AV Stumpfl Pixera lights up multimedia attraction at Oman cultural festival

To control the 360º multimedia show of the Khareef festival, which was created to look like a diamond-shaped monolith, multimedia servers were used BY Stumpfl Pixera one y Pixera two OCTO.

The organizers of the festival Khareef They worked with the event specialist GT Stagetech to create a multimedia show in which multimedia server systems were used Pixera of BY Stumpfl.

He Salalah Ministry of Tourism (Oman) It celebrates the annual Khareef Festival, featuring traditional performances along with stalls selling Omani crafts and local food.. This year it was created, with local specialist GT Stagetech, a multimedia show 360 degrees that was designed to look like a diamond-shaped monolith, with all angled sides receiving mapped content of colorful patterns and shapes tessellated.

The show, of 16 minutes long, It had pre-programmed lighting, lasers and special effects. All synchronized with an SMTPE timecode signal.

GT Stagetech CEO, Mohisn Al Hajri, and the director of sales and rentals, Croyden Menezes, They decided to purchase two multimedia servers from AV Stumpfl, Pixera one y Pixera two OCTO, due to its compact size, reliability and performance.

With both media servers, capable of playing 4K content without compression and at 60 fps, Pixera one was used as director/master server and Pixera two OCTO (with two, four or eight outputs available) for the screen.

The director of the show, Lalindra Amarasekara, led the team that designed and created content for the show. “We didn't have to switch to backup even once. The 3D environment and visualization within the Pixera suite are very powerful, since they give the programmer the feeling of working in a physical environment. This helps technical teams pre-plan and accurately configure projectors and stage elements”.

Plus AV Stumpfl's Pixera servers, The installation also included Sapphire console lighting from Avolites, the audio of JBL, the amplification of Crown, the consoles Soundcraft and lasers RTI Control.

The audiovisual consultant and distributor VueAV, based in Dubai, provided GT Stagetech with Pixera media servers for this installation. “Servers can handle well when working with canvases and large content; we can deploy these systems with great confidence. We are delighted with the result of this installation and Salalah City Council has said that the show has been well received by the public and has exceeded expectations”, afirma Matt Reed, VueAV partner.