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ChamSys

MagicHD User Manual

Version 1.6.5.0

The stand-alone version always starts full screen, ready to start (or continue) a show. This is 
because there will not normally be any user interaction with MagicHD. There might not even be a 
keyboard connected.
When the combined version detects a PC wing, or other MagicQ console that has encoder wheels, it
also starts full screen, if it was last used in full screen mode. The assumption is that this setup is part
of a show and the user does not want to waste time positioning the window.
Note that on a system with a single screen, if you press F11, the MagicHD window will take over 
the screen and the mouse cursor will vanish. This can be confusing because it appears that you have
lost control of the computer. Just press F11 again to leave fullscreen mode.

 3.5  Settings

There are only a few settings for the user to alter, to configure MagicHD. Nearly everything is done 
via  DMX.

 3.5.1 

Stand-alone Version

The stand-alone MagicHD has a simple menu bar.

File

Settings

Change the universe and DMX protocol that MagicHD responds to

About

Version and status information

Exit

Close the MagicHD window

View

Full Screen

Toggle full screen mode

Media Convert Media

Force conversion of all media in the convert directory 
(see section 4)

Stop Conversion

Stop media conversion if it is in progress

Rebuild Index

Force the media index to be rebuilt

Rebuild Thumbnails

Force all thumbnails to be rebuilt

 3.5.2 

Combined Version

MagicHD settings are accessed from the Media Player sub-menu in MagicQ PC:

View Media Output

Toggle the MagicHD window

Select Player

From the patched MagicHDs in the show, select which one to emulate 
in the local window

Load MagicHD Demo

Load the MagicHD demo show, and open the player window

Full Screen

Toggle full screen mode

Convert Media

Force conversion of all media in the convert directory (see section 4)

Stop Conversion

Stop media conversion if it is in progress

Rebuild Index

Force the media index to be rebuilt

Rebuild Thumbnails

Force all thumbnails to be rebuilt

Deploy Media

TBD

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Summary of Contents for MagicHD

Page 1: ...ChamSys MagicHD Media Player User Manual Version 1 6 5 0 www chamsys co uk...

Page 2: ...uacy suitability or completeness of any information or products and is not responsible for any errors or omissions or the results obtained from use of such information or products ChamSys Ltd does not...

Page 3: ...ying Audio 11 3 Using MagicHD 12 3 1 MagicHD Versions 12 3 1 1 Stand alone 12 3 1 2 Combined 12 3 2 MagicQ Setup 12 3 2 1 Combined Version 12 3 2 2 Stand alone Version 13 3 3 The Application Window 13...

Page 4: ...r and File 27 5 17 Mask Invert 27 5 18 Mask Mirror Flip 28 5 19 Mask Stretch 28 5 20 Audio Gain 28 5 21 Audio Pan 28 6 Text Layer 29 6 1 Intensity 29 6 2 Position 29 6 3 Scale 29 6 4 Rotation 30 6 5 R...

Page 5: ...nd Type 42 9 5 5 Colour Effect 43 9 5 6 Colour Scale 44 9 5 7 Direction 44 9 5 8 Duration 44 9 5 9 Flag 44 9 5 10 HUD Control Bitmask 44 9 5 11 Keystone 45 9 5 12 Layer Stretch Mode 45 9 5 13 Mirror F...

Page 6: ...ing text The text is displayed in a window whose colour position and orientation can be controlled Content is supplied as raw text files Both the media and output layers can apply a number of basic co...

Page 7: ...s to change when objects are rotated With Windows 8 MagicHD must be run as administrator for media conversion to work Some content encoded with the jpeg2000 codec causes ffmpeg the tool used to conver...

Page 8: ...e no alternative configurations patch VIEW DMX to confirm setup VIEW SYSTEM VIEW MEDIA should show server 1 being a MagicHD with Local as the IP address This means it will be accessed directly not ove...

Page 9: ...HUD Control for buttons for each option or click the top and bottom of HUD Control to cycle through the options 2 5 Keystone media MagicHD Output Frame 2 6 Projector Colour Control media MagicHD Outpu...

Page 10: ...sting content e g 13 Chose file numbers that will not clash with existing content unless you want to overwrite e g 15 18 Create a numbered folder away from MagicQ PC convert e g temp 013 Place your fi...

