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Trevor Middlemas, technical operations manager said, "Neil will be a welcomed asset to the team and the company. His in depth knowledge and experience can further enhance our dedicated service to the customer."

Draper has more than 17 years in the music recording and audio post production industry and previously worked for AMS Neve. In his last role as product specialist he worked within the sales and marketing department and dealt with product development to major customers like Abbey Road Studios, Warner Brothers and Luc

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New features allow the user to organize editing and playback screens in multiple workspaces. Each workspace allows you to customise a whole environment with multiple views and panes. You can build each one and save/open each workspace separately. Create various workspaces such as live workspace, editing workspace and TOPO workspace.

You can also use the navigation utility when some of the workspaces are not visible due to the length of their name.

Editing the object's attributes right on the grid (table) where you are viewing the data saves many steps of opening the object and editing each object separately. Among the new display types that you can now edit - cue sheet. G

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Arcstream AV sourced a massive 25m x 10m projection screen which formed a backdrop to the stage set, Hipnose Events used six Barco 20K projectors edge blended to create the image.

Arcstream commissioned Harkness Screens to manufacture the Translite Midnight Rear projection screen, a dark grey screen which produced a stage backdrop,ommiting all ambient light in the venue, as well as giving perfect contrast to the image.

The laser show heralded the moment when the new logo was revealed with three 10 watt Arctos lasers and two 6.5watt ARX full colour lasers, all controlled with Pangolin Laser Show Software, in addition 72 diffraction mirrors were rigged to bounce

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This year, the Grand Prix venue featured a new attraction that was viewed by virtually all who attended: a sprawling EVLED1024SMD 20mm LED video screen from Elation Professional. Positioned near the outdoor stage at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Centre, the hub of Grand Prix activities, the 16ft x 8ft screen flashed a continuous loop of advertising and other messages provided by sponsor Tecate beer.

Adding an LED display screen to the outdoor pavilion was the brainchild of Festival Lighting (Buena Park, CA), which

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"We are placing so much emphasis on the technology at InfoComm because of the increasing demand for stereoscopic projection. InfoComm is the perfect event to exhibit all of these opportunities to our partners, integrators and end-users alike," comments Anders L°kke, international marketing and communications manager at projectiondesign.

"It is important for projectiondesign to demonstrate and offer a wide range of 3D solutions because there are many ways of delivering a realistic stereoscopic system using video projection. Our goal is to suit different applications and different budgets, and these are all bein

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"The strength and capability of Harris digital broadcast products fully support growth in new markets including AV, based on a complete portfolio of networking, infrastructure, test and measurement and other solutions that enable cost-effective, fully integrated advanced media workflows," said Tim Thorsteinson, president of Harris Broadcast Communications. "In particular, recent Harris digital signage wins in

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Leon Hudston joins as project manager UK. Hudston was formerly project manager for P6 UK, where he managed a number of new-build retail projects, including the Desigual store in London's Westfield shopping centre.

Elliot Ryan joins as in-house technician. Ryan was previously technician at the Radlett Centre. Andy Howling (originally TED AV's senior sales engineer) takes on the mantle of project manager overseas. Finally, Mark Morley has been appointed to the board of TED UK as technical director. Morley joined the company in October 2005 to set-up TED AV and continues to head-up the TED AV team.

(Jim Evans)

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Poweful, full-colour lasers projected ultrahigh-resolution graphics on movable, black gauze-screens stretched across the stage, creating the impression of giant holograms. The laser finale that followed filled the entire hall.

UEFA-President Michel Platini thanked the host organisation, describing the occasion as "a wonderful evening with the most creative, brightest, and colourful laser performance I have ever seen."

(Jim Evans)

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14 March 2016

The Spyder X20 includes the matrix switching and integrated source monitoring functionality of the Christie Vista URS. It also includes all of the existing features of the Vista Spyder, such as high-end presentation capabilities and an intuitive and easy-to-use interface that appeals to experienced and new customers.

New to the Spyder family is the unmatched 20 megapixel bandwith feature, which is available in both of the models; the Spyder X20-1608 and the Spyder X20-0808. Both models support blending, windowing, mixin

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Water Sculptures has been in collaboration again with celebrated choreographer Kim Gavin and renowned production manager Chris Vaughan, for Take That's Circus stadium tour.

For the band's Back for Good number, performed on the stadium's central satellite "B" stage, a 7m high screen of water appears from jets concealed within the stage floor, which shields the boys from their screaming fans. As they walk into and out of the water screen, the water disappears and re-appears as though by magic.

Six tonnes of water are stored in tanks under the stage, which during the three minute performance showers the nearby crowds. Although they ar

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For the performance Stage Electrics provided two 6 x 4m LED screens, a DMX-controlled Chameleon LED Starcloth, over 100 moving lights including Martin MAC 700s, MAC 600s and Vari-Lite VL2000s. Lighting designer for the night was Neil Tremmell, who used a GrandMA control system. Stage Electrics also specified an L-Acoustics V-Dosc line array system for the performance audio.

The 100th Rotary International Convention is a week-long event held in Birmingham, likely to attract 3

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The production brings together a creative team from across all areas of theatre, including director Ben Harrison, a leading exponent of site-specific theatre and artistic director of the Grid Iron Theatre company, and choreographer Fleur Darkin, plus set designer William Dudley and lighting designer Mark Henderson, familiar names from the National Theatre, large scale musicals and more.

