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Chapter 1

Introduction

MagicHD is a DMX controlled media player. Media playback is managed in layers. MagicHD can display up to 8 media layers

(depending on product), one text layer and a ﬁnal output layer for overall control of the output.

MagicHD runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, and can exist as a stand-alone player, or be launched from MagicQ PC. It can be

installed on dedicated hardware, either supplied by the user, or purchased from ChamSys[1].

Each media layer layer can display one media ﬁle (movie, picture or audio) and optionally apply a mask. Layers are stacked

from 1 (the bottom) to 8 (the top). Subject to masking and blending, higher layers will hide lower layers. The output layer can

also apply a mask, with the intention that this is used for shuttering, edge blending and similar projector control effects. You can

of course use the masks for anything you wish.

The text layer can display static or moving 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 colour effects. Effects applied in the output layer affect the appearance

of the whole output.

Conceptually, the output seen by the viewer is the top of a stack of layers:

Top Colour control

Final mask

Text

Media N

. . .

Media 3

Media 2

Bottom Media 1

MagicHD has no user interface as such, being entirely controlled by DMX. It does provide a Head Up Display (HUD) which

shows a lot of useful information, live, superimposed on the output.

The DMX control personality is deliberately simple: complexity is added by the lighting console. Since everything is controlled

by DMX channels, the console can be used to add effects to any channel by simply altering the values sent to the player.

1.1 Disclaimer

This product is not fully released so the DMX personalities used to control it may change without notice. If such a change occurs

then show ﬁles using MagicHD will have to be manually updated. Changes will be detailed in Appendix A.

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