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Light Sound Journal reports on the opening ceremony of the AFC Asian Cup at the Lusail Stadium in Doha, Qatar in the Full grandMA3 offensive at AFC Asian Cup Opening Ceremony article and mentions how the entire workflow between various pieces of software was being made more efficient by utilizing GDTF and MVR.
Posted May 3, 2024 ‐ Categories: MA Lighting, Vectorworks, MVR, GDTF, Depence
GDTF Share report for the month of April 2024
Posted May 1, 2024 ‐ 1 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Share
Kaizen (Japanese: 改善, 'improvement'). After successful PL&S, and a manufacturers meeting on the GDTF booth, the GDTF group has been continously adding improvements to the GDTF Spec, to keep enhancing the DIN recognized open standards for describing devices of the entertainment industry.
Updates to the GDTF Builder to improve saving and editing
Posted April 23, 2024 ‐ 1 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Builder
Mark Lapierre is being hopeful for one day to be able to import GDTF color configuration data into Eos, but for now, he concludes, here is just a PSA that at the moment this is not implemented by ETC.
Wilson Torres has published a video tutorial explaining GDTF and MVR, where he also goes through a complete process of how to work with GDTF files in NEO v4 consoles by Vari-Lite. In Spanish.
Astera has joined the group of nearly 50 manufacturers actively supporting the General Device Type Format (GDTF) and has released official manufacturer-backed GDTF files for its lighting devices. These files are now available on their GDTF Manufacturer page.
Posted April 6, 2024 ‐ Categories: GDTF
GDTF Share report for the month of March 2024
Posted April 1, 2024 ‐ 1 min read ‐ Categories: GDTF, GDTF Share
Florida man claims he's created a groundbreaking GDTF file for teleportation devices, but it just leads to an alligator farm. Happy April Fools' Day!
ELC Lighting has released version 4.50 of the dmXLAN software, newly featuring import of the scene description and fixtures layout, placement, and addressing from MVR file. The dmXLAN software integrates well with existing technologies like E1.20 RDM, RDM-QR, Art-Net, and others, and the MVR integration provides further simplification in the planning workflow.
Posted March 26, 2024 ‐ Categories: MVR
The GDTF booth at PL&S has been enjoying a great attendance of professionals from various corners of the industry. 🤘
Avolites Titan software release version 17 adds new possibility to import GDTF files and convert them to Avolites Titan d4 personalities. You can see the complete Release notes here.
Posted March 21, 2024 ‐ Categories: GDTF, Robe Lighting, Avolites