Green Hippo parties at Electric Daisy Carnival
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Over 400,000 visitors flocked to Vegas and EDC organiser called upon Tenfeet to help deliver visuals to match festival goers’ expectations. Working alongside Insomniac and LEG, Tenfeet was responsible for the lighting design, media control and supply, as well as programming and operating. Following on from the Vegas event, EDC goes global with Tenfeet adjusting the design into a touring version.
Tenfeet knows Green Hippo’s line well – the Netherlands-based company has used it on many key projects – and the team chose a pair of Hippotizer Montane+ Media Servers for the Vegas festival. The Hippotizer machines were the main playback machines on mainstage, handling all of the Timecode Shows, or ‘Intermezzos’, in between each of the DJ performances.
With one Hippotizer Montane+ as backup, the primary machine controlled all of the screens during the Timecode shows, outputting twin outputs of 3840x2160@60Hz. The total screen area on display amounted to 904 sq. m made up of 7mm screens of varying sizes. Here, the Green Hippo machines proved super-reliable, allowing Tenfeet to playback 8Kx2K files without dropping a single frame. The Montane+ units were run by LTC through the audio input, and Tenfeet also employed a grandMA2 to control the duo.
“We chose Hippotizer Montane+ because of its awesome hardware capability,” says Ton Swaak of Tenfeet. “The Hippotizer machines did everything we asked of them, delivering great performance without any frame-drop.”
(Jim Evans)
