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A 26’ wide by 7’ high rigid, concave rear projection screen, The operating system in the studio control center allows with a 3900 by 768 pixel image area, delivers a high resolution producers to conveniently choose and play back from a large motion image of the New York City skyline. A single piece of play list of New York City views with real time feed back of the low gain screen material was used to allow for a high contrast selected scene. The equipment rack is located in the multi-projector seamlessly blended image. studio control room and contains the audio visual resources A major challenge of creating a single 26’ by 7’ high resolution including digital image processors, video switchers/scalers, screen was the critical edge blending and precision curving of digital video player, and control system processor, etc. four projected images to create one seamless video backdrop. The Franchise Set area features a severe convex rear projection The geometry of these large images had to be corrected to display with a custom lens, which adds an additional video eliminate keystoning and other distortions, due to the concave element to the set. Although it is a separate entity, this display profile of the screen. Behind the screen, custom mirror-bounce has the same functionality and capabilities as the main set. sleds position the four projectors for precisely aimed reflection on to the acrylic rear projection screen. Folding the image was This project is a good example of innovative solutions that required due to the limited amount of space available behind McCann Systems delivers to clients. Many of these designs the screen. The four synchronized real time images are stored have never existed prior to their installation and have not been and played back from a multi channel hard drive player. duplicated, providing a unique environment for the client.