Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

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INTERNATIONAL:

Community

Professional

Loudspeakers

announced the

appointment of

Paul Peace as Senior

Director of

Engineering. Peace has three decades of

experience in the pro audio industry,

including the design and development of

loudspeaker systems and real-world hands-

on experience as a systems installer.

He comes to Community from Harman/JBL

Professional where he was Senior Manager

in Systems Engineering. Previously, Peace

has also held technical leadership roles at

Renkus-Heinz and IMAX. He has a Bachelor

of Science in Applied Physics from Georgia

Instute of Technology and is currently

pursuing a Masters in Acouscs from Penn

State University.

Leading all engineering efforts at

Community, Peace will oversee product

development, producon engineering,

product management and vendor research,

while direcng research in advanced

direcvity control, equalizaon techniques

and loudspeaker specificaons.

Community's CEO, Steve Johnson,

commented on Peace's coming on board

Community, “we're really happy to extend a

warm welcome to Paul. In addion to his

extensive research and development

experse, he has the innovave approach to

development that forms a core philosophy

of Community. Paul will be a key member of

Community's leadership team, providing

valuable input for our future success.”

Paul Peace added, “this is an excing me to

join Community, a well respected company

with an impressive product line-up that is

celebrang its 50th year anniversary. The

longevity of the company means something,

that it embraces agility, creavity and

innovaon. I'm looking forward to leading

the engineering efforts with one of the most

dynamic teams in professional

loudspeakers.”

http://www.communitypro.com

Paul Peace Appointed

as Community Pro's

Sr Director of Engg

Green Hippo Lights Up AUE Ceremony

MIDDLE EAST: The American University in

the Emirates (AUE) has held its seventh

Commencement Ceremony at Dubai World

Trade Centre in Dubai, with dignitaries in

aendance including His Excellency Sheikh

Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, United

Arab Emirates Cabinet Member, Ministry of

Culture and Knowledge Development. The

AUE invited Dubai-based Fountains

Internaonal Events to cra a video and

lighng show befing the presgious event.

Led by Pavel Pashkovskiy, Fountains

Internaonal Events has extensive

experience in the region, and for the AUE

graduaon ceremony the company designed

and produced content with a total size of

approximately 10,000 x 4,000 pixels. Using a

pair of Hippozer Karst Media Servers, Pavel

operated a special Art-Net meline-based

controller from Syncronorm, sending layers,

and starng triggers to the Karsts. Pavel calls

this technique ‘Art-Net mecode’, and the

Art-Net meline triggered all of his other

devices, including lasers, light controllers,

Special FX, and water fountains. Each Karst

ran a separate screen area, offering blending

as well as hardedge joining. The Hippozer

Karsts received an externally-sourced live

feed via Datapath capture cards, and eight

spliers – four from Datapath and four from

FX – spliced the Hippozer 2K and 4K

outputs. The signal was then sent to video

projectors through fibre opcs.

Fountains Internaonal Events managed

installaon, projecon works, show

creaon, and synchronisaon and the Green

Hippo tech delivered exactly what it needed

for the mulfaceted show. At only two rack

units high, the Hippozer Karst is remarkably

compact for such a comprehensively

equipped machine. It’s super flexible, too,

offering a host customisable and capture

opons.

"We are always creang complex shows,

where too many components are involved!

Green Hippo guarantees the flexibility

required to enable us to successfully deliver

these live events,” Pavel Pashkovskiy said.

“Hippozer Media Servers also give amazing

system stability in very difficult pre-

programmed shows, where we require

powerful eternal control.”

Formed in 2000, Green Hippo is a leading

player in the field of scenic video. The

Hippozer range, now in its 4th generaon,

provides real-me video playback for events

including Eurovision, the Academy Awards,

and Super Bowl halime shows. Theatre

spectaculars, such as the West End’s Love

Never Dies and Broadway’s American Idiot

rely on the system’s flexibility during

producon periods, and concert tours for

arsts such as Beyoncé, Jay Z, and Madonna

aest to Hippozer’s on-the-road reliability.

Hippozer Media Servers now reside in the

inventory of the major video playback

equipment rental companies worldwide,

alongside an ever-growing set of global

owner-operators.

http://www.green-hippo.com

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