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Content preparation software for signage that combines multiple video assets into a single integrated file, or splits a design into per-display files for multi-display setups. Without specialist tools, teams can iterate on ambitious visual production in-house.

eRenderer

eRenderer

Content preparation software for assembling multi-display LED productions in-house

A large LED vision at a commercial complex. An ultra-wide signage running across a station concourse. An LED wall at an event venue. A composition spanning multiple displays — to make these “eye-catching” presentations work, you need video that stays in perfect sync across the displays and content composed at the actual resolution of the surface. eRenderer is content preparation software for digital signage that lets teams build that kind of ambitious visual production without specialist tools, in-house, again and again.

The three walls behind large LED productions: time, skill, and timing

Large display arrays at commercial complexes, stations, airports, and event venues. Each is an attention magnet on its own, yet building the content that takes advantage of them has long been heavy work.

Composing across multiple displays. Building layouts dedicated to ultra-wide screens. Splitting a single composition across an LED wall. Unifying multiple tenants’ videos into one vision. Until now, this kind of production has typically meant either acquiring specialist tools like After Effects, or commissioning an external production partner. Handling it in-house carried the skill-acquisition cost; sending it out carried days of lead time from commission to delivery.

And once you set out to assemble multiple video files into a coordinated presentation, aligning the timebase across those files became a slow, painstaking task that landed on the editor. Whether the intent was to compose on the playback side or to split the output across multiple displays, it was the act of aligning the source materials itself that created the friction. Between the on-site ambition for “eye-catching” presentations and the cost of implementing them — time, skill, and timing — there was a clear gap.

Bringing large LED productions in-house

eRenderer was designed so that the expressive range of specialist tools could be reached by anyone who works with a PC. Everything from synchronized multi-video integration to multi-display split output can be assembled on the floor.

  • Integrated multi-video output — Multiple videos intended to play together in a single presentation are combined into one integrated file. The playback side just plays a single file, and the task of aligning file-to-file playback timing disappears
  • Split output for multi-display configurations — Even when the deployment requires separate files for each display, a single composition design produces the full set of per-display assets at once, with timebases aligned across the set, without splitting the editing job
  • Free resolution settings — Custom resolutions up to 7680×4320 (8K), matched to the actual aspect ratio of LED walls and ultra-wide signage installations
  • Drag-and-drop interface — Drop video, still image, and audio files (WAV/MP3) onto the editor to start laying out, without requiring specialist skill in tools like After Effects
  • Template function — Save a finished layout as a template and apply it with one click; swap in the new assets, and the next piece is done
  • Plugins that automate repetitive work — Grid-arrangement and text-overlay plugins handle the routine bits so the team can focus on the design

eRenderer’s design distills three omissions — “don’t push the playback environment too hard,” “don’t depend on specialist tools,” “don’t spend days going back and forth on production” — into a shape that’s straightforward to put to work on site. Because our development team handled everything from specification through architecture design, software implementation, and user interface as a single continuous effort, the result lets people without specialist skill assemble ambitious visual production in-house.

What this looks like on the ground

  • September 2021eRenderer announced
  • Industries where adoption is spreading — Rail advertising, signage system integrators, commercial facility operators, event video production, and others
  • Onward — The design thinking has carried forward, in different forms, through our other horizontal LED display products (Digital Signage Assistant, Arena Performer, LumiBanner)

eRenderer is one of our early products in the horizontal LED display space. The underlying design judgments — “making professional systems work on general-purpose PCs” and “rethinking where computational load should be handled, as a design decision in itself” — have carried over to later products at different uses and scales, taking different shapes.

What we deliver is content preparation software for signage. What is being created on the ground, however, is the freedom to keep redoing — in-house, as many times as the team needs — the kind of ambitious visual production that used to be bottlenecked by time and specialist skill.