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POSTCARD EDITION 08/09
W-DMX™ PRODUCT RANGE
4x R-512 Receiver, 2x S-1 Transmitter
XXIX Olympiad in Beijing
Lighting designer: Mr Sha Xiao Lan
Control System & Broadcast Lighting Consultant: Paul Collison
Lighting Assistants: Quan Xiaojie Zhang Wei, Wang Zhiyi Ma Jiebo,
& Wang Tong
Supplier: Leifull, Guangzhou
In one of the most visually breathtaking Olympic Opening Ceremonies of all time, the “One World,
One Dream” extravaganza rightfully claims the largest viewing audience of all time. The Opening
Ceremony was held on 08.08.08 at 8pm in the Beijing National Stadium, - the “Bird’s Nest” - which
can seat as many as 91,000 spectators. An estimated 22,000 performers took part in the gala, with
15,000 costumes used, implementing lighting, movement, and astounding choreography.
More than 2,300 DMX-controlled xtures were used for the show which included 112 Clay Paky
Alpha Wash, 980 Martin Mac 2000 Wash, 162 Martin Mac 2000 XB Wash, 308 Vari*Lite 3500 Spot,
316 Vari*Lite 3000 Spot, 180 Vari*Lite 3500 Wash, 12 High End SHOWGUN, 20 Ushio 2k Xenon
Follow Spot, 16 Kupo Super Sol 3k Xenon Follow Spot, 204 PureLight City Color, 80 FineArt Fine2000
Wash, 32 FineArt LED Par Can, and 46 Sliver Star LED bank. Lighting control was done on GrandMA
consoles.
The video system was conducted under the creative direction of media artist Andree Verleger from
Germany. Projected images and video were all driven by 120 High End Systems Axon Media Servers,
controlled by 6 Wholehog 3 Consoles, using 37 universes of DMX. 78 of the projectors were each
t with HES Orbital Heads. The ring around the inside of the top of the stadium was rigged with 21
groups of triple stacked projectors. This helped to realize another record in this show: the world’s
largest projection screen at around 600m2.
Guangzhou Leifull supplied W-DMX™ for the opening ceremony to positions where cable was not
an option. There were thousands of spectators, actors and moving objects to coordinate together
for the show, and W-DMX™ was the only safe solution. With the W-DMX™ Cloned system, wireless
redundancy was created between transmitter and receivers. The team had 100% signal for the entire
performance..
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