The AVE team is excited to be among the early adopters of Barco’s new Encore3, a next-generation screen management system built for high-resolution, large-format events. In this video our experts share why the Barco Encore3 will be the go-to for your high-end vision solutions moving forward.
Encore3 goes beyond basic switching, delivering native 4K processing across multiple inputs and outputs, with unmatched flexibility and power.
Barco Encore3 key features include:
- Native 4K input/output processing
- Multi-destination switching for LED walls, blends, and projections
- Swappable input/output cards for custom configurations
- Four-way link card for networking multiple systems
- Modular expandability for heavy I/O and high bandwidth
- Pixel-perfect switching without scaling compromises
What does the AVE team say about the Barco Encore3?
Brenton Dine, Senior Production Technician:
“With the Barco Encore3 you can now swap the in cards and the out cards to customise whatever sort of layout you want. So if you have a heavy output show, you can add more output cards. If you have a heavy input show, you can add more input cards. And the sort of flexibility that that provides just makes planning your show so much easier. At the end of the day, we can just do things bigger, easier, faster.”
Daniel Quinn, Technical Project Manager
“With our E2s and our S3s, I need to run multiple E2s slaved together to get the same amount of bandwidth. On the Barco Encore3 I can run all four 4Ks in and get all of those out on a canvas. So rather than scaling to meet the LED walls, I can go pixel perfect. I can plug all four 4Ks of my Pixera into this bad boy and drive them until the cows come home, it’s going to be awesome.”
Mark Shepherd, Director, Head of Production
“We are seeing a lot more demand on pixel counts and resource usage with our event switches. The Barco Encore3 is going to work particularly well in line with our media servers, our high-definition graphics inputs, as well as our LED walls, projection surfaces and high pixel count events. For our customers that means we can achieve pretty much anything they can ask.”“Barco are a great partner for AVE. They are very much the premium go-to standard in Australia for rental equipment. It’s taken a little bit longer for Encore3 to actually reach the market, but it’s really encouraging for Barco to take that extra time to make sure the product’s ready, “so that once it hits our events or your events, that it is ready to go.”
The AVE team has undertaken training with the latest Barco Event Master 10 software and we are rigorously testing the unit in house, meaning the Barco Encore3 will be available very soon for client events and cross-hire.
