High End Systems’ Hog 4 with version 2.0 software offers users more than a dozen new features starting with a new window called the “Media Picker” that lets users view and select slotted function values (gobos, colors, media, etc.) for the current fixture selection via thumbnail previews.
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WELLINGTON, FL — LED Source announced that its products will display the Energy Star mark, a designation established in 1992 by the U.S. EPA and Department of Energy to highlight products going above and beyond in terms of energy efficiency. Products displaying the mark generally offer reductions of 20 to 30 percent of energy usage when compared to conventional alternatives.
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BLACKSBURG, VA — The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, which held its grand opening Nov. 1, features a design that incorporates work by Snøhetta Architects in collaboration with Theatre Projects and STV Inc. Theatre Projects played a central role to the design for the venue’s Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre.
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LOS ANGELES — Leroy Bennett’s lighting design for the current Nine Inch Nails Tension 2013 tour features the largest installation of Ayrton MagicPanel 602 units to date. The lighting/video setup includes 126 of the moving head LED beam projectors. Each unit features 36 15W Osram RGBW LED modules — so there were 4,536 emitters in all for the visual design team to play with.
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LOS ANGELES — Lighting and video designer Breckinridge Haggerty has been using MA Lighting’s VPU (Video Processing Unit), the media server for still and moving images that’s fully integrated into the MA system.
Read More »LONDON — Creative Technology (CT) has formed a new creative team within their London business. The new Media Solutions team will focus on managing the increasing demand for specialist media management and delivery systems. CT has also appointed David Mulcahy as Media Consultant.
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NEW YORK — Singer/songwriter India.Arie’s tour in support of her fifth studio album, Songversaton, which launched in Seattle in late September and traveled through the U.S. in October and November, relied upon flexible video panels from PixelFlex for the tour’s video effects.
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