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Projected Image Digital at PLASA 07
Projected Image Digital will showcase several of the high profile brands it regularly specifies and uses. Special focus will be on the latest Catalyst V4 digital media servers, Flying Pig Systems’ control consoles including the new Road Hog and Hog iPC and Element Labs’ dynamic ‘Versa’ LED range.
They will also be illustrating the many and varied application and installation projects in which they have been involved this year – supplying both hardware and bespoke video content - in the bar, club, and casino sectors plus corporate spaces. All these have seen a significant increase in activity over the last 12 months.
PID will have a hands-on Catalyst demo area on the stand, and a diverse range of hardware that will be used to demonstrate the flexibility and configurability of this leading media server. The latest version of Catalyst PM V4 can be sampled – which offers up to 12 layers of mixed digital media, movies or stills up to 4096 x 2048 pixels, realtime colour and visual effects, up to eight video inputs and up to 6 mixed outputs, plus overlapping transparent sub-mix outputs and keystone or 3D model geometry.
PID is a factory approved trainer for Flying Pig consoles and the new Road Hog and Hog iPC consoles will be in action on the stand. The Road Hog is designed for simple, intuitive operation and cost-effectiveness and gives users massive amounts of control. Loaded with Flying Pig Systems renowned WholeHog software, designers and operators can create, manage, edit, and playback lighting to enhance any production environment. Other features include, two large high-brightness colour touch-screens, backlit trackball with four configurable buttons for cursor and position control, 10 playback faders with familiar playback controls and internal hard disk.
The Hog iPC console is a small, mid-range controller with great flexibility for programmers. It is designed to use the WholeHog 3 control system - so you get the most advanced features and functionality – and is also backward compatible with the classic WholeHog 2 software. It's the industry's first hybrid console. The "i" in its name stands for its integrated PC motherboard operating via Windows XP Embedded.
PID offers a range of Catalyst training courses from basic introduction, advanced and V3 to V4 update. These are offered alongside High End Systems factory approved training, for Wholehog range of consoles and the DL2 Digital Lite Engine. These courses are held at the new PID office and showroom at The Light Box in Chiswick.
PID will also highlight a series of brand new designs from Dosch Designs, Frame FX, Motion loops and Digital Juice. These will be of interest to anyone working with lighting, digital lighting, video and other interactive medias. Dosch Designs Movie Clips offer royalty-free, animated sequences of background animations and effects for the professional and cutting-edge designers. The Frame FX stock video background library is the ultimate tool for TV and video professionals requiring video backgrounds and stock video clips. Motion Loops is another leader in royalty free motion graphics and filmed effects, all of which are ideal for multimedia design, video editing, presentations and VJ performances. Digital Juice is renowned for its royalty-free professional animations, stock footage, music, layered graphics, clip art and templates. Their mission is to provide high quality creative content and software at cost effective low prices.
In picture: Projected Image Digital installation at Edinburgh College of art, utilising Catalyst DL1 moving head projectors, Catalyst media server and Pharos control.
22nd August 2007
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