One of Australia's largest convention and exhibition spaces, the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), continues to raise the bar with its technology offerings for its many and varied clients.
Lightmoves originally supplied the Philips Dynalite Lighting Control system to MCEC when the new convention centre opened in 2009, but have been kept busy supplying technology on a continuous basis. Lightmoves have supplied a total of 48 Selecon Aureol Beamshapers with track adapters, 78 White Selecon Acclaim Fresnels with track adapters and 12 Acclaim axial profiles for use in the venue's many conference rooms, and 6 LUI Worklight Floods for the main plenary.
More recently, MCEC sought a new versatile lighting console for use in the plenary and grand banquet room. Due to nature of the events catered for, they required a console with a short set-up time, was easy to configure and one which they could make changes to quickly. Lightmoves arranged demonstrations for many of the industry's leading consoles, but it was the GrandMA2 Ultralight that was deemed the most appropriate.
Lightmoves supplied two consoles for use across the MCEC's many spaces, which was supported by a two day training session from Australia's MA Lighting distributor Show Technology, who demonstrated some features that have already proven particularly useful.
MCEC's Technology Services Manager Paul Rumble explains, "One of the features we particularly like is the ability to control the desks via the iPad. This is useful as it moves the lighting operator away from the console while focusing, and allows them to flash through the rig with the client. They can even make programming changes remotely. A second feature we are using is the MA3D software. We have used this with clients to design shows and demonstrate the versatility of the moving light rig, which is included in the room hire for dinners."
With the heavy usage and quick turn around of events in the venue, the GrandMA2 Ultralight's shortened programming time and ability to store default show files for each of the different rigs in the plenary, has been much appreciated by MCEC's in-house technicians.
For more information, contact Mark Hopkins of Lightmoves on (03) 9701 2500.
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