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On Monday 28 January, ISE celebrated its 10th edition with a widely lauded opening keynote address by renowned cyber-illusionist Marco Tempest, followed by a 10th Birthday Party at which some of ISE's founding exhibitors - those companies that have supported all 10 shows since Integrated Systems Europe began in Geneva in 2004 - were honoured in a special presentation. The celebrations were preceded by three pre-show conferences and over 1,200 people attended the Monday events

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Mbox Studio, with fewer parameters and less complex operations, offers substantial functionality and versatility. It operates identically to the full Mbox in both movie playback, effects, and in transition functions. Designed primarily for playback of SD content, it can also handle HD content. It offers eight playback layers and a fully functional pixel mapping toolset. A free demo content library, available as a separate download, can be used as a starting point for content creation with Mbox Studio.

Mbox Studio Version 3.6 is t

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Working for producers Indigo Television, the event was project managed for XL by Paul Wood. XL has been involved in the event - this was its thirteenth year - since 2005, in which time the production video elements have expanded significantly.

This year, the stage and set was designed by Wieder Design from Munich, well known for their work on German Idol, X-Factor and a myriad of other high profile TV extravaganzas.

It consisted of a large upstage projection screen measuring 11 x 6m, surrounded by four smaller screens - two at 6 x 3m and two at 5 x 3m.

The large screen used four of XL's new Barco HDF W26 26K projectors. Each of the outer screens was fed by a pair of

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The more than three hour show (Muz TV is Russia's answer to MTV) depended heavily on awe-inspiring visuals to match the level of performance onstage. Besides a magical-looking crown-like three screen center piece over center stage, video elements were also projected on two large arches (33m x 15m) stage left and right. The multiple piece arches, which opened and closed as acts performed or readied their place on either the left and right stages, required precise video mapping as content was projected while sliding elements of each arch dynamically moved in seven directi

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14 March 2016

A free download as an interactive iPad app, PDF, or hard copy, the book explores how Christie MicroTiles have allowed architects and designers to introduce inventive, irregular shapes into projects where video, motion graphics and interactive content are applied.

The release of The Book of Shapes: International Design Inspirations Featuring Christie MicroTiles coincided with Christie's largest ever presence at the Integrated Systems Europe trade show in Amsterdam and comes on the third anniversary of the market release of Christie MicroTiles.

The Book of Shapes app features MicroTiles installations from

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The event took place over five days at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre in December, with top designers and fashion retailers showing the hottest upcoming trends.

The central point of the exhibition was the Suzuki Fashion Theatre, a catwalk show that ran several times daily and featured more than 40 models and dancers.

For the catwalk show, XL Events supplied a 4.5m wide by 5.4m high LED screen located centrally at the rear of the stage. This was formed from 120 tiles of lightweight Pixled FX-11.

The LED screen was flanked either side by scenic projection using double stacks of Barco FLM HD 20 projectors, managed by chief projectionist Chris Johnson.

Built into the end of the main runway was an LED floor, u

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After joining Saville Audio Visual in 2004 as a senior technician Pike quickly acquired a taste for developing relationships with top clients and after securing an approved supplier contract with the Gherkin in London he took on the role of account director for Tesco delivering 350+ events both in the UK and across Europe.

Says Pike, "Saville is a world class services company in AV/events providing levels of service that exceed clients expectations time and time again. This is in no small part due to the fantastic and passionate teams we have across our national network. We are all looking forward to the exciting challenges that lie ahead."

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After many months of developing and listening to user feedback version 3.2 sees one of the largest builds ever produced by the growing team at Hippo HQ.

With over seven new features and 100+ enhancements also included, V3.2 takes what many call the easiest server and makes it even easier, says the company.

Version 3.2 is available free of charge from the Green Hippo website and is suitable for installation on HippoCritter, GrassHopper, HippoPortamus and HD models.

Hippotizer product manager Lee House says, "Version 3.2 is the result of months of development for Green Hippo. We have concentrated on producing software that meets our customer's needs whilst retaining the ease of use Green Hippo are renowned for. The number of new features in

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14 March 2016

This announcement, says the AVnu Alliance, is an important milestone in its mission to bring high-quality open-standard audio and video networking to professional AV, automotive, and consumer electronics segments. Several manufacturers have submitted AVB-enabled devices for AVnu Alliance's exhaustive interoperability and conformance testing, with more AVnu Alliance members expected to follow suit in the coming months. Products that complete the testing program successfully will receive an official logo of certifi

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Delighted to have won the Event Production Awards Best AV Equipment Supplier, held at the London Lancaster Hotel on 5 February 2013, CT have now been confirmed as 'Favourite Video Services Company' at the Total Production Awards held at the Novotel London West Hotel.

Both awards are in recognition of CT's phenomenal year and of the enormous effort the team at CT put into London 2012 and countless other amazing events throughout 2012, says the company.

(Jim Evans)

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Compulite extended their Media Server support to allow direct real time communication between Vector consoles and coolux Media Server. Media thumbnails are automatically downloaded to the console during initial communication, which allows for instant workflow. The interactive operation between the two systems extends user control capabilities, during programming and during live show time.

"Once again it's been proved that good and open collaborations between companies improves the products on both hands and mostly benefits the users in their daily work", said Yehuda Shukrun, Compulite CEO. "During the process, both companies shared a lot of necessary information to achieve the goal. Compulite

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Camden's Electric Ballroom has installed an Avolites Media Ai T4 Media Server and is using it to serve two separate areas of the main room: the 3x2m lo-res LED screens which hang either side of the DJ booth, and the DJ box itself.

