Hi everyone! Starting at 8 a.m. Friday, October 19, I'll be liveblogging the new tech Breakfast for LDI right here! The New Tech Breakfast gives manufacturers 5 minutes to quickly tell people what new gear they're showing at LDI. It's a GREAT (if whirlwind) way to see all the new and shiny gear at LDI. Friday the New Tech Breakfast covers Lighting and Projection. On Saturday, the new tech breakfast covers Audio, Rigging, Staging, Special Effects and Lasers! So swing by Friday to check out the live feed!
Photos might be a little slow this morning -- tethering software giving me fits, but I'll upload as soon as I can.
Everyone's getting set up...
First up is Black Tank. LED fixture manufacturers, making compact fixtures. Now partnered with Rosco. Miro Cube 4C is their new product. Plugs right into wall, anywhere in world. RGB has been converted to quad chip tech. Variable beam angle by changing beam diffusing lenses.
Osram Sylvania up now. Kreios FL LED work light designed specifically for theatre. 3,000 lumens, (300 watt halgen lamp equiv.) 60W of power. CCT=3000k, same as tungsten.
German Light Products up now.
Impression x4.
Two products from SceneX, static LED’s. IP65 RGB PAR, suitable for permanent outdoor installations, cable ties with power and data in and out. Each have IP65 connector. Onboard menu for full-fixture config. GLEC Video processor. Ergon 10 is their front panel for it. Runs without fans.
Robert Juliat
LED Profile spotlights, the Tibo and Zep.
Tibo 75 W LED Profile, 15/35 degree or 30/45. 26 pounds. Remote power supply. 3 color temps, 3000k, 4000k, 6500k.
Zep
150W LED Profile. Equiv to standard 750W tungsten fixture. Newly designed 150W LED source. 3200 or 6000K color temp.
Apollo
PrintScenic gobos for LED fixtures. Developed their own printing process for a printed gobo with true colors and true bloack. “All plastic gobos warp for you all the time.” So printing process had to go onto glass, so the focal point doesn’t change. Stack a dot on a dot, so can get good detail and yet remain true black.
Also intro’ing. 200W Fresnel LED and 200W Profile and 200W RGBA Profile.
Creative Stage Lighting
New things for people to take a look at: Avolites Interactive Media server ran the LED’s at the Olymipcs – just 2 of them for all the LED mapping. Priced very competitive.
Avolites released Titan OS 6, which has more pixel mapping and new features: cue lists, cue stacking.
AV Lighting has the A12 in a tunable white version. LED wash light. No powerpoint, so may be getting the names wrong on this gear.
W-DMX
G4S – free update for G4 users, better frequency hopping and other upgrades. Black Box Mark 2, barnd new road worthy case. 3 and 5-pin DMX. RDM controller capability. Truss mount with quik-lok and DIM, and rack mount kits. Trady in any wireless and get one of their black box F1 units. Swedigh meatball and vodka party Satruday at 3 pm!
Interactive Technologies
Scene Station 3. Small attractive preset wall station that outputs DMX directly. SceneStation Studio software update. A programmer’s remote so you can manuall setup new scenes. Users remote to help clients. And a new front. But they’ve added a DMX effects engine in it now. Instead of 100’s of programming steps, you can overlay some great effects easily. 44HZ rate, 16-bit math, RGB, RGBA, RGBW, etc. effects, and more efficient power-wise as well.
PRG is not in the house, so we’re skipping them.
EntTec
E-streamer Mk2. 3 RU show recording and playback technology. Solid state. 2 configes. One with 4 DMX in/out., or Ethernet in/out. Both go 4-64 universes. Unlimited simultaneous show playback. Unlimited number of shows. DMX512, Art-Net and ESP protocol. Control and config via built-in web interface. New stuff: SD Card for show storage. 1RU height. Master shows via web interface.
DMX USB Pro Mk2 – “Pro 2”
Two output ports of DMX, so you can do 2 universe. Full RDM capability. Stand alone operation for unattended replay. One firmware version. True 1500V isolation separating all ports. Internal frame buffering. Comes with USB and break out cable.
D-Pro version 1.3
Device browser can display background image. Every patched fixture you can add beam color, device throw, etc. So now a simple visualizer. CMY, RGB support in color editor now.
Lex Products
Lighting Control Solutions.
Installation System has new backbone that allows for more product support, new dimmers with great new features. 2 pole relays in standard panel. I didn’t all that – so I’ll update this later. Internal monitoring system.
