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ChamSys 

MagicHD Media Player

User Manual

Version 1.6.5.0

www.chamsys.co.uk

Содержание MagicHD

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

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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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