VisualsLayers and clips
How the picture is built from up to eight layers.
Layers
A project has one to eight layers. The bottom layer is the base, the ones above lie on top of it. Each layer plays one clip at a time from its row in the clip grid.
- + Clips at the end of a row opens the library: tap a visual, a camera, a video or a graphic to add it to the row, tap again to remove it.
- Click a clip to start it, click it again to stop it. The running clip has a green frame.
- + Layer adds a layer, the × next to its name removes it. Layer names can be changed in the layer panel.
Per layer
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Opacity | the fader next to the name and in the fader bar |
| Blend mode | Normal, Add, Screen or Multiply. Add and Screen make dark parts transparent. |
| Color source | Original, one color slot, several slots, a gradient or a rainbow |
| Drive | Auto: audio when the audio input works on this layer, otherwise the beat. Beat: only the BPM. Audio: only the audio. Static: no pulsing. |
| Position | X, Y, size and rotation of every visual; the visual still fills the whole screen |
| Effects | a stack of up to six effects, see effects |
Color slots
Five color slots A–E sit on the right. They are the colors of the show: the desk sets them over DMX (dimmer and RGB per slot), MIDI or OSC, and every layer that uses a slot changes with them. With several slots, laser looks give each beam its own color and move them on every eight beats.
Laser layers
The laser looks are made for a projector in haze: a point in the picture becomes a beam, a line a sheet of light, a circle a cone. They lie in the upper third by themselves. Strength makes lines thicker so they carry more light. With XY override their own movement stops and X/Y set the position directly, for example from moving-head channels of the desk.
Alpha: untested
The laser looks have not been tried with a projector in real haze yet.
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