From the sofa to the stadium and past, fashionable audiences demand visually compelling media experiences, which frequently require a big technical backend invisible to the general public eye. AVC Techniques Switzerland specializes on this space, serving to TV studios, stadiums, and different shoppers set up the technological infrastructure to seamlessly execute compelling media experiences for audiences to devour at house, on-the-go, and in-venue. Every of its installs is bespoke however features a core portfolio of options required to run a TV studio or venue AV. In the previous couple of years, AJA’s line of openGear converter playing cards has develop into the digital glue that binds its designs.
“A lot of our clients have already got openGear frames of their amenities, so it’s good to have the ability to place extra playing cards from distributors like AJA right into a correctly mounted body to fulfill their distinctive conversion wants,” shares AVC Techniques Switzerland Gross sales Supervisor Etienne Ritschard. “It prevents shoppers from having a bunch of standalone converters scattered throughout a facility. We additionally love that AJA has labored with openGear to assist Ross Dashboard software program, so our shoppers can management the AJA openGear playing cards and others via one interface.”
The AJA openGear options that AVC Techniques Switzerland deploys differ on a venture foundation, however the OG-12GM12G-SDI/SDI muxing/demuxer is a staple. Etienne notes, “Most of our shoppers have a whole lot of legacy 3G-SDI gear already put in but additionally need to make use of the advantages of 12G-SDI, so we discover ourselves incorporating AJA OG-12GMs into quite a lot of our designs, as they make it straightforward to convey 3G-SDI know-how into the 12G-SDI world and vice versa.”
Etienne deployed the playing cards earlier this 12 months for an set up in Swiss Life Enviornment, an ice hockey venue situated in Zurich. When the shopper approached his group on the lookout for a turnkey graphics and sign distribution answer to feed all their video indicators to an in-venue LED dice and different shows, he had simply the precise imaginative and prescient mixer, graphics system, and AJA openGear conversion know-how in thoughts. Etienne added, “We labored with the Swiss Life Enviornment AV group to plan your entire setup from diagrams to delivering and putting in the know-how, and OG-12GM was a core part of this work; it provides the sign from the graphic system to the dice. We selected these playing cards as a result of they’re so dependable, and we knew we might belief them.”
With 4 AJA OG-12GM playing cards built-in into the workflow, the venue AV group can usher in one UHD sign and separate it into 4 to provide a sign to every facet of the dice. Etienne and group designed the pipeline to assist static cameras and people introduced into the venue from OB suppliers; all digicam feeds are despatched via a hybrid router. openGear distribution amplifiers and AJA OG-ROI-HDMI scan converters had been additionally built-in, making it potential for the venue AV group to convey laptop sources into the 3G-SDI world for show on the dice if wanted. Most of the indicators from the graphics system additionally undergo the router to Hi5-4K-Plus Mini-Converters; this set up included 5 of them for changing 3G-SDI again to HDMI for in-stadium digital signage wants.
Throughout initiatives, Etienne and group have additionally leveraged the AJA OG-DANTE-12GAM 12G-SDI/DANTE embedders/disembedders and AJA KUMO SDI routers. A lot of its reseller companions additionally work with company entities and conferences that produce displays, inner workshops, all-hand conferences, and extra, so that they’re additionally aware of and use AJA digital video recorders like Ki Professional Extremely 12G and Ki Professional GO in choose installs.
Trying forward, a lot of Etienne’s shoppers are expressing curiosity in augmented and prolonged actuality and investing in LED partitions. In response to Etienne, this interprets to elevated demand for sign conversion from graphics methods to the LED wall controller, for which it leverages AJA Hi5-4K-Plus and OG-Hi5-4K-Plus 3G-SDI to HDMI 2.0 Mini-Converters. He concluded, “LED partitions present a better strategy to do a number of exhibits, every with a singular set and look, from one central setting; studios and venues solely have to modify up the graphics and artistic, versus dressing total units incessantly. For these installs, the AJA openGear know-how offers an ideal answer. We simply wrapped up a venture for a nationwide TV studio with about 100 sq. meters of LED area, and we used fairly a little bit of each within the set up and count on to put in extra within the coming months.”
