http:// Blog posts via Integrity Lighting and Sound en-us webmaster@pendergraphics.com http://integritylighting.com/news.php?id=1072 The new Stagebar 2 LED luminaire from Martin Professional is bright …yet so much more. With twice the lumen output and 10 times the intensity of the Stagebar 54™, the Stagebar 2 is an extremely capable LED pixel bar and wash luminaire. But that’s just the beginning. A new and advanced lens design provides a narrower, more concentrated field of light for better beam control and greater light intensity for overall improved floodlighting capability. A choice of lens options, which includes an opalescent diffuser lens for scenic on-camera looks, provides designers with beam angle flexibility. Overall responsiveness of the Stagebar 2 has been improved for more reactive dimming, color fades and visual content response like pixel mapping. Additionally, fan noise from the automatic heat management system has been reduced for the benefit of TV studios and other noise-sensitive environments. Useful for displaying imagery and video or for floodlighting surfaces and stages, the Stagebar 2 offers a vast gamut of colors and wide range of shades from an RGBAW color system. For exceptionally even and consistent looks, each diode has been calibrated for standardized brightness and color performance. The Stagebar 2 allows for individual pixels or groups of pixels to be controlled for increased design creativity. The Stagebar 2 is an easy set up. Using 5-pin XLR and PowerCon connectors, it is simple to daisy chain both data and power and requires no external power supplies or additional cables and DMX boxes. A floor stand is available as an option. Call us today for more information: 918-425-4446 http://integritylighting.com/news.php?id=1071 The latest software release for Martin’s user-friendly Maxedia™ media server brings the Maxedia feature set to a higher level. Aligning simplicity of use with complexity of execution, Maxedia 4.40 shows how the most powerful media server on the market can also be a user-friendly one. Highlights of Maxedia version 4.40 include: Cuelist: Similar to lighting consoles, Maxedia now features a cuelist for automation. From simple drag and drop of cues through an intuitive user interface, cuelists are quickly built and ready to play back. Cuelists can be triggered manually, automatically using Wait and Follow time, or even using external timecode. This makes Maxedia the perfect media server for permanent installations as well as large events. Timecode: Complementary to the new cuelist is new timecode input. MIDI and SMPTE timecode can be used to synchronize one or multiple Maxedia systems together. Not only will Cuelist cues be triggered at the right time by following external timecode but the actual video content of cues will also follow timecode. This means that video playback is exactly where it is supposed to be when the user jumps forward or backward in the timecode. Up to 8 HD inputs: The Maxedia engine now supports up to 8 HD SDI inputs simultaneously. Using the newly added MCC capture card, latency is kept as low as 2 frames per second, turning Maxedia into a super powerful video switcher. In addition to the high speed capture, the video input can make use of frameblending for smooth 50/60 HZ conversion, a unique feature of Maxedia. A choice of Dual HD-SDI and Dual DVI MCC capture cards is available from Martin Professional. New Output remapper: When using several video walls and creative LED video curtains there comes a time when breaking, scaling, rotating and repositioning the engine output into sections is necessary. This task is easier than ever with the new Video Output Remapper. A portion or the entire video content can be sliced and diced anywhere on the actual video output. More 3D warping and Keystoning possibilities: Keystoning, edge-blending and 3D warping are now available on both engines, which makes each server really act like two servers. 3D warping in combination with keystoning and edge-blending can be done over six video projectors using a single Maxedia Broadcast and up to three projectors on a Maxedia PRO and Compact. Large scale projections onto buildings have never been easier or more cost effective! A bundle of new creative effects: A dozen new, high-quality effects and plugins have been added to Maxedia 4.40. All the new effects allow for more control and better tools for the ultimate creative mind. Included is Framing borders, Chainer, Color Motion, Sepia, Advanced Chromakey and more. For more information click here. http://integritylighting.com/news.php?id=1070 Martin One-Key is a future-proof concept in lighting software distribution that eliminates the inconvenience of storing software licenses in DMX hardware. This simple USB dongle can store one or more licenses and protects the software from illegal copies. Read more Martin One-Key simplifies software distribution, improves protection and protects investments. All Martin Professional PC-based applications will eventually share this same protection method. No longer will software licenses be stored in DMX hardware that becomes obsolete after a few years or worse becomes defective and renders the software unusable. With Martin One-Key, adding new software is a few click process; no need to wait for a box to be delivered. In addition, Martin One-Key allows any user to try Martin Professional software for a 45-day trial period with full features. Martin One-Key is currently bundled with the following products:   LightJockey 2 Kit M-PC-Basic 8 universes Kit M-PC Pro 64 universes Kit MSD5 Gold MSD5 Live MSD5 Live-4 Furthermore, owners of Martin One-Key can order additional software applications by purchasing a software-only license.   