Previously, manufacturers created a PDF manual for stage designers who put together controllers, visualisers, drafting software and more. Manufacturers of fixtures used in stage design - such as moving lights, and in the future media servers, lasers, pyrotechnics, water effects and so on - need them to be controlled, visualised, or both to produce the best effects. With GDTF, luminaire manufacturers, for instance, now have an open and universal data exchange format to tell consoles and previsualisation software how the lights will respond. Not yet overpopulated, the leading players - those who build the stages, those who add lights and other special effects - had to develop their own solutions to lay out and plan the stage settings. To better understand GDTF and MVR, let's think of Microsoft Word: MVR would be the Word document and GDTF would be comparable to having a custom font in the document. Most recently, My Virtual Rig (MVR) was introduced in March, and it creates a two-way connection between planning, previsualisation and console systems. General Device Type Format (GDTF) is an open format that was created by Vectorworks, MA Lighting and Robe lighting, to change the way entertainment lighting designers and programmers communicate design and intelligent control data to put together and operate the awesome stage designs that are now de riguer in the industry. The company's involvement in the industry took another step recently - at the Prolight + Sound convention in Frankfurt, Germany - with the announcement of the release of the 1.0 version of GDTF. ![]() Not a performer, but one of the main players when it comes to design for staging concerts, plays, TV/film, and other corporate and live events. Vectorworks is, you might say, one of the leaders in the entertainment industry.
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