21.3.2006 MULTIPLE MAXEDIA’S FOR “DIE MAGIE DES LICHTS” Martin media server plays key role in LD Jerry Appelt’s design Martin’s Maxedia Digital Media Composer is providing some of the magic for “Die Magie des Lichts” (The Magic of the Light), a multimedia theater production described as a play of lights, dance and acrobatics - a journey beyond space and time. Besides a MAC ensemble of 36 MAC 2000 Wash, 24 MAC 2000 Profiles, 15 MAC 2000 Performance and 6 MAC 600, as well as 8 Atomic strobes with Atomic Colors, lighting designer Jerry Appelt has incorporated visual effects from 6 Maxedia media servers. Maxedia The show is unique in its form with Maxedia effects run through 2 stacked Panasonic projectors left and right as well as 4 digital moving heads onto stage sets or draped side sets. “We used four Maxedia channels to control digital moving heads and another two left and right for big side projections beside the main stage,” commented Jerry Appelt. “We had the effects on a morphing projection screen fit into the stage design. Two of the digital moving heads we had upstage, targeting set pieces onstage, and two in front of the audience to target downstage areas. We also had some screens in the audience areas at the side of the venue.” Used subtly, the Maxedia effects are more decorative than flash. “We used a real special approach from what you see with digital gobos or something similar,” Jerry continues.