Image from Litepanels.com
Cinematographers, Gaffers and Pop Up Theater friends! The new Apollo Bridge from Litepanels is quite awesome and will and your life easy! I am not being paid to say these things!.
Over this last year I have been working on the lighting rig design for Little Giant Ladder’s Broadcast Studios, I utilized Litepanels gear left & right (More on this later). Recently The peeps there sent me their new wireless DMX bridge system to test out, and boy does it make things simple. This guys will bridge your 2.4 or 5GHz networks with your wireless DMX as well as link to your Gemini units directly. AND this will connect to your lumen radio to control your existing networks!
All of this is controlled through the free Lighticians App. The easy to use interface kept me from running from unit to unit to dial in. Instead I could sit behind the monitor and control each individual light. There are couple things I wanted from the app, like a cue stack system and a couple other nuances but I have been told these are in the pipeline! I found Lightician made patching a breeze. And saving my custom color swatches made unifying the custom color in each of my lights throughout all of my systems, and quick. And of course being able to bounce between HSI and Color temp right in the unit control page is amazing for switching any given unit between Key light and my creative fill!
Between the Lightician App & the Apollo Bridge I can see a ton of applications. Of course the original purpose: film sets! In the broadcast studios we had an existing network, so we plugged it in and attached it to our lumen radios and hooked up a few additional lights. On location this gear is a game changer, making it easier and quicker to control your lights AS you shoot. AND if you know me, you know I do A LOT of live theater and events. This is a perfect application if you don’t have the traditional infrastructure for a full light rig (looking at you storefront and pop up pandemic theater groups).
Check out the Apollo bridge on the LITEPANELS site below: let me know your thoughts!