Liberation User Manual
  • ✅Important! Read this first
  • ✅Installation / licensing
    • ✅Install for Mac
    • ✅Install for Windows
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  • ✅FAQ
  • ✅Quick start guide
  • ✅Hardware
    • ✅Compatible lasers and controllers (DACs)
    • ✅Emergency stop / interlocks
    • ✅LaserCube
  • ✅Setting up
    • ✅Laser set up process overview
    • ✅Setting up your project
    • ✅Adding / removing lasers
    • ✅Controller assignment
    • ✅3D Visualiser
    • ✅Laser output settings panel
    • ✅Copy settings between lasers
    • ✅Latency setting
  • 🟦Output view / Zones
    • ✅Overview
    • 🟦Zones
    • 🟦Copy zones between lasers
    • 🟦Re-ordering beam zones
    • 🟦Masks
    • 🟦Test patterns
    • 🟦Alt zone system
  • 🟦Clips & Clip deck
    • 🟦Overview
    • ✅Starting / stopping clips
    • ✅Assigning clips to laser zones
    • ✅What are the small icons on the clip buttons?
    • ✅Clip settings
    • 🟦Zone delay / chase
    • 🟦Clip groups
    • ◼️Global transformations
    • 🟦Organising your clip deck
  • 🟦Effects
  • 🟧The Clip Editor
    • 🟦Introduction to the Clip Editor
    • 🟦Fundamentals
      • 🟦Co-ordinate system
      • 🟦Colour settings and HSB
      • 🟦Render profile
      • 🟦Resolution
      • 🟦Fills, masks and depth sorting
    • 🟦Creator nodes
    • 🟧Operator nodes
      • 🟦Transformations
      • 🟦Duplicators
      • 🟦Colour change
      • 🟧Changers by position
      • ◼️Distorters
      • ◼️MIDI notes
    • 🟧Oscillator nodes
      • ✅Wave oscillators
      • ✅Sound input oscillator
      • ✅Parameter Control
  • 🟧Tempo / synchronisation
  • ◼️Timeline
    • ◼️Overview
    • ◼️Adding an audio file
    • ◼️Recording a show
    • ◼️Adding clips manually
    • ◼️Fine tuning clips
  • ✅Timecode
  • ◼️DMX control
    • ◼️DMX zones
    • ◼️Connecting to an Artnet node
    • ◼️Creating DMX zones
      • ◼️Examples
  • 🟦Graphics and the Canvas system
    • 🟦Introduction
    • 🟦Canvas overview
    • 🟦Canvas view
    • 🟦Canvas settings
    • 🟦Canvas zones
    • 🟦Canvas target areas
  • 🟦MIDI control
    • 🟦MIDI control overview
    • 🟦Live control with the APC40
    • 🟦MIDI Send/Receive
  • 🟦Loading and saving
  • ◼️Tips for loading SVG files
  • ◼️Advanced
    • ◼️How Liberation generates laser content
    • ◼️Scanner presets & render profiles
    • ◼️Advanced laser settings
    • ◼️Render profiles
    • ◼️Colour calibration
  • ◼️Network advice
  • 🟧Troubleshooting
    • 🟦Intermittent / flashing output
    • ✅Live control
    • ✅Missing resources error on startup
  • ✅Reference
    • ✅Keyboard shortcuts
    • ✅APC40 reference
    • ✅MIDI send/receive default mapping
    • ◼️Glossary / jargon
    • ✅The Preset system
  • ✅Credits
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  • Clip settings panel
  • Locking clips
  • Right click menu
  • Retrigger
  • Transition in/out time (fade)

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  1. Clips & Clip deck

Clip settings

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Clip settings panel

Change the output size of the clip using Scale X and Scale Y. They are locked together unless you press the SHIFT key.

Change the horizontal and vertical position of the clip using Shift X and Shift Y.

Zone Delay/Chase is such an fun feature it gets its own section. Zone delay / chase

Locking clips

If a clip is locked, it can't be moved or deleted. To lock a clip, use the Locked checkbox in the right-click menu. In the Clip settings panel you get some more options.

  • UNLOCK ALL - unlocks every clip in the clip deck.

  • AUTO-LOCK - when Auto-Lock is on, any clip that is played automatically (either with the timeline or MIDI record/playback system) will be locked. This is useful if you've programmed a show in Logic Pro (or similar) and do not want to accidentally edit the clips used in the show.

  • LOCKED CLIPS ZONES - if this is on then you can't change the zones for any locked clip

  • LOCKED CLIPS PARAMS - if this is on then you can't change the parameters (scale, shift etc) for any locked clip.

Right click menu

If you right click on a clip, a menu appears with some of the options for that clip. See Introduction to the Clip Editor, Clip settings and Clip groupsfor more about the first few items in this menu.

Retrigger

Clips by default are set to retrigger. This means that no matter when you press it, the clip will start running from that moment. So if you start it late, the clip's animation will be slightly late and out of time.

If you Tap Tempo while a retriggered clip is running, the system will "quantise" the clip to be in time, even if you didn't start it exactly on the beat.

If Retrigger is not enabled, the clip will always be in time - it's as though the clip was started at the very beginning of the clock. It's good for when you are synchronised perfectly with the music via an external clock signal.

Clips are often designed to loop forever but you can design them in such a way that they only run once or a few times around. Make sure to keep those set to retrigger, or they won't restart!

Transition in/out time (fade)

Clips can be set to fade in and out with a duration measured in seconds. By default the fade time will be inherited by its group settings (and can be changed by right clicking on the group button).

If you want a different fade duration from the clip's group, first toggle off the USE GROUP DEFAULT button, then adjust the clip's In time and Out time sliders.

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The clip settings panel
The clip settings right click menu