Digital Media Servers
The rapidly increasing processing power of desktop computers coupled with ever decreasing costs has opened up new opportunities for designers in many disciplines.
Pictorial effects that a couple of years ago could only be achieved from days of post-production can now be achieved in real time. Very sophisticated manipulation of both still and moving images using a PC can now equal that previously only available from very expensive dedicated DVE’s and Paint & Animation packages.
Please click HERE to download the PDF of the PLASA 2004 Digital Media Servers presentation
These facilities have helped computer animators for many years where non-realtime rendering was acceptable, but their application as lighting effects had been limited by the availability of suitable video projectors. The new technologies such as the Texas Instruments Digital Light Projectors has now evolved to the point where the light output from a video projector can begin to match that of other conventional moving lights, and at a cost that doesn’t take 90% of the lighting budget.
This workshop, first presented at PLASA in 2004, is intended to remove some of the mystery as to what a Digital Media Server is, and what you can do with it as a Lighting Designer or Console Operator.