Panasonic Connect Europe has revealed a new camera control unit (CCU) to support a wide range of IP migration paths for the company’s existing 4K studio camera systems. As the live-production industry migrates to IP-based systems, this new AK-UCU700 series offers 4K and HDR operation, flexible IP migration of existing operation systems, seamless migration from conventional CCU-based baseband systems, and a 3.5” LCD touch panel for easy operation. The AK-UCU700 supports the new SMPTE ST 2110 IP-transmission standard as well as JPEG-XS to compress 4K video by a factor of 10 without degrading quality. It’s also the industry’s first studio…
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Riedel Communications has appointed Lucy O’Brien to the role of Customer Success Director to accommodate the company’s continued growth in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. O’Brien is a seasoned broadcast engineer with more than 20 years of industry experience. She will report to Riedel Communications Executive Director, Customer Success, Craig Thompson. “Lucy joins Riedel at a pivotal time in our journey to provide our clients with a customer-centric approach under the newly created customer success team,” said Thompson. “She has an impressive history working with major broadcasters and operators over the past two decades and is a natural fit…
On September 23, 2023, the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games was held in Hangzhou, China, attracting more than 600 million people around the world. For the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, ENJOYTECH is honored to provide 30,000 auditorium wireless lights, 4,000 bracelets and 660 wireless pixel tubes The lights are bright, and the entire stadium turns into a wireless super giant screen, displaying words, images and videos. The actors held pixel wristbands and tubes, showing the beauty of combining art, power and technology, and received warm applause from the audience. This is the second time ENJOYTECH has…
With the end of festival season and a slew of autumn arena tours around the corner, it can only mean one thing for us at TPi HQ – we’re firing up the engine for the TPi Awards machine. This year we have made some considerable changes to the TPi Awards categories and voting process. Firstly, the TPi Awards has made the difficult decision to retire the named dedicated awards – The Des Fallon Video Visionary Award, The Mark Fisher Set Designer of the Year, and The Dennis Sheehan Tour Manager of the Year. This was not a decision we took…
TLC & Shaggy: Hot Summer Nights Tour 2023 blazed through 26 cities throughout the US and Canada in June and July 2023, served up a feast of hits spanning three decades and showcased performances by special guests En Vogue and Sean Kingston. Tour sound, provided by Major Tom, centered around a Meyer Sound PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeaker system spec’d by Parker Vandenberg and the Major Tom team. Vandenberg, TLC’s production manager, took on an expanded role of production manager for the entire Hot Summer Nights tour, while also mixing monitors for TLC. The PANTHER PA proved to be…
Avid has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of STG in an all-cash transaction valuing Avid at approximately $1.4 billion, inclusive of Avid’s net debt. Under the terms of the agreement, Avid stockholders will receive $27.05 in cash for each share of Avid common stock. The cash purchase price represents a premium of 32.1% over the Company’s unaffected closing share price on May 23, 2023, the last full trading day prior to media speculation regarding a potential sale of the Company. “Since our founding over 30 years ago, Avid has delivered…
In May 2023, INFiLED screens were used for a display solution at The World Climate Industry EXPO (WCE 2023) in Busan, South Korea. The solution included building GXII series screens for the event’s forum A New Climate and setting up another set of screens with the same series for the WCE Business Summit Session. WCE 2023 is an international conference advocating the reduction of carbon emissions and the promotion of new energy. It is committed to bringing environmental organizations around the world to work together to make a common commitment to improving the climate. Based on this background, INFiLED was…
Flashlight has promoted Ged Murphy to the board of directors as Operations Director. Murphy joined the company 17 years ago as a technical sales advisor and the company has watched him continue to flourish and evolve to the current day. “I am privileged and proud to have been appointed to the Board of Directors as Director of Operations at Flashlight. I will continue to serve the company, streamlining procedures and continuing to refine processes in order to maximise our impact within the industry”, commented Murphy. “We are excited to welcome Ged to the board at Flashlight. His commitment to the…
Following significant upgrades to the Great Oak Stage in 2022, American Express presents BST Hyde Park was back with much acclaim with the iconic stage dominating the Royal Park. The iconic stage dominates the Royal Park— The festival now firmly established, was once considered ‘unworkable’ as a concert site, surrounded as it is by the well-heeled residents of Mayfair and Knightsbridge. Much of this is because Martin Audio’s tightly controllable MLA PA array—the result of its advanced DISPLAY optimisation software—has been ever-present since AEG Presents took over the Park lease in 2013, making offsite noise pollution largely a thing of…
