DUBLIN – To coincide with the premiere of the latest Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, Disney commissioned Tom Rohan of event production house Eventco to turn Dublin’s 398-foot-high Spire into a giant Lightsaber. LDs Mick Murray and Matthew Cregan collaborated on the project, controlling 16 Clay Paky SuperSharpys with Avolites’ Titan One DMX USB Dongle.
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The event lasted for three weeks in December, with the team checking and controlling the lighting via CCTV, connected to the Internet, which sent live images back. They then accessed the laptop within the Spire using the TeamViewer app.
“We did initial focusing on an Avolites Tiger Touch II and then transferred the show to a Mac laptop with the Titan One Dongle installed,” says Mick Murray. “With the Team Viewer app we could log in to the show at any time and reset a fixture or do further programming. Using a time of day clock, we could trigger cuelists to light up the Spire at 5pm each day and run a separate sequence overnight.”
Avolites’ Titan One DMX USB Dongle facilitates fast and Intuitive control of intelligent lighting, dimmers and LED effects from one on-screen console. It allows the user to output one line of DMX with the full functionality of Avolites Titan Software, and access to Avolites’ powerful features such as Pixelmapper, Quicksketch, Media Clip Select, Attribute Control-Blades and Shape Generator.
“Titan One is very easy to use and the offline interface is simple but powerful,” Murray continues. “I find it the best for offline editing.”
The event was a huge social media hit for Disney and Star Wars, with Dublin residents sharing photos of the spectacle for the world to share or retweet.
