Labs, Leds, Watches & Flying Carpets...

Sorry for the hiatus here, but, as I seem to always be saying, it has been monumentally busy at RP.

We've been busy with events, and equally busy buying new toys to use on them. Starting off with DT Video Labs Playback Pro system, which I made a nod to last time. Essentially it is a video playback system (you might have guessed that), designed by some like minded event technicians in the US specifically for our industry. Videos are the corner stone of presentations, be it a 'walk-in' loop, and video a presenter found on youtube, or 'talking head' style client interviews. Playbackpro is designed specifically for OSX, and provides a rock solid playback system or all sorts of formats, with the ability to seamlessly loop, set 'in' and 'out' points, fade times et al. We had Apple build us a big fat MacPro (Quad core, 6GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 1TB HD, 1GB graphics card - for you techies), and performance is blistering - thank you Mr Gage for the HD Stanley Kubrick test files...

Also new in stock are 80 Robe Force7 LED fixtures. We picked these at PLASA show, whilst looking for LED up-lighters for a project for the guys at White Space Productions. We were most impressed by the light output of the fixture - similar to a PAR56 300w - with physical dimensions similar to a PAR38, whilst only consuming 29 watts!
The power consumption was the reason for finding them in the first place, as WSP had asked us to install some 80 up-lighters for a week-long watch exhibition at One Marylebone, London. At first look, just the power consumption of 300w pars would be too much for the venues ring mains, plus the saturated colours the client had asked for would burn through gel quite quickly.
The LED's were the perfect solution.

So, when the team at One Marylebone asked WSP to stay on another week to assist with a 'Flying Carpet' exhibtion by the ambassador of Azerbaijan, and a book launch by the Princess of Azerbaijan, the LED's stayed on too. Again, they helped to provide saturated colours to create a 'market' feel in the exhibition, without the heat and possible fire risk of using conventional fixtures near (or sometime against) priceless antique carpets!

More to follow!

James.