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Video & LED

LED walls, projection, and camera systems that hold the room

If you’re pricing an LED wall rental in Baltimore, the number that matters isn’t the panel count — it’s whether the wall is designed for your content, your sightlines, and your room’s power, and whether the person driving it has done it before. Every video system we send arrives with the engineers who build it, drive it during the program, and strike it after. The wall is the product; the crew is the guarantee.

What this covers

  • LED video walls — modular walls built to the size and shape your stage design calls for, ground-supported or flown, color-balanced to camera when there’s IMAG or a stream in the plan.
  • Projection — screens and projectors specced to your room’s throw distances and ambient light, including blended widescreen formats for general sessions.
  • IMAG (image magnification) — live camera shots of your speakers on the big screen, so a 600-person room feels like a 60-person room.
  • PTZ and manned camera systems — remote-controlled cameras for clean, quiet coverage, mixed by an operator; manned cameras where the program calls for a shooter’s judgment.
  • Screen switching and playback — slides, videos, live cameras, and speaker timers routed through a switcher with an operator following your run of show.

What’s always included

Every video production includes a site-informed design (we confirm dimensions, power, and rigging with the venue before quoting), an operator behind every live screen, redundant playback for anything mission-critical, and a strike plan the venue signs off on. If your event has a stream or recording attached, the screens and cameras are engineered as one signal chain, not two vendors’ problems.

How we spec it

Pixel math before panel count. A wall that’s beautiful from the back row can be a screen-door up close. We start from your nearest seat and your content — fine text and spreadsheets need tighter pixel pitch than full-screen video — and spec the wall from there. {{VERIFY: real example — wall size/pitch decision from a documented show}}

Ambient light decides LED vs. projection. Ballroom programs increasingly run with house lights up — for note-taking, for cameras, for energy. Projection washes out under those conditions; LED doesn’t care. But in a controlled-light general session, projection can deliver a bigger image for less. We price the crossover honestly instead of defaulting to the more expensive answer.

Camera counts follow the program, not the budget line. A single well-placed PTZ covers a podium program. A panel needs two angles minimum so the screen isn’t stuck on a wide shot. Award shows need a walk-up camera. We build the camera plan from your run of show — it’s the cheapest place to over-plan and the most painful place to under-plan.

The full signal-chain approach — switching, redundancy, and how we handle press feeds — lives on our standards page.

Questions planners ask us

Do you rent LED walls without a crew?

No. An LED wall is a construction project with an electrical plan and a signal chain — it gets built, color-balanced, driven, and struck by people who do it weekly. What we quote is the wall working all night, not the wall in cases. That's the honest version of an LED wall rental.

LED wall or projection — which should we book?

It comes down to ambient light, sightlines, and content. Projection needs controlled light and throws a wide image for less money; LED stays bright with the house lights up and holds fine detail. If your program runs in a lit ballroom, LED usually wins. We'll recommend one after we see the room and your content — sometimes the cheaper answer is the right one.

What does an LED wall need from our venue?

Three things: power, a load-in path, and either rigging points or floor space for a ground-supported structure. We confirm all three with the venue before we quote, so nothing surprises anyone on show day. If the room can't support a wall safely, we'll say so and spec projection instead.

Can you send our slides and a camera feed to the same screen?

Yes — that's a standard screen-switching setup. Your slides, videos, a live camera on the speaker, and sponsor loops all route through a switcher run by an operator following your program. Transitions land on cue instead of on a volunteer's best guess with a clicker.

What resolution will our content need?

We tell you the exact pixel dimensions of your screen or wall as soon as it's specced, along with a template your designers can build against. Content built to the actual canvas always beats content stretched to fit it, and getting those numbers to you early is part of our advance.

Often produced together

Need video & led for a Baltimore event?

Tell us the room, the date, and the program. We'll come back with a spec and an honest read on scope — usually within one business day.