Peter Pan gives Dudley the opportunity to expand on the dramatic computer-generated virtual environments for which he has become well known since The Coast of Utopia in 2002; that

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"Christie is leading the market in video projection, with an excellent and unique range for all core market applications," stated ALA MD, Andrea Piemonti. "We are very pleased to welcome the company to our portfolio and excited by the opportunity to provide maximum market exposure. Through Christie, we have brought three-chip DLP to our market having already successfully closed the negotiation with leading rental company, AVS, for three large-format three-chip high brightness DLP projectors."

As one of the first DLP licensees, Christie attributes its market dominance to the pioneering work carried out in t

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Under the new agreement, LynTec and SurgeX will now be cross-pollinating their software and hardware engineering departments with the goal of delivering improved solutions for professional applications.

LynTec president Mark Bishop said, "Our customers have been asking for integrated power control and electrical protection systems, and there is no one we'd rather bring these solutions to the table with than SurgeX. The combination of our respective technologies will set the standard for professional A/V system power platforms moving forward."

Michael McCook, SurgeX founder and new business development consultant, added, "These two innovative companies have come together to collaborate on the most critical aspect o

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The projectors feature built-in edge-blending and Christie Light Output Control (LITELOC) for constant brightness tracking and monitoring of lamp output. They also feature Comprehensive Colour Adjustment (CCA), allowing the adjustment of actual RGB channels in individual projectors for even colour matching across multi-screen applications. The optional Christie Twist module for internal image warping allows projection on virtually any screen or surface.

The

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Said DNP Denmark's global sales manager, Søren Kræmmergaard, "We couldn't have asked for better, and judging from the interest there seemed little sign of any global financial crisis at our booth. We had a high footfall and most of the inquiries we took were from 'A-list' customers interested in breakthroughs in digital signage."

He said his team were busy throughout the show demonstrating not only this but other Supernova 'family' products - notably the Supernova Infinity and the Supernova Flex Screen.

Offering a glimpse into the future, at InfoComm dnp also displayed a prototype combining a tiny pico projector and screen using a spe

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As the event staging company for a number of Fortune 500 companies, meeting and event planners and producers across the United States, Showorks is responsible for some critical projects, and reliability, efficiency and crystal-clear sound are always essential elements. With that responsibility in mind, the company chose a Pro64 digital snake to connect the stage to front of house and for signal distribution to monitors and recording.

"Aviom's Pro64 system is the simplest way of splitting audio between multiple consoles while offering a low noise floor in a design that's lightweight," says Showorks project manager Mark Allen. "It's a lot easier to run Cat 5 or fibre than a piec

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On August 8th in a field in Horam, East Sussex, Gary Moore will top the bill, supported by Mo Foster and local legend Ray Russell. There will also be a special guest appearance by Geno Washington of The Ram Jam Band fame and Chris Difford from Squeeze.

Vibes from the Vines '09 follows the first hugely successful festival in 2006, when organizers raised an impressive £32,000 for Cancer Research UK. This year, with a much bigger show and substantially improved production facilities organizers will be loo

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The Whitbread Hotels and Restaurants Conference, produced by Buckmark Productions for the fifth consecutive year, took place at the Ricoh Arena and this year brought together more Whitbread employees than ever before.

With 2,500 attendees from the restaurant and hotel divisions of Whitbread meeting for the annual conference, Buckmark Productions had to redesign the conference set, creating an 'in the round' seating system with a circular stage in the middle.

Blue i Event Technology was commissioned to design and install the AV equipment required for the event and the new conference format posed new challenges. Ian Riley, project manager for Blue i explained, "Due to the sheer size of t

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The stage and show were created by long-time U2 designers Willie Williams and Mark Fisher. With the help of Chuck Hoberman and Barco their vision of a 360° moving video screen was turned into reality. Barco provided more than half a million transformable LED pixels (FLX), which are integrated into a transformable structure designed

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14 March 2016

The AMP NetConnect XG cabling system forms part of a large-scale project managed and installed by infrastructure specialists Matrix IP, which also encompasses areas such as VoIP, access control, CCTV, video conferencing, wireless networking, IPTV, and uninterruptible power supplies.

Following a reorganisation which involved the integration of the Columbia, RCA and Epic labels among others, Sony Music Entertainment UK has moved from its previous offices in Fulham and Hammersmith, respectively, into new headquarters just off Kensington High Street in London.

Although the Derry Street building, in which Sony Music now occupies two floors out of six, had previously been used for office accommoda

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All audio design, specification and installation were handled by Polish systems integrators, Gorycki and Sznyterman. They specified a total of 13, 4-channel, two rack space PLM 10000Q systems with Lake P

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As well as the office and demonstration facilities, the new premises feature extensive warehouse space for the company's growing stock, allowing more efficient inventory control and faster turnaround. Arcstream's product range includes iBars, laser and lighting effects, interactive tables, walls and floors.

MD Neil Dickinson comments: "The office move comes at a vital time for Arcstream AV and its clients. We have outgrown our small central London premises and our new headquarters will allow us to demonstrate the whole portfolio of products, side

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Four of Moscow's key cinema theatres were used for the Festival's screenings including, the multiplex October and Pushkinsky cinema (Karo Film network), the Khudozhestvenny cinema and the Kinocenter.

The 11-screen October film complex, which opened in 2007, is Moscow's biggest multi-screen complex and one of Russia's first cinemas to opt for a digital solution. Its premiere hall, a 1,500 seat auditorium, features Christie's CP2000-S digital projector, which was deployed throughout the MIFF and integrated with Cine IPM 2K, allowing connection of alternative sources and outputting sound and picture via digital projector. Whilst in its Hall #2,