Todd Scrutchfield
Technical deep dive

Media server programming and screen production engineering

For projects that need specialist depth, system awareness, and dependable execution. I build the engineering framework projects require and plug in where technical ownership matters most — media servers, screen systems, projection, surrounding infrastructure, or client-facing technical problem solving.
Illustration: media server operator workstation with a show-control timeline and a projection test grid backstage
Media servers

Media servers and real-time content

Disguise

Disguise programmer since 2013 across hundreds of productions.
  • Multi-machine configuration, understudies, and failover design
  • OmniCal spatial calibration for projection mapping and LED
  • Notch integration for real-time generative effects and data-driven content
  • RenderStream for Unreal Engine integration
  • Timeline programming, MIDI, OSC, TCP triggers, and cue management
  • Pre-visualization workflows for client review and approval
  • Content ingest pipelines, codec optimization, and layer management

Other Platforms

  • Primary depth in Disguise, TouchDesigner, and Pixera
  • Working capability in Resolume, Arkaos, Catalyst, Watchout, and other platforms as required by project context

Content Pipelines

  • 3D modeling, mesh creation, UV mapping, materials, and texture design
  • Real-time content generation with Notch, Unreal Engine, and TouchDesigner
  • Pre-rendered content management and delivery workflows
  • Content conversion, codec optimization, and resolution management for media server delivery
  • Asset management for multi-screen and multi-resolution deployments
Screen systems

LED and projection systems

LED Video

  • Large-format LED wall programming, processor configuration, module mapping, and calibration
  • Novastar, Brompton, and Megapixel VR processor programming
  • LUT and 3D LUT color workflows
  • Curved and non-standard geometry mapping
  • HDR content delivery for LED volumes
  • On-site calibration and color matching

Projection

  • Multi-projector blending, geometric correction, and warping
  • Projection mapping on architectural and scenic surfaces
  • Barco, Christie, and Panasonic projector systems
  • Disguise OmniCal for automated alignment
  • Modul8, vvvv, TouchDesigner, and Scalable Displays

IMAG Integration

  • Live camera integration with media servers and real-time content
  • Graphics overlay and media server feeds into IMAG workflows
Infrastructure

Supporting technical knowledge

IP Video Environments

  • Working knowledge of ST 2110 infrastructure and integration into environments designed by others
  • NDI routing, monitoring, and bandwidth optimization
  • Dante audio and video networking, configuration, routing, and redundancy
  • Hybrid SDI and IP workflows with gateways and conversion layers
  • Vendor-specific deployment standards with onboarding collaboration as needed

Network Architecture & Engineering

  • Advanced network literacy across security, segmentation, failover, high availability, and escalated infrastructure development
  • Cable plant familiarity for temporary AV installations
Documentation

Documentation and working style

  • Adapt to client and production company documentation standards first
  • Extend and improve documentation and knowledge management where it adds value
  • Deliver clean, version-controlled documentation for handoff and operation
  • Use systematic commissioning, validation checklists, walkthroughs, and clean handoff discipline
Best fit

Where this profile lands best

Strongest in project-based system deployment and screen production engineering where full ownership and surrounding infrastructure awareness matter.
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Todd Scrutchfield · consult.show · Imagine Interactive Group