"Recently, the owner wanted to install a raised DJ box area in the main club, and discussed the idea of investing in a cutting edge visuals solution," says the venue's technical manager Steve Waterhouse. "I'd seen the electro-house producer Deadmau5 using an Immersive projection system, and needless to say was impressed with how it looked, so as soon as I heard Avolites Media had bought the media server l8 from Immersive and launched the Ai Media Server I knew that was the solution for the club.

"I have the D

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Working for TPi Awards show producers Mondiale Publishing and with event manager Ben Chadwick, the visual design was created by HSL's Tim Fawkes in collaboration with Mike Oates. HSL's event project manager was Spantax.

The basic concept was to make it "Funky, fun and more rock n roll than in previous years," states Fawkes, adding that the biggest challenge was being under pressure to produce something amazing looking to impress all the top industry professionals who were present.

All video content plus the sound track for the opening video wa

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Part of the relaunch of the cult TV series, Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) invited over 350 guests to Shoreditch, London to announce their plans for a number of their well-known characters including: Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Anagram used the first ever eight-head Avolites Ai media server, combined with three HD10k Christie M series projectors, to project images of the well-known children's characters onto the walls of the stage in the Village Underground.

In addition, a feed was sent from the Ai to all the HD plasma screens within the room. The server's projection mapping capabilities enabled lighting programmer Russ Grub

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The showstopper was the new InvisiBezel LCD panel cover, demonstrated (with and without the bezel cover) via a 2 x 2 display of 46" LCD panels. Passers-by, captivated by the display, massed to witness how this media could be reduced from a standard 5mm bezel width to a virtually seamless 1mm with the help of the dnp 'super narrow bezel' panels. These can be mounted on top of standard LCD screens and at the same time protect the panels from scratches.

According to global sales & marketing manager S°ren Kraemmergaard, there were several differentiators embedded in the dnp system which give it a competitive edge.

"The pixels can be optically stretched at the edge of the panel via

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In an exciting twist on 2012's R28 competition, the use of consoles WILL be allowed, due to popular demand among previous entrants. Of course, employment of the software's Cue List and Camera Path features is perfectly acceptable and encouraged - Members are simply challenged to create a two-minute video of a stunning wysiwyg design and upload it to the CAST Software Facebook page for appraisal, initially by CAST's hand-picked judging panel, and then by the public who can vote for their favourite video via Facebook.

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"On the top end of the scale we had on display the HRi 1.9mm - one of the world's highest resolution commercially available screens," explains Managing Director, Graham Burgess. "We had a lot of interest in our HRi systems throughout the show and had many requests for projects specifying in the 2mm - 3mm range. Most of the projects were for fixed installations with applications in high-end retail settings and entertainment venues such as casinos."

displayLED incorporated a range of its latest products into its

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A trademarked brand of the East Syracuse, New York-based company PPC, Perfect Path products debuted four years ago with a patented line of high-retention and locking HDMI cables that quickly garnered a reputation for performance and reliability within the residential AV, home theatre, and systems contracting markets.

With its headquarters located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Liberty AV Solutions is an AV supplier of solutions-based products ranging from bulk cable and connectors to custom plates, panels, racks, and signal distribution devices manufactured by its Intelix division.

"Partnering with Liberty is a perfect fit for our extension into the world o

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Browning's career has seen him fulfill a wide range of marketing roles that make him the appropriate candidate for this new position. Having worked in business-to-business marketing for over six years, he has been responsible for numerous successful tactical marketing initiatives for large international technology organisations in both agency and in-house positions.

"It's easy to see that Crestron is making positive noise in the market place and growing on an impressive, international scale, with incredible speed," said Browning. "The company is a huge player in the industry and I can't wait to be a part o

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Envision AV were commissioned to design and install a comprehensive audio system for the venue and with no hesitation they proposed a Jands solution.

The venue has a main restaurant level on the ground floor, a mezzanine level, a private dining room that can be divided into three when required and a function space upstairs. The main restaurant floor was a particularly challenging space acoustically with ten metre high glass walls on three sides and many demanding ceiling spa

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From the outset, the biggest challenge that New York-based video display integrator Fresh Air Flicks faced was the need to project moving images on a giant window in direct sunlight. After extensive testing, producers discovered that 3M Corporation's Vikuiti window film and Barco's brightest large-venue projectors were the perfect combination for achieving this fir

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The tour's video treatment was designed by Ora's creative producers Bronski (also production manager and FOH sound engineer) and Amber Rimell (also stage director) in close conjunction with lighting designer Andy Iliffe.

It's based around creating big epic looks, lots of movement and interest, as well as working with a series of props to produce a constantly changing visual environment.

Ora supported Coldplay last summer and Bronski was impressed with the service they received from XL's crew on this, so he approached XL project managers Jo Beirne and Macca (Paul McCauley) to help devise a suitable package for the tour.

Pixled's FX-11 indoor / outdoor product was selected - 60 tiles for the main

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Ashton was commissioned to produce the piece by production company Strange Cargo and collaborated with sound artist Karen Monid who produced a special accompanying soundscape.

All Souls, which stands at the end of the High Street and was consecrated in 1895, is a fairly conventional parish church of its era, however it has the unusual feature of four stained glass windows depicting the four Archangels - Gabriel, Michael, Uriel and Raphael.

Ashton and Monid took these windows and the vivid colours of the peacock feathers making up their wings as the starting point of their concept.

The idea was to produce a two centre piece which worked bo

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The group decided to reinforce its top management given its high ambition to further develop the company. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Chris Depreeuw mentions, "We are delighted to have Lucas Covers on board. This appointment must be seen as the next logical step in the evolution of XL Video. After a rewarding year 2012, the time has come to further accelerate our growth path."

René de Keyzer, founder and board member of XL Video, will take up his role as founder-president, with parti