Leyard Europe Luminate Pro equips the new 360º studio of RTL Germany

This German chain now has in its studio with four hanging Led videowall, mobile and rotary, along with another fixed curve of Leyard Europe, that add up to almost 150 m2 of Led display.

Conceived by the architecture and design studio Veech x Veech, the new 360° installation of the German media company RTL It's a high-end broadcasting studio, multifunctional and equipped with four hanging LED walls, Mobile & Swivel, along with a fixed curved video wall of Leyard Europe, that add up to almost 150 m2 of Led display.

This visual equipment is combined with a technological infrastructure that allows presenters to Moving around the studio and interacting with the content, Making the news more dynamic, accessible and easy for viewers to understand.

"RTL wanted a 'physical' studio to replace the green-screen one," he explains Hans Van Houdt, Director of Business Development at Leyard-, which is used to broadcast different formats of live programs, so that the visual design would offer the company's brand and that each program would have its own identity".

Leyard joined the project after offering a short-term solution to Guten morgen Deutschland (Good morning Germany, A daily morning show). "RTL had seen that we were able to complete the installation for this studio in a very short timeframe and that we understood what was needed to have LED video wall running in a broadcast environment.", Van Houdt emphasizes.

Installation of LED screens, in partnership with Veech & Veech to create the best technical solution, It was completed in a month. "The fact that we have a wide European assistance network- Van Houdt says-, able to provide all necessary services, It was also vitally important to the project.".

The installation, conducted by Leyard Europe and RTL's in-house system integrator, Cologne Broadcast Centre (CBC), It consists of a video wall from the series Luminate Pro (LPO7.8 mm), complementing high-resolution central displays, with a side of the studio framed with a Curved Video Wall, 10x 2,7 metre.

The studio has Two Mobile Monitors Computer-controlled, with Robotic Cameras Ceiling-mounted with sensors. All the teams in the new studio, from LED visual systems, to lighting and cameras, They have the added benefit of consuming less power than the previous green screen.

High-precision robotic drives make it possible to reconfigure the elements of the studio and adapt them to the permanent programming of the chain, Creating tailor-made decorations in a matter of minutes according to the current situation.

"The modularity of the individual components and the flexible configuration of the system allow for a completely brand-specific design for each program, which creates an unmistakable identity, but it can be transformed into another program format at any time.", Underlines Stuart A. Veech, CEO & Creative Director, Veech x Veech.

LED video walls and robotic cameras "create media environments on all available surface: That's what we call the maximum Increased efficiency -Says-. New perspectives are continuously created for the viewer, with dynamically presented program content with interaction of digitally recorded elements".

for Stephan Schmitter, CEO of RTL News and Head of Journalistic Content, "The new functionalities will allow us in the future to make the information even more understandable and attractive to viewers. The variable spatial structure is a real innovation in production technology, which makes our studio the most modern in Europe".

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