Livegrade Studio Integration

Overview

Pomfort Livegrade Studio comes with support for interactive CDL control of Disguise systems. This feature enables you to grade content such as a video layer in a Disguise system via a network connection.

Pomfort Livegrade Studio is a Mac only product.

You can control CDLs in a Disguise Designer project on a machine in a network you connect to via IP (LAN or Wifi depending on your connection). Make sure there is at least one CDL (or multiple CDLs) set up in your Disguise Designer project. You can choose the CDL you want to grade from a CDL list loaded upon adding the Disguise system to a slot.

When working with Livegrade and CDLs, the Pre Transform and Post Transform of the CDL should be set to the working space of Livegrade, which is ACEScc or ACEScct. For more information see the Pomfort Aces Grading Mode documentation.

Since February 2024, Livegrade Studio allows configuration of the Disguise API port. To view all available APIs, see the API documentation in the Disguise Developer portal.

To confirm your API port, open d3manager, and navigate to Machine Setting > Advanced Network Configuration. The default Disguise API port is 80. If 80 doesn’t seem to work, try 8008 instead.

How to Connect Livegrade Studio to Disguise

Setting up the connection

1. Set up a CDL in Designer by following the steps on the CDL page.
2. Ensure Designer is running on a machine in your network.
3. Using a Mac on the same network, open the Livegrade Studio application
4. From the main menu, click Slots > Add Device and select Disguise System. Alternatively, add the device using the Device Manager.
5. In the Add Disguise System dialog window, add the IP address of the Disguise system running Designer.
6. Two types of grading are available:

• Interactive: is used for grading the look of the Designer image interactively
• Manual: is used to upload the image look manually. To do this use the Upload button in the toolbar. Select the grading type as required.

7. Confirm the configuration settings by clicking Add Disguise System.

Note

Please note: If you want to control multiple Disguise CDLs, you can add each CDL you want to grade to a separate slot.

Once the set up is complete, the device manager can be reopened at any time and will show a connected Disguise system under Devices.

For more help with Livegrade Studio visit the Pomfort documentation: Setting up Disguise System.