Sony helps Foshan High School create professional quality virtual studio content for campus TV
Edge Analytics Appliance with Artificial Intelligence helps school create campus TV programmes with ‘chromakey-less’ CG overlay capability.
- School required virtual studio production solution to create high quality on-campus TV content
- Wished to avoid costs of ‘green screen’ solution and hiring production personnel
- PXW-Z280V 4K professional camcorder
- REA-C1000 Edge Analytics Appliance with ‘Chromakey-less’ CG overlay function
- School can easily produce high quality virtual campus TV programmes at low cost and without requiring large studio space
- System can be easily operated by non-expert users
Rethinking programme production
Foshan High School in Guicheng is a leader in creating innovative content to support its educational objectives. The school required a cost-effective new way to create a virtual studio environment for the production of campus TV programmes. Traditionally, virtual studios require a green screen solution that takes up a lot of space. What’s more, virtual studios typically require costly production hardware as well as specially trained personnel to operate it. For the school, it was difficult to justify hiring a dedicated member of staff just to do this job.
Professional quality with no need for specialist staff
Foshan High School was introduced by their Sony professional dealer to the REA-C1000 Edge Analytics Appliance. After a successful trial, the school purchased the REA-C1000 together with a Sony professional camcorder as a total virtual production solution.
Offering superb 4K image quality thanks to its Exmor R™ 3CMOS sensor, the PXW-Z280V camcorder is an ideal video capture partner for the REA-C1000 that uses powerful AI algorithms to generate virtual content, with no need for a dedicated green screen to achieve chromakey-style CG overlay effects. What’s more, the Edge Analytics Appliance offers an intuitive web-based interface that makes operation simple by school staff, removing the need to employ dedicated production personnel.
