LONDON – Green Hippo’s Hippotizer media server 3.2 beta software is now available as a public download from the website. It’s Green Hippo’s biggest release in terms of features and fixes since v3. New features include RegionMapper, X-Fade on Layer, Muti-Select, Mackie, Presets2, MaNet, Time Code On-A-Layer and Watch Folders along with smaller features and bug fixes.
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LONDON — Oli Metcalfe’s design for Muse’s current tour, Second Law, which moves from Europe to North America in early 2013, features a fusion of lighting, video and automation effects with a transformable pyramid-shaped array of overhead video panels. They hang inverted above the stage, and can also descend to conceal the band. Collaborators include lighting, video and staging suppliers Neg Earth, XL Video and Brilliant Stages, with a Kinesys system and Hog 4 from High End Systems used for control.
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NASHVILLE – 4Wall Nashville is providing lighting and labor for TobyMac’s fall tour. Recently named American Music Awards’ ‘Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist,’ TobyMac’s tour starts Nov. 29 and makes 10 stops until its Dec. 15 finale.
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VENTURA, CA — Total Structures said it has recently invested in a large quantity of parts for the Columbus McKinnon (CM) range of electric chain hoists. Total Structures, based here, added that it is now fully stocked with parts for both classic and new style Lodestar hoists as well as compact Prostar units.
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LONDON — Brilliant Stages has designed and constructed the staging and suspended pyramid feature made from LED video panels for Muse’s current tour, Second Law, which tours Europe until Christmas before moving to North America in January 2013. Brilliant has worked on several stages for Muse including the 2009 Resistance tour and subsequent 2010 stadium tour, and the band’s inspirational stage design for their Reading and Leeds anniversary shows in 2011.
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LONDON – A.C. Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd.’s Video division has been appointed as the exclusive UK distributor for LedGo’s range of modular LED video solutions. Netherlands-based LedGo BV have been providing the theatre and television production industry with a variety of LED video screens and innovative solutions for a number of years.
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LONDON – Longtime Muse LD Oli Metcalfe is the first LD to use the new High End Systems Hog 4 control system. During a string of shows in the UK and Europe, Metcalfe swapped his Full Boar console for the new Hog 4 desk. The designer says he enjoys the extra real estate afforded by the Hog 4, but appreciates the familiar ergonomics of the Hog family of control systems. While getting up to speed with the Hog 4 was effortless for Oli, this tour is Muse’s most complex production to date, with control and networking perfection being integral to its success.
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CHICAGO – For Justin Bieber’s Believe tour, Tom Marzullo, production designer and tour production manager, turned to Strictly FX for pyro, lasers, confetti and fog effects. “The laser looks that are on the Bieber show are extremely artistic. You’re not going to see (them) anywhere else,” said Strictly FX visuals director and partner Ted Maccabee.
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NORWICH, UK – The biggest display yet of SGM’s LT-100 3D pixel tubes has appeared at Wonderland Norwich, a new nightclub. The club’s motif, a twist on Alice in Wonderland, includes 220 of SGM’s 1-meter long pixel tubes suspended above the dance floor. An additional 66 strings of SGM LB-100 LED light balls shine along the length of the display from the ceiling.
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