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Taking the market by STORM Benjamin Dynice guides us through Aputure’s latest LED, which is perfectly primed for the world of virtual production W ith their extensive range of professional cinema lighting and control, Aputure
are crucial for achieving high-fidelity output for exceptional accuracy,” says Benjamin Dynice, director of product (UX/ UI) at Aputure. Traditional daylight and tungsten sources have an indigo range, which the BLAIR system replicates with an indigo emitter to create a brilliant white light. This full spectrum of the light results in a more natural, brilliant appearance.” Dynice believes that when it comes to Aputure fitting into the virtual production world in the long run, it all comes down to priorities. “We’re trying to put out the right tools and toolsets for users to ensure that you have what you need, like x/y control in the XT52 and accurate DMX profiles. With the STORM series and VP-focused DMX profiles in BLAIR-CG fixtures, we’re providing that solution for the end user.” In VP, the goal of lighting is to seamlessly integrate the actor into the virtual environment, and make the audience believe they share the same space. “One way to achieve this is
through image-based lighting – direct mapping of the virtual environment’s colours onto the lights,” explained Dynice. “To ensure accuracy, the Aputure STORM’s full-colour fixtures feature a specialised DMX profile series called VRGB, designed specifically for pixel- mapping. These profiles allow users to select the appropriate colour space for the incoming RGB signal, ensuring the light output precisely matches the virtual environment’s colours. This reduces discrepancies, enhances realism and ensures a cohesive look between physical and virtual elements. “Traditional lights often fail to match the incoming signal’s colour intensity because they’re not set in a colour space, but the VRGB profiles adjust the output to match. This is something that’s available in STORM C (colour) lights, allowing you to get more accurate colours, which makes trying to match the light to the volume much simpler.” The STORM series features expanded diode sets (blue, lime, amber, indigo and red, with additional cyan and green for the 80c and 1000c), offering more colour possibilities and aiding in colour matching, which is essential for VP. With some of the best colour spectrums covering 70% of Rec. 709, tunability and adjustability on the market, the XT52 is the brightest point source LED in the industry, with the lowest dimming. It also features new cooling and control systems. Aputure previewed the STORM XT52 at stand 209 of London’s BSC Expo last month. The full announcement will take place at the NAB Show Las Vegas Aputure Experience from 6 to 9 April.
has introduced the STORM XT52 as the latest flagship in its point source line of LED lights. Making waves in the lighting market, the STORM XT52 is the brightest COB light in the industry, with an unprecedented output rivalling some 6000W HMIs. It features Aputure’s new BLAIR light engine that offers an unparalleled tunable white light colour spectrum, with an expansive CCT range, +/- green adjustability and colour-tunable x- and y-coordinates. Aputure’s advanced structural design achieves all this performance in a lamp head. Combined with Aputure’s industry- leading BLAIR-CG colour engine, which provides ultra-precise spectral control and exceptional colour fidelity for its full-colour line-up, STORM lights offer unparalleled accuracy and consistency. “The BLAIR engine and white light creation
APUTURE STRIKES AGAIN The STORM XT52 is top of the league of lighting solutions for VP
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