Barco at Austin City Limits' New Venue High End Systems -- a Barco company -- is bringing up the lights at ACL Live, Austin, Texas' newest live music venue and home of Austin City Limits, the longest-running televised music series in the US. Barco and its wholly owned subsidiary, High End Systems (HES), supplied dynamic lighting fixtures powered by its latest controllers, an HES Axon Media Server and 40 intellaspots driven by a Road Hog Full Boar and a Wholehog expansion wing. The iconic backdrop featuring the Austin skyline that has been viewed on PBS television stations for decades is now backlit with 36 Barco Helix P1 flexible LED pixel strings and a Vizomo L1i LED image processing unit. HES also installed its dichroic filters for TV camera color correction on the conventional lights used throughout the venue. ACL Live at The Moody Theatre is a 2,750-person-capacity live music venue, which will also serve as the new home of the KLRU-TV produced PBS program Austin City Limits. The venue will host 60-100 concerts a year, in addition to the nights that the Austin City Limits show will tape. Olden Lighting, an Austin company specializing in "illuminating Central Texas with professional lighting, theatrical equipment and design," has been with Austin City Limits since the early 1980s. Walter Olden, lighting director for the television show, worked with ACL Live's production manager Billy Heaslip to develop the lighting design. "We looked at lighting products from all over the industry to outfit this state-of-the-art broadcast studio," said Olden. "We chose the intellaspot because of its unique ability to serve as a powerful hard-edged spot light but also provide variable soft-edged looks. The intellaspot gave us the ability to match the daylight color temperature that is needed in this studio setting." "ACL Live and KLRU's Austin City Limits present a wonderful opportunity to showcase the power of our intellaspots, especially when configured into such a large, impressive array," commented Bill Morris, VP video and lighting solutions for Barco North America. "When combined with Barco's Helix P1s, the lighting display adds a unique dimension to dramatically enliven the performances of these music legends." Barco's Helix P1 consists of 32 LED full -LED setups when unusual display surfaces or architectural environments are part of the design. The Vizomo L1i, a GPU-based digitizer, converts source signals from industry standards like SDI, HDMI/DVI into calibrated virtually mapped pixels for the LEDs. The Axon Media Server provides more than 1,400 stock media clips, with Collage Generator and Curved Surface Support. The intellaspot is an 850W hard-edge fixture producing 20,000 lumens for extreme brightness despite low power consumption. 
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