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Working practice from the show floor.

A network switch in a dark road case with port lights lit 1 October 2026 NDI on a show network: what the switch needs from you NDI is not heavy. Unmanaged switches, venue Wi-Fi bridged into the same VLAN, and multicast without IGMP snooping are heavy. Packed flight cases in a dark venue after a show 3 September 2026 What to save before you leave site The rig worked. In four months you will need it to work again, and the only record will be whatever you saved in the… A small aluminium computer on a dark rack shelf with one status light 9 July 2026 Running a show on Apple Silicon: what actually changed The headline is performance. The parts that affect show day are unified memory, hardware decode you may not be using, and a plugin still… A long dark corridor of equipment racks lit in stages 25 June 2026 Where the latency in your video chain is actually hiding Everyone blames the network. The network is usually one frame of a six-frame problem, and two of the others are free to fix. A darkened control room with a single blank screen lit 19 March 2026 The permission prompt that stops your show Capture worked in rehearsal and shows black at doors. Nine times in ten it is one row in a privacy database, and it broke… Light falling through a dark corridor between equipment bays 19 February 2026 NDI or Syphon? Pick by where the pixels are going They look interchangeable in a feature list and are not remotely interchangeable in a rig. One never leaves the GPU; the other crosses a…

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