james goodliffe // lighting + video

lighting & video programmer

programmer of lighting and video systems
software developer & music producer
technical equipment dry hire

freelance lighting & video programmer

I programme disguise media servers (formerly d3) and lighting consoles for live shows — touring, festivals, corporate, broadcast and theatre. The work runs from building the project and pre-visualising it long before load-in, through screen mapping and timeline programming on site, to a show file the crew can run every night without me.

Based in the UK, working wherever the show is. I also dry hire production equipment — media servers, consoles and show networking — and write software for the industry, including the free openEncoder transcoder that turns delivery masters into HAP, ProRes and DXV3 for show playback.

what I'm brought in for

  • disguise programming — project build, pre-vis, mapping, timeline, Notch
  • lighting programming and pixel mapping alongside video
  • show networking — switching, VLANs, addressing that fails findably
  • content pipeline — codecs, colour and batch transcode
  • equipment supply through hireJG

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