Saks Fifth Avenue, New York
Saks Fifth Avenue New York is one of the world’s most visited department stores. Its annual holiday light show has become a must-see attraction to locals and tourists alike.
- The 2014/2015 show An Enchanted Experience was combination of projection and hard lighting layered on the same surface into one display
- Complementing the projection design is 1800 LED nodes, strobes, up-lights, and lit garlands – as both an accent to the projections and also able to “interact” with projected elements
- Three Pharos LPC 4s were synced with Barco HD projectors driven by a Coolux Pandora’s Box Media Server
- The LPCs communicated via DMX, ArtNet, SMPTE and MIDI to control all the lighting elements and trigger the other control components in a complete frame-locked synchronised show, including control of a digital audio workstation to trigger playback of the various frame-synced audio tracks
- In addition to the use of SMPTE, a backup ArtNet triggering system was also implemented to be sure each show was presented in perfect sync
Read more about the enchanted light experience at Saks Fifth Avenue in our project news story.
