Playback
Run video, images, audio, templates, browser content, live inputs and supported network sources from one media environment.
Professional media playback + show control
The Media
Will Respond.
Playback, real-time compositing, CueBoard operation, timeline automation, output mapping, monitoring and Distributed Canvas playback—unified in one professional platform.
Native production builds for Windows and Linux
ASCENSIONPRODUCTION WORKSPACELIVE / READY
MEDIA PLAYBACKCUEBOARDTIMELINECOMPOSITINGDISTRIBUTED CANVASSHOW CONTROL
One production platform
Stop stitching the show together from disconnected tools.
Ascension keeps media, cues, timelines, visual layers, outputs and external systems inside one synchronized operating environment—from preparation through the final frame.
Compositing
Build finished output in real time with independently controlled layers, geometry, keying, built-in mask editing, treatments and motion.
Show Control
Trigger coordinated media and production actions from an operator-focused CueBoard built for live decisions.
Automation
Program routed tracks, control cues, external timecode and keyframed layer animation on a visual timeline.
Distributed Canvas
Extend one global visual canvas across multiple Ascension playback nodes, outputs and large-format display systems.
First live production deployment
From development workspace to a real show floor.
Ascension has already moved beyond the lab. Its first live deployment placed the platform at the show-control position with dual workstations, Stream Deck surfaces and large-format display output in an active venue.
2 operator workstations2 Stream Deck surfacesLarge-format show output
Two ways to run the show
Program the sequence—or respond in the moment.
Build precisely timed sequences on the Timeline, trigger live decisions from the CueBoard, or combine both inside the same event.
LIVE / 01
Launch with confidence.
Arrange media and show actions into clear, color-coded cue columns. One command can coordinate playback, layer presets, timelines, remote systems and internal Ascension actions.
Explore live show control →
PROGRAM / 02
Program with precision.
Arrange media and production actions across synchronized tracks. Animate visual properties, insert loops and pause points, trigger remote systems and rehearse the result at any position.
Explore timeline and animation →
Real-time compositing + projection
Build the picture. Shape the surface.
Position, crop, rotate, key and treat visual layers without rendering new source media. Then correct the final output for the surface it must occupy.
- Pixel-precise geometry, crop, zoom and pan
- X, Y and Z rotation with configurable anchors
- Color correction, keying, built-in blanking and alpha-mask editors, borders and shadows
- Configurable warp grid with keystone, bow and smoothing tools
Outputs + monitoring
See every destination. Design every operator view.
Configure output channels independently and build multiviews that show each operator the sources, program feeds and system information that matter to the job.
Built around the operator
The control position is where the show happens.
Ascension’s browser-based interface can place authorized workspaces at front of house, backstage, in a control room or at another production desk without installing a separate client application at every station.
Browser workspacesOperate from additional computers on the production network.
Stream Deck BridgePlace tactile controls at local or remote operator positions.
Flexible operator positionsPut production control where the operator needs it without installing another Ascension client.
Media + event workflow
Find it. Prepare it. Put it into the show.
Ascension discovers media in the configured library, extracts available technical information and makes the same assets available to CueBoard, Timeline and output workflows.
Explore media workflow
DISCOVER→PREPARE→PROGRAM→PLAY
Distributed Canvas
One canvas does not have to fit inside one computer.
Combine multiple Ascension playback engines and graphics outputs into one continuous global visual space while continuing to program and operate the production from the Primary system.
One global canvas
Position and animate content in one coordinate system even when the physical surface spans multiple Ascension nodes.
Distributed rendering
Assign each playback node the portion of the global canvas its outputs are responsible for rendering.
Canvas-aware media
Prepare oversized media as node-specific derivatives instead of requiring every engine to decode the complete wall.
Global registration
Generate alignment geometry that remains mathematically continuous through node and output boundaries.
Full Ascension Pro
Choose the term—not a reduced feature edition.
Every commercial option activates Ascension Pro. Select the duration and production-machine seats required for the deployment.
License type and production-machine seat quantity are selected on the secure IEW Solutions purchase page.
Full Pro functionalityPer production-machine seatBrowser stations require no seatMulti-seat license keysOffline-capable operationLease begins on activation
Build the production around the show—not around the limitations of the tools.
Playback, compositing, automation, monitoring and control are ready to operate as one system.