ChamSys
MagicHD User Manual
Version 1.6.5.0
6.7 Background Transparency
This parameter controls how transparent the text background is.
To ensure text can be seen over any background, transparency can be set to 0. This will completely
block out what is behind the text window. A more gentle effect is to set the transparency to
something between 25% and 50%, giving some contrast for the letters, but allowing the media
beneath to show through.
Setting transparency to 255 effectively removes the text background. In this case the choice of text
colour is important since it must be visible over the media layers.
6.8 Text Folder and File
These allow the text for the layer to be selected. 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.
With a given size and position for the layer, increasing the number of lines means the size of the
text will reduce so that the required number of lines fit:
Lines
1
3
10
Effect
6.11
Scroll Direction
This parameter controls the direction for scrolling text. Text will only scroll horizontally if it does
not fit across the window, or vertically if it does not fit the height of the window.
6.12
Scroll Speed
This parameter controls the speed of scrolling. For horizontal scrolling the value is characters per
second, and vertically, lines per second.
Note that to see the value corresponding to the DMX channel, turn on the HUD and set it to show
the Text Layer parameters.
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