ROE Visual LED screens for virtual stages and Film studios

LED for Virtual Stages and Film Studios

Are we to witness the end of the green-screen era? A silent revolution is taking place on film and TV sets, virtual production is enabling productions to create immersive and dynamic sets and backgrounds, based on simple LED panels instead of elaborate and costly set designs.

LED panels prove to be the ideal solution and canvas to portray set and backgrounds created in virtual reality. Thereby creating maximum flexibility for the production teams to make last-minute set changes or slight alterations and comforting actors in a setting that is both real and immersive, enhancing their performance in comparison to performing against a green screen.

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ROE Visual LED Products for Virtual Production, xR stages, Film and Broadcast

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Virtual Productions & xR Stages

Event organizers are looking to invest in hybrid event platforms to position their businesses, bringing people together in new and engaging ways.
Data from the market is backing this up, smaller meetings and meetings with virtual delegates have to fill the gap, The change to being able to organize normal events will be very gradual. ROE Visual, a preferred supplier for most companies engaging in this fast-evolving technology, rises to the challenge.

A similar technology is used to create immersive video environments for broadcast. Replacing the traditional green screen element of a virtual studio allows the presenters and audience to see and interact with the content around them. This ground-breaking technology is already having a huge influence on how broadcasts are delivered across the globe.

LED in Film & Broadcast

This new and groundbreaking virtual production methodology is based on shooting films and series on a stage surrounded by massive LED walls displaying dynamic digital sets, with the ability to react to and manipulate this digital content in real time during live production. Using an LED wall, floor, and optional ceiling, the set-up is scalable to any desired space. Using a virtual background cannot only reduce the costs of on-location shoots and post-production time, but it also can boost the performance of the actors involved.

Virtual productions: How does it work

By building a massive LED video wall, you can create dynamic digital sets that replace the traditional greenscreens. Adding a LED ceiling or LED floor you can even further enhance the dynamic digital environment. Making it as immersive as you want. LED ceilings also provide a responsive and stable light source for your set, offering an alternative towards regular TV and film lights. Creating the right canvas for this type of application is not just building any LED screen. It’s where the LED panel, processing and camera work together, complement and strengthen each other that real stunning results are achieved. The pixels on the LED wall are driven in real-time by the game engine, this requires sufficient driver IC to do a proper job.

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Premier choice LED products for Virtual Sets

Why do the ROE Visual LED panels have such an outstanding performance in this setting? Intensive testing and tweaking tell us, this is not down to one factor, but a combination of factors. Certain is that the combination of the LED screen and the processing and syncing of these with the camera, is crucial to get good results. This needs to be done for every setup. ROE Visual LED screens work with high-end components, and state of the art driver IC’s, which makes all the difference for the on-camera performance.

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Black Pearl

Premier choice for film & broadcast studios, the Black Pearl BP2V2 is a high-performance, broadcast-grade, HD-LED display for indoor applications. It has won many prestigious design awards, including the IDEA Gold Award and the Red Dot Award. Innovative user-friendly design supports fast and easy set-up for both hanging and stacking options. The ROE Visual Black Pearl panel is superior due to its comparatively high amount of driver IC’s, outstanding calibration and unrivaled LED on a 2.8-pixel pitch.

Ruby

The Ruby RB1.9BV2 is a robust LED panel equipped with a high-contrast black LED. The 1.9 -pixel pitch and wide color gamut create brilliant visuals. Ruby RB1.9Bv2 offers a high contrast LED panel with a reduced reflection that pairs with a bit-depth of 16bit. It has a refresh rate of 7860Hz and a scan ratio of 1/8. Stronger, less reflection and more contrast due to an optimized black body, the resulting colors are striking. Sporting advanced driver ICs and LEDs with large color space, Ruby is fully HDR adaptive. Adding excellent color depth and great grayscales to your visuals.

Ruby Curved

Create smooth and perfect curved LED displays with the Ruby-C. The Ruby-C offers all the qualities of the Ruby series in a curving LED panel. It has significant curving options, creating seamless curves from -30 to +30 degrees in 11 tiny steps to guarantee a smooth and even look. The Ruby-C is avialable in the following pixel pitch range: RB1.9, RB2.3 and RB2.6
The Ruby-C can be combined into one wall with the regular Ruby panels.

Obsidian

Obsidian, the latest LED innovation from ROE Visual, is a game-changer for virtual production. Drawing on ROE Visual's extensive experience in LED volumes for film, Obsidian offers unparalleled features tailored to the dynamic demands of the industry.

Its absolute non-reflective nature, deep black mask, and remarkable adaptability make Obsidian ideal for the semi-permanent environments of film studios.

With an unbeatable contrast ratio, brightness, rich grayscales, and surface waterproofing, Obsidian meets the highest standards of even the most discerning Directors of Photography (DOPs).

Black Marble

Enhance your xR stage with an LED floor. The Black Marble LED panels are well-suited to create an immersive experience on floors, walls, multi-level stages or stairs. Use the Black Marble interactive LED panels to create an unforgetable and inteactive experience with the sense data from the panels.

By selecting the premium LED batches from carefully selected suppliers, ROE Visual is able to reach more than 90% of the color gamut on a rec2020 target. And last but not least for this type of application, ROE Visual LED panels are able to work with higher frame rates. Due to new high frame-rate options in the software, ROE Visual LED panels can reach up to 144 frames per second.

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When using a live LED wall in place of a static green screen, you as a director gain additional benefits such as increased accuracy and control over framing and lighting. Instead of requesting your cinematographer to make an educated guess about virtual elements in the frame, you’ll actually be able to frame them directly in the viewfinder, and the cinematographer can light scenes according to their training and expertise. Your actors will know what they’re looking at and be able to modulate their performances to match the action instead of suffering from green-screen fatigue and disorientation.

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LED for film & Virtual production Case studies

IBC Inspirational Panel Sessions

ROE Visual brought inspiring panel sessions to IBC 2024! Enjoy the recordings of these panel sessions, featuring top industry specialists in XR, virtual production, and live broadcast. The panel sessions include in-depth case studies, such as the BBC UEFA Broadcast Studio, the commercial potential of VP highlighted by "The Garage," broadcast strategies for elections, and insights into the development of the Gran Canaria Film Studio.

Delivering a flagship virtual production facility in Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria Studios, one of Europe’s largest virtual production stages to date, has been completed, offering a cutting-edge environment for international content producers looking to leverage Gran Canaria’s film location incentives. The virtual production infrastructure has been designed and delivered by ARRI Solutions, ROE Visual, and integrator Video Cine Import (VCI).

LED for film & Virtual production Case studies

MUSHANG Chooses ROE Visual for VFX Lab Sydney

Based on their successful operation of the Shanghai MUSHANG XR Stage, MUSHANG has established MUSHANG VFX Lab Sydney. ROE Visual is proud to be the product of choice again for this new Virtual Production Studio.

IBC Inspirational Panel Sessions

ROE Visual brought inspiring panel sessions to IBC 2024! Enjoy the recordings of these panel sessions, featuring top industry specialists in XR, virtual production, and live broadcast. The panel sessions include in-depth case studies, such as the BBC UEFA Broadcast Studio, the commercial potential of VP highlighted by "The Garage," broadcast strategies for elections, and insights into the development of the Gran Canaria Film Studio.

“If the production involves a real-time LED wall, as a DP you’ll find plenty of new options for control over the image. Turnaround becomes far less time-consuming because rather than having to physically move the crew, actors, set pieces, and so on, you can just rotate the background scenery on the screen and be able to reset for turnaround in moments instead of hours. This also means you can hold and control the time of day to any specific mood and color temperature you desire.”

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