Ovation of the Seas - Lawo's VSM takes Control in Royal Caribbean International's Third Cruise Ship of the Quantum Class 11 April 2016
Lawo's VSM Broadcast Control System is heavily used as part of the TV and entertainment system on board of the cruise ship Ovation of the Seas . US shipping company Royal Caribbean International is currently building this third member of its Quantum Class vessels at Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany. On board, VSM is used as the overall control system for the vessel's own TV system with 36 IPTV channels as well as routing of all cameras of the entertainment areas, like musical theaters or night-clubs. The Finnish systems integrator TV Tools Oy is responsible for the implementation.
It is common to all Quantum Class ships that all TV signals on board are processed in HD quality. As an independent control system, VSM easily integrates with all relevant technology on the ship in order to produce, route and transmit the TV-Signals as well as providing material in the theaters for use as footage in theater productions. The heart of the system is a Riedel MediorNet signal routing system with 27 nodes. There are on board entertainment systems across the entire ship, and depending on which event is active, the cameras of the relevant area are routed via Mediornet to the Broadcast Control Room (BCC). Here, the content is produced and distributed via Mediornet to large screens and various internal distribution channels and recording servers for later redistribution. The BCC has access to all on board production systems and allows operators to work on two different productions simultaneously.
The VSM system controls a wide array of equipment, including all Riedel hardware, the video router, multiviewers, audio router, signal processing equipment by Evertz and the AJA KiPro Rack recorders. All signals on board of the ship are processed in the Broadcast Control Center (BCC). The main routing system within the BCC is an Evertz 128 x 128 HDSDI routing matrix. A Lawo crystal console in the BCC, connected via MADI to the Mediornet, has access to any audio signal in the whole shipwide broadcast Mediornet network. In case of an emergency VSM can mute all speakers across the ship so that people can hear the PA system with important messages. With VSM, any source from within the entire ship is routed to any destination on the ship because of very sophisticated routing and Tieline management performed between Mediornet nodes and the Evertz router. To the operators, it is just as if they have one single, flat router.
Additionally VSM is used very closely with Coolux show control systems creating the playlist for shows in the Two70' called two major theaters at the rear of the ship with a 270 degrees view of the Ocean behind the stage, and the Royal Theater, a huge theater located in the front of the ship. Coolux connects to vsmStudio and the two systems collaborate to trigger various events like turning projectors on and off, dropping and lifting screens, recalling presets on scan converters and turning on and off LCD televisions and projectors at the end of shows. All of these positions have their own touchscreen TTP panels to control their local area. vsmGadgetServer is also used as a standalone converter for Coolux, who have implemented Ember+ natively into their system and control third party devices, using vsmGadgetServer as a Proxy.
Further deployment of VSM includes the Music Hall for live music shows, where the system is used to route the required signals. Facilities above the Royal Esplanade shopping area host a DJ Booth. From there the DJ also has screens and projectors where he can route events from anywhere on the ship onto the local screens.
vsmStudio is also controlling various recording/playback devices throughout the ship and in case of an emergency at sea, vsmStudio can also 'muster people by routing a safety instruction video to relevant projectors, dropping the screens and ensuring that the projectors are turned on.
Ovation of the Seas is currently being built in Germany and will start for its maiden voyage in April 2016.
Further information on Royal Caribbean International and Ovation of the Seas can be obtained from the Royal Caribbean website: https://www.royalcaribbean.de/schiffe/ovation-of-the-seas.htm
Visit the website of TV Tools for more information: http://www.tvtools.fi/
About Lawo
Lawo designs and manufactures pioneering network, control, audio and video technology for broadcast and post production, as well as live performance and theatrical applications. Products include control and monitoring systems, digital audio mixing consoles, routers, video processing tools as well as solutions for IP-based A/V infrastructures and routing systems. All products are developed in Germany and manufactured according to highest quality standards at the company's headquarters in the Rhine valley town of Rastatt, Germany. For additional information, please visit the company online at www.lawo.com.
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Ovation of the Seas - Lawo's VSM takes Control in Royal Caribbean International's Third Cruise Ship of the Quantum Class 11 April 2016
