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Viaplay’s multi-screen studio equipped with Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2

Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay streaming TV service has a new studio in Helsinki, complete with wraparound LED screen backdrops driven by Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers.

The broadcaster’s built-for-purpose studio, designed and ordered by Viaplay and built in collaboration with NEP Finland, features a curved 2.6 mm LED screen behind the presenter’s table comprising 4416 x 960 pixels and standing at 11.5 x 2.5 m. It displays live feed, pre-made and branded content as the channels air sport, film and original drama.

Rigged to the right of that is a straight 2.6 mm screen that is 1920 x 768 pixels or 5 x 2 m and there are two further screens - a circle screen above the table is made from 2.9 mm flexible LED panel that is 3612 x 172 pixels or 10.5 x 0.5 m and another 98’’ Panasonic display. All of this is videomapped using the Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2.

Green Hippo’s Finland distributor Amepa Oy was approached by Viaplay’s broadcast studio partners NEP Finland and Sibelius Design to deliver the visual elements of the studio, which is located in the Helskinki district of Vallila.

“The most important thing for this installation was that the media server would have enough rendering power, as the client needed many mixes, sub-mixes and layers that would eat up a lot of computing power”, says Amepa’s Johan West. He and his team installed the Boreal+ MK2 in the server room located approximately 40 m away from the studio. A network was built consisting of HippoNet, MAnet, ArtNet and NDI between the control room, server room and the studio, covering three studios in total.

“I can control everything from wherever is needed”, West continues. “Everything is programmed with short timelines and triggered via an external Zookeeper. The Hippotizer operating team create templates in Adobe After Effects, and we are currently using NDI for running content back and forth between the Boreal+ MK2 and after effects. Two HDSDI live feeds are also going through the Boreal+ MK2 and the placed within custom alpha masks onto the screens.”

“The video data driven to the LED walls is two 3840 x 2160 @50hz feeds over fibre to the main studio, and all the LED wall processors are in the studio behind the curved LED wall”, West explains. “I managed to fit all LED into one UHD output of the Hippotizer and those sections are then mapped using the VideoMapper in the Boreal+ MK2, with the second output running the one 4K monitor.”

“The content mapping is achieved using different viewports with four main and four sub mixes, so a bucketload of layers are in use due to the fact that there is a lot of changes for every broadcast. All upright LED strips are also pixelmapped in the Boreal+ MK2”, West concludes. During live broadcasts, one Hippotizer operator is on-site at all times, programming and creating visuals on the fly.

(Photo: NEP Finland)

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