Case Study: From ISE to Centrepiece – LS-410 at Thomas More Simulation Centre

Dear ADENA Partners, ISE is only about three weeks away, making it very fitting to share a case study that was made possible by this great show. After testing the solution with our local distributor, Sanel, Thomas More University in Belgium chose AREC to capture, record, stream, and save medical training sessions and mock operations conducted in the Lier campus simulation centre of this prestigious university.

Thomas More University is the largest university in Flanders, Belgium, with 12 campuses spread across seven cities in the region. More than 20,000 students are enrolled in 61 academic programmes, covering business, technology, sciences, healthcare, and other areas. It is well known that effective tuition of that many students requires the use of professional and reliable lecture capture equipment. To this end, the university staff attends various education and AV tradeshows seeking innovative technologies that can elevate teaching and learning to the next level.

During one such exploration of new technologies at the ISE, university representatives discovered AREC Lecture Capture systems. Finding the devices to be a perfect match for their needs — thanks to features like immediate playback, straightforward controls, and full support for network audio and video sources — Thomas More University, with the support of our distributor Sanel, decided to test the LS-410 Media Station in their simulation centre on the Lier campus.

The station was installed in the control room of the simulation centre and became its centrepiece, effortlessly recording and streaming complete training and learning sessions. It used RGB Link and Axis PTZ cameras, as well as a Susie 2000 nursing care simulator as video sources, and Shure MXA 910 and Audio-Technica ATND8677a microphones via Dante for audio. The university staff found the unit very easy to control thanks to its built-in Graphical User Interface (GUI), which provided access to all key functions of the device at the touch of a button. For instance, using the GUI, the staff managed recording and streaming processes, switched layouts, overlays, and backgrounds, selected sources to display on the station’s local outputs, controlled PTZ cameras, and used other functions. The station displayed the GUI through one of its four physical video outputs connected to an operator’s screen, while looping the nursing care simulator and camera feeds to displays in the simulation room and other locations.

The university also recognised the LS-410’s ability to record each video source individually and as part of a mixed video to be a major improvement over previous systems, providing all the resources needed to perform post-editing or sharing of high-resolution single-camera recordings. This was made even more impressive by another defining feature of AREC Media Stations — their ability to immediately play back any of these recorded video files. This greatly streamlined and accelerated the teaching process in the simulation centre, as with this feature, the lecturers were able to walk students through intricacies of recorded procedures whenever required.

With the LS-410 passing every test with flying colours, Thomas More University decided to adopt the system as a permanent solution for its other simulation rooms. Commenting on the experience of running the simulation centre with the LS-410, Nico Beckers from the university’s AV Services said: ‘The whole thing is already a lot tighter, more user-friendly and more complete as a solution than before.’

Is your university seeking to upgrade its lecture capture solution? Visit us at ISE 2025 at booth 2U130, book a personal demonstration, or contact us at www.a-dena.com. We would be delighted to answer your questions and provide assistance.

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ADENA Hack: How to use chroma key with AREC Media Stations?

Chroma key is a technique that allows users to remove certain colours from the video in order to replace them with anything else. While the chroma key is not a built-in feature of AREC stations, it is very simple to add this effect through third-party software and hardware. In this guide, we will describe how you can do this via one of the most common and free broadcasting applications, OBS.

To begin, open OBS and create a new scene by pressing ‘+’ at the bottom-left of the app under ‘Scenes’, or use the one that was created by default. Next, add your video source to this scene by right-clicking in the field under ‘Sources’ or pressing a ‘+’ there. Add a ‘Video Capture Device’ if you are using a USB camera, NDI, or another virtual driver camera. If you are using a network camera, then choose ‘Media Source’ and make sure to tick off ‘Local File’. This will allow you to type in the protocol and address of your source.

Once the source is added, right-click on it and select ‘Filters’. Under ‘Effect Filters’, choose ‘Chroma Key’. Customise its name or simply press ‘OK’. Doing that will open chroma key settings with preview. It may be that the default settings of OBS will immediately produce the right results for you and make all backgrounds black. However, if that’s not the case, use the dropdown menu to select which colour to remove and adjust accordingly using sliders like ‘Similarity’ and others in the same settings menu.

Once you are satisfied with the chroma key appearance, close this menu to apply changes. You can now resize and reposition your video source by dragging its corners and add other elements that you wish to see instead of the black background. For instance, you can add presentation slides, your organisation’s colours and backgrounds, view of a conference room, or any other image, video or file. Simply right-click under ‘Sources’ or press the ‘+’ button to add the element you need, and then reorder the camera source you customised before to be on top of the list. To give an example, in the following image we added computer slides via ‘Window Capture’, and put a USB camera on top of them:

You can now send the final result into your AREC Media Station. Connect the computer running OBS into the station and make sure that it is selected as a video source there by going to the ‘Administrator’ web page -> ‘Media I/O’ -> ‘Video inputs’. In the OBS, right-click on the ‘Scene’ you were setting up, click ‘Full Screen Projector’ and select ‘CBOX’ from the list. This will make that OBS scene display in full screen on your Media Station. Choose a layout with your computer source and you are good to go!

If you would like to know more about how to effectively combine features of other third-party hardware and software with AREC, let us know by contacting us at www.a-dena.com and stay tuned for more useful tips and tricks in our future posts!

AREC at ISE 2025 — 4K Speaker Tracking Station with 9 Channels

As we mentioned in the previous post, there are many reasons to start your ISE tour at AREC’s booth this year, but few as exciting as the new AREC Speaker Tracking Station! 

Featuring support of up to 9 video channels, this formidable device will make sure that all of your speakers, video content, and other sources are displayed seamlessly and automatically. It is integrated with the top discussion system brands, including Televic, Shure, Audio-Technica, Bosch, and many others, and works with these systems without programming and licence payments. Our new station fully supports 4K inputs and outputs, making it a perfect foundation of any professional AV setup. 

It comes with 4 video outputs to make sure that you can show different combinations of speakers and their content across any room. And to top off an already impressive set of features, this station is also a 4K streamer!

There is a lot more to say about it, so make sure to book your meeting early via the link below. Check out our next AREC at ISE2025 post to find out what is the second product we will unveil at the show!

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