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Best solution for streaming images to client?

Justin Blodgett
I've been having this annoying problem with Capture Pilot (which I'm sure others must be having as well) where the app keeps getting disconnected from the server and just being SUPER buggy. Clients frequently become frustrated with it and it reflects poorly on me (the tech).

Has anyone found a better solution to Capture Pilot for streaming images to a client for review? On this last job, I ended up just uploading to a dropbox folder which the client could view on an iPad, but it took about 30 seconds for the images to upload/download and appear for their feedback. I am working from a macbook pro.

I would love to know what others are doing in regards to hardware/software for this. I'd be curious if anyone is having success with dedicated wifi and some kind of local server. I'm often super mobile around the location and not tied down to a stationary cart.

Increasingly working around film crews, its starting to make us look pretty bad when live video can be streamed wirelessly to a van but stills is slumming it with a trash ipad app.

Thanks in advance for all the advice!
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    Run a dedicated wifi network off of a travel router and you'll have better success. If you need to cover long distances or through physical barriers, consider using 2.4ghz instead of 5ghz. If you're on Apple hardware, consider using Wireless Diagnostics to figure out the best channel to run your network on.
    This article is older and isn't written, endorsed, or even updated by Phase One, but it's pretty useful:


    I'd suggest using a dedicated travel router hardware to run the wifi rather than your machine, though.
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