Getting started with Livegrade Viewer

Livegrade Viewer is a companion app to Pomfort’s professional on-set live grading application, Livegrade. It lets you watch low-latency video streams shared by the DIT on iPads and iPhones connected to the same local network.

You can view multiple local streams at once — either a single stream in a single-view layout or up to four streams in various multi-view layouts. An “options panel” provides additional details, such as slate information and the timecode of the video signal, and also lets you save still images directly to your Photos library.

Installation#

You can download Livegrade Viewer for free on the App Store.

System Requirements: The app is compatible with iPads and iPhones running iPadOS / iOS 17 or newer.

Connecting to a Livegrade server#

Livegrade Viewer receives its streams through the local network. Hence, you must connect to the same network as the machine at the DIT station running Livegrade.

Please see the article Distributing local streams for Livegrade viewer app for more information about configuring Livegrade.

Once you’ve installed the app and connected to the local network, you can open the app. In the settings view, you will find a list of Livegrade servers available in your network. Tap on the server you would like to connect to. Enter the server’s local streaming password that is provided to you by the DIT. If streams are available, they will be automatically configured as a source for the viewers. You can change your desired screen layout and source streams in the settings view’s layout section.

Note: A machine running the Livegrade application acts as a local streaming server, while a mobile device running the Livegrade Viewer app acts as a client. If there is more than one machine running Livegrade within the same network, you can also connect to multiple servers and receive and view streams from all connected servers simultaneously.

The settings view can be accessed at any time from the main view by tapping anywhere on the screen and then tapping the settings button located at the top left side of the screen.