Leveraging a host of AWS Media and AI services, the solution personalizes the audience experience, automatically populating the viewer’s screen with custom video alerts, statistics, and graphics that encourage interaction and extend audience engagement.

SUMOLIGHT GmbH,known for SUMOSPACE+ and SUMOSKY, introduces the newhigh-output, SUMOMAXLEDlight. With a distinctive hexagonal design, highlumenoutput and modular form factor, this 700W fixture is designed to serve and inspire creative lighting— performing as a keylight, hardlight, punchlight, spacelight, or softlight.

Matthews Studio Equipment, known for standard-setting grip gear for location and studio work, introduces the first off-the-shelf, modular grip and lighting stand that reaches 25 feet/7.62 meters. Air Climber™ uses pneumatics to be safely raised and lowered via a regulator switch and air compressor.

Lightware Visual Engineering is providing critical equipment that ensures the highest image fidelity on the XR stages undertaking the shooting of many of the highest profile TV shows, movies, and live performances to hit the world’s screens in 2022.

As XR technology evolutionizes the film and broadcast sector, with the technology being used on filming for The Mandalorian, Batman, The Lion King, Thor: Love And Thunder, and more, and companies such as Riot Games use XR to broadcast leading eSports tournaments, the use of LED capture volumes to provide game-changing realism for virtual production environments is truly taking off.

Custom Consoles announces the installation of a Module-R studio control desk and MediaWall multiscreen display support for a newly-completed corporate video production suite at Elekta’s Cornerstone campus in West Sussex. The refinements will allow Elekta to produce high-quality video productions for distribution worldwide.

New hand's-on showroom facilities for growing line of lighting solutions located at London's prestigious Elstree Film Studios

SUMOLIGHT GmbH, known for SUMOSPACE, SUMOSKY, new SUMOMAX and other innovative LED lighting, announces the opening of SUMOLIGHT UK Ltd. With an eye to the flourishing British and surrounding media community, the new 2,000 square foot facility offers filmmakers a showroom and the opportunity to test existing and upcoming SUMOLIGHT products. Located at renowned Elstree Film Studios, the accessible ground floor space provides clients with savvy staff, technicians and engineers, as well as 24/7 support.

Tim Zur, Managing Director of SUMOLIGHT GmbH, explains “SUMOLIGHT UK Ltd, has been formed as a one-stop shop solution for the UK and EU markets. This branch will work with key partners to ensure smooth sales support and service of all SUMOLIGHT products, as well as a site for hands-on activities, workshops, training and technical lab sessions and other business and social events.”

At the helm of the new location is Chief Executive Officer Simon Evans, who brings his multifaceted expertise in contemporary broadcast and cinema lighting to SUMOLIGHT. With over 2 decades experience in the field, he has contributed engineering and on-set lighting skill to scores of motion pictures, music videos, television, documentaries, and commercials. With special interest in power generation, power distribution and control systems design, he has also been involved in the R&D of numerous LED fixtures. Through his previous technical managerial positions with NBC Universal International Operations Ltd, Cinelease, Panalux and AFM Lighting, Evans has garnered diverse experience from the point-of-view of the manufacturer, rental house, and filmmakers who use the gear.

Custom Consoles reports a highly successful year across all five of its main market sectors: broadcast, network operation control, process control, security and transport. The company experienced sustained demand during 2021 from customers in the UK, mainland Europe, the USA, APAC and the Middle East.

Sliding Leg C-Stand with Grip heads and Arm

Matthews C-stands have been a mainstay on sets for over 50 years. Now there’s one that literally fits in your pocket. Matthews 5” Pocket C-Stand™ offers familiar features in a super-compact form, including a rugged steel build with a double riser, sliding leg and 2 fully functional aluminum grip heads with 3/16 holes.

Matthews Studio Equipment introduces an easy, grip-compatible solution to hold the industry’s professional medium-sized dimmable LED bulbs by Aputure and Astera. The BM1 Bulb Mount™ offers a quick, versatile and inexpensive answer for mounting these battery-powered bulbs to various types of grip equipment and ¼-20 hardware.

Designed for any E26/E27 medium bulb, the Mount offers a standard lamp socket thread (1.25” OD) to accept an LED bulb. At the other end a standard ¼”-20 female threaded insert is ready to accept a Micro Grip Pin, Scissor Clamp, Micro Grip Rod and more.

With a low-profile matte black surface, the BM1 Bulb Mount is made of lightweight yet sturdy molded nylon. It measures 2.6”/66mm long and weighs just 0.8-oz/22g.

Matthews BM1 Bulb Mount is available through the company’s worldwide dealer network. For more information visit https://bit.ly/MSE_BM1 or www.msegrip.com

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