Chapter 1: Product Overview - High End Systems DL.3 User Manual

Chapter 1:
Product Overview
This chapter describes the features of the DL.3 Digital Light and the
Content Management Application software.
The DL.3 (Digital Light 3) fixture merges video projection and automated lighting technologies
with a DMX controllable digital media server housed in a moving yoke fixture. The built-in 32-bit
Graphics Engine utilizes Windows XP Embedded and DirectX application programming
interface to provide extensive image control of multiple 3-D graphic objects.
DL.3 fixtures use the DMX512 protocol to control hardware functions like pan, tilt, as well as
graphic control of the internal media server. Media control functions include loading images and
movies and mapping them onto 3-D graphical objects. The internal graphics engine lets you
manipulate position, scale, and rotation; apply visual effects and color mix each graphic object.
You can create and control up to nine of these objects and then apply global effects to the
composite image. A DL.3 fixture provides an extensive library of over 1500 high-resolution
lighting-optimized video and still images.
The Collage Generator™ feature allows you to create seamless vertical, horizontal or central
panoramic media projections using multiple DL.2 and DL.3 units controlled from a lighting
console. Using multiple digital lighting fixtures allows you to increase effective screen
luminance.
The DL.3 fixture provides a fully equipped internal digital camera and IR illuminator to input live
video to its own graphic engine or to another DL.3 fixture or device. While combining camera
and light from the same source, the camera also features optical and digital zoom, frame rate
and invert effects as well as freeze frame, color negative and grayscale conversion effects. DL.3
can also accept SDI, HD-SDI, S-Video and RGBHV formats from external sources.
NOTE: The DL.3F fixture model for fixed installations incorporates all the
functionality of the DL.3 model with the exception of the onboard
camera/illuminator system and SDI and S-Video in and out.
The Content Management Application (CMA) software runs on your workstation or laptop
computer and communicates with other DL.3 fixtures as well as DL.2 fixtures and Axon media
servers over an Ethernet network. The CMA lets you remotely upload, move and clone content
files, configure fixtures, and upgrade software. It also provides tools for resource monitoring
and the capability for downloading log files to assist customer service in diagnosing any
software issues that may arise.
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