World - XL Touring Video is the video contractor for Keith Urban's 2007 Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy World Tour.

XLTV worked with production designer/show director Marc Brickman, to supply a state of the art 29ft x 56ft Barco Olite 510 LED display, which is one of the largest single displays ever used on a tour.

The system operates completely in 1080P at 24 frames per second. The pack consists of five Sony HDC-1500 High Def cameras, one of which is mounted on a flying Panavision Libra Head, a MFS 2000 switcher, two V1-HD Doremi playback units and recording on Sony HDW 2000 VTR's.

The tour kicked off mid April in Munich, Germany and wraps up end of September in Edmonton, AB, with Chuck Hull as tour manager, Mark Miles as production manager, Bob Hartnett as video director and touring on behalf of XLTV is EIC/Danny Whetstone, LED technicians Chris Campbell, Mark Inscoe, Lonnie Stoner, Mark Woody & Libra head operator John Bonin.

(Jim Evans)


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