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14 December 2016

Autosport International is a globally renowned trade show, exhibition and performance car show created and managed by Haymarket Exhibitions at the NEC every January.

Alongside appearances by current and former drivers and teams from a variety of motor racing series, one hall of the NEC holds the Live Action Arena, where members of the public can see an array of current and classic racing cars put through their paces by a team of expert drivers.

For more than five years, PRG XL Video has worked with Malcolm Forbes of Waltham Services to provide projection in the Live Action Arena. For the 2016 show, t

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"Equally important to investing in the right kit", comments Justin, "Is getting the right people on-board with the attitude and aspirations needed to run a busy, lively and creative environment dedicated to pushing the envelope in all aspects of live event production."

Emma Perrin is appointed general manager. Her role at Maestra London includes overseeing the busy day-to-day operations of the office and warehouse facility at Royal Arsenal in east London, supporting staff and clients, co-ordinating marketing and promotion and ensuring the company is running harmoniously and efficiently.<

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Christie continues to supply long-lasting projectors with its HS Series, which tests at 12,500 centre lumens. The 1DLP Christie HS Series - which will be prominently displayed at the booth - is compact and delivers a wide selection of features and connectivity. In Frankfurt, visitors will see the rich and vivid colours generated by a 3x faster colour wheel and the integrated BoldColor Technology that enables the HS Series to produce excellent colours with exceptional reproduction.

Christie is also demonstrating the versatility of the multi award-winning and multi-directional Boxer. The expanded family now includes the new Boxer 2K20, 2K25, and 2K30 all

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14 December 2016

Controllux is a leading distributor of professional lighting equipment and handles a large range of well-regarded industry brands from its offices in the Netherlands and Belgium. The company will be responsible for promoting the ArKaos brand across its wide remit of theatre, broadcast, film, entertainment and architectural markets.

"The Controllux portfolio, with all its brands and its disciplines, is a perfect match for the ArKaos PRO products," says Bram de Clerck of Controllux BVBA. "Our team and myself are looking forward to this new challenge and aim to become an interes

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14 December 2016

The highlight of the Panasonic stand will be a reproduction of the Circle of Light festival projection where over 100 Panasonic PT-DZ21K2 projectors created a 19,099m2 image on to a group of Ministry of Defense buildings on the Fruzenskaya Embankment in Moscow.

Hartmut Kulessa, European projector marketing manager at Panasonic, said, "The projection at the Circle of Light festival is a great example of the type of spectacular shows 3D mapping can help create. We look forward to replicating this at Prolight + Sound."

Also being showcased at the exhibition will be the recently launched PT-RZ970 series, the industry's lightest and most compact 1-chip DLPTM 10,000 lumens laser projectors. The three-model series (WUXGA, WXGA, XGA) builds

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The new Auto Patch feature allows any Hog lighting console to automatically detect and configure itself to any ArKaos media server and its MediaMaster software, so the lighting designer/programmer can patch the media server with just a simple button-press. This means lighting designers can skip the time-consuming configuration of DMX channels and universes, and focus instantly on the creative part of their job.

"High End Systems is the first console manufacturer to forge such an association w

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The largest Christian youth conference in the Midwest, Love is Red draws thousands of 17- to 29-year-olds from throughout the Great Lakes region for three days of worship, learning sessions, and music from noted Christian bands such as Elevation Worship, which recently reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts with Here As In Heaven. Contributing to the experience at the conference is an engaging lightshow that is anchored by an impressive centre stage logo display created with Nexus 4 x 4 LED panels from Chauvet Professional.

"We wanted a dyna

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"On this tour, it really all starts with the music and the artist behind it," began production manager James 'Mo' Butts. "As a passionate songwriter, Cole is also a high-energy performer so we wanted to incorporate quality HD video into the tour design to heighten the experience for this headlining tour. When looking for a tour p

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Letters Live celebrates the art of letter-writing, and features a variety of well-known actors, personalities and performers, reading interesting and significant correspondence, both modern, and from history.

This year's shows supported a number of literacy charities and organisations including First Story, as well as providing some much needed profile for Help Refugees UK, which supports people fleeing from conflict in their home countries.

For the show production, PRG XL Video worked with production consultancy NP+Co, and their creative director Nigel Peters, and production manager Kahren Williams, to supply high brightness video projection inside the historic Freemason's Hall.

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Emily joins the company from Production Artworks where she has worked since 2011, and brings five years' experience in the field of creative video services to PRG XL Video, having worked in the sector since her graduation from Loughborough University.

During her time at Production Artworks, Emily specialised in creative applications of projection, including projection mapping and bespoke installations for conferences, exhibitions, award ceremonies, and experiential events. She now brings this expertise to PRG XL Video.

"I'm delighted Emily has agreed to join the team," said Guy Vellacott, director corporate group, PRG XL Video. "Emily's knowledge of the creative video market will be a great asset to the team, and help to expand our expertise in experiential

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As well as projection mapping, the next big thing is moving and interactive projection mapping, which now can be accomplished in any setting and scale with the help of BlackTrax.

"We're bringing a bit of fun to the Prolight+Sound show this year and look forward to using BlackTrax to track several objects on our booth. Visitors will have the chance to take a 'selfie' picture using some of the frame objects and we are looking forward to that," says Mercedes Stevao-Boase, public relations and communications manager at Green Hippo.

BlackTrax real-time motion tracking solution recently released the Beta version o

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The 11-14 March event smashed previous attendance records as 95,000 attendees took in performances from acts as diverse as Angélique Kidjo, Calexico, Violent Femmes, De La Soul, Kev Carmody and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

A first in 2016, Novatech Creative Event Technology supplied all seven stages of the festival using world class audio, lighting, and video production equipment, backed by their expert personnel.

