Green Hippo @ Plasa 2007

As every year, Green Hippo had its exhibition stand at Plasa in Earls Court, London. This year, Hippotizer V3 was officially released.

The Hippotizers got their own customized Hardware case, which makes their outside adequately professional as their internals. The whole case is lit from the inside with LEDs (of adjustable RGB Color) and an LCD front panel allows to access some functionality even without a GUI. Even more important is the back of the case, where you will now find all kind of video output format plugs you could expect from a professional Media Server.


New to the existing Product Range (Hippotizer Express, Hippotizer Stage, Hippotizer HD) is "Hippoportamus" (aka "Hippotizer Junior") - a Hippotizer V3 with 2-Layers, running in a Mac Mini!

ZooKeeper is the name for the standalone Software (+ Dongle) that allows you to run a remote GUI for one or multiple Hippotizer in a Network. It is now optionally sold together with the Hippotizers. It can e.g. be installed on a Laptop and allows to control all Hippotizers from there.

The Hippotizer V3 GUI (remote or local) allows to rearrange all Windows in a way that will fit your specific needs (especially in terms of resolution), as e.g. shown in the Screenshot below:


On the Software side, there were many changes since Plasa 2006, the most important ones are the following:
- Performance Improvements
- Automated Media Transcoding during Import
- Many GUI improvements, especially Timeline related functionality
- "Beat Bridge" - a Hipponet Component that allows to map animate any Hippotizer Parameter to an external Audio Source
- MIDI and DMX Hipponet Components

People often ask me what is the main difference between Hippotizer V3 and other Media Servers. Well, there are many differences, but I think the most important one is that a Hippotizer Setup is totally scalable without adding complexity in maintainance. That means, if you need more processing power, you just connect multiple Hippotizers in an ordinary LAN and remote control them all together the same way as you would do with a single Hippotizer. Distributed Realtime Rendering that really works flawlessly! This together with the superior Multilayer HD Media Playback Engine and the powerful Timeline make the Hippotizer absolutely outstanding compared to all other Media Servers.


In the new brochure, there is a sample list of diverse projects where Hippotizers were used in the past and up to date:

Theatre
Love - Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas
Wintuk - Cirque du Soleil New York
Disney's "The little Mermaid" on Broadway
Deuce - Broadway
Blue Man Group "How To Be A Megastar Tour"
Blue Man Group Lugano /Orlando /Berlin
Young Frankenstein - Broadway
Rembrandt The Musical
Sinatra - London Palladium
Daddy Cool - London West End
The History Boys Broadway
Bollywood The Show - Tour 2007
Frobisher 2007
Daddy's Girl The Opera
Avenue Q - London West End
We will Rock You - The Queen Musical
Mary Poppins
Starlight Express
Lennon The Musical

Concert
Destiny's Child Destiny Fulfilled Tour
Bon Jovi - Have A Nice Day Tour
Lilly Allen - Tour 2007
Def Leppard - Tour 2006
Nickelback - Tour 2006, 2007
Lucie Silvas - 2007
Orchestral Maneuvres In the Dark (OMD) - Tour 2007
Journey - 2006
The Shapeshifters - 2007
Johnny Hallyday
Erasure - Light At The End Of The World Tour
AOL Winter Warmer / Summer Cooler
BLAST II - Tour Japan
T-Mobile "Street Gigs" - Tour
Golda's Balcony - Tour
Basement Jaxx - Tour 2005
Foo Fighters - Tour 2005
3 Doors Down - Tour 2005
Asia Tsunami Relief Concert
Eppu Normaali - Tour
Jari Sillanpää & Katri Helena
Hector

Club/Festivals
Industrial Resolution Manchester 2007
Glastonbury 2005, 2006
Glastonbury - 2007 - Jazz World and Glade stages
Montreux Jazz Festival
Cat Empire UK Tour
Global Gathering - 2005, 2006, 2007
Sanctuary Festival - 2007
Metro Weekender - 2006, 2007
FIRE Nightclub Vauxhall
Luminar Leisure Group
Electric Gardens - 2007
RNJ Festival 2005, 2006, 2007
Southport Weekender - 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Hardcore Weekender 2005, 2006, 2007
Tranzmission @ Alexandra Palace - 2007
Tidy Weekender - 2005, 2006, 2007
10th IAAF World Championships

Television
Eurovision Song Contest - Helsinki - 2007
X-Factor - 2006, 2007
Dancing On Ice - 2007
Britains Best Talent
Paul O'Grady Show
MTV3 50 Years Anniversary
BBC Children In Need
The World Music Awards - 2007
'Davina' - BBC Television
The Oprah Winfrey Show
MTV TRL Studios New York
Y3 Fashion Show New York
Telvis Gaala
NRJ Radio Awards - 2006, 2007
T4 On The Beach - 2005, 2006, 2007
Logies Awards Australia
Jussi Gaala and Emma Gaala

Other Customers
BMW Formula 1 Team - Kuala Lumpur
Bristol Town Square Project
SKY Christmas Party
Mercedes Benz Detroit Motor Show
Nokia Worldwide Conference - 2005
Eragon World Premier
The Americas Cup
Paul Weller "Under The Floorboards Video"
Baby Phat Fashion event - Fall 2005
TPI Awards - 2006, 2007
Party For Wonder - Boston - May 2006
The Robin Hood Foundation
Seattle Opera House
Studio 1 Helsinki
GTV 9 Australia
Peacock Theatre - Helsinki
Raumanhovi Club/Rauma
Onnela Club/Tampere
Raumanlinna Club/Rauma
Oulu City Theatre