LightJockey 2 (4 universe license code only ) M-PC Basic (8 universe max license code only) M-PC Pro (64 universe max license code only) MSD5 licenses through www.martinshowdesigner.com More products will be added in the future.  www.martin.com http://integritylighting.com/news.php?id=1069 Shotlight Wash is a totally new kind of projector that combines an extraordinary 1500W discharge lamp washlight and a 3000W Xenon lamp strobe in just one device. The two wash/strobe functions are perfectly integrated and can be operator-controlled with either simultaneous or separate operation and special effects. The “strobe” function is provided by two semi-circular Xenon lamps working independently, i.e. they can flash together or separately, at different frequencies.   Washlight section: 1500 W Fast-Fit discharge lamp Power may be set to 1500 or 1200 W 11°- 70° electronic  zoom CMY colour system + 2 colour wheels (6+6) + linear “Golden CTO” Indexable and rotating ovalizing filter plus “diamond effect” filter Frost filter 0-100% hybrid dimmer (electronic + mechanical) Three-phase pan/tilt motor for perfectly silent operation High performance electronics and firmware Modular construction for easy maintenance   Strobe section: 2 special, curved, pulsed Xenon lamps, 1500 W each Lamp life: 500 hours Special shape mirror reflector Each lamp is individually operated 0-100% intensity control with blinding effect Flash rate 0-16 Hz Automatic over-temperature safety Automatic safety black-out in case of unstable frequency Pre-set strobe effects and strobe/wash effects www.claypaky.it http://integritylighting.com/news.php?id=1068 A live, realtime 3D positioning and high-speed communications solution from CAST Software that will revolutionize the way productions happen by interconnecting technologies to deliver greater effects, more reliability and serious savings for TV, film & stage productions, road shows, major events and venues   Problem: How do you coordinate production design elements like three-dimensional audio, motion control, lighting, video, media servers, remote performers, live tracking, cameras, and other elements that are being added to your production, right now?   Solution: You use BlackBox.   BlackBox will establish the future of production coordination and control.  It’s a Plug & Play, positioning/communicating production solution of the future from CAST BlackBox Corporation, part of the CAST Group of Companies in Toronto, Canada, for coordinating multiple elements of a production in one system that monitors and tracks everything from 3D audio to moving scenery. Initial deliveries start Jan 2011.   In our highly automated, hi-tech entertainment industry, BlackBox means that hardware/controllers technologies that were formerly autonomous can now interact and cue off each other, trigger pre-programmed commands (based on the dynamic positioning of moving or stationery objects), and deliver positional information for spatial audio for sound re-enforcement, in realtime.  To do so, these technologies must plug into BlackBox.   BlackBox can also identify, predict and warn about intrusions, unexpected movements, or potential collisions inside the designated area using preset anti-collision boundaries to trigger pre-programmed results or to alert all connected technologies and warn, even prevent, a disaster.   BlackBox is on the cutting edge of the latest computer hardware, featuring the latest in multi-threaded processing technology with solid state memory to increase performance for realtime computations.  BlackBox’s proprietary system is planned to optimize redundancy for backup, making it an all-in-one, Plug & Play, multi-directional high-speed communication hub.  We’re also not operating system elitists, either – BlackBox will function on Windows, Linux, or Mac.   BlackBox will offer a time-line driven approach to ease coordinating and connecting control devices so they can instruct or receive instructions from each other in realtime. Object and spatial information specific to a production and place is uploaded via a special wysiwyg file that works natively in BlackBox.    What does this all mean? It means that nothing changes for you, the User.  You get to keep working with your wysiwyg files as you normally do and BlackBox knows what to do.   Click to see the BlackBox Diagram BlackBox uses CAST Software’s (another part of the CAST Group of Companies) wysiwyg proprietary communications protocol as it meets/exceeds speed objectives, universality, and our interference-free communications standards for development. Input data is delivered live from various RFID, SONAR, RADAR, Infrared, stereoscopic cameras (with or without thermal imaging), or any other 3rd party sensing devices, tracking systems, or program controllers for any electromechanical device, operated either automatically or manually, or from pre-programmed streaming data for positioning from any controller or server operating moving objects.  We’ve solved that challenge for you.   BlackBox is the technology that will change the future of production as we know it, giving creative and production professionals across the entertainment industry an ally to excel at the art of Entertainment. www.cast-soft.com