Pixeldrive is the result of a collaboration between JTE's own R&D department and IRAD, the developers of the RADlite digital media server. The end-product is a control system which allows the synchronization of digital media to JTE's high brightness Pixelline 1044 battens and other pixelrange products. When running, this will enable visual sequences to be run across both lighting and video media. One of the main bonuses is in the time this will save - Pixeldrive can reduce the pre-production process from hundreds of hours of complex programming to just minutes. For example, to programme a water ripple effect across a bank of Pixellines would take about 30 seconds of programming.
The method imports digital media - the same that is being projected by the RADlite system - into the Pixelline and other Pixelrange fixtures, which then act like another projection surface. The patterns created by these digital images can be manipulated via the lighting desk and complex lighting sequences can be controlled with virtual imagery, which is then sent to any multiple of Pixelrange products, using Ethernet to distribute across as many DMX universes as required, thereby reducing the DMX allocation on desks.
