CTDubai’s busiest first quarter
For Creative Technology Emirates, 2009 began at a sprint promising their busiest year yet. High profile
events in Abu Dhabi and Qatar began with the PGA European Tour and were swiftly followed by five equally
large and notable events; the Carnegie Mellon University opening, the Qatar Science and Technology Park
launch, the Ras Laffan Gas Refinery Inauguration, the Senior Convocation Ceremony and the F1 Bahrain
Grand Prix. All substantial projects that ensured the crew at CT Dubai were fully engaged throughout the first
quarter of the year.
PGA European Tour
Two Lighthouse R7 LED Leader board screens, one 6x5 23m
2
and
one 7x6 32m
2
screen were provided by CT Dubai for the PGA
European Tour in Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
In addition, CT also provided the ground supporting structure that
lent extra surface area for advertising banners, the fibre signal
distribution to the screens and the fibre integration from TTV. For
the Qatar tournament a 23m
2
6x5 Lighthouse R7 LED leader board
was also installed, together with the fibre distribution and
interconnectivity as per Abu Dhabi.
Mellon University Launch
The ceremonial opening of the Carnegie Mellon University
John Adkins Productions, via Qatar MICE Development
Institute, commissioned CT Dubai to provide LED screens and
camera systems for their event. CT installed three LED
screens, of which the central and main screen was a large
10x8 80m
2
Lighthouse R7 with two 14x10 28m
2
side screens of
Barco D7.
Furthermore, CT also provided a Grass Valley Serial Digital
Kayak PPU mixer system with three Sony DXC D50 SDI
camera channels, one of which was fitted with a long lens.
Playback was from hard disk via Grass Valley Turbos. The
event was also ISO recorded using three Sony Digital
betacam format VTR’s.
QatarScienceandTechnologyParkLaunch
For the launch and opening of the Qatar Science and Technology
Park, CT was again commissioned by John Adkins Productions and
QMDI to provide a full HD LED main screen. Additional LED columns
of Lighthouse R16 were used to create a border either side.
The main screen was a 15x11 130m
2
Lighthouse R7 with a resolution
of 1920x1080 pixels and attached on either side by a 3x11 33m
2
Lighthouse R16 column. The camera system used was CT’s
state-of the-art Kahuna 2ME system. This high end HD vision
switcher easily processed the multiple inputs / outputs required
to cope with this type of event.
The sources provided and managed by CT included three
LDK6000 HD cameras with one on a long lens. Playback was from a couple of Pronto EVS hard disk servers with all material
encoded at the highest level. To record the event CT used their latest tapeless format Sony PDW-F75 XDCam recorder, using
recording media similar to Blu-ray disc.
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