Leading UK rental company Lite Alternative has now invested in three Catalyst v4 systems (run on Mac Pro G5 machines). Lite Alt's Catalyst systems have been on many live shows and concert tours throughout the year, from Radio One's Big Weekend to Arcade Fire's Neon Bible world tour, featuring lighting and set design by Paul Normandale with visual design and video direction by Richard Stembridge.
Others include Maximo Park (LD Stevie Marr), Interpol (LD Lucas Cotterham), and Paul McCartney and Kings of Leon (LD for both, Paul Normandale). Normandale also used PixelMAD - the pixel-mapping plug in - on recent James Blunt and Mark Ronson tours, and a Catalyst system will be utilised on James Blunt's 2008 world tour.
"The beauty of Catalyst is its ability to modify - in all ways - the content on site, as opposed to needing expensive editing post and pre-production facilities," says Normandale. "It was the first product we'd seen for a long while which really excited us," says Williams, adding that they could foresee the potential for such technology within their work. "It was also good to enter a whole new world - video - and start learning from the ground up about this side of the industry as well developing content creation skills." (Jim Evans)
