Folsom Image Pro or similar?

[MoRpH]

WOOOT VJs=1 Crapalyst=0

[deepvisual]

yeah, result.
Catalyst had to go, because each time we went to a different country, we had the same problems - no one knew how to set them up properly, resulting in thousands of dollars in extras for specialists to be flown out to do stuff that should have been done before the kit was put on the truck..

[sleepytom]

Maybe you should of had a media server tech on the tour?

Taking video gear than you can't work is always going to be a risk, Crapalyst is an OK server, but you need to know what your doing to make it work under touring conditions.

Going down to a 1980s composite rig is easier to manage but seems a bit retrograde.

[deepvisual]

nothing to do with me...
anyway, its all been run on VGA since I got control (thats all I had with me) and will switch to DVI as soon as I get back.

[sleepytom]

I didn't say it was anything to do with you!

It just seems to be pretty normal now that media servers are part of lighting, but become the thing that video has to sort out all the time when the lampies turn out to know fuck all about it.

They would claim its revenge for years of rigging video trusses whilst the video guy is still on the bus.

Personally I can really see the advantage of the LD having some control over video. When done intelligently this enables colour schemes / pallets to actually match and blackouts to work effectively. The elephant in the video department is accepting that the LD is the best person to have this control!

Its going to take another generation to get this properly, lighting and video are merging but the 2 departments need to work together and come up with integrated systems which work together. This means the lighting guys need to be properly involved in preproduction, not just send in a list of kit and a lighting plot which they then program during a couple of days production rehearsals.