Earlier this year at NAB in Las Vegas, Sony bolstered their status in the virtual production world by introducing advanced tools. These included new Crystal LED panels and virtual abilities for the Unreal Engine. The new LED VERONA Displays will have their debut at IBC and should be available in Spring 2024. Let’s look at the details. VERONA comprises four new LED displays marketed under their Crystal brand. They are mainly designed for the nascent virtual production market or ‘Volume’ as these stages have become known. Sony’s new IBC product launches are evolving the Virtual Production Toolset. Image: Sony. Sony Crystal LED VERONA’s features The new screens, ZRD-VP15EB/23EB and ZRD-VP15EM/23EM boast deeper blacks for more genuine contrast and better anti-reflection performance, avoiding any loss of contrast on virtual production walls from other LEDs and any craft lighting used on the stage. Any adjustment needed on the displays, like contrast loss, usually means colorists grading the footage live and then rendering it back, or the footage would have to be re-graded externally. Other new features of the displays include higher brightness levels and a color gamut that covers 97% of the P3 cinema color space. Refresh rates are higher at 7,680 Hz, and pixel pitches decreased to 1.56mm and 2.31mm. Sony VERONA. Image credit: Sony Pixel pitch importance For virtual production volumes, the lower the pixel pitch of the displays determines how close your cameras can be to the video wall before resolution suffers. A screen with a 1.56mm pixel pitch puts...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 13 September, 2023