Singapore EXPO & MAX Atria - Hybrid Live–Virtual Event
As the operator of Singapore’s largest exhibition and meeting venues, SingEx needed to quickly create a video production platform capable of transforming a scheduled live meeting into a hybrid live–virtual event due to Covid–19.
Ideal Systems Singapore built a video system based on NDI® technology and TriCaster® 2 Elite. With its Live Call Connect feature, TriCaster 2 Elite seamlessly integrated video callers on Zoom, Skype TX, and Microsoft® Teams with live panellists into a seamless hybrid production.
Aloysius Arlando, CEO, SingEx Holdings Pte Ltd Photo Credit SingEx
2020 ITAP Stage
Control and Command Center
There were over 5,000 registered attendees, while 100 invited guests were physically present for the opening ceremony.
NDI®
The solution Ideal Systems provided was based on NewTek™ NDI® at the heart of the event control and command center. The system used the advanced functionality of the new TriCaster 2 Elite, which provided a key feature called “Live Call Connect”. Using Live Call Connect enabled seamless integration of multiple remote panellists who joined by video-call using Zoom, Skype TX and Microsoft Teams. This was done by converting their video calls into unique NDI® IP inputs which could be switched, mixed and controlled independently by the TriCaster 2 Elite. This enabled the virtual panellists to be presented together in their sessions with the local moderator and local panellists on the stage screen in the main event theatre. Virtual participants appeared on the 10m long X 3m high LED wall on the stage (also provided by Ideal Systems) and simultaneously online as a single unified interactive panel of experts. The TriCaster 2 Elite was controlled by NewTek’s 2-Stripe Control Panel, which was paired with the Video Mix Engine in the TriCaster to manage all the discreet NDI IP streams of the panellists along with camera control of the Panasonic NDI PTZ cameras in the main auditorium and all of the scaling and mixing and graphics for the stage and web outputs. Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat was the Guest-of-Honor for the event’s opening ceremony.