UK - Avolites, a Robe business, chose this year’s PLASA Show to debut its new Diamond 7 (D7) console in the UK – the newest addition to the Avolites Diamond collection.
The two variants, the D7-330 and D7-215 received lots of attention across the show days from students and industry professionals. The console offers high-end performance that can travel anywhere you go.
Also making its debut at the PLASA Show was Prism One, the latest version of Avolites’ Prism media software (soon to be released) designed principally for lighting designers.
Key new features include an added preview window, cross fade on a layer, hardware decode acceleration for H.264/H.265, control over multiple banks and layers, live input and NDI input, as well as virtual return and region of interest on outputs.
All of these were demonstrated to an enthusiastic audience who were surprised at the ease of use of the Prism software – much like Titan, Avo’s long-standing lighting control software.
Other Avolites hardware highlighted on the stand included the flagship lighting control console, the Diamond 9, with both variants D9-330 and D9-215, along with the T3 and T3-W – Avo’s smallest-footprint professional lighting control product.
The Tiger Touch II and Quartz consoles from the Essential Collection were once again popular with stand visitors and constantly in use. All the Avo console stations complemented the company’s powerful ‘Production Grade’ Q3 media server, demonstrating the Synergy feature set (which unites lighting and video control, offering creative programmers a streamlined workflow for all visual elements onstage).
The eight-seater theatre-style Titan software training area was also new at PLASA. Visitors could listen to a 30-minute session covering Titan Basics, Effects Engines and Synergy or Advanced Programming. All the sessions were at or near capacity, with peak times heavily oversubscribed, and this popular addition to the stand is likely to become a regular feature in the future.
Paul Wong, Avolites’ managing director, said: “We presented a strengthened product line-up with the inclusion of the D7 which showcased the depth of our video and lighting control portfolio, and the show was a great opportunity to catch up with our loyal supporters. This year was probably the best PLASA in recent years for Avolites. We were delighted to see a busy stand across all the show days, which is a testament to how much we’ve progressed in the past 12 months.
