Matrix Video Panel is a newly designed panel perfect for production and installation with a vivid display constructed for both indoor and outdoor use. This panel is IP65 rated with a 6.25mm pitch and is assembled with an aluminum casting body that gives it the protection and capability to withstand vigorous elements. It is Equipped with an IP rated Ether-con and Neutrik PowerCon True1 in and out which allows the panels to be connected in series. Although this panel is small, it is able to pack a punch due to its ≥5,100 NIT output. A built-in test pattern generator also gives the user the ability to test it without signal.

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Old Town Temecula Community Theater Installs elektraLite SLA Retinas

[caption id="attachment_280238" align="alignnone" width="800"]Old Town Temecula Community Theater using elektraLite fixtures on a recent dress rehearsal of A Christmas Carol 2017[/caption]

TEMECULA, CA – Old Town Temecula Community Theater sits in the heart of the historic district of Temecula in Southwestern California. Surrounded by antique shops and quaint cafes, the theater is housed inside the old Mercantile Building on Main Street, dating from the 1890s. But the theater is just 12 years old, and its production is led by a concert touring veteran who steers the venue toward new technology. Its newest purchase of 12 elektraLite SLA Retina LED fixtures is testament to that.

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OPUS 1 Festival’s Surreal, Immersive Productions Enabled by Christie Creative Content, Consulting Expertise and Advanced Projection Technologies

[caption id="attachment_280235" align="alignnone" width="800"]OPUS 1 was composed of 11 large scale activation areas including content from Christie 360[/caption]

COLUMBIA, Md. – Christie®, a world leader in creating and sharing the world’s best visual and audio experiences, joined forces with the Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE: HHC) and Wild Dogs International to provide attendees of the OPUS 1 festival with an impressive, multi-media experience recently. Led by the Christie 360 Experiential Studios, Christie provided creative content, consulting advice and advanced projection and display systems to the extravaganza.

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VER partner with MIRRAD to stage sparkling comeback show by 80’s icons BROS

[caption id="attachment_280232" align="alignnone" width="800"]80's Icon BROS returns to the stage[/caption]

LONDON – Making a return to the live stage after a 25 year hiatus, Matt and Luke Goss, BROS, headlined a brace of shows at London’s O2 Arena, giving a fresh airing to their back catalogue of shimmering 80s pop hits. Working alongside Jamie Thompson and David Cohen at innovative show and lighting design outfit MIRRAD, the team at VER London provided the crew with an extensive LED, video, lighting and camera package to help build the suitably vibrant installation.

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LD Fimbres and 4Wall Light First ‘Goalkeepers’ Event Hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

[caption id="attachment_280229" align="alignnone" width="800"] ‘Goalkeepers’ Event Hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [/caption]

NEW YORK, NY- The inaugural ‘Goalkeepers’ event, hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, took place last month at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, and more joined forces with Bill and Melinda Gates to engage a new generation of leaders in the fight against poverty and disease. 4Wall Entertainment provided the gear to Lighting Designer Mickey Fimbres for this momentous 2-day event.

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Acclaim Lighting Introduces New Compact, High Output Dyna Accent Mini

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LOS ANGELES – Acclaim Lighting, a leader in innovative and advanced lighting technology, introduces Dyna Accent Mini™, a compact, high-power, LED floodlight designed for the tightest spaces in outdoor commercial and landscape applications. The low profile, high output Dyna Accent Mini is available in Spectrum RGBW or single color temperatures of 2700K, 3000K, 3500K and 4000K.  It features a narrow 7º (white) or 12º (RGBW) beam with 20º, 40º, 60º, and 10 º x 60 º spread lens options. The floodlight consumes only 13 watts, performs at temperatures between -40° to 122° F and maintains 70 percent of its lumens for 150,000 hours.

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Mark “Junior” Jacobson Goes Rogue at Saloon on Calhoun Music Hall in Brookfield, WI

[caption id="attachment_280223" align="alignnone" width="800"]Rogues in use at Saloon On Calhoun[/caption]

BROOKFIELD, WI – Years ago, Mark “Junior” Jacobson designed some lightshows for a Milwaukee band, London USA. Fast forward a couple of decades, and Jacobson’s career has soared to great heights as the lighting designer for a number of top artists, including Tool. This September, Jacobson was reunited with his old clients, London USA, when he stepped up to the FOH desk at the Saloon On Calhoun music hall to run the board for their “Not Dead Yet” reunion show.

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