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Medialon Manager V4 Pro scored at
the Opening Ceremony of the 13th World Soft Tennis
Championship in Anseong, South Korea where it controlled
sound, video and special effects in a three-minute
multimedia show.
The six-day tournament, held last September, was hosted
by the International Soft Tennis Federation, which
welcomed players from 40 countries. Soft tennis is a
fast-moving racquet sport, played in singles and doubles
matches, primarily in Asia. It features a rubber ball,
which is filled with air and is quite soft; but it can
be hit extremely hard which makes for exciting game
play.
“It’s common to use show-control systems in other
countries, but this was one of the first times a
show-control system was used in Korea,” notes Kye Ok Joo,
assistant manager of Worldpower Enterprise, a Medialon
South Korean reseller whose digi-Q division handled the
project. “So we needed Medialon’s wide experience and
support.”
The multimedia show at the end of the opening of The
World Soft Tennis Championship required a complement of
Medialon equipment, which included a Show Control
Machine with a Manager V4 Pro.
Medialon was charged with playing the background music
during the multimedia show and sending timecode to
synchronize the show control and the pyro console so the
fireworks could be choreographed to the music. Medialon
interacted with a Martin W8LC system and MIDAS XL200
console on the audio side; a Barco Dual 200-inch LED
screen, Folsom Image pro HD converter and Edirol SEG-2550
switcher on the video side; plus a Pyro Digital console.
Medialon was playing all the background music of
official ceremony, sending timecode to the pyro console
and playing sound and video for the 3-minute multimedia
show in finale.
Medialon Manager offers a unique interface to
program-synchronized shows with a Timeline metaphor on
which cues are positioned. The cues are played back
frame accurately with reference to internal or external
sync source. The timeline makes overview and changes in
the show programming very “visual” and allows fast, easy
and accurate changes.
Additionally, Medialon Manager is one of the only
show-control software releases to embed both linear and
logical programming. Logical programming allows for
dealing with unpredictable situations that often happen
in live shows.
“Medialon was the best choice for the very complex
direction required by the show,” says Kye Ok Joo.
“Medialon Manager, thanks to its timeline, can control
several systems at nearly 1/100 second of time at the
same time.” |
