An Eric Church concert is a high energy performance where performers are moving quickly and end up all over the stage.
Butch Allen, the show’s Production Designer, worked very closely with TAIT (staging, and automation vendor for the tour) to develop new flying camera platform, now called the Navigator Camera System. BlackTrax sends positional information to TAIT via RTTRP-M so the flying cameras can automatically track Eric Church in real-time. Read More
Production Crew
- Butch Allen: Production Designer
- Gavin Lake: Touring Lighting Director
- Robert Roth: Christie Lites Account Executive
- Robert Harrison: Touring BlackTrax Technician
- John Fields: Touring BlackTrax Technician
- John Taylor: BlackTrax Onsite Installation Technician
BlackTrax Team
- Dekkar Densham: BlackTrax Channel Manager, Interactive
- William McDaniel: BlackTrax Technical Team Lead
- Nicholas Lau: Training & Product Support Specialist
The design brief mandated that 64 automated follow spots (the ROBE BMFLs) simultaneously tracked the 8 different targets; 8 fixtures allocated per target. An Eric Church concert is a high energy performance where performers are moving quickly and end up all over the stage.
Butch Allen, the show’s Production Designer, worked very closely with TAIT (staging, and automation vendor for the tour) to develop new flying camera platform, now called the Navigator Camera System. BlackTrax sends positional information to TAIT via RTTRP-M so the flying cameras can automatically track Eric Church in real-time.
- x12 BlackTrax Sensors (SX13)
- x8 BlackTrax Beacons
- x64 ROBE BMFLs
- TAIT Navigator Camera System
BlackTrax Expert John Taylor and TAIT Controls Integrator Andrew Penney share their experience of integrating tracking into arena-sized venues.