Labs

Thanks to Dustin Engelskind for turning us on to Advanced IP Scanner -- it's great! It allows you to put multiple NICs and look at everything that is connected to that subnet. It also shows you all shared drives and folders of each computer. This one is now in our...

Smode 9.3 is here! We've been using this software for about 3 years now and it keeps getting better and better with each release. This release has an incredible amount of improvements to the GUI and helps improve overall usability and programming. New features...

In this three-part series of cool apps, we're featuring one we like that is cross-platform. Shutter Encoder is a nice little program that can give you lots of information about a file and can play it back in a dedicated player. You don't get much control when you're...

Do you miss the old QuickTime 7 on your Mac? You know -- the one that could play just about any file type... the one with plugins for any new type of codec or file? Well, this cool little player that Florian Mosleh introduced us to is about as close as we've seen to...

ff·Works released the 3rd version of their great Mac FFmpeg program. If you're a Mac user and deal in video, this is a must-have. Pull video info, transcode, make watch folders and droplets. And -- they're working on new Apple Silicon for even more speed. This is...

Stage Precision is an amazing tracking software that allows you to create a full, 3D world built from multiple types of input data, trackers, winches and all kinds of toys to combine and create amazing effects for shows. They also have created an XR control interface...

UNIVERSE 2021.02 rolled out this week: it's finally a 64-bit application! This means support for bigger projects with more stages and controls, faster logic processing and signal flow, and more power for heavy NDI projects. They also added some new features including...

We’ve been using the product Universe Show Control for a few years now, and the latest update introduced during COVID is pretty substantial. There interface received an overall update. Feature set has increased quite a bit to include all kinds of control for both...

All we can say is 'Wow!' This is truly some tech magic. Once in a blue moon we get to see some tech that truly blows our minds, and this is one of those. The possibilities that this brings to film and XR workflows is truly amazing. GhostFrame combines hidden...

We were recently turned on to this cool little app that is affordable ($49.99 per license) and capable of a lot of great things. Central Control enables a single operator to do the work of a much larger team by using one control surface to control the entire...