The aptly named Novatech Stage was supplied in its entirety by Novatech, utilising their stage and roofing system. The all-important Foundation Stage, which functioned as the festival's main stage, was serviced by Novatech's new Avid S6L digital mixing console, wh

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Panasonic System Solutions Europe (PSSEU), a division of Panasonic Marketing Europe, founded on 1 April 2016, develops market specific solutions that include Panasonic devices, software, connectivity and third party products, delivered with world class design engineering and project management.

PSSEU will initially focus its activities on three distinct vertical markets: utilities, transportation and logistics.

The new organisation will be led by Tony O'Brien who has over 20 years' experience in enterprise solutions, having previously worked with organisations such as Siemens Building Technologies.

"For nearly 100 years, Pa

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"Removing the need for PC-based control, AV Stumpfl has taken the tried and tested IObox adding several new performance features. It is the most compact but scalable media control solution available on the market today allowing for advanced control of audiovisual and building functions," said Tobias Stumpfl, CEO at AV Stumpfl.

One of the new features of the Pro version is its ability to host a HTML5 touch user interface using a built-in webserver. This user interface can be designed and customized using AV Stumpfl's free Wings Touch software. It utilizes HTML5 web app technology for prompt bidirectional control without

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Thanks to the laser phosphor retrofit module, customers who already own a Barco HDF-W30 FLEX projector can also benefit from laser technology. The projector shares its lenses, very wide lens shift range, ease of use, and modularity with the other HDX and HDF models. The HDF-W30LP FLEX is ready to order and will begin shipping in Summer 2016.

"Today, customers are confronted with a myriad of technology choices. We have been expanding our projector portfolio with high brightness and laser phosphor techn

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The evening, which was hosted by Peep Show actor and comedian David Mitchell, saw 18 gold and 26 silver awards handed out to the cream of the advertising crop, with guest presenters including actor Stanley Tucci.

Hawthorn has delivered the technical production for the British Arrows Awards since 2011, with the design and production values increasing in specification and complexity each year. Working alongside the British Arrows Awards producers, the team at Hawthorn once again provided an imaginative and unique way of using the 4,

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Wu Zetian was the first and only female emperor in China. A major highlight is the full-scale reconstructions of two iconic towers that symbolised the splendour and opulence of Empress Wu's reign.

During her political heyday, Empress Wu instructed the construction of these two towers, which were described as architectural miracles. And today, the recreated nine-story-high Ming Tang houses a spectacular sand table model of the ancient city of Luoyang, which covers an area of 130sq.m and is built to a scale of 1:800.

The backdrop of the massive sand

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ImageCue has already made a major impact in the world of playback devices, having won the LDI 2015 PLASA Member's Choice Award for Best Gadget. The product allows users to supply their own images and videos using a USB flash drive or external hard drive and can provide access to over 65,000 image and video files. It is also extremely fast, with images and videos able

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Working for the production team behind the tour, Creative Technology (CT) supplied seven Panasonic projectors which were used to feed playback content onto a number of upstage panels, all driven by Photon. The panels were able to move across the stage with the projection tracking and following the movements.

The four panels centred around the main upstage display, a large circular panel, which was also projected upon. All the visual effects were completed using projection.

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"Gerry has been, in numerous ways, a key architect in building Christie into the successful, global company it is today and while reluctant to part with such a valued contributor, I understand his motivation, which is to embrace new horizons," said Kline. "On a personal note, Gerry has become a close friend and I'm delighted that he will be advising me going forward, and I wish him continued success in his new career."

Most recently Remers was responsible for leading Christie's global engineering, quality

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With the aim of growing its Theatre team's technical expertise in video, Gareth Jeanne returns to the UK from PRG's US operation, where he led XL Video's concert touring team and was more recently part of PRG's global Music Group. Gareth will take up the role of account director alongside experienced lighting specialist Peter Marshall.

The new role is a return to the theatre world for Gareth, as prior to joining XL Video, he was video project manager at Stage Sound Services.

Joining Gareth in the team is Oliver 'Ollie' Luff, who joined PRG XL Video in June 2015 as a technical project manager. Ollie takes up the role of senior account manager, and brings a wealth of experience from his time as a fre

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More advanced than previous GS models, the four professional-grade models use a grid-based warping and blending processor and also have an option for camera-based warping, blending or stacking to make setups faster and simpler. They can also be rotated 360-degrees and used in portrait orientation, making them suitable for complex setups in rental staging and medium-sized fixed applications.

At only 35dBA, users won't be distracted by projector noise, and the new, sleeker design blends seamlessly into any environment. Lig

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As part of the recent refurbishment, Great Northern Inns turned to local AV specialists Cable Guys to provide an audio visual experience that would impress customers. The AV needed to deliver outstanding sports coverage and live entertainment to every inch of the bar. Cable Guys exceeded the client's expectation by installing over 24 screens, video walls and televisions to distribute high definition live sports cover

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Celebrating 50 years in the audio industry, Calrec Audio is a leading manufacturer of audio broadcast mixing consoles, relied upon by the world's most successful broadcasters.

Calrec technical director Patrick Warrington explains the rational behind the company's decision to join the alliance, "AES67 is a call to arms for technology manufacturers in the crowded AoIP community. The adoption of AES67 is about giving our customers tools to do their jobs more efficiently, and the Media Networking Alliance exists to help promote that vision, as well as to provide education in this new are