BAKU, Azerbaijan – Battling it out for Europe’s highest vote, Green Hippo’s Hippotizers were at the core in pulling off a spectacular show at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. This year the content resolution was really pushed for LED screens with 4000 x 3000 pixels being used, along with the outputs of 6 active Hippotizer HDs genlocked together.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan – Battling it out for Europe’s highest vote, Green Hippo’s Hippotizers were at the core in pulling off a spectacular show at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
Eurovision 2012 was the biggest yet with 42 countries entering and 26 making it to the grand finale. With each country representing their own style and culture, classic Eurovision was brought into each performance, using colors and imagery that ran through the screens and the LED stage floor accompanied by lighting and pyrotechnics. Hippotizer’s PixelMapper and VideoMapper components took each performance out into the seating area, bringing the whole ‘land of fire’ theme into the hall.
Crystal Hall holds up to 20,000 people and the event was witnessed by 125 million people worldwide. The LED screens created an immersive environment for the performances, using all of Hippotizer’s award winning features.
This year’s winner Sweden, with their song “Euphoria” by Loreen, made full use of Hippotizer’s PixelMapper in creating the winning look.
A month prior to the finals, production of the visuals began. Event Engineers together with Nick Charalampidis, Product Specialist from Green Hippo, began set-up and programming of the system alongside writing some new features to support the huge task ahead of them.
This year the content resolution was really pushed for LED screens with 4000 x 3000 pixels being used and a few customizations back at Green Hippo HQ along with the outputs of 6 active Hippotizer HDs genlocked together. Being monitored by multiple Zookeepers, all aspects of the show could be controlled remotely around the vast Crystal Hall.
Hippotizer Product Manager Lee House said, “Eurovision is always a jewel in the crown of any manufacturer in our industry. We are pleased to have been selected as the main provider for the visual playback. Although the UK’s vocal entry finished second to last, I think we may have proven that Hippotizer was the UK’s real winning entry this year.”
