Movie Masher

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Administrator documentation for Movie Masher Applet.

Installation: prepares your systems for deploymentInterface Customization: allows for many design possibilitiesContent Management: organizing assets and mashesXML Tags: define all options and runtime information
  • bar: generates a colored row or column of controls in a panel
  • clip: references a specific media item in a mash
  • control: defines an interface control item within a bar
  • mash: describes a user generated mix of media
  • media: video, audio, images, effects and transitions
  • moviemasher: container tag for all other tags
  • option: specifies fonts, servers and runtime options
  • panel: generates a shadowed rectangle to hold bars and controls
  • panels: groups panel tags into a playback or editing interface
  • preview: describes styling options for media and clips
  • source: loads mash and media from URL
Controls: provide an interface for viewing and changing properties
  • Browser: allows grouping and dragging of media
  • CGI: enables interaction with host scripts
  • Field: presents text for editing
  • Icon: serves as a general purpose button
  • Picker: enables selection of fill colors
  • Player: provides preview and playback of a mash
  • Plotter: provides graph for time-based fading of effects and volume
  • Ruler: aligns with timeline to change playhead position
  • Slider: changes properties of clips, timeline, player and browser
  • Text: presents text as an uneditable label
  • Timeline: enables remixing of a mash
  • Trimmer: allows start and end times of AV media to be changed
Effects: change underlying video tracks
  • Adjust: changes brightness, contrast, hue and saturation
  • Bender: applies an external Pixel Bender filter with parameters
  • Caption: adds wrapping text with semi transparent background
  • Colorize: desaturates and applies a tint
  • Composite: applies custom media with transform and paint mode
  • Convolution: uses matrices for sharpen, blur, emboss, outline
  • Displace: uses custom media for wave, ripple, glass effects
  • Picturebox: applies custom media with colored background
  • Textbox: adds text with colored background
  • Ticker: adds scrolling colored text in a custom font
Themes: generate video programmatically
  • Colorfade: produces a flat color that fades to another
  • Gradientmap: generates animated gradients for Displace module
  • Shapes: generates bars, boxes and ovals for Matte module
  • Title: adds colored text in a custom font for titling
Transitions: merge two video clips over time
  • Crossfade: merges video clips using transparency
  • Cube: rotates video clips on a 3D cube
  • Matte: masks one clip over another using a third as a map
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