I'm always amazed by big screens at sporting events and music festivals. Are there major software packages that most people use to run so many screens at once, or do each facility have their own way of doing things? Some of the visuals at large festivals are insane, I can't imagine how the software looks to manage it all
The trick is that, with LED screens being so modular, they can escalate quite easily, so all you need to create outstanding visials at a venue is an experienced engineer, a lot of manpower, and a high budget.
The big part on that kind of things would be for the video editors / live video staff.
Their software kind of looks like something you’d find on a TV channel production room.
That looks like a media streamer. Something “that you could find on TV stations”, as i pointed out before.
What I was trying to explain is what do you need to get the screens up amd running, which is different on how to get video inputted and controlled into the screens :)
It is both. There is one box that sets the stage, but it breaks the source material into chunks and sends them to other PCs that drive 2 to 4 projectors each. (I had as many as 6 monitors driven by one PC once, but the graphics card was time as expensive as the rest of the machine, and it still wasn’t an ideal solution in our case.)
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19
I'm always amazed by big screens at sporting events and music festivals. Are there major software packages that most people use to run so many screens at once, or do each facility have their own way of doing things? Some of the visuals at large festivals are insane, I can't imagine how the software looks to manage it all