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Medialon Manager recently played a
key behind-the-scenes role at the IFA (Internationale
Funkausstellung) in Berlin providing the user interface
for an extensive complement of show equipment in the
Philips booth at the world’s largest consumer
electronics trade fair.
Philips offered IFA attendees an innovative video
experience in a specially-designed Ambilight dome where
82 Philips Cineos Ambilight flatscreen TVs combined with
exciting acrobatics, lights and multichannel audio in a
seven-minute show repeated 24 times a day. On a stage
with moving lifts, the New York dance group Pilobolus
gave an artistic impression of Ambilight with a modern
dance choreography.
Medialon Manager controlled 83 synchronized Adtec Edje
video players (82 for the show, one dedicated to ‘next
show’ announcements outside the dome) and provided
timecode for lighting, via a Wholehog 2 console, and
sound, via a Digidesign Pro Tools system.
During the day the Philips show ran in a continuous
loop; in case of an emergency the show could be stopped
with the press of a button. Another button restarted the
loop. A box with these two buttons and status LEDs
served as the user interface; it connected to an Adlink
Nudam 4 I/O interface which, in turn, was connected to
COM1 of the Medialon PC. Both the LEDs and PC screen
supplied status information and visual timecode.
An Adrienne Timecode card provided timecode for the
Wholehog 2 and Pro Tools. The first, or master, Edje
video player of the cluster of 82 was controlled via
ethernet. The Edje devoted to displaying ‘next show’
information was controlled by Medialon Manager.
Hugo Janzen Audiovisuele Projecten BV, based in the
Netherlands, configured the Philips booth for technical
producer The Production Factory in association with
Bruggen Verwiel Eventmarketing, also in the Netherlands.
Hugo Janzen Audiovisuele provides Medialon Manager
programming, delivers the interface between the creative
and technical aspects of projects, and executes
technical architecture for high-end audiovisual systems.
Paul Notebaart of Hugo Janzen Audiovisuele Projecten BV
added, "Medialon delivered a reliable and flexible way
to program and run the show. Even with an interface as
simple as two buttons, an extended set of equipment and
tasks could be controlled and synchronized easily." |
