Cuelux choice for Live Laser control

On 15 November at 20.30 809,000 Dutch viewers were tuned to RTL5 for the live broadcast of Benelux Next Top Model Final Show 2010!

The staff of Visual Productions tuned in too, but our support was less for the beautiful girls but more for Cuelux, débuting on Live TV as the choice controller from DutchView for the control of the laser show.

The show, produced by Endemol Nederland BV, was broadcast from the Lichtfabriek in Haarlem, NL, a venue now well known for Cultural and Corporate events that was once responsible for providing energy to the home’s in Haarlem. The simple, elegant setting and clever light design transformed the venue from a spacious factory into a stylish, intimate catwalk studio. The stunning models were complemented well by a beautiful lighting design from James van Someren of DutchView.

The Laser operator for the event was DutchView’s Jeroen van der Velden who explained why and how they chose to use Cuelux for the control of 3 green lasers and 1 full-colour laser:

“I needed to be able to control the lasers just like how the lighting is being controlled: manually trigger cues during the live-show, including fade-times. I setup a Cuelux system that controlled the Pangolin LivePro computer via DMX. That way I could control the lasers using cues from Cuelux, while still keeping all the laser safety-features and content of Pangolin in the chain.”

Lighting designer, van Someren, choose this special way to control the laser-system via Cuelux because “it was very important for me to be able to get the operator to make live adjustments when and if I required them during the show. This would not have been possible at all with a completely pre-programmed timeline show.”

The result was a win and modelling contract for 18-year-old Melissa and a win for Visual Productions with DutchView as another happy Cuelux user.

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