XL Video uses Panasonic projectors for Roger Waters' The Wall Live

The Roger Waters Show, The Wall Live, has been touring for three years offering a spectacular video projection thanks to Panasonic equipment.

Director Richard Turner's acclaimed video montage, created for Roger Waters' The Wall Live tour, mythical member of the group Pink Floyd, has had the projectors of Panasonic and the experience of XL Video for staging.

This production has been hailed as one of the best touring shows. A tour that began in Toronto in 2010 and has had his last performance on 21 September at the Stade de France, a sports venue located in Saint-Denis, municipality adjoining the north of Paris, and that will continue this autumn in different European countries.

The stage was designed with a background wall, built in cardboard by the company TAIT, who was also in charge of supplying the structure and the engineer. Structure that was demolished and rebuilt at each concert.

For the staging of The Wall Live forty Panasonic projectors of 20.000 thousand lumens PT-DZ21KE and PT-DS20KE. These are installed on a standard Leyher platform in the foh.

About show technology, Roger Waters explains “The projections made on this wall that is part of the stage for this tour would have been unthinkable ago 40 years. We couldn't have filled the space in such an emotionally satisfying way., Musical and theatrical. Technology has changed. Now it is possible”.

Panasonic's PT-DZ21 models offer high levels of brightness and crystal clear images on a display of 1858.1 m2, Ideal for a spectacular visual experience.

Ten Blackmagic ATEM switchers (one channel per screen area) It was used to apply specific effects for lighting and content management., all connected together by a hot-rodded piece of software called Just Macros.

After Effects was used to divide the total 15k canvas into 10 Individual playback channels. The content is stored in 10 Mac Mini servers (10 more are used as fully redundant backup ) with 10 AJA IoXT for playback.

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