Product capabilities
Sessions, Workstation,
players and origins.
VDO has separate surfaces for live review, remote suite access, native playback and facility-origin streaming. This is the buyer-facing source of truth for how they fit together.
01 · Sessions
Colour-managed review, live in the room.
Video
- 8-bit and 10-bit video paths
- 4:2:0, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma paths
- SDR, HDR PQ/HLG and theatrical workflows
- Editorial rooms up to 10 Mbit/s
- Colour rooms up to 100 Mbit/s
Playback
- Browser playback in Chrome and Safari
- Native Mac player
- Native iPad player
- Native Apple TV player
- Mac player output through Blackmagic SDI / HDMI hardware
Rooms
- Editorial and colour review rooms
- Multi-channel 48 kHz audio for Sessions
- 2 / 8 / 16-channel paths where supported
- Authenticated room access
- Direct closed-beta onboarding
02 · Workstation
Remote suite access, tuned by host.
macOS hosts
- Apple Silicon native host agent
- 10-bit HEVC 4:2:0 / 4:4:4
- Display P3 wide colour support
- Browser-based access to creative suites
- Pair with Sessions for colour-managed review
Linux hosts
- Wayland and X11 host support
- 8-bit 4:2:0 / 4:4:4
- 4:4:4 path on NVIDIA GPUs
- Browser-based access to creative suites
- Pair with Sessions for client review
Input + audio
- Two displays
- Pen pressure, tilt, twist and eraser
- Barrel-button events
- 48 kHz stereo Opus audio
- Closed-beta setup support
03 · Facility Streamer
Self-hosted origins, feeding Sessions.
Origin
- Linux + NVIDIA origin hardware
- 1-4 HD or UHD streams
- Designed for facilities with managed infrastructure
- Feeds VDO Sessions rooms
Workflow
- Editorial rooms
- Colour rooms
- Multi-stream review
- Direct beta onboarding for facility-specific topology
Security
- Encrypted transport for browser, native and workstation paths
- Authenticated, token-scoped room access
- Relay rooms forward live media
- Application-layer media E2E is on the roadmap
How to choose
- Where does colour-managed review fit?Use VDO Sessions for colour-managed SDR, HDR and theatrical review in editorial and colour rooms.
- Where does remote desktop fit?Use VDO Workstation when you need browser-based access to a macOS or Linux creative suite, then pair it with Sessions for live review.
- Which players are covered?Sessions playback is available in Chrome and Safari, with native players for Mac, iPad and Apple TV. The Mac player can output through Blackmagic SDI or HDMI hardware.
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Capabilities · closed beta · direct answers