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The Killers tour Worldwide


1 Images Copyright: The Killers / Torey Mund kowsky


The Killers choose Arkaos for their Battle Born World Tour


Battle Born by The Killers is a tour which started out in September 2012 and is now scheduled to finish in September 2013 after taking in extra dates across Europe, Latin American and North American and promoting their fourth album. A spectacular show by Show Designer Steven Douglas has been created, making use of live camera feeds from various sources and mixed with visual content in real time.


Steven Douglas has taken full advantage of the multi output capabilities of the ArKaos VideoMapper, and has setup an upstage video wall composed of Pixled F-15 NT, which splits into two separate video screens with the top section measuring 4.6m x 14.6m and the lower section 1.8m x 14.6m, revealing a wall of moving lights and lasers behind it.


“The Killers started using the ArKaos VJ


DMX software back in 2009 for the Day and Age tour,” explains Kapler. “The software proved to be reliable and user friendly throughout the tour so we decided to stick with ArKaos for this album cycle and migrate to the new MediaMaster Pro 3. The software was officially released a couple weeks before pre-production in October 2012 and the timing couldn't have been better! We were looking for a solution to mapping out all our set elements and VideoMapper was the best option for this. The F-11 panels in the wedge covers had to be rotated 90 degress to fit, which was our first challenge, but thankfully VideoMapper made it easy to rotate the output. The VideoMapper has been a huge help in giving us the flexibility to program the output of a layer anywhere onto multiple surfaces.” There are 10 cameras dotted around the


stage. The feed is pre-mixed and cut by Chris Isaacson from XL Video who uses a Grass Valley Kayak switcher before going through a Thundering Jacks Video Dust system to add effects. All of the camera feeds are then formatted and output to the various screens via a Vixen Media Server System supplied by ChristieLites and running the latest ArKaos MediaMaster Pro 3 software with the VideoMapper extension. Triggered from Douglas’s grandMA2 light console, the media server also stores and plays back all the visual content through ArKaos MediaMaster Pro.


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