DiGiCo SD12 and S21 consoles were supplied by SONUS Exsertus, DiGiCo’s distributor for the Baltics and Georgia and local rental partner NGR Service, for the return of the Dinamitas hip-hop culture festival at the Loft Art Factory in Vilnius. Tomas Ždanovičius, Sound System Designer/Engineer at SONUS Exsertus, who also worked as a system designer and sound engineer at the Outdoor stage during the festival, explained that DiGiCo was chosen for its renowned sound quality and workflow flexibility. “It meets every sound engineer’s demands and working habits,” he said. “DiGiCo consoles can be found on almost every technical rider in the…
Northamptonshire business, Unusual Rigging will commence building works on a ground-breaking new headquarters in July 2023, showcasing its commitment to respond to the climate emergency. The innovative project is set to see the company pave the way as pioneers within the local economic region – showing what can be done towards regenerative design within the built environment whilst also sharing the obstacles they face with the wider industry. Unusual is determined to demonstrate that ‘business as usual’ can be business as Unusual, in pursuit of ecologically intelligent design principles. The organisation, renowned for its work on events like the Olympics,…
Powersoft is preparing for a new era of growth in Japan following the opening of a dedicated office in Tokyo. The Japanese office is the Italian company’s fourth, joining its headquarters in Scandicci, its US business in Flanders (New Jersey) and its China representative office in Beijing. Spearheading Powersoft’s expansion in Japan is its newly appointed market development manager, Haruka Murayama, a pro-audio veteran who brings nine years’ industry experience to the role. Murayama most recently spent five years in sales with Bose Professional’s Japanese subsidiary, where she became familiar with X Series, Powersoft’s high-powered live sound amplifier platform, and…
Stage Precision supports the frame:work:losangeles conference as director-level sponsors. Taking place on August 4th and 5th, the two-day event, organised in partnership with XR Studios, will play host to a gathering of industry experts, creative practitioners, production leaders and students to discuss the challenges and innovations in creating video for physical spaces, live performances and virtual worlds. frame:work:losangeles offers a platform for attendees to exchange insights about video content creation, media server engineering, virtual production, mixed reality and real-time generative content. The conference, which will be the first of its kind in-person, aims to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas…
GLX Productions has continued its investment in CHAUVET Professional fixtures and Chamsys control systems. This is a major move for GLX Productions on its mission to offer high standards of equipment at affordable price points for all productions across the country. GLX has bought a large quantity of Chauvet Professional Outcast 1L Beam, Color Strike-M, Outcast 1 Beam Wash, Strike 1, Strike Array 2, COLORado PXL 16, RDMX8 Splitters and NET-X II. Their investment in control has expanded exponentially, now stocking Chamsys Compact consoles including MQ50, MQ70 and MQ80 as well as their full Stadium Series of MQ250M, MQ500M including…
Solid State Logic announces its latest plug-in, the G3 MultiBusComp. The new plug-in, which leverages SSL’s storied legacy in compression technology, adds multiband capabilities and advanced processing tools to the renowned G Series glue & punch maker. G3 MultiBusComp is available now in several formats including VST2, VST3, AAX and AU as part of the ever-growing SSL Complete subscription from $14.99 per/m (Ts&Cs apply), SSL’s Rent To Own plan, and perpetual purchase. The SSL G3 MultiBusComp Plug-in takes the original G-Series Bus Compressor and enhances it with multiband technology, advanced processing, and powerful sidechain routing. It is a must-have production…
In 2022, lighting professional Jose Lorenzo used Obsidian’s NX2 lighting console on Giovanni Pernice’s This is Me dance show so when the Strictly Come Dancing star decided to tour a bigger show in 2023—Made in Italy—the designer again turned to Obsidian, but this time upgraded to the greater control possibilities inherent in the NX4. “Because it was a bigger show, Made in Italy required an expanded control surface and more controls,” Lorenzo explains of his decision to upgrade. “There was more busking involved and I needed access to more faders and more buttons. Also, as requirements have increased and Giovanni…
HOF has appointed Acson as a distribution partner in Spain. The cooperation will start with immediate effect. Acson is a professional lighting and sound system distribution company that has been in the industry for more than 30 years. Alex Costa, Managing Director at Acson, said: “Many of our customers are production companies that need brands and products that help them reduce set-up and dismantling times for their shows across Spain. We found HOF to be the perfect match to what we were looking for to be able to meet our customer’s requirements.“ Edwin Duivelaar, Export & Sales Manager at HOF,…
The stage production supporting the High School Reunion tour with Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa celebrates the past, present and future, combining some retro video looks with sleek contemporary geometric patterns and blazingly bright, colorful effects from 48 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M fixtures. Production designer Justin Casey of HELM Projects, which supplied all the gear for the tour, approached this project with a narrative perspective that could reflect different phases of the two artists’ careers. “I designed the rig around the concept of having a story board screen on the upstage and then having textural set piece video walls…
