By Vickie Claiborne
With today’s productions relying more and more on visual impact, the video and lighting elements of a show play huge roles in creating those wow moments that audiences remember. Prior to media servers, tying in lighting with the video required a lot of programming time to match colours and movement from a video across lighting fixtures in the rig. Now, media servers make that process much simpler and less time-consuming through the process of pixel-mapping. But there are some “gotchas” in the process of merging data together from two sources that are worth pointing out. So let’s take a closer look at the process of mapping the colour values of a video image from a media server to the colour channels of a lighting fixture via DMX, Art-Net and/or sACN.
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