"Several years ago, before video became a factor, ClearView wanted to improve its stage lighting, and they were told there was no way they could do this without spending a fortune on a new transformer," recalled Vaque. "We went in and showed them how they could do it on their existing circuitry, using intelligent lights. We installed several CMY colour-mixing intelligent lights, and the look was phenomenal."
But now with its membership passing 2,000, ClearView was growing into a need for quality video to cross-broadcast sermons to a planned second facility. The CMY lights produced too many hotspots under the camera, so the church called on Springtree to revamp its stage lighting once again.
One of Springtree's suppliers, Elation Professional, had just come out with a new type of RGB colour-mixing LED par can, the ELED Tri 64B, which Vaque felt would be perfect for the job. LEDs were an obvious choice for ClearView, because of their low power draw. But the ELED Tri 64B went beyond the typical RGB LED par can with a new innovation from Elation called Tri-Color LED Technology. Each of the Tri 64B's 18 LEDs is actually a 3-in-1 "tri" lamp, comprised of three 1W LEDs, a red, green and blue. This breakthrough lamp design allows RGB colour-mixing to be done within each lens.
The result, said Vaque, is that the Tri-64B produces better, more even-toned mixed colors. It also eliminates the three-color shadows that commonly appear around objects illuminated with traditional single-color RGB LED fixtures. What's more, it generates a warm, natural-looking white, and it's completely flicker-free, so it's ideal for video, noted Vaque.
(Jim Evans)