Doug Fleenor Design
AS of Sept, largets DMX splitter manufacturer. Unveiled world’s largest DMX splitter. Making a DMX-controllable MP3 player, so you can cue sound effects from lighting console.
3824 Paradise Rd. Las Vegas 89119 – Open Bar. 25th anniversary LDI party. 8 pm. (AKA the 4Wall party).
City Theatrical
Gary Fails Work in the world of Broadway. Wirless world of Broadway very demanding. They provide nearly 100% of wireless on Broadwday, West End, etc. Color Kinetics and ETC added ShowDMX to their product line. ShowDMX Neo, and Vero and VeroNET outdoor transceivers. ShowDMX Vero uses Ethernet protocol, streaming ACN, pathport, RDM.
Moving Light Assistant. Moving Light documentation software. Recording parameters very difficult. Specifically written to make it easier to record and document moving lights. Records rig/gear data and programming data.
Pathway
Cognito console. Intended for high schools, ballrooms. Small console. Just a little bit bigger than a laptop. 7-inch touch screen. User interface designed like iPad, not need a manual. Designed for tasks you do over and over again : select, record and play lights. Everything is task oriented and using natural language controls. Works on POE. iOS compatibility, with apps. “Nito” Take pic of stage, touch screen, then have that setting come up. Booth 1839.
ETC
Matt Kern from ETC. New rigging product and rigging controls. Previewing a new swtich and new switching relay panel. Source 4 LED is officially at LDI (only previewed last year, it debuted at USITT). ETC Source Four Dimmer, distributed dimming system. Not phase control, not sine wave. Close to sine wave, but at phase control price point. Nearly silent. 0db rating at 2 feet. Stays that way regardless of temperature.
Nila Lighting
Boxer product. Replaces 1000W PAR cans. High-brightness LED’s. Varsa – AC and DC input.
Zero Energy Lighting
FlexArray. An LED soft-focus Fresnel light. RGBAW, various color temperatures.
PRG did show up, so here they are.
Intro’ing the V276 control console. Softare and hardware product, smaller, ultra-poratble of v276 consoles. MBOX studio software, similar featured software to MBOX extreme that also runs on Mac. So now you have full control system on Mac. Also showing True Color HS and Photon fixture.
Leprecon
Watson - New distributed dimming system.
CAST Software Release 29.
Goal to make WYSIWYG release faster for LD’s. Cuts and adjustments tool. Quick, quick, quick. Quick fixture tools. Can stick the tool anywhere, collapse any part of it. Shaded view selection. Can grab a fixture , multiple selcect, then change anything right there. Procution team info wizard. Choose every aspect of production, then track all info associated with production: email, names, deadlines, etc. Smarter tooltip info. Truss indicators, can quickly show where truss connectors are visually. Layout Groups. Create titel block, and then put it anywhere, don’t have to recreate everything. Blacktrax—debuting. Realtime tracking technology. Based on wysiwyg. Completely bi-directionsl feedback of anything you wanted to track-lighting, media servers, etc.
Light Converse
Visualizer. He’s mumbling a lot, and the video doesn’t have any volume. See it: 25-60 fps in visualizer. 500 moving light fixtures with no rendering time. Can be connected to any ArcNet or DMX console to program. Or direct OEM capability with some consoles. Integrated with Vectorworks for easier paperwork before viz. Bi-directional data exchange with Excel as well. Feed it: You can feed content to it, and have it work in its virtual world, esp. with 3d mapping. Track it: Real time live object tracking system to interact with environments. “Soon to be released.”
Light Converse Server. Server mapping and Studio.
OmniSistem
Very small wireless receiver and transmitter. Receiver is size of lipstick. Transmitter is called the hummingbird. UPlighting System. 12 LEDs. 6 RGBA, 6 RGBW. Two LED Ellipsoidal, 50W, with zoom in different form factors.
Coolux Media Systems
Widget Design 4.0 – helps integrate interactivity into Pandora’s Box. Control for any device via built-in webserver. Can help you put in motion control and facetracking and mapping them to lights and video. But new in v.5.3 in Pandora is an interaction level with touch feedback from live inputs. They’re doing camera tracking as well.
The last few bits of this show has been all about camera tracking and interactivity in 3D space. Via IR trackers, fast cameras, etc. We’ll see how that plays out on the show floor! I’ll try and update this later with some photos I took. Thanks all, and be sure and follow @stagedirections on twitter for updates throughout the day from the show floor!
