TDC Christmas Projections Light up Sydney Landmarks

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The Technical Direction Company is bringing Sydney-siders their large-format video projection technology to two Must See events this year. Lights of Christmas 2015, St Mary's Cathedral Once again, TDC has used its expertise to turn the façade of St Mary's Cathedral into a huge 75m backdrop of an imaginative representation of Christmas and what it means to Sydney. TDC created astonishing giant 17,640,000 pixel animated images using 264,000 lumens of projected light to illuminate the facade.

To manage the full HD content images, TDC's hardware needs massive processing power -- two terabytes of content management, 48 cores of processing, and 144 gigabytes of RAM.

"Remote monitoring is something TDC has been perfecting for a number of years. It allows for rapid programming, fixes issues remotely in real-time, uses a CCTV camera on-site to see what's happening and allows scheduling of different shows and operation of each days events," says Michael Hassett, managing director at TDC

"Projectors can be turned on or off or even climate control systems can be activated for heating and cooling of all equipment - let's face it, Sydney can get hot sometimes," says Steve Cain, head technician at TDC.

Event content, original content and production was by AGB Events. "The animations have three themes based around life and light," says Anthony Bastic, director at AGB Events. "TDC are back this year with bigger and brighter projectors. Their expertise enables us to have unlimited creativity with our artwork."

In its sixth year, Lights of Christmas presented by Payce, is a public celebration generously hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney at St Mary's Cathedral and AGB Events, creating extraordinary experiences.

Merry Go Round Christmas Projections, Martin Place Merry Go Round returned this year to the landmark Commercial Travellers Association Building in Martin Place.

Using video projection from TDC, the giant curved concrete façade took shoppers and local workers on a journey. The building appeared to spin and pop as the cast of dancing robots and singing mechanical animals swung into action, before the building packed itself up and blasted off into space as a flying saucer with Christmas lights.

"As with all of our collaborations with TDC, we are very proud of this award-winning artistic and technical achievement. This show presented new design challenges, and we are so proud of the result. We couldn't have done it without our technical partners, TDC," says Nicholas Tory, creative director at Ample Projects.

Established in 1981, TDC's expertise is in providing video and broadcast technology solutions for major TV shows, theatre, corporate events, concert touring, exhibitions and outdoor events. Holding one of the largest stocks of high-end video equipment including LED, projection, displays, outside broadcast, and HD camera systems, TDC is the preferred provider of technical solutions for the top designers, producers, and production companies across the Asia Pacific region.