co-founder of IKONIX alongside business partner Richard Saunders, worked with the CGEN team to manage and coordinate the production’s entire lighting and video aspect. This year they decided to use the Ai RX8 media servers to map out and control the video content for the production’s 38m x 6m rear screen.

Burton said: “The Ai RX8 server is a high performance media server. The integration between Ai RX8 and our lighting console for CGEN was fantastic. Integration was high on our agenda as we had two other media servers in operation as well as our Ai systems. Ai was also the easiest system to program and make changes to on the fly.”

The video content for CGEN’s back screen was displayed at a resolution of 7000 x 1080 pixels and managed over four layers. Burton used a mix of timecode and live control to operate during the shows. A lot of timecode integration was used so he could synchronise video playback with lighting, automation and the live bands running click track.

Burton said: “We had a mix of playback as well, including free run content that integrated with the timecoded sections.”

Burton also introduced numerous on-the-fly edits, “Ai does live editing really well,” he says. “For CGEN we introduced things like flipping the orientation of content, colour correction, colour intensities and playback speeds to keep the content engaging and upbeat.”