AV Stumpfl’s PIXERA media server platform, LG LED displays and Brompton Technology processing are at the heart of Studio V – a next-generation virtual production stage at StudioCube, South Korea’s largest public broadcasting content production studio, in Daejeon.
The stage features a 60m-wide by 8m-high main LED wall – comprising a 36.5m curved section and a 23.5m flat section – a 15 x 21m LED ceiling and two movable 5 x 5m LED side screens, delivering 94.7m pixels in total. LG LED panels with a pixel pitch of 2.6mm to 3.9mm, optimised for virtual production environments, are used throughout. Image processing is handled by 19 Brompton Tessera SX40 4K LED processors and 38 Tessera XD 10G data distribution units.
Driving the system is a distributed 20-server PIXERA four RS system comprising 17 Render Nodes, one Director and two Inner Frustum Nodes, specified and integrated by Seoul-based LIVE-LAB. Studio V is among the first large-scale public virtual production studios globally to implement SMPTE ST 2110 workflows at full operational scale.
The project required close collaboration between LIVE-LAB and AV Stumpfl’s PIXERA engineering team, involving early-access ST 2110 software builds, GPU Direct validation, PTP synchronisation testing and closed-loop validation cycles prior to commissioning.
Alvin Chu, production supervisor and technical director at LIVE-LAB, said: “PIXERA was selected not only for its performance and flexibility, but also for its scalability and suitability in a shared public workspace. This wasn’t just configuration support – it was collaborative development aligned with KOCCA’s vision of building a future-ready public virtual production facility.”
Studio V was developed by the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) under South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and is designed to serve both high-end broadcast production and education.
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