Stagetec chosen to supply BBC's ‘Davina’

Stagetec Distribution recently supplied a Compulite Vector Lite (Orange) control system and Hippotizer Stage media server to BBC Studios, for the current production of ‘Davina’, the mid week BBC1 talk show which was launched on 15 February 2006.
The Vector is used to control 5 Clay Paky Stage Zooms, 49 Martin MAC500, 20 Martin MAC600, 6 Vari*lite VL1000, 2 Vari*lite VL2416, 2 sets of Pulsar Chroma Strips and the Hippotizer media server.
The VL1000’s are the key lights for the chat area and band, with two of the 500’s as back lights on the chat area. The 600’s colour the upper set and stairs and the Zooms put gobos on the set behind the chat area. The remaining 500’s are used for the band.
The Hippotizer is run in dual output mode - one output feeds the big LED screen hanging above the band, the second output feeds 5 projectors on the floor, rear projecting on to the round discs.
The vision mixer provides a feed from the cameras, usually of the close up, which is run through the Hippotizer so visual effects can be run on the big screen.
The ability to be able to operate and get good looks out of the Vector and Hippo within a few minutes proved itself.
The communication between the Vector and the Hippo is seamless, the media on the Hippotizer is scanned by the Vector on power up and up to date bitmaps of all the media on the Hippo are automatically loaded onto the Vector pickers. You can then quickly browse the media on the Vector touch screens, when coupled with the front screen view on the Hippo it gives you all the information you need to quickly get the looks you want.
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