LDI 2012 New Tech Breakfast - Friday, Oct. 19
by Jacob Coakley
Oct 17, 2012
Hi everyone! Starting at 8 a.m. Friday, October 19, I'll be liveblogging the new tech Breakfast for LDI right here! The New Tech Breakfast gives manufacturers 5 minutes to quickly tell people what new gear they're showing at LDI. It's a GREAT (if whirlwind) way to see all the new and shiny gear at LDI. Friday the New Tech Breakfast covers Lighting and Projection. On Saturday, the new tech breakfast covers Audio, Rigging, Staging, Special Effects and Lasers! So swing by Friday to check out the live feed!
Photos might be a little slow this morning -- tethering software giving me fits, but I'll upload as soon as I can.
Everyone's getting set up...
First up is Black Tank. LED fixture manufacturers, making compact fixtures. Now partnered with Rosco. Miro Cube 4C is their new product. Plugs right into wall, anywhere in world. RGB has been converted to quad chip tech. Variable beam angle by changing beam diffusing lenses.
Osram Sylvania up now. Kreios FL LED work light designed specifically for theatre. 3,000 lumens, (300 watt halgen lamp equiv.) 60W of power. CCT=3000k, same as tungsten.
German Light Products up now.
Impression x4.
Two products from SceneX, static LED’s. IP65 RGB PAR, suitable for permanent outdoor installations, cable ties with power and data in and out. Each have IP65 connector. Onboard menu for full-fixture config. GLEC Video processor. Ergon 10 is their front panel for it. Runs without fans.
Robert Juliat
LED Profile spotlights, the Tibo and Zep.
Tibo 75 W LED Profile, 15/35 degree or 30/45. 26 pounds. Remote power supply. 3 color temps, 3000k, 4000k, 6500k.
Zep
150W LED Profile. Equiv to standard 750W tungsten fixture. Newly designed 150W LED source. 3200 or 6000K color temp.
Apollo
PrintScenic gobos for LED fixtures. Developed their own printing process for a printed gobo with true colors and true bloack. “All plastic gobos warp for you all the time.” So printing process had to go onto glass, so the focal point doesn’t change. Stack a dot on a dot, so can get good detail and yet remain true black.
Also intro’ing. 200W Fresnel LED and 200W Profile and 200W RGBA Profile.
Creative Stage Lighting
New things for people to take a look at: Avolites Interactive Media server ran the LED’s at the Olymipcs – just 2 of them for all the LED mapping. Priced very competitive.
Avolites released Titan OS 6, which has more pixel mapping and new features: cue lists, cue stacking.
AV Lighting has the A12 in a tunable white version. LED wash light. No powerpoint, so may be getting the names wrong on this gear.
W-DMX
G4S – free update for G4 users, better frequency hopping and other upgrades. Black Box Mark 2, barnd new road worthy case. 3 and 5-pin DMX. RDM controller capability. Truss mount with quik-lok and DIM, and rack mount kits. Trady in any wireless and get one of their black box F1 units. Swedigh meatball and vodka party Satruday at 3 pm!
Interactive Technologies
Scene Station 3. Small attractive preset wall station that outputs DMX directly. SceneStation Studio software update. A programmer’s remote so you can manuall setup new scenes. Users remote to help clients. And a new front. But they’ve added a DMX effects engine in it now. Instead of 100’s of programming steps, you can overlay some great effects easily. 44HZ rate, 16-bit math, RGB, RGBA, RGBW, etc. effects, and more efficient power-wise as well.
PRG is not in the house, so we’re skipping them.
EntTec
E-streamer Mk2. 3 RU show recording and playback technology. Solid state. 2 configes. One with 4 DMX in/out., or Ethernet in/out. Both go 4-64 universes. Unlimited simultaneous show playback. Unlimited number of shows. DMX512, Art-Net and ESP protocol. Control and config via built-in web interface. New stuff: SD Card for show storage. 1RU height. Master shows via web interface.
DMX USB Pro Mk2 – “Pro 2”
Two output ports of DMX, so you can do 2 universe. Full RDM capability. Stand alone operation for unattended replay. One firmware version. True 1500V isolation separating all ports. Internal frame buffering. Comes with USB and break out cable.
D-Pro version 1.3
Device browser can display background image. Every patched fixture you can add beam color, device throw, etc. So now a simple visualizer. CMY, RGB support in color editor now.
Lex Products
Lighting Control Solutions.
Installation System has new backbone that allows for more product support, new dimmers with great new features. 2 pole relays in standard panel. I didn’t all that – so I’ll update this later. Internal monitoring system.
