A content management application has some real advantages for the digital lighting programmer. For instance, the capability to rapidly and remotely update and manage content anytime means less time spent away from the creative programming process. Features such as increasing the ease of upgrading the media server application software, uploading and cross-loading content between servers by simply using drag-and-drop functionality, and the ability to remotely assign DMX values to a server’s content files once they have been loaded without having to physically be at the server make the content management application very flexible too. Using a CMA can result in dramatic increases in efficiency by minimizing the need to interrupt the media server application while it is running in order to access the content folder on the media server’s hard drive.
– From Vickie Claiborne's November VIDEO DIGERATI Article
