Giving production teams the choice to scale their visual workflows - from portable to powerhouse.
Disguise has today unveiled X1, a game-changing portable version of its industry-leading Designer software. X1 lets creators run stunning 4K visuals directly from their own laptop or hardware no proprietary media servers required. It's the first time Disguise's powerful production engine has been made available in a flexible, software-only format, giving production teams total freedom to design, map and deliver wherever their vision takes them.
Developed for professionals delivering small-to-medium live events including concerts, theatre productions and corporate brand experiences, X1 works by providing users with convenient, on-the-go access to the same, trusted software used to pre-visualise, sequence and control headline shows across the globe. The portable new solution has already been used on several live events during an exclusive pilot, including Bullet For My Valentine at Rockfest in Germany, Festival Napa Valley, and the USA and Canadian legs of Central Cee's world tour.
In order to support the world's biggest shows and installations, we have high-performance media servers powerful enough to seamlessly run visuals on LED walls over 4,000 square meters in size, explains Chief Product and Technology Officer at Disguise, Raed Al Tikriti. But not everyone needs all that power or has the space or budget for it. That's why we decided to create X1. With X1, for the first time, anyone can harness the same powerful Designer tools used on the world's biggest productions, all in a portable format that's easier and more cost-effective to bring on tour or support smaller productions.
X1 users will be able to plug their license key into their laptop to instantly access the latest version of Designer. Show visuals can then be imported into Designer from any real-time graphics tool, including Notch, Unreal Engine, TouchDesigner, Unity and more, thanks to Disguise's RenderStream protocol.
To help users hit the ground running, X1 includes a ready-to-use and ever-expanding content pack, featuring high-impact Notch and TouchDesigner effects from pulsing DJ-style visuals to beautifully crafted motion looks, all created in-house by Disguise's Creative Services team. Each look will also be rendered as a high-quality video ready for seamless playback and looping, giving users maximum flexibility to elevate every show however they choose to deliver their content.
X1 also enables users to preview the content on a 3D mini-replica of their stage or environment. Users will also benefit from the Designer timeline, a beloved feature that enables users to schedule and edit all the visuals needed to run their show or experience live. They ll also be able to rely on Disguise's critical redundancy features, with built-in 1:1 failover for added security.
Alex Loftie, Video Programmer for Central Cee's tour comments: With Central Cee's shows in Canada and the USA generally having a more intimate feel at smaller venues, it made perfect sense for us to use X1 on a laptop. It allowed us to pack light, easing the burden of transporting kit between multiple venues but it also meant everything could stay on Disguise and I didn't have to re-program the show with a different solution, which saved a huge amount of time and budget. Being able to stay within the Disguise ecosystem is so key. When we returned to larger venues in Europe, we were able to easily transition back to Disguise media servers, ultimately giving us the flexibility to use Disguise's familiar and reliable Designer software across shows of any size.
Glenn Jenkins, Video Engineer on Bullet For My Valentine's tour, valued the flexibility and control that X1 brought to the production. Live shows on tour are never carbon copies of each other. Last-minute changes come up every time, and using X1 meant we were able to keep up with the rest of production and make quick, crucial edits on site thanks to Disguise's timeline workflow.
Jackson Cobb, Video Programmer on Festival Napa Valley adds that the travel-ready status of X1 is a game-changer. Being able to shut my laptop after the show, put it in my bag and just walk away without transporting a server with me was incredibly freeing. Kate Freer, projection designer on Festival Napa Valley, adds: Having this new solution doesn't totally eliminate the need for server-run shows. There will always be larger productions that require more power. But it makes show control so much more accessible, and being able to use X1 in a festival scenario like this has been a dream.
Key features of Disguise X1 include:
Access to the latest version of Designer With X1, you'll always have access to the very latest version of the same software used to power visuals on 95% of the world's Tier 1 live shows, without needing to download new updates.
Live events and experiences you can plan with confidence X1 offers 1:1 redundancy and auto failover to ensure users always have uninterrupted playback in critical live environments.
Portable hardware Each X1 license instance enables 1x 4K DCI video output. This is issued to a Codemeter USB license key to be attached to the node used for video playback. That means you can easily put it in your pocket and take it with you on tour to use with a laptop, so there's no need to ship larger hardware solutions.
Flexible show continuity If you need more powerful hardware for a larger show, you can easily transfer your show file from X1 to a Disguise server. The same works if you're going from a larger show to a smaller one: you can just drag your show file from a Disguise server to X1, without needing to rebuild it.
Pre-loaded content To help users experiment with content strai
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Giving production teams the choice to scale their visual workflows - from portable to powerhouse.