Doug Fleenor Design
AS of Sept, largets DMX splitter manufacturer. Unveiled world’s largest DMX splitter. Making a DMX-controllable MP3 player, so you can cue sound effects from lighting console.
3824 Paradise Rd. Las Vegas 89119 – Open Bar. 25th anniversary LDI party. 8 pm. (AKA the 4Wall party).
City Theatrical
Gary Fails Work in the world of Broadway. Wirless world of Broadway very demanding. They provide nearly 100% of wireless on Broadwday, West End, etc. Color Kinetics and ETC added ShowDMX to their product line. ShowDMX Neo, and Vero and VeroNET outdoor transceivers. ShowDMX Vero uses Ethernet protocol, streaming ACN, pathport, RDM.
Moving Light Assistant. Moving Light documentation software. Recording parameters very difficult. Specifically written to make it easier to record and document moving lights. Records rig/gear data and programming data.
Pathway
Cognito console. Intended for high schools, ballrooms. Small console. Just a little bit bigger than a laptop. 7-inch touch screen. User interface designed like iPad, not need a manual. Designed for tasks you do over and over again : select, record and play lights. Everything is task oriented and using natural language controls. Works on POE. iOS compatibility, with apps. “Nito” Take pic of stage, touch screen, then have that setting come up. Booth 1839.
ETC
Matt Kern from ETC. New rigging product and rigging controls. Previewing a new swtich and new switching relay panel. Source 4 LED is officially at LDI (only previewed last year, it debuted at USITT). ETC Source Four Dimmer, distributed dimming system. Not phase control, not sine wave. Close to sine wave, but at phase control price point. Nearly silent. 0db rating at 2 feet. Stays that way regardless of temperature.
Nila Lighting
Boxer product. Replaces 1000W PAR cans. High-brightness LED’s. Varsa – AC and DC input.
Zero Energy Lighting
FlexArray. An LED soft-focus Fresnel light. RGBAW, various color temperatures.
PRG did show up, so here they are.
Intro’ing the V276 control console. Softare and hardware product, smaller, ultra-poratble of v276 consoles. MBOX studio software, similar featured software to MBOX extreme that also runs on Mac. So now you have full control system on Mac. Also showing True Color HS and Photon fixture.
Leprecon
Watson - New distributed dimming system.
CAST Software Release 29.
Goal to make WYSIWYG release faster for LD’s. Cuts and adjustments tool. Quick, quick, quick. Quick fixture tools. Can stick the tool anywhere, collapse any part of it. Shaded view selection. Can grab a fixture , multiple selcect, then change anything right there. Procution team info wizard. Choose every aspect of production, then track all info associated with production: email, names, deadlines, etc. Smarter tooltip info. Truss indicators, can quickly show where truss connectors are visually. Layout Groups. Create titel block, and then put it anywhere, don’t have to recreate everything. Blacktrax—debuting. Realtime tracking technology. Based on wysiwyg. Completely bi-directionsl feedback of anything you wanted to track-lighting, media servers, etc.
Light Converse
Visualizer. He’s mumbling a lot, and the video doesn’t have any volume. See it: 25-60 fps in visualizer. 500 moving light fixtures with no rendering time. Can be connected to any ArcNet or DMX console to program. Or direct OEM capability with some consoles. Integrated with Vectorworks for easier paperwork before viz. Bi-directional data exchange with Excel as well. Feed it: You can feed content to it, and have it work in its virtual world, esp. with 3d mapping. Track it: Real time live object tracking system to interact with environments. “Soon to be released.”
Light Converse Server. Server mapping and Studio.
OmniSistem
Very small wireless receiver and transmitter. Receiver is size of lipstick. Transmitter is called the hummingbird. UPlighting System. 12 LEDs. 6 RGBA, 6 RGBW. Two LED Ellipsoidal, 50W, with zoom in different form factors.
Coolux Media Systems
Widget Design 4.0 – helps integrate interactivity into Pandora’s Box. Control for any device via built-in webserver. Can help you put in motion control and facetracking and mapping them to lights and video. But new in v.5.3 in Pandora is an interaction level with touch feedback from live inputs. They’re doing camera tracking as well.
The last few bits of this show has been all about camera tracking and interactivity in 3D space. Via IR trackers, fast cameras, etc. We’ll see how that plays out on the show floor! I’ll try and update this later with some photos I took. Thanks all, and be sure and follow @stagedirections on twitter for updates throughout the day from the show floor!