COPENHAGEN, Denmark – U.K.-based video control solutions specialist SNP Productions Ltd supplied leading Danish rental company [Lite]Com A/S with their 5th Catalyst v4 PRO media server for the Bright Green Expo during the recent COP15 Climate Change Summit. The Bright Green Expo, a parallel event during the COP15 summit, uniting 170 companies from 19 countries in an exhibition environment at the Forum Exhibition Centre in Copenhagen, to display climate solutions.
A Catalyst media server was used to control video content for a LED centerpiece designed by Danish set and lighting/video designer Kasper Lange.
The design featured a cylindrical screen made with 310 panels of Element Labs Stealth LED screen, measuring 4 meters high and 4 meters in diameter. This was surrounded by 90 "rays" of HD VersaTubes, each one made up of a 4 meter aluminium pipe, each rigged with 4 HD VersaTubes, with a total of 360 HD VersaTubes.
SNP's Simon Pugsley was asked onboard to assist in setting up the Catalyst for the event by [Lite]Com A/S. The two companies have worked on previous projects in the past two years, with SNP supplying gear and technical aid for larger shows and events.
Pugsley worked with [Lite]Com A/S project manager Kristian Dreier and Christian Olsson, also of [Lite]Com A/S, plus a team of technicians who constructed the LED sculpture onsite.
An additional 100 panels of Stealth screen in a 20 tile high by 5 tile wide format was positioned at the end of the central walkway in the exhibition center. This was also fed by Catalyst to display scrolling exhibitor promotions.
The content was developed by [Lite]Com A/S and combined a selection of Bright Green branded logos and company sponsorship logos with ambient video patterns. Pugsley and Christian Olsson programmed the Catalyst using a grandMA console, which was also used to control the rest of the lighting rig supplied by [Lite]Com A/S.
The Catalyst's "wrap rotate" functions and transparent effects, used to animate and overlay the sponsor logos on the stealth screens, were put to use. A bigger challenge was to create the generic background content so that it seamlessly joined together around the cylindrical screen.
SNP also supplied [Lite]Com A/S with a fully flight-cased dual Catalyst system, a Hog iPC control desk and two engineers for the Denmark Radio COP15 Klima TV studio show. This ran simultaneously to the COP15 Conference in DR1, the national TV studios of Denmark Radio.
The rental package for the TV show included two 8core MacPro machines, complete with two Active Silicon Phoenix SDI capture cards, solid state drives, 24 inch LCD, Artistic Licence DataLynx ArtNet interface and a UPS – all built in to SNP's Catalyst system flightcase. SNP also sourced 26 square meters of Barco O-Lite 510 10mm LED panels with the help of Jean-Paul de Beurges from VER in the UK.
SNP engaged the services of Ian Henderson (LED) and Finn Ross (Catalyst operator) "to make it all work" in the TV studios for Morten Bremer Sørensen, director of [Lite]Com A/S. The schedule was somewhat tight – SNP received final confirmation at mid-day Wednesday and shipped everything the same day. The gear arrived on Friday, and was ready for rehearsals on the Saturday and in time for the start of the show on Sunday.
Simon Pugsley noted, "We are proud to have supplied [Lite]Com A/S with their latest Catalyst media server, and work alongside them on this hugely prestigious event."
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