>High End Systems Inc
>Catalyst DL1
The Catalyst DL1 is a digital video engine which bridges the worlds of automated lighting and video projection. It is the second generation offering in the Catalyst family of High End products. Whilst the original Catalyst combined a media server and moving mirror light with an off-the-shelf video projector, the Catalyst DL1 significantly enhances the technology by housing a digital engine in a ruggedized package that has the look and feel of a moving light and the versatility of a moving projector. Users are able to take images from DVDs, videos and other types of media and display them onto a stage, wall, prop, screen or a set - with complete control over image size and shape. The DL1 also provides the ability to project Digital Aerials and provide uniform colour and beam intensity. Unlike conventional moving lights, where the beam field has peaks and valleys, digital lighting creates a flat, even field with a high contrast ratio.
To help bridge the video and traditional lighting worlds, Catalyst DL1 incorporates the communications standards of both: VGA, RGBHV and S Video inputs for incorporating film or graphics content, and DMX programming, allowing the DL1 to be remotely pointed or focused from any DMX-based control unit.
>Award for Technical Innovation
>Korg (UK)
>Kaoss Entrancer
The Kaoss Entrancer is a completely new type of VJ gear that "visualizes sound," letting people control images and sound in real-time simply by fingertip control of a touch pad, producing new 'instrument-like' expressions that were impossible using previous VJ equipment.
A library of 100 video effects programs is provided for control over the user's video material. It offers basic effects such as fade, wipe, colour change, freeze, flip, rotate and expand/shrink, and more sophisticated effects such as stretch, split-screen, invert image components, mirroring, and emboss. Audio signals are processed with the same 100 effects found in the second-generation Kaoss Pad. Audio and video can be processed at the same time by using the 100 specially-designed Combination programs. The user can also sample audio (up to 12 seconds) and video (up to six seconds) independently, then save the images or samples for playback, or apply effects to them.The Kaoss Entrancer accepts two video signals (composite or S-Video) and stereo audio input, with the ability to switch between the two video inputs. It also has MIDI In and Out for controlling other devices and for playback of sequencing pad movements.
