Hi Kmc.
How spoked SOURCE You can use many different lighting desk like a desk video-mixer control.
you can do a lot of complex Cuelist controlled from programmers or midishow controller or SMPTE time code.

as far as I know the Catalyst was the first video-mediaserver
controlled by DMX,and was very appreciate from lighting desingers or
light programmers because they start to use VIDEO technology without
change any lighting thinking,very enriching lighting and scenographic scenarios.
there is a lot of think to use Catalyst from local or by remote:

1) stand halone recording PRESET + INTERNAL SHOW TIMELINE.
2) using DMX lightind desk with multiple encoders/trackball
3) usIng DMX lighting desk to prepare complex scenarios and capture into
local preset.
4) start local preset by:
-simple manual DMX desk
-using Dmx recorder with complex scenarios.
-using little toutch screen to send command (rs232,midi,etc etc)
to control local preset or Dmx recorder.
5) start preset by ethernet (completely remote) thorugh catalyst web page.

the limit is our think only.

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ciao


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