The RUSH Club Smoke Dual is a brand new innovation based on the Magnum Club Smoke System, installed in prestigious venues all over the world. The RUSH Club Smoke System is comprised of multiple, remotely controlled effect heads and a separate base pumping unit that conceals a 10 l fluid reservoir, ensuring a continuous supply of fluid throughout busy nights to be located in a convenient location whilst the effect heads can be placed discreetly overhead in any orientation and remotely fed effect fluid. The RUSH Club Smoke Dual can utilize up to 6 effect heads across 3 zones, controlled via DMX or the on-board digital control panel. The unique feature of the Dual System is the ability to install either fog or haze heads, or a combination of both, and utilize one hybrid fog/haze fluid; RUSH Club Smoke Dual Fluid. Each effect head comes with all the installation materials for a quick and easy installation. Optionally available is an External Fluid Reservoir Kit for extending the fluid supply to 25 l, a Digital Remote Control for controlling the system at a distance without the need of DMX or a lighting controller, and various installation materials.
1-6 haze or fog heads per system. Control of up to 3 individual zones. 10 l concealed fluid reservoir Videos. Control and Programming Control options: Digital control panel, DMX, optional digital remote control, master/slave link mode Control options: Continuous or timer-controlled output Control zones: 3 zones; 2 matching heads per each zone Zone control: Independently controlled, automatic head detection Fog heads: Variable output per zone, 0-100% Haze heads: Variable output per zone; haze/fan proportionally controlled, 0-100% DMX channels: 4 Channels (Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3, Control) DMX compliance: ANSI E1.11 - USITT DMX512-A. Installation Fog and haze heads Mounting: Floor or hanging Orientation: Any Maintain 100 mm (4 in.) clearance around and 600 mm (23.6 in.) in front of head Pump unit Mounting: Standing or wall-mountable Orientation: Horizontal only Maintain 150 mm (5.9 in.) clearance around and 300 mm (11.8 in.) above Fluid system Fluid tubing: 6 mm OD silicon tubing Maximum distance from pump unit to fog heads: 50 m (164 ft.). Maximum distance from pump unit to haze heads: 10 m (32.8 ft.). Data connection to heads: Cat5e terminated with RJ45, pin-to-pin.Maximum distance to last head in daisy chain.
All rights reserved. Came to IBC 2011 with evidence of the momentum that Smoke for Mac OS X has gained since its release in December 2009. Smoke provides a professional toolset with 3D editing, 3D visual effects and color and look development.
'Smoke is becoming an 'all-in-one' solution for peoples' pipelines,' says Marc Hamaker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Creative Finishing, Media & Entertainment. 'People ask about editing in Smoke. We don't push it as an editing box, but I'm happy to see that people are exploring ways to use Smoke on Mac.' At the show, Autodesk announced Subscription Advantage Packs for its Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites 2012 and its portfolio of Digital Entertainment Creation toolsets. An Autodesk Subscription enables customers to get early access to new features and enhancements. 'We have a major release every year,' explains Hamaker.
'The Subscription Advantage Pack lets customers get upgrades in between the big releases, plus a few more tools, all for about $2,000 a year.' The Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Smoke 2012 for Mac OS X software offer new tools and increased digital file format support. New features include additional stereoscopic 3D viewing modes, enabling digital artists to scan for differences between left and right eye clips, stylized graphic effects and more control over relighting, motion blur and recursive operations. Autodesk has also expanded format support for Smoke for Mac, which now includes Apple ProRes QuickTime, IMX and MXF OP-1a export, RED Epic HDRx support, AVCHD codec import, and Avid DNxHD export in a QuickTime wrapper. 'People asked for increased format support,' says Hamaker, who notes that Smoke supports and pipelines as well as FCP. 'The fact that they want export support for ProRes tells us that we're in their pipelines.'
Autodesk plans to make the Smoke 2012 for Mac OS X Subscription Advantage Pack available for download later this month. There are also Subscription Advantage Packs for Autodesk Maya 2012, Autodesk 3ds Max 2012, Autodesk Softimage 2012, and Autodesk Mudbox 2012. Part of the momentum created around Smoke on Mac is the variety of ways that customers are using it. At IBC, Autodesk highlighted the creative work of these adventurous Smoke on Mac users. One of them was, a transmedia company that develops, produces and distributes content for TV shows, films, commercials, advertising and other markets.
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The company recently integrated Smoke into its Mac-based pipeline, says CTO Evan Schectman, with the idea that the 'rich creative feature set' fits perfectly into the company's 'commitment to visual innovation.' Similarly, Stockholm-based design boutique used Smoke for station rebranding among other recent jobs, for aggregating dailies, grading, rotoscope, matte painting and grain. Brokendoll, a Stockholm-based design boutique, used Autodesk Smoke for Mac OS X to create this image for the Nordic television broadcasting company, TV1000. Image courtesy of Brokendoll. To encourage even more functionality, Autodesk is developing a pipeline for Smoke on Mac to be used on-set, working with and its Pegasus. 'We're learning from how our clients are using it,' says Hamaker.
Smoke 2012 for Mac OS X is available for a free 30-day trial that includes installation and configuration assistance. For students and teachers, however, Autodesk offers Smoke on Mac as a free 36-month license. That's right, free. The popularity of Smoke on Mac is understandable seen within the context of more people creating more media, all of who need as much functionality as possible in one box.
I'm heartened by the fact that Autodesk is reaching out to students and teachers and really listening to customers and adapting the tool to meet their needs. By NAB 2012 time, I think we'll see even more interesting customer stories. It'll be intriguing to see how Autodesk continues to add functionality.
Mac enthusiasts were happy to learn that NVIDIA just introduced the Quadro K5000 for Mac Pro systems, based on NVIDIA Kepler architecture and featuring Cinema 4K display support. NVIDIA also unveiled its second-generation Maximus workstation, featuring the Kepler architecture. This means that users can now send compute work to the NVIDIA Tesla accelerator, reserving the Quadro K5000 GPU for content creation. Last, the company debuted a new line of Kepler-powered Quadro graphics solutions for mobile workstations. Editorial, Feature.
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For FilmLight, IBC is traditionally the show where they debut products shown as new technologies at NAB. FilmLight is living up to the tradition by coming to Amsterdam with a long list of new products: FLIP real-time image processor, Baselight TRANSFER real-time 4K dailies processing system; Baselight Editions; Baselight 4.3, the latest version with new features; BLG (Baselight Grade, an open EXR file format); and FLUX, an expandable 80TB streaming media server. The aim, says co-founder/director Wolfgang Lempp, is to improve productivity to keep up with ever-changing workflows.