Page 11: ...on status 2 11 LED Wall To setup MagicHD with a low resolution output e g an LED wall Start MagicHD and ensure the window is on the output screen Press F11 to go fullscreen media MagicHD Layer 1 Locat...

Page 12: ...bined MagicHD is launched from the Media Player menu in MagicQ PC Controlled directly by MagicQ no network comms All 8 layers always available Starts full screen if a MagicQ Wing is connected and Magi...

Page 13: ...and alone Version To connect to a MagicHD using Art NET the MagicQ media server settings should be as highlighted in this screenshot 3 3 The Application Window Both versions of MagicHD run in an appli...

Page 14: ...d alone Version The stand alone MagicHD has a simple menu bar File Settings Change the universe and DMX protocol that MagicHD responds to About Version and status information Exit Close the MagicHD wi...

Page 15: ...anism to feed status back to the user Apart from the HUD there is no GUI MagicHD reports warnings errors and some supporting information to its log file see 10 2 but this is only intended for post mor...

Page 16: ...libraries and you are free to use folders 10 to 255 in any way you like Folder and file numbers do not have to be sequential Internally MagicHD stores media in numbered folders Within each folder the...

Page 17: ...lems with thumbnail extraction Pixel Format MagicHD can only decode a fixed number of pixel formats the representation of colour data within each frame Content that uses unknown formats is converted t...

Page 18: ...er and file numbering When finished simply delete the index file and thumbnail folder then start MagicHD Alternatively use the menu options Media Rebuild Index and Media Rebuild Thumbnails 4 1 3 Notes...

Page 19: ...image associated with it These thumbnails are used by MagicQ to display the contents of each media folder in the media window If any thumbnail file is found to be missing or older than the correspondi...

Page 20: ...the media has transparency this will reveal the layer below automatically If you wish to control how the mask works the Mask colour effect can be used see 9 5 5 4 2 1 Examples If we look at one frame...

Page 21: ...Flipped Mirrored flipped Normal Inverted If the same mask is used on two layers inverted in one the layers can be blended together as follows Layer 1 Layer 2 Output Layer Note that it is not actually...

Page 22: ...ameter Value Direction Forwards Speed Normal i e 1 0 Gain 0 Intensity 0 Audio Codec 16 bit PCM If audio is present in a clip it will automatically be converted to the correct format when the media is...

Page 23: ...ontrols where the centre of the layer appears in the output 5 3 Scale Scale magnifies or reduces the size of the layer in the output Note that when magnified low resolution content can look poor 5 4 R...

Page 24: ...io lost 5 7 R G B The R G and B parameters allow the colour balance of the layer to be altered directly 5 8 Colour Effect Colour effect along with the associated R G and B effect parameters allows you...

Page 25: ...through it Normally as a layer is faded it becomes transparent so things below it start to show through If a mask is applied dark areas of the mask make the layer transparent allowing layers beneath...

Page 26: ...ry 4 frames are dropped so the remaining load is x1 7 Since there is an inherent loss of quality at high playback speeds because the human brain can t process the imagery so well consider the quality...

Page 27: ...atically pauses The mode must be changed away e g to Pause then back before this mode can change the frame again This mode can be used in conjunction with Pause or other modes to achieve more complex...

Page 28: ...mage is matched to that of the layer s media As far as the mask is concerned the screen that it is being stretched to is actually the media file If for example the media is appearing letter boxed sett...

Page 29: ...ent in the text file For details of the Text Layer personality refer to section 9 3 For details of the DMX parameters refer to section 9 5 6 1 Intensity Intensity is used to fade the layer into or out...

Page 30: ...allows the layer to be rotated around its centre point 6 5 R G B These parameters control the colour of the text 6 6 Background R G B These parameters control the colour of the text background When th...

Page 31: ...ted If either are zero the layer is switched off 6 9 Font Not implemented yet 6 10 Text Lines This parameter controls the number of lines of text that are displayed vertically within the text layer Wi...

Page 32: ...is scrolling and what happens when the text has scrolled to the maximum extent Some modes are not implemented yet 6 14 Pause 1 Not implemented yet 6 15 Pause 2 Not implemented yet 6 16 Scroll Char No...

Page 33: ...cale Scale magnifies or reduces the size of the output 7 4 Rotation This parameter allows the output to be rotated within the extent of the window screen or projected area 7 5 Mirror Flip This paramet...

