Avolites Ai fires up visuals for Sunrise Avenue
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The band performed at festivals including the Nova Rock Festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria and the Moon and Stars Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, as well as others in Germany and Finland.
Sunrise Avenue were backed by a large LED screen, displaying a mixture of live camera feeds of the on-stage action and pre-created visuals, which were produced by Lightborne.
“We wanted to reproduce the look of the band’s recent arena tour, where we had five separate, framed, LED screens hung above the stage,” says Hornung. “To achieve this, we needed to re-programme the visuals to create five virtual screens to be displayed on the one large LED wall that was available to us at the festival appearances. The Q3 made this simple and handled the transposition with ease - even in 40+ degree conditions at some of the summer gigs.”
Hornung decided to give the new Q3 a try-out after learning about them from the Avolites team, with whom he has a great relationship.
“The design is very nice and I like the fact it doesn’t take up too much space in your rack. But, of course, it’s all about the processing power and outputs,” he continues.
“It was obviously important for us to get the least possible delay from the live camera to the screens, and with the Q3 we got nice lip-synced live video onto the LED wall, even though we were running Notch effects through the Q3 at the same time. It made our aim of integrating visual effects and pre-programmed video content with live action and effects simple and effective.
“The Q3 handled it all perfectly - rendering visuals and processing Notch effects simultaneously.” The Q3 servers were supplied by Zweinulleins GmbH.
(Jim Evans)
