Gerriets Dance Floor Tape Applicator

Gerriets’ G-TR dance floor tape applicator gives users a way of taping dance floors and carpets in an upright position. The ergonomically designed tool, which weights in at 11 pounds, can reduce stress on back and knees and helps get taping jobs done three to four times faster than working by hand.

The new digital light meter from Ideal offers four measuring ranges up to 200,000 lux or 20,000 footcandles with an accuracy of +/-3 percent at a retail price of $149 (U.S.), or about 25 percent less than competitive light meters with similar feature-sets.

The new generation of the Lightconverse 3D Virtual Show Platform provides a solution for integrating and visualizing multiple show related disciplines in real-time including lighting, video, laser, pyro and DMX-controlled moving objects in a photo-realistic environment.

Martin Professional’s new software version 2.60 for Maxxyz lighting controllers includes Mark Cues, effect generator macros, grouping functions and more. A single cue or the entire cue list can be set as Mark Cue, a.k.a. “Move-in-Black,” suppressing the need to program standby cues.

SpotTrack is a new tool for making and managing followspot cue sheets from the people behind FocusTrack. It can manage shows with one to four spots and reduces the amount of typing required. It provides more information than spot cues including spot setup (type, color load, operator), details of characters in the show (name, cast name, understudy name), pictures of characters and cue lists, which can be imported from FocusTrack which can, in turn, import data from ETC Eos/Ion, MA grandMA and Strand 500-series consoles.

The Cyberlight 2.0 from Barco/High End Systems offers increased output over the original Cyberlight, RDM and DMX control and addressing, updated software capabilities and new Lithopatterns and effects. It features a 2,000-watt short arc lamp and an electronic ballast.

Software version v6 for Congo and Congo jr consoles is now available from ETC. New features include Image Effects, improved Jam Mode, more masters, improved playback and more. Image Effects use the Effect Playback from v5 to associate a layout of channels (creating a graphical or positional relationship) with a source image or text.

Philips Color Kinetics has announced two new floodlights with more than 8,500 lumens. The new eW Reach Powercore and iW Reach Powercore floodlights can accentuate building exteriors and landmarks with a choice of white or fixed color light, while reducing energy consumption and maintenance.

Zero 88 has releases version 5.3.0 software for ZerOS consoles.  Version 5.3.0 can be installed on Zero 88 Leap Frog 48, Leap Frog 96, Frog 2 and ORB consoles and adds a number of new features and bug fixes.  Key features introduced in version 5.3.0 include a Non Tracking mode for cue stacks, support for multi-part cues and the ability to store user-defined views directly onto UDKs on ORB.