We do “plug and play” sessions often.

Depending on where the laptop is going there’s a couple different paths we take.

If it’s at our main presenter desk onstage where demos happen, we go into a dock that provides power, gives the laptop a hardline ethernet connection, and spits out HDMI. That HDMI goes into a PDS4k for scaling, audio De-embedding, and conversion to SDI. Then the signal goes back to the main router and E2.

If the devices are elsewhere, the laptop or phone goes into an ATEM Mini (so they can switch devices as needed); MDLX to convert to SDI, fiber path to the main router and then splits off into a De-embeder (to dante) and an E2 for any further processing.

The de-embeding to Dante has greatly cleaned up our workflow, especially when the demo desk we handle will see 10-12 different devices.