For the 6th year in a row, the Champs-Elysées avenue shone brightly for New Year’s Eve celebrations. After winning the tender launched by the city of Paris, Cookies Production produced a spectacular sound and light show relying on 15 Barco’s video-projectors and 4 Modulo Player media servers by Modulo Pi.
After answering the call for tenders initiated by the city of Paris, Cookies Production was awarded with the challenge of producing the new show to enter 2020. Christophe Gillier, CEO of Cookies Production, said: “The city was looking for a fresh artistic proposal. While the budget for the project remained the same as the previous edition, I wanted us to achieve something even better.”
In order to produce the show, which is now highly expected and observed every year, Cookies Production worked with Magnum for the technical production, and the creative studios 400.000 people entered 2020 attending the show produced by Cookies Production Holymage and Spectre Lab for the artistic direction and production.
In terms of technical set-up, 15 Barco UDX video-projectors were used for the show. “We reached about 470.000 lumens, and more than 300 lux per square meter. This was a first for the Arc de Triomphe” said Christophe Gillier.
The 15 video-projectors were fed by 4 Modulo Player Pro media servers which were used for video mapping and show playback. Baptiste Jazé, media server operator on the show, states: “Modulo Player embeds some warping tools that are very accurate and allow to work fast. Once the first stack of 5 video projectors is warped, adding the two other stacks is very simple thanks to the X-Map function.”
Besides, the Modulo Player Pro were equipped to receive timecode: “Modulo Player’s capability to work with timecode is essential in a show that must strictly follow the countdown. It also ensures the synchronization of the video, light, firework, and laser effects” said Baptiste Jazé.
In addition, Modulo Player’s LED mapping function allowed to convert video content into DMX.
