Only CBS, spectacular visual montage with Dataton Watchout

The New York creative agency Red Thread Productions and the consultancy specialized in AV solutions Corporate Imaging conceive for CBS a visual spectacle broadcast from Carnegie Hall in New York with a giant audiovisual canvas as the center of the assembly. Dataton's Watchout technology enabled count on a colossal projection of 24 meters wide by 11 high.

When the New York creative agency Red Thread Productions and the consulting firm specialized in AV solutions Corporate Imaging were commissioned to launch the prestigious annual only CBS live show from Carnegie Hall in New York, they had it clear. The scenography would pivot on an endless giant screen in a grand visual spectacle orchestrated by chief designer Agnes Punsalang and Corporate Imaging director Keith Tromer.. To do this, relied on Dataton's Watchout technology. Although both technicians had worked on previous occasions with this system, even for CBS shows, never before has such a demanding assembly been made as that of the edition of 2010 by One CBS. “No other system could have done what watchout did this project.”, Tromer has gone so far as to claim. With video content covering the entire mouth of the Carnegie Hall proscenium, even beyond the columns on both sides, the total image size at the event was a colossal projection of 24 meters wide by 11 high. However, as epxlica Tromer, size wasn't the only issue: “there were three different elements that we needed to combine in the Watchout so that they could be used individually or in combination in different configurations., depending on the requirements of the content. The main screen or 'Hero Screen', as we called it, it was a mixture of three projectors giving a resolution of 4320×1080 at six pixels per inch. On top of that, we cover the curtain and columns with four projectors offering 3590×1709 to 3,74 PPP. last, we integrate a display of LEDs with a resolution of 2.117 PPP – which was used for presenters' entrances and as a camera backdrop”. Automatic correction The density correction function of the Watchout system allowed them to treat the entire surface as a transparent area, with a constant geometry from one surface to another, despite using different resolutions, scales and contrasts in each element. The scaling of the different projectors was carried out automatically. Tromer adds that Watchout's ability was vital to play pre-split animations getting the overall projected resolution needed by the graphics and animations that were created for the show., while the Compositions function, recently incorporated into the software, allowed all content to be processed and programmed from Warchout itself. last, the Tiers Layer function allowed the designation of the elements to certain media marking them to be projected on some surfaces and not others.

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