NDI® for Live Event Light and Sound Design Pre-Visualization
By Jim Bask
From NewTek
Vickie Claiborne is a lighting and digital media designer and programmer, author of “Media Servers for Lighting Programmers,” and an educator who has trained thousands around the world in her chosen field. Her nearly 30-year career has ranged from working in a small theater in Branson, Missouri through head lighting programmer on the opening and closing ceremonies for the Sydney Olympics and on to hundreds of other major international shows and events. Writing for Professional Lights and Staging News (PLSN), she evaluated the state of the available options for video-over-IP with an eye to sending the output of a media server into a pre-visulization environment.
Some solutions for this use case have been on offer but suffer a variety of problems that limit their usefulness, or their availability for use. Many of the options to date have provided only low frame rates or low resolution over standard networks, or required high-bandwidth networks…..read more