Only CBS, spectacular visual montage with Watchout by Dataton

The New York creative agency Red Thread Productions and the consulting firm specialized in AV solutions Corporate Imaging conceive for CBS an entire visual spectacle broadcast from Carnegie Hall in New York with a giant audiovisual canvas as the center of the montage. Dataton's Watchout technology allowed 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 specializing in AV solutions Corporate Imaging were commissioned to launch the prestigious annual Only CBS show live from Carnegie Hall in New York, they were clear. The set would pivot on an endless giant screen in a visual extravaganza orchestrated by lead designer Agnes Punsalang and director of Corporate Imaging Keith Tromer.. For this, They trusted Dataton's Watchout technology. Although both technicians had worked with this system on previous occasions, even for CBS shows, Never before has an assembly been made as demanding as that of the edition of 2010 from One CBS. “No other system could have done what Watchout did for this project.”, Tromer has even stated. 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 Tromer explains, size wasn't the only problem: “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 content requirements. The main screen or 'Hero Screen', what we called it, It was a mix of three projectors giving a resolution of 4320×1080 at six pixels per inch. Besides that, we cover the curtain and the columns with four projectors offering 3590×1709 a 3,74 ppp. Finally, We integrate an LED screen with a resolution of 2.117 ppp – which was used for presenters' entrances and as a camera backdrop”. Automatic correction The Watchout system's density correction feature 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. Scaling of the different different projectors was carried out automatically. Tromer adds that Watchout's ability was vital to play pre-split animations to achieve the overall projected resolution needed for the graphics and animations created for the show., while the Compositions function, recently added to the software, allowed all content to be processed and programmed from Warchout itself. Finally, The Layer Tiers function allowed the designation of elements to certain media by marking them to be projected on some surfaces and not others.