The Live Event Video Technician

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Let There Be Light . . . Cannons
2 Pixel Wrangling
	Mixing and Matching Formats
3 The People in Your Production Neighborhood
	End Client
	Executive Producer
	Producer
	Screens Producer
	Production Manager
	Technical Director
	Stage Manager
	Assistant Stage Managers
	Audio A1
	A2/System Engineer
	Lighting Designer
	Lighting Board Operator
	Master Electrician
	Video Village
	Engineer-in-Charge
	Video Director
	Engineer/Shader
	Technical Director
	High-Resolution Engineer
	Playback Operator
	Records Operator
	Graphics Operator
	Prompter Operator
	Projectionists
	LED Technician
	Camera Operator
	Life on the Road
4 In the Middle . . .
	The Players
	Stuff You Should Know
		Pixels
		Pixel Clock
		Bandwidth
		Progressive
		Bit Depth
		Color Space
		Chroma Subsampling
		ACES
		Brightness
		Contrast
		Limited Range versus Full Range
		EDID
		HDCP
		Genlock
		Frame Locking
	Connector Types
		HDMI
		DisplayPort
		SDI
		Fiber Optics
	Troubleshooting Cables
5 The Big Picture
	Industry Associations
	Computer Convergence
	Continuing Education
6 Switching Systems
	Multi-Screen Management Systems
	Pixel Space versus Pixel Canvas
	Cueing the Show
	Single Output Devices
	System Engineering
	Matrix Routers and Distribution Amplifiers
	Managing HDCP
	Genlock and Timing
7 Playback, Records, and Media Servers . . . Oh My
	Video Codecs
	B.Y.O.H.—Bring Your Own Hardware
	Medium Servers
	Super Servers
8 Projection
	What Is Light?
	Light Source
	Optics System
	Electronic Processing
	Imaging System
	Digital Micromirror Device
	4K Sleight of Hand
	To Stack or Not to Stack
	Widescreen Edge-Blending
	Geometry
	Lenses
	Projector Safety
	Screens
9 LED
	Component Breakdown
	Not All LEDs Are the Same
	Sending and Receiving Cards
	Building the LED Wall
	Sourcing the LED Wall
	Weight, Dims, Power, and Pixels
	Your RCFG File and You
	LED Viewing Distance
	Moiré, Flicker, and Friends
	And Now a Word About Virtual XR Production
10 Networking and the Interwebs
	Working in Binary
	Video Over IP
	HDBaseT
	Video Baluns
	Audinate Dante
	SDVoE—Software Defined Video Over Ethernet
	NDI
	SMPTE ST-2110
	SRT—Safe Reliable Transport
	RTMP
	HLS
11 The Intangibles
	Punctuality
	What Do I Bring?
	What’s for Chicken?
	What to Wear? Black, Black, or Black?
	A Typical Production Schedule
	Getting Paid
	At the End of the Day
Index