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Scene Change Announces H-MAP: Open Access To Hippotizer Data
Green Hippo and Scene Change, creator and distributor of the acclaimed Hippotizer digital media server range, have announced H-MAP, the Hippotizer Media Access Protocol.
H-MAP offers the ability for any lighting console to access information from Hippotizer servers, including clip previews and corresponding DMX control values. A console could therefore show programmers thumbnails of all of the images or movie clips available in a Hippotizer allowing direct, immediate selection. The link between Hippotizer and console is via ethernet, and is dynamic and so can be automatically updated as the Hippotizer’s contents change - unlike ‘one off’ schemes offered by some manufacturers where clips are manually transferred from media server to console.
“Until now, controlling digital media from a lighting console has involved keeping lists of which DMX value corresponds to which media file, or constantly moving from console to server to preview clips,” comments Nigel Sadler of Scene Change. “H-MAP changes that, allowing previews of media clips to appear on the console’s screen. We think this feature will prove invaluable to all of those working with digital media.”
H-MAP is an open-source standard made freely available by Scene Change and Green Hippo to console manufacturers or other interested parties. H-MAP has already been implemented by Chamsys - visitors to this year’s PLASA Show could have seen the system in action on a Chamsys MagicQ console. Certain other console manufacturers are already in discussion with Scene Change, and enquiries from all others are welcome!
“We believe that this is yet another first for the Hippotizer range, which over the last year has constantly led the digital media server field for new features - including HD operation, support for up to sixteen layers and audio as well as video playback,” comments Nigel Sadler. “We hope that console manufacturers will follow Chamsys’ lead in building this functionality into their products so that life becomes easier for everyone working in the digital media field!”
Further information about the Hippotizer range can be found at the Hippotizer website, www.hippotizer.com. Further information about Scene Change can be found at http://www.scene-change.com.
5th January 2005
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