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Industry Veteran Nils Thorjussen Launches Drone Show Company Verge Aero

Industry Veteran Nils Thorjussen Launches Drone Show Company Verge Aero

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Having first helped revolutionize lighting control technology with the Wholehog lighting console and then unleashed a wave of creativity with the VersaTube pixilated LED tube, Nils Thorjussen is back in the entertainment technology world to innovate further, this time with drones at Verge Aero. “When my lighting friends ask me what I’m up to, I say I’m building Drone Hog,” Thorjussen says.

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LD Eric Cathcart Lights Greta Van Fleet with Chauvet Nexus Aw 7×7 LED Panel Fixtures

NASHVILLE – Greta Van Fleet LD Eric Cathcart has seen the rock band’s touring shows scale up from a single bus and trailer to a five-vehicle production. Chauvet fixtures play a key role in the rig provided by Premier Global Production, with Nexus Aw 7×7 LED panel fixtures lighting the band from five angled “fingers” of truss and four truss towers.

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Keith “Shanksy” Shanks Completes Game of Thrones Run with ChamSys

The Harland and Wolf Shipyard on Queen’s Island has seen its share of history. It was from this marshy outpost on the western end of Belfast Lough at the mouth of the River Lagan that the ill-fated Titanic was built. Almost a century later, long since it had stopped building ships, the vast complex was again thrust into the limelight as the main studio for the multi-Emmy winning HBO series Game of Thrones.

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Solotech Implements 12G-SDI Workflow for Mont-Mégantic National Park with Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design today announced that the ASTROLab, an astronomy activity center located at the Mont-Mégantic National Park in southern Québec, has built a new 12G-SDI AV and streaming workflow around Blackmagic Design products, including an ATEM Production Studio 4K, Blackmagic eGPU and Blackmagic Web Presenter.

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disguise Launches gx 2c Server at InfoComm

disguise launched its powerful new gx 2c server at InfoComm 2019. Designed to meet ever-increasing creative demands with the latest technological advances, the gx 2c server features even more GPU processing power, more capture and storage, as well as 10-bit and HDR support. The gx 2c can capture 8x 3G-SDI inputs, unlocking new workflows for broadcast and live events and providing users with more live feeds than ever before. The video inputs lets users capture 2x2160p60 (2x4K@60), four times the capability of disguise’s gx 2.

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ROE Visual Amber and Jasper LED Panels

ROE Visual presented their new Amber and Jasper series of LED screens targeting the market for fixed installations and AV integration at InfoComm 2019. Drawing from their experience as a provider of LED panels for the live event industry, the Amber and Jasper screens promise to serve as reliable, low-maintenance and versatile products that combine excellent visual quality with ease of installation and use. The Amber panels are fine-pitch screens suited to corporate boardrooms, broadcast studios and control rooms. Jasper LED panels are targeted at high-end indoor LED display applications.

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