Outline Newton processor users are to be able to use a new, just-released Bitfocus Companion native plug-in for integration with any Elgato Stream Deck hardware control interface to support touring productions, entertainment festivals, fixed installations, and civil or religious events with mission-critical requirements.
‘With application-specific features aimed at a simpler, quicker and safer access to most relevant functions of Newton’s workflow, users upgrading their set-up to include any Elgato Stream Deck model device can now add one further layer of interaction rooted in both the physical and visual domains, complementing their desktop or tablet experience with the popular graphical push-buttons interface’, elaborates Andrea Ippolito, Software Development Dean at Outline.
‘As the plug-in sits at the crossroad of Newton’s and Elgato’s respective control protocols, the addition of any Elgato Stream Deck device provides a substantial improvement of operational safety, with a nod to the proverbial show-must-go-on usage scenario’, adds Outline Application Engineer, Paolo Calza.
‘It’s fair to say that Elgato Stream Deck is but one of the many different control platforms that Bitfocus’ Companion framework can effectively address and link, albeit arguably the most popular one; in this light, while a number of functions can be user-programmed also via the Elgato proprietary software suite, Outline’s native Bitfocus’ Companion plug-in is released at public level, hence realising straight-out-of-the-box functionality with no tweaking or guesswork needed (for the presets included in the current release, of course)’, says Outline. Software Developer, Gabriele Maucione.
Patch monitoring and re-arm, source- and clock redundancy, snapshot recall, as well as discrete action-feedback indications are but a few of the functions that will take current Outline Newton’s users to the highest level of operational peace-of-mind ever realised before: ‘It’s a straightforward, integration devoid of any coding or programming effort,’ Ippolito says.
More: https://outline.it