Product News

Gerriets has expanded its Formtex line with the new Formtex Basic. Formtex is a scenic product that combines the appearance of textile with the formable characteristics of aluminum sheeting.

Zinman Software's PocketLD, now available on the iTunes App Store, allows lighting professionals in theatre, film and TV to calculate the FC/LUX and Beam/Field Diameters for over 2000 fixtures and lamps.

FocusTrack, the lighting software for manual documentation of focuses and of cue-by-cue focus summaries, has added QuickFocus for documenting and viewing the use of each moving light in every cue.

Wireless Solution Sweden AB announced Core Lighting of UK as an OEM partner building W-DMX into their battery-powered, cable-free LED lighting products for indoor and outdoor use.

Enttec Pty of Melbourne, Australia has entered the LED engine market with the introduction of the Aleph 1 series of LED linear strips. Available in warm white, cool white and RGB, the powered strips are available in 300mm, 600mm and 900mm lengths.

Field Template's half-inch Striplight Placemat template has been updated with shapes for ETC Source 4 MultiPARs and LED fixtures including Selador, Color Kinetics, and the Altman Spectra-Cyc.

Elation's new Opti 30 UV, a blacklight powered by 12 1-watt UV LEDs, runs on 20 watts from 100V to 240V, 47-63 Hz. It can be operated manually or with two channels of DMX.

DMX Pen Live can record the DMX stream from a lighting console in real time and then play it back. It comes with a 1GB card, which is sufficient for several hours of data. The Rotary Switch allows for up to 24 separate shows to be recorded and played back.

The Legend 1200E Spot and Wash fixtures from Chauvet feature a 1,200-watt FastFit lamp and CMY color mixing. The Spot includes two indexed, rotating gobo wheels, both fitted with six glass slot-n-lock gobos.

American DJ has introduced two new LED-powered DMX moving heads; the Vizi LED Spot, pictured here, and the Vizi Wash LED 108.

Cast Software's Vivien 2010 Virtual Event Designer is available for download (to members only). Vivien is a 3D event design and sales software designed and built by Cast Software (makers of Wysiwyg).

ArKaos MediaMaster 1.2, for Mac or PC platforms, can play up to eight simultaneous layers of HD video without dropping frames when running on an octo-core server.