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Source 4WRD II

Source 4WRD II vs Incandescent Lumen Output

1500 hr long life lamps

4 great options

FULL FIXTURE PAR PARNEL RETROFIT

3 array options

80+ CRI

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The amount of light you get for the power you use is

outstanding. Expect ultimate efficacy, or lumens per watt

with every Source 4WRD fixture.

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AC line dim

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2 types of dimming control

ETC Source 4WRD II

of the CPU. You can also use it for remote control using
a keyboard or mouse.
There is also an NDI VLC plug-in that allows you to send
media from the VLC media player across the network, and
the NDI Access Manager allows you to manage all of your
NDI sources and systems on the network. There are more
apps, including the NDI Virtual Input, NDI for Adobe Creative
Cloud, NDI Import I/O for Adobe Creative Cloud, and NDI HX
Driver, and they are all free.
I can think of many situations where it would be
beneficial, from video editing to remote monitoring in
churches, and lots more. I like to work on my MacBook
Pro, but the 15” display is not ideal, so having the ability to
see it on a much larger display just by logging on to the
network makes it very quick and easy. It can also be used
to share a presentation to a projector or to live stream an
event.
I think the first time I was made aware of it was when
Green Hippo announced the release of its Hippotizer V4.3
media server software and made mention of “NDI (video over
Ethernet) send and receive.” It’s one of those bullet points
that escaped my attention because of some other shiny
object in my peripheral vision, no doubt. Since then (or
maybe before then), just about every other media server has
added support for NDI, but it’s not just media servers that
are taking advantage of the technology. Just about any video
product that has a monitor can benefit from it. I

B The NDI Test Pattern app includes a number of patterns such as
colour bars, colour fi elds, burst patterns, colour ramps, cross hatches,
IRE bars, IRE fi elds, and more