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2 How does it work
We spent hours thinking how we wanted to create and play a video performance. We quickly realized that video performance is not like a DJ performance (except for video scratching) and Minotor should not be like a virtual mixing console.
Minotor works with real time generated animations. It doesn't work with video file, other software exists for that and that was not our goal LOL. If you need to use some kind of video, you can still use the animated gif animation to load a loop that will be tempo synchronized (but don't use big resolution).
Minotor embed for the moment more than 10 animations that are fully configurable to fit your needs. You can for example change the color, the speed, the density of each animation. Some properties are common to all animations (ex : color, loop), others are dedicated to specific animations.
Each animation has many properties. Each property is configurable through his parameters to adapt the animation rendering to your needs.
A parameter is a value that will change an animation property. Most animation properties have only one parameter but some can have multiple parameters. The best example is the color property that will be controled using two parameters : hue and lightness. The result of each parameters value will be the property value, in this case hue and lightness values will give us the color value.
When your want to use an animation, Minotor automatically creates an animation group. This animation group can contain one or multiple animations that will react as one single animation. This means that you can create your custom animations using multiple animations provided with Minotor.
Animations are piled up in each group. This means that the first animation of a group (on the left) will be render under the last one (on the right). Most animations uses alpha so you can use multiple animations and place then in the right order depending on your needs.
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A program is a set of animation groups. You can activate each animation group independently. When an animation group is activated, this group is rendered to the program preview window. Multiple animation groups can be activated at the time. We advice you to create animation groups with all the animations you need instead of activating lots of animation groups. You'd better use multiple animation groups activation for transitions or for temporary variation but it's up to you 8-)
Minotor has a program bank where you can create multiple programs for your video performance. Each program of the bank has an "On Air" button to send the program rendering to the master. Only one program can be "On Air", when you activate on program, others are deactivated.
Minotor has two display modes dedicated to various situations.
In this mode, you can acces to the animations library and the program bank. You can drag animations to your programs and configure them in order to prepare your live performance.
In this mode, you can acces to the program bank and to the master. This mode is dedicated to the live performance as you can play with the master and change the "On Air" program.