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CHAUVET DJ EZpin IRC demonstration YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS!!!

First look November 2015

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0:00 This video that I've been wanting

Alright ladies and gentlemen, first of all the noise in the background is the washing machine and I'm in my kitchen. It's HD time and finally I can show you this video that I've been wanting to do for ages but now I can because you'll be able to see it in very good quality. Okay, looking at some lights from a company called Chauvet DJ. They're known as the Easy Pins. Now I have done videos on these before but not like this. Believe me! This is the first time in the world ever you would have seen a video like this. I can promise you that 110%. Right, so here it is, the EasyPin. If you're not familiar with the EasyPins, they're battery powered, you have an LED in there and charge time is around about three hours. So battery powered just opens new boundaries. You can pretty much put them anywhere but I will explain very shortly.

2:50 Green gel on there, and you can see it's very bright

The pack comes with six easy pins. You have gels in there as well. It's not something you stick on your hair, but what they are is they're lightly coloured cellophane, pieces of see-through sort of cellophane and you put those over the front of the easy pin and it will give a nice subtle tone. So it won't give a full-on green, blue or red. It will just Add a bit more ambiance, so for example if you do want full-on red then maybe you need to put two or three gels in front of it but one to be quite honest is enough. Right so what do you get with your easy pins? You get six of them, comes in its own bag like that and you also get the option of being able to attach them to The false ceiling.

4:17 An easy pin that's moving

I don't know if you can see that, but we can squeeze that in, pull it out, and the way it's made, that will fit to a false ceiling. Also, every single one comes with its own hook. Well, not hook, sorry. It's that. So, you've got a bit of a loop there, so you can attach it if you want to, like so. But not only that, they're magnetic. So, for example... No, won't work on my head. Green gel on there, and you can see it's very bright. Again, videos like this are great during the day because it shows exactly how bright the easy pins are. There they are, and that is, that's pretty much it. Except it isn't. Because how on earth do you make a light that doesn't move, move? How can you do it?

Now, I want you to imagine this. Oh, by the way, yes, as well, if I can explain. If you can see here, we have the charger. So it comes with its own charging unit. There are six places to charge, of course, your six easy pins. Red for being charged. As soon as it hits green, that means it's fully charged. Off it goes. One word of warning though, when you plug in your easy pins, don't plug in and quickly walk away. Plug in, make sure that they're turned off because if they're not turned off,

When you walked away, they started to go very bright. You unplug them and think, oh, they're working. And then you try to turn them on again and you've lost the power because while you're charging them, they're using the power. But anyway, that should be self-explanatory. OK, so what's this video all about? Well, let me show you something. I'm just going to turn an easy pin on over here and I'm going to do that. OK. All right, so what's going on? We've now got... An easy pin that's moving. It is, I'll show it to you in a bit. This is an easy pin that is now a moving light. I have made a moving light from something that should really just be a static pin spot. How have I done it? Before I show you, I want you to imagine this. Imagine being able to put something in front of your easy pins. Just sitting it there.

6:14 Let's move the prism out of the way

Imagine then you're in a room with no wind, nothing like that, but just the movement of the people. Now what that means is that you're going to have a subtle airflow through that room. So for example, a wedding. The last thing you want in certain parts of the room is lights flashing everywhere. You want areas of that room where you have a very subtle change. Now I've got a prism. In front of the Easypim. Well actually, it is and isn't a prism. Believe it or not, it's an old droplet. It's a crystal droplet from a crystal chandelier. Alright? Check this out. This is crazy but it isn't. But you know, this is how life is. Life should be different. Now excuse how I have attached it because that's very quick. But can you see what I've done? Now if you imagine...

Making some form of construction. Very simple to attach and add a small prism, then check out the effect. Alright? You've taken your easy pin and you've just moved it into a new dimension. Alright? Now that, to me, is fantastic. Now, we're just in the kitchen, alright? And I've just set this up in a very rustic kind of manner. But you imagine if you spent a bit of time

God knows what you could come up I said earlier on about the movement of people inside the room and the slight movement of wind. Well, imagine a piece of paper, seriously, as simple as a piece of paper on a thin twine dangling just in front. Now, I'm going to try and mimic that. So let's move the prism out of the way. We've got... The easy pin spot, just something like that. Now again it's very rough looking but just imagine that in the wind. Now take this the next step further okay you can see the shape we get okay but take that the next step further cut out shapes on that cut out the bride and groom or cut out love hearts or cut out A whole load of love hearts and put them in front of there. So you've now got something that moves in the breeze, in front of an easy pin, against a wall that will give just... It will make the room explode with not only colour, not only with light but with movement. But subtle movement. Alright? So lights today...

Pretty much like inventing the wheel a new light comes out what is it it's a light but it may move in a different way it may be a tiny little bit of a different color or it may look slightly bigger it may have lots of buttons on it but something like this what you're doing is you're taking something that is of course very good technology easy pin is but you're making it something that's your own now I've done that. You can copy me. I want you to, once you've stopped watching this video, to think of other ways how you can make your easy pins stand out from everybody else. It's so simple, but take this on board. All right, don't be as crude as I am by saying because that looks so ridiculous. This is actually twine from outside from the garden, but it works. It does work. All right.

Hope that's been a help. If you want any more info on the Easy Pins from Showbay DJ, check out the link in the description right down there and I will say practice and enjoy. Thank you. This one's going out to Mr. Geoffrey Short. Nice one mate. Cheers.

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