The Euroleague final 2021 Played with Christie Multimedia Processing

Europe's top basketball competition trusts in Pandoras Box version systems 8 y Spyder X80 Christie for control of the Final Four, held in Cologne (Germany), with the integration of Laser OFF.

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

The Spanish company Láser AV was responsible for the audiovisual technical integration and execution of the event held at the Lanxess Arena, which included a live camera, signal distribution for the entire venue, the signal management of the screens and the sending of signals via fiber optics.

The star of the audiovisual installation was an impressive Led screen, of 44x 3,5 metros, formed by 640 panels 2,97 mm de pixel pitch, which offered a total resolution of 14,784×1.176 pixels. Hanging in front of it, Laser AV installed a 6-inch Led screen×3,5 metros, while for the marker he located a 6-inch LED cube×3 meters per face, with a resolution of 1,536x768p in each.

The Spanish company also installed fifty LCD monitors, with sizes between 43 y 80 inches, spread throughout the German stadium, including the locker rooms and press room.

Additionally, The Lanxess Arena has a media cube composed of four screens of 8×4,5 m. and resolution 1920×1.080p, and a perimeter Led screen with a resolution of 3,840×2.160p that covers the ring of the stadium.

To control this visual display, Láser AV used twelve software licenses, four Pandoras Box Servers, of the Widget Designer Pro and a Spyder X80 multi-window processor, everything from Christie.

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

“We chose Spyder. In an event of this type it is essential to be able to configure a canvas so extensive with practically no restrictions, and that is precisely what this processor allows”.

Specifically, This expert emphasizes that “for the screen 44 meters we only needed to use two exits of 7,392×1.176p, and the same for the server entries. This meant that we had more entrances and exits available and managed the entire event in a simple way and with a perfect fit.. Spyder X80 had excellent performance, offering us stability, flexibility and security”.

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

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

The possibility of using virtual cameras “it's amazing. You can create anywhere on the canvas a composition and integrate it as an extra layer in another more complex composition”, duck

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

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