The Euroleague final 2021 was played with Christie's multimedia processing

Europe's top basketball competition rely on Pandoras Box systems version 8 and Spyder X80 from Christie for control of the Final Four, held in Cologne (Germany), with the integration of AV Laser.

The new Pandoras Box version 8 and video processing Spyder X80 have starred the control for the spectacular display of Led screens created for the Final Four of the Euroleague, europe's top basketball club competition, recently disputed in the German city of Cologne.

The Spanish company Laser AV was responsible for the integration and audiovisual technical execution of the event held in the Lanxess Arena Stadium, which included a live camera, the distribution of signal for the whole enclosure, the signal management of the screens and the sending of signals by optical fiber.

The star of the audiovisual installation was an impressive Led screen, 44x 3,5 metre, formed by 640 panels 2,97 pixel pitch mm, offering a total resolution of 14,784×1.176 Pixels. Hanging in front of it, AV laser installed a Led screen of 6×3,5 metre, while for the scoreboard located a cube Led of 6×3 meters per face, with a resolution of 1.536x768p in each.

The Spanish company also installed fifty LCD monitors, with sizes between 43 and 80 Inch, scattered throughout the German stadium, including the changing rooms and the press room.

additionally, the Lanxess Arena has a media cube composed of four screens of 8×4,5 M. and resolution 1.920×1.080Q, and a perimeter Led screen with resolution of 3.840×2.160p covering the stadium ring.

To control this visual deployment, AV laser used twelve software licenses, four Pandoras Box Servers, two Widget Designer Pro and a Spyder X80 multi-window processor, all of Christie.

In the words of Unai Sanchez, technical head of AV Laser, Spyder X80 “was the heart of the installation”, from where both Pandoras Box servers and Zoom and broadcaster signals were managed and integrated.

"We chose Spyder X80 for this event because it was necessary to manage the screens simultaneously and visualize all the entrances easily and safely-explains Sánchez-. In such an event it is essential to be able to configure a canvas so extensive with virtually no restrictions, and that's precisely what this processor allows”.

specifically, this expert stresses that “for the 44 meters we only needed to use two outputs of 7,392×1.176Q, and the same for server entries. That made us have more tickets and outputs available and manage the whole event in a simple way and with a perfect fit. Spyder X80 had excellent performance, offering us stability, flexibility and security".

As for Pandoras Box, Unai Sanchez points out that “being a sporting event, we could not be governed by a constant timeline. The client had scheduled events that were variable, depending on the room and if it was a dead time. Thanks to conditional programming we were able to configure actions that depended on variables that were resolved in real time”.

This has been the first time that the AV Laser team has used the new version 8 of Pandoras Box and the feeling has been positive, as Sanchez adds: "We are users of this system for more than ten years and I can say that it is the most powerful version and with more possibilities in history”.

The ability to use virtual cameras “it's mind-blowing. You can create anywhere in the canvas a composition and integrate it as an extra layer into another, more complex composition", Adds

Other features that this expert highlights of Pandoras Box is that “allows any CPU to have unlimited layers, as well as a total 3D environment, a file ingestion greater than 4K and an unusual performance improvement. We tested how many 14,784 resolution videos×1.176Q (25fps hap) they could be run and the surprise is that we reached ten simultaneous videos, something that was impossible in version 6”.

AV laser also remembers the support offered by the Christie team during the planning and execution phase of the event. "I would like to share in this success all the people who make up the company and encourage them to continue making products of this level", Concludes.

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