For Ocean Park, staying at the top of Hong Kong’s hotly-contested amusement park
market means luring audiences with ever more thrilling attractions. Running up to
five times per day from mid-December 2016 to mid-February 2017 in the park’s
Applause Pavilion, this holiday season’s major event was the Cyber Illusion
Spectacular.
Built around the visual excitement of magicians, illusionists, aerialists, quick-change
artists, acrobats, dancers and a master fan manipulator, this 30-minute, energy-
charged, attack on the senses was performed on a constantly-changing stage,
featuring striking visuals from LED panels, moving lights, pyrotechnics and
atmospheric effects.
The primary scenic element for the show was an impressive 8m x 15m (26ft x 50ft)
wall of 8.0mm LED panels, complete with sliding sections in the centre for fast
scene change access. Additional irregular panels of 3.0mm LED flanked the stage to
provide an immersive video environment.
It was Hong Kong-based Cosmo Pro AV who supplied, installed, configured and
programmed the complete video system, including LED wall panels and the AV
Stumpfl technology to drive them.
Given the short and intense production period and the tight integration of the video
content with the performance, in particular where some acts were interacting
directly with the images, it was critical that the video content could be swiftly
adjusted during rehearsals.
Cosmo Pro AV’s Jason Yeung, CTS, selected AV Stumpfl’s Wings VIOSO system to
control the production’s video content. “It’s an efficient and effective tool for
designing, presenting, communicating, sequencing and controlling a show,’ explains
Yeung. Wings VIOSO now offers an unprecedented range of automated visual
configuration, blending and mapping tools, together with synchronisation and
processing capabilities designed to meet the complex demands of live production.
Jason Yeung chose two of AV Stumpfl Wings Engine media servers to deliver the
video streams to the LED wall and panels; a quad-output Wings Engine Stage and a
Wings Engine Raw media server. The Raw server can deliver up to four
simultaneous streams of uncompressed 4K video content at 60fps. Uncompressed
TGA,TIFF or PNG sequences can be used directly without the need to convert them
into intermediate codec formats before playout.
By supplying a full suite of AV Stumpfl’s Wings Media control and playback
solutions, Cosmo Pro AV have delivered a system which was simple to integrate,
operate and maintain for the run of the show, and easy to reconfigure for a wide
range of future high-end projects.