Page 34: ...ask parameters See sections 5 16 5 17 and 5 18 7 9 Keystone The keystone parameters apply keystone distortion to the output image The 8 keystone parameters move the corners of the image within the out...

Page 35: ...e HUD overlay on and off and selects which layer s DMX parameters are displayed It is a bitmask and details are given in section 9 5 10 For a full description of the HUD refer to chapter 8 7 11 Audio...

Page 36: ...to the other layers The DMX channel that controls the HUD allows it to be positioned left centre or right of screen and selects the layer whose DMX data is shown Thumbnails of each layer are shown wh...

Page 37: ...text layer are programmed The thumbnail of the resulting output layer can be seen even though its intensity is 0 The colour bars are part of the HUD to ensure that there is always full colour in the o...

Page 38: ...implemented 9 1 Universe The MagicHD personality has been designed to fit within a single universe of DMX Block Channels Offset Output layer 41 0 reserved 9 Text layer 36 50 reserved 14 Layer 1 42 100...

Page 39: ...parameter R 1 16 0 Number or Colour Scale depending on effect FX parameter G 1 17 0 Number or Colour Scale depending on effect FX parameter B 1 18 0 Number or Colour Scale depending on effect Mask fo...

Page 40: ...scale Blue 1 13 255 Colour scale Background red 1 14 0 Colour scale Background green 1 15 0 Colour scale Background blue 1 16 0 Colour scale Background transparency 1 17 192 Colour scale Text folder...

Page 41: ...arameter R 1 17 0 Number or Colour Scale depending on effect FX parameter G 1 18 0 Number or Colour Scale depending on effect FX parameter B 1 19 0 Number or Colour Scale depending on effect Blend 1 2...

Page 42: ...panning using a linear scale of 0 255 with 0 representing full left 128 centre and 255 full right 128 is the default 9 5 3 Audio Scale Audio scale controls audio parameters using a linear scale with t...

Page 43: ...nverted colour 2 transparency inverse intensity 1 3 as 2 with inverted colour 6 Key 2 Chroma Key FX parameters are colour scale values specifying the colour to match The matched colour is made transpa...

Page 44: ...65536 values are mapped but the resolution is only 1ms Value Duration ms 0 6 0 7 13 1 6554 6560 1000 65535 9999 9 5 9 Flag Flags use the DMX values 0 and 1 or any non zero value where 0 means false of...

Page 45: ...ize to layer 3 7 Stretch X Y to layer 4 Match aspect ratio size to layer 4 9 5 13 Mirror Flip Value Effect Notes 0 Normal 1 Mirrored Horizontal flip 2 Flipped Vertical flip 3 Mirrored flipped 9 5 14 N...

Page 46: ...und within a clip Play mode must go back to Pause before this mode can be used again 9 5 16 Scale Pseudo logarithmic scale factor with the values 0 to 65535 corresponding to a multiplication factor of...

Page 47: ...oops round 1 Stop Freeze 2 Bounce Scrolling reverses direction 3 Off Keep empty window 4 Black Hide window 5 Pause loop Pause then loop mode 0 6 Pause bounce Pause then bounce mode 2 7 Pause off Pause...

Page 48: ...org details movies 10 2 Files and Folders MagicHD uses the following important files and folders Magic PC mqqt exe MagicQ PC executable mqhd exe MagicHD standalone executable convert incoming user me...

Page 49: ...show that are installed as part of MagicQ A 1 Changes in Version 1 6 1 4 Colour Effect 9 5 5 Value 1 6 1 3 1 6 1 4 Notes 3 Colourise Posterise Was marked as Not implemented yet 4 Colourise B W Colouri...

Page 50: ...Notes 24 Keystone X Keystone A Name and effect changed 26 Keystone Y Keystone B Was marked as Not implemented yet 28 Keystone A Keystone C Was marked as Not implemented yet 30 Keystone B Keystone D Wa...

Page 51: ...er Manual Version 1 6 5 0 A 3 Changes in Version 1 6 5 0 Output Layer 9 2 Channel 1 6 1 6 1 6 5 0 Notes 41 Audio Volume New Media Layer 9 4 Channel 1 6 1 6 1 6 5 0 Notes 41 Audio Gain New 42 Audio Pan...

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