Daktronics and Grass Valley develop a communication layer

Daktronics y Grass Valley take a new step in their strategic partnership to develop a next-generation, deeply integrated workflow that enables Grass Valley production switchers and control systems to natively access and interact with the Daktronics show control API.

This advancement, which will result in unified production in venues, builds on the strategic alliance announced earlier this year and expands the collaboration to a powerful technical integration that goes far beyond the simple industry standard triggers commonly used in today's market.. Grass Valley and Daktronics are jointly designing a advanced communication layer designed to create a two-way exchange enrichment between Grass Valley mixers and the Daktronics Display Studio environment. The result will be a smart and seamless connection which will improve coordination between control room and display operations, while offering production teams the possibility of adapting workflows to the specific needs of each event.

As part of this integration, Grass Valley mixers will be able to understand and interact with the entire structure of the Grass Valley workspace. Daktronics Show Control y Display Studio. This includes reading all workspaces, pages, containers, tabs and button hierarchies available, along with retrieval of detailed button definitions and associated metadata. Operators will also have the ability to remotely control or activate playback elements on the Daktronics system directly from the Grass Valley interfaces..

The integration will be compatible with a wide range of Display Studio attributes, including button IDs and names, audio indicators that identify content that contains sound, foreground and background colors, and the X/Y coordinates of elements within the Display Studio UI. By making this information available natively, Grass Valley systems can autofill macros, configuration menus and operator screens with clear, contextual data, significantly reducing setup time, minimizes operator errors and provides unprecedented visibility into display system operations.

Unified Workflow

Greg Huttie, Vice President of Grass Valley Switches, points out that “This collaboration represents a milestone in the sector. By tightly integrating our mixers with Daktronics Show Control, We offer venues a unified, intelligent workflow that improves synchronization, precision and creative control in a way never before seen in the industry”.

For your part, Greg Fleischbein, Daktronics Product Manager, states that “This integration offers our clients a much more efficient and connected workflow. Grass Valley mixers will interact directly with the entire Display Studio structure, which will provide production teams with a clearer vision, faster setup and greater confidence during every moment of a live event”.

Grass Valley and Daktronics share a long-term commitment to improving the on-site production experience. This new API-level integration will go a long way toward providing customers with more engaging presentations., more reliable operations and more efficient end-to-end production workflows, which further consolidates the innovative foundation established within the framework of the strategic partnership between both companies.