PREFACE

Magic. That’s what we do. It is magic. We engage an audience and transport them visually and emotionally to another place. But that magic takes hard work. When that hard work is successful, the results seem effortless. This book attempts to make the hard work of planning, communicating and executing a plan for multi-screen live production less challenging.

Video screens used in scenery are part of a rapidly changing variety of technologies used in live entertainment. LED screens and projectors constantly improve in image quality. Computer processing power for both media servers and content creation tools advances regularly along with software capabilities. As I write this, a new advanced video codec was announced. The teams responsible ...

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