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Plan it, draw it, then run it.

The detail behind the home page. One project, from planning to show day: the rig you enter once is the rig you draw, print and patch. Schematics are video only for now; audio schematics are coming soon. Racks, panels, looms and kit lists take audio and video kit.

Plan, draw, run

01Plan

Start before anything is racked

Put the whole rig on screen weeks before any of it is racked. Routers, patchbays, switchers, converters, projectors, laptops — all of it works with nothing plugged in, because none of it is plugged in yet.

Set up an ATEM in the flight case

Do the auxes, the multiviewer and every label while the switcher is still in its case. The day it is racked and on the network, one press writes the lot to it.

Fit the cards and the I/O follows

An Analog Way Aquilon or a Barco Event Master turns up as an empty frame, and its page in PatchHub is a drawing of the real rear panel. Put cards in the bays and the inputs and outputs appear where they will be on the unit. Try a card in a slot that will not take it and the frame refuses, the same as it would in the rack. Save that build and put it straight onto the next show.

The sockets are the ones on the actual unit

Add a Barco PDS-4K or a Roland V-160HD and it arrives with its own ports: eight SDI in and eight HDMI in on the Roland, the PDS-4K SDI model’s four outputs each carrying an HDMI and an SDI connector. Port lists are compiled from the manufacturer’s published specifications, so the drawing should match what you find behind the rack.

02Draw

The drawing knows what the kit is

Drag a device onto the canvas and its real ports come with it, so a cable cannot go into an input the unit has not got. Auto-arrange lays the rig out to fit the paper when you are ready to print.

Name a camera once

Type CAM 3 at the camera and the name travels with the signal through every Videohub, ATEM, patchbay and converter it passes. Rename it at the source and the whole chain follows, so nothing downstream is still saying CAM 3 a week after CAM 3 became the roving.

Ring the FOH rack and drag it as one

Draw a zone round it, name it, and the whole group moves together. Cables route round devices instead of vanishing under them, and folding a device up to save space keeps every cable attached where it was.

Hand it to the people who need it

A PDF for the crew, an Excel patch sheet for production, a kit list with quantities for the hire company, and a read-only link that opens on a phone in the compound.

03Run

Drive the same drawing on the day

The rig you drew weeks ago is the one you now run the show from. Routers, switchers and recorders answer in one window instead of one app per manufacturer, over the same protocols their own control software uses. Videohub and ATEM are the two we have driven on real hardware; the recorders are beta.

Repatch live, then lock it

Change crosspoints and labels across the whole rig from the drawing, then close the patch lock so nobody moves a route from this computer by accident.

Show Day: the checklist, the link and the kit

Show Day has the patching checklist, the read-only link for the crew, and a way into each piece of kit the app can reach on the network.

Roll every deck on one press Beta

Master REC starts every HyperDeck and AJA deck together. You get a take sheet as you go, markers on a hotkey, and an edit-ready project built from any take. Clips are named and take numbers count up for you, a disk watchdog warns before a deck fills, Master REC runs a pre-flight check first, and the take sheet goes to Excel. The ATEM ISO files download, and Ki Pro files pull over the data LAN. Written to each maker’s published protocol and run against a test server, not yet against a physical deck.

Racks, panels and paperwork

  • Racks drawn front and rear: wooden sleeves, flight cases, double-wide cases and install racks, 1U to 48U, side by side
  • VESA screens, keyboard tray, Mac and NUC enclosures, distros and UPSs
  • Drag a whole rack onto the schematic; the two stay linked by name and IP address
  • Fibre tray builder for opticalCON and NZP1RU-8, with the adapters on the kit list
  • Audio frame builder with a stagebox patch, the same way as the video frames
  • Amp patch, with a channel table per rack and a master list across the show
  • Kit list that counts every lead by type with a cables total, lists the adapters for display cables, and can run A to Z
  • PDF per rack and per panel, 300 dpi rack JPEGs, and a QR code that opens a rack on a phone
  • P-touch strips for panels, amps, blanks and loom cable ends
  • Worst-case power draw and weight for every rack
  • Public View for the crew, with tabs for grids, spare ports and a tickable checklist
  • Excel export and import back, and Videohub label sets

Working safely

  • Autosave to a Show files library, automatic backups and a backup before every update
  • ⌘K search across the whole show, and a signal trace report
  • Pop-out windows, Stay awake, Network Ping and Discover
  • A network access list for the machines that may connect
  • A Manual button on every device card
  • Report and Request buttons inside the app

Recording Beta

HyperDeck, AJA Ki Pro and AJA KUMO are written to their published protocols and tested against a test server that speaks them, not on the physical device.

  • Clip naming and automatic take numbers
  • Disk watchdog that warns before a deck fills
  • Master REC with a pre-flight check
  • ATEM ISO download and Ki Pro pulls over the data LAN
  • Take sheet to Excel
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