Well, we were, we talked with St. Houston probably about a year and a half ago now.
And they were talking to us about relighting two of their studios and wanting all LED lighting.
And we dealt with ICANN's lighting and liked the product, felt that it was substantial.
Well, the actual process going from tungsten to LED was fairly easy.
It was a smooth process.
The instrument itself is physically lighter.
You know, it doesn't burn at such a hot temperature.
The quality of light is smoother.
It's less harsh for people to be under.
We've actually been using them on location too, which has been fantastic, especially
if you're shooting with a red camera that's balanced for daylight.
Yeah, having the lights in a student setting, I think it is one a good draw for St. Houston
itself because it shows leading-edge technology and it also gets them prepared for things
in the future.
As a freshman, I'm sitting here at the sports desk and as I go on, like, I'm nervous to
begin with, but then the lights kick on and the lights were these old, I don't, I really
don't even know what kind of lights they were.
I just remember them being hot and at the end of, I had maybe on a blue shirt and at
the end, like, I opened up my jacket and I see I'm sweating just horribly.
I'm literally melting in front of the camera.
I remember sitting up there thinking like, I'm cool, calm and composed and I can actually,
I don't have to worry about sweating anymore because these LED lights are like so much
cool or so much calmer and I think they're a little bit more energy efficient too.
Well, I mean, it's cool in a job interview when you're talking, he's like, well, what
type of experience have you had in production?
What type of experience have you had actually working with the equipment and for you to
name drop something like ICANN or you to name drop like, well, I worked with this P2 camera
or something like that.
It tells that employer like, oh, he might know what he's talking about.
Even though he could have researched it online, he actually might have an idea of what we
want to figure out.
So I really, really appreciate that too and the fact that I can actually get my hands
on it.
Yes, everyone at the university has been not only happy with the installation, they've
been proud of the installation and bringing people in to show them the new lighting setups
and students that have graduated have come through and said, wow, I wish this had gotten
done before I graduated or our students that are still involved are like, oh, this is so
neat, I'm so proud of our new studios and in terms of new design, one of the advantages
of the LEDs is that you do not have to spend the extra money up front setting up your traditional
dimmer packs, which can easily cost 30 to $150,000 in those mechanical rooms.
And that now is a waste of money.
We used to have to have that to dim our tungsten lights and maintain it.
And with these new systems, your lights are a little more expensive and you're up front
cost, but that's offset by not having to do some of those costly designs that were necessary
in the past.
And it's cutting edge technology and we spoke, actually we had Dan Rather, who is our program
is named after Dan Rather, came in probably the day after we had converted this studio
and he was very impressed with the lighting itself.
And to that end, we thought we just as well convert and have all of our lighting with
the cutting edge technology in mind and the consistency for LED lighting is always going
to be greater.
I mean, you've got a life expectancy in some cases 20 years for lights.
We don't have to worry about the color temperature changing over the life of the lamp.
One thing that stood out in my mind when we put all of these lights into this studio was
simply the fact that it hadn't been done previously.
