Liberation User Manual
  • ✅Important! Read this first
  • ✅Installation / licensing
    • ✅Install for Mac
    • ✅Install for Windows
    • ✅How licensing works
    • ✅Authorising and de-authorising
    • ✅Upgrade / downgrade your license
    • ✅Cancel your subscription
  • ✅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 window
    • ✅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 settings
    • 🟦Organising your clip deck
  • ◼️Effects
    • ◼️Applying effects
    • ◼️Editing effects
    • ◼️Effect settings
  • 🟧The Clip Editor
    • ◼️Introduction to the Clip Editor
    • 🟦Fundamentals
      • 🟦Co-ordinate system
      • 🟦Colour settings and HSB
      • 🟦Render profile
      • 🟦Resolution
      • 🟦Fills, masks and depth sorting
    • 🟦Creators
    • 🟧Oscillators
      • ✅Wave oscillators
      • ✅Sound input oscillator
      • ✅Parameter Control
    • 🟦Transformations
    • ◼️Modifiers
      • ◼️MIDI notes
  • ◼️Tempo / synchronisation
  • 🟧Live control
    • ◼️Live control example
  • ◼️Timeline
    • ◼️MIDI record/playback system
    • ◼️Timeline (experimental)
      • ◼️Overview
      • ◼️Adding an audio file
      • ◼️Recording a show
      • ◼️Adding clips manually
      • ◼️Fine tuning clips
  • ◼️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
  • ◼️Synchronisation
  • ◼️Network advice
  • 🟧Troubleshooting
    • ✅Intermittent / flashing output
    • ✅Live control
  • ✅Reference
    • ✅Keyboard shortcuts
    • ✅APC40 reference
    • ✅MIDI send/receive default mapping
    • ◼️Glossary / jargon
  • ✅Credits
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  • Toolbar icons

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  1. Graphics and the Canvas system

Canvas view

Select the CANVAS view by clicking on the CANVAS button in the top tool bar.

The Canvas view is a representation of the full canvas - this is the area you have to play with and add content to. In this view you can choose which parts of the canvas go to which zones, and add guide images.

Navigating around the Canvas view

Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. Click and drag on any empty space (or on locked zones) to move the view around.

Toolbar icons

On the left of the view you'll see the toolbar. Hover your mouse over any icon to see what it does.

  • Open the Canvas settings window

  • Add a new canvas zone

  • Add a new guide image

  • Toggle snapping to the grid

  • Adjust the grid size (0 smallest - 8 largest). (Note that grid sizes increase by a power of 2 so when you reduce the size of the grid all of your snapped points are still in line).

  • Show / hide the grid

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