New Stock Of Stagemaker Hoists at TLS Productions, Inc.
ANN ARBOR, MI – TLS Productions, Inc. recently added Stagemaker SRS Half Ton Chain Hoists to its rental inventory.
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Quince Imaging Uses Avolites Ai for Market America World Conference in Miami
MIAMI, FL – Market America touched down in Miami’s American Airlines Arena for their World Conference, with Quince Imaging specifying Avolites’ Ai media server for the event’s video needs.
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XLNT Launches CyberHoist II System at Prolight+Sound
FRANKFURT, Germany – XLNT Advanced Technologies is launching the CyberHoist II system at ProLight+Sound, Frankfurt in Hall 9.0, booth E88.
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A.C.T Lighting Earmarks Proceeds from MA Lighting’s New dot2 Range to Behind the Scenes Program
LOS ANGELES — A.C.T Lighting, Inc. has become a new Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Product partner. The PLASA Foundation’s Behind the Scenes program is an industry charity providing financial assistance to entertainment technology professionals who are seriously ill or injured. Program grants may be used for basic living and medical expenses.
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Vaddio ZoomSHOT 20 POV Camera
Vaddio’s latest point-of-view camera, the ZoomSHOT 20, builds on the technology platform that the company developed for its ClearVIEW HD-20SE PTZ camera. The ZoomSHOT 20 is fully equipped with an advanced image signal processor, 20x optical zoom and native 1080p/60 high definition video. Manual pan and tilt positioning allow for simple yet precise control.
Read More »RTI NANO laser show systems at the ECHO Awards 2015
BERLIN, Germany – The “ECHO Awards” is a German music award event that took place in Berlin on 26th March 2015. The winners of this event are not chosen by a jury, but by the number of record sales and chart positions. The ECHO is said to be the most important music award in Europe.
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Elation Named Distributor of HedgeHog 4E Lighting Console in Europe
KERKRADE, The Netherlands — High End Systems’ Master Distributor in Europe, AED Distribution, named Elation Europe, based here, exclusive distributor in Europe for HES’ Hedgehog 4E model lighting console. The distribution agreement builds on Elation’s current agreement with High End Systems that lets Elation distribute the HES HedgeHog 4 in North and South America, India and Southeast Asia.
Read More »Artistic Licence Names Soundlight Distributor in Germany
LONDON — Artistic Licence named Soundlight an official distributor of its products in Germany. Visitors to Prolight & Sound at the Messe Frankfurt from April 15-18 will be able to see a selection of the broad range of Artistic Licence products at the Soundlight stand, D31 in Hall 9.0.
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87th Academy Awards Visuals Rely on New Hippotizer V4 Media Server System
For the seventh year running, Hippotizer by Green Hippo was the media server of choice at the Academy Awards, broadcast from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Feb. 22. But if the brand hasn’t changed, the crew found a new visual solution with Hippotizer’s new V4 hardware and software system.
Read More »Lighting Network Basics
Automated lighting programmers are constantly using new equipment and setup configurations. It is very important for programmers to understand how networking has become an integral part of many systems. While a full understanding of computer networking concepts, equipment, and topographies is not required, there are some basic networking principles that you need to be familiar with. The number of lighting devices connected together with wired or wireless networking equipment is growing on a daily basis, but the general purposes can be broken down into three unique situations. However, before exploring these categories, you must understand some basics of networking.
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Dierson Dives into Production Design, Bennett Designs Maroon V, Cory Says OK Go, Quick Cues and More
Patrick Dierson is gravitating more to production design these days, he told PLSN. Most recently, he was production designer for DirecTV’s Super Bowl Fan Festival Jan. 28-30 in the Phoenix area. “I continue to handle discipline specific duties in lighting and visuals on certain projects as well, but production design seems to be what most productions are turning to me for,” he said.
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Dealing with the Unexpected
After a decade or so of touring, I’m eternally surprised at the sheer variety of problems that I get confronted with on the road. It seems there’s no shortage of new and creative ways that things can be mishandled, plugged in incorrectly, and perhaps even not plugged in at all. As denizens of the great and wonderful frontier known as The Road, it’s important that we develop a skillset of improvisation and problem solving while never breaking a sweat, or at least stoically pretending we haven’t, even in the face of moist and obvious evidence.
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