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	Note: there is currently no end user documentation available, but more advanced developer documentation is included as part of the source download.

Table of contents

Administrator documentation for the Movie Masher open source online video editor.

Overview: describes features and general approach

Architecture: applet/server interactions
Media Handling: asset preprocessing, loading
Customization: layout, effects, themes and transitions
Extending: developing new modules

Installation: prepares your systems for deployment

Server Setup: transfering applets and examples
Configuration: outlines data loading techniques
Serialized Mashes: data storage and retrieval API
Encoding Media: optimization of media assets for editing
Custom Fonts: creating new typefaces for dynamic text
Interface Layout: define size, position and shading of elements
Control Skinning: creating new graphics for controls
Module Configuration: customize effects, transitions and themes

XML Reference: 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, transitions and themes
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

Controls: provide an interface for viewing and changing properties

Browser: allows grouping and dragging of media
Browserlist: provides media groupings to the browser
Field: presents text for editing
Icon: serves as a general purpose button
Imagewell: enables media to be chosen by dragging
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
Scroller: cycles through a set of other controls
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
Caption: adds wrapping text with semi transparent background
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
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
Title: adds colored text in a custom font for titling

Transitions: merge two video clips over time

Crossfade: merges video clips
Cube: rotates video clips on a 3D cube