ABC News Midterm Elections
The Ask.
We are building the largest News Room ever we want 9mm Pitch LED to look like 5mm Pitch LED, to control LED blades and LED balls with video from the media server. That includes the LED stairs in the studio. And we want to map the led floor for AR.
What I did.
Introduced ABC News content to to working with large canvas LED. We were working with 8k worth of LED walls, a 4k LED floor, LED tickers above the studio, LED Stairs, LED curtains, LED walls inside anchor and commentator desks. All of which had to be previzualized from a control room underground at ABC 66st. NYC studios. The entire set was LED all controlled from my system.
How I did it.
Using ABC Production Designers set drawings I built the LED walls, curtains, stairs, tickers, desks into Hippotizer Shape with multiple DMX triggered camera angles so when we wanted to work on a specific surface I could fly a virtual camera there. Once we had the full set built we could use the Robo Cams we installed in the studio and routed show cameras to cofirm programming. It worked flawlessly.
What I used to do it.
Grand Ma Lighting Desk controlling Hippotizer Media Server outputting to 16 Screens destinations. Again we utilized screen programming macros and scenic content loads to be able to load screens in less than ten keystrokes. Fortunately ABC gave us an extremely fast interent connection for content loading which saved countless hours of time as I set up my control pc to take content loads from the content team.