The heart of the Hippotizer Media Server is the layer controls; here media is played, colour and geometry can be manipulated and effects are applied.
Each media Hippotizer runs mixes comprised of layers; this configuration is set in Output Manager.
Layer Signal Flow
Each layer is an independent video processing system that is then composited by the mixer. The flow through that processor is described below.
Relay sends
As shown above, Relays are sent just before Geometry, Keystone and Masking, but after effects. The result is relays can have unexpected behaviour, which is by design:
- Geometry (Including Keystone on layer) has no bearing on the relay send
- Relays are sent pre-layer level – so if media playback is required with the level down pause on dark must be disabled.
- Livemask will not affect relay sends. If a relay with masking is required use the mask effect.
Other components of Hippotizer that rely on relays as a source (such as SHAPE’s inputs 2-8) must consider the details of relays.
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