Given the time frames for this event and the limited time allocated for cueing in the venue, WYSIWYG was chosen to allow for accurate pre-cueing offsite before the event. As a result of the challenges of working in the round, there were eight dimmer cities. Tenfeet used the ELC dmxLAN software to transport the 18 DMX lines over the ELC network. The ELC nodes performed perfectly, say the company, despite the size of the installation, while the option to merge DMX-lines was used frequently.The same ELC nodes were used to convert all the data from the three Hog IIIs into the three separate WYSIWYG systems.
Tenfeet supplied the WYSIWYG systems. In one week, programmers Jaco Alblas, Remco Angenent and Rik Schoutsen put in all the cues for the 30-song show from Froger and the 40th anniversary of broadcast company Tros. This work was done in Tenfeet's own 3d studio, using a WYSIWYG Perform 5000 and two WYSIWYG Perform 2000s.
The LDs took advantage of the new 'Auto-Focus' connectivity between the Hog III and Cast's WYSIWYG, allowing them to cue the show much faster than by conventional means. The new Flying Pig Hog III 1.3.6 console software had just come out with Auto-Focus support: the three Hog III consoles, along with four fader wings performed very well during the programming of the show, and the three programmers praised the stability of the system.
The lighting rig featured a huge amount of Vari*Lite fixtures, including 112 VL5 Arcs, 54 VL5s, 84 VL2416s (48 without diffusers), 162 Vari*Lite VL2Cs and seven VL3000 washlights. Other fixtures included 210 DWE single Molefays, 210 EML MR-16 light battens, 40 Altman Zip strips, 48 eight-lite Molefays, 48 Par64 (narrow) four-bars, 60 Par 64 ACL four-bars, 600m of Showtec LED tube.
(Lee Baldock)
