Officially launched at this year’s PLASA, Scene Change has been a year in development: housed in a purpose-built studio at Waterloo Road in London, the company will employ state-of-the-art equipment in the design and creation of original digital video content specifically for projection. As a market leader in gobo and slide projection, DHA’s expertise in this area will prove invaluable.
Scene Change unites two market sectors - entertainment technology and video projection, but developments in these sectors are by no means in sync. The video industry has developed at a faster rate than entertainment technology and video clips are being used in an increasing number of ways in the theatre and associated sectors. Whilst some companies are developing projector and computer software, Scene Change is the only company which can draw on industry specific knowledge to create original digital video content.
Conventional video libraries offer images in a rectangular format suitable for broadcast, but most lighting designers are used to working with circular images. They also need those images to have high contrast and colour saturation in order to retain their impact when projected over distances, or in ambient light. DHA’s expertise also enables Scene Change to pre-distort an image to order, to allow for the fact that projectors are often off-centre to the projection surface, in one or both planes. The video clips are ideal for a wide variety of applications, including videowalls in nightclubs and as background to theatrical productions or corporate events. Having worked closely with High End on the output, the Scene Change library integrates perfectly with Catalyst, but is also flexible enough to work with future projection software.
Scene Change will offer customers the chance to choose from an ever-increasing range of pre-recorded CDs, single clips or customized CDs containing any 10 clips, and is also offering PAL and NTSC formats.
(Ruth Rossington)
