TACHYON Documentation
  • Welcome to the TACHYON Documentation
  • 📍USER GUIDE
    • 1. Prerequisites
      • 1. Before Starting TACHYON
      • 2. Fundamentals of TACHYON
    • 2. Setting-Up a Show
      • 1. Settings
      • 2. 3D Scene
        • 2.1 Signal Routing and Display Identification
        • 2.2 Adding Projection Surfaces
        • 2.3 Manual 2D Keystone Calibration
        • 2.4 Manual 3D Calibration
        • 2.5 Convergence and Seamless Projection
        • 2.6 Display Soloing
        • 2.7 Default Camera Selection
        • 2.8 Blending
        • 2.9 Calibration Lock
        • 2.10 Decorative Objects
        • 2.11 LED Screen Calibration
    • 3. Importing Content
      • 1. File Manager
      • 2. Imports
      • 3. Conversions
      • 4. Files Management & Display
      • 5. Playlists
      • 6. File Versioning
    • 4. Programming a Show
      • 1. Cue Editor
      • 2. Timeline Editor
        • 2.1 Sequences, Screens, Layers and Clips
        • 2.2 Clip Types
        • 2.3 Screen and Layer Timeline Properties
        • 2.4 Add or Replace Media
        • 2.5 Timeline Navigation
        • 2.6 Editing on the Timeline
        • 2.7 Inserting Cues on the Timeline
        • 2.8 Universal Crossfade
        • 2.9 Timeline Duration
        • 2.10 Timeline Auto Loop
        • 2.11 Timeline Freerun
        • 2.12 Duplicating, Exporting and Importing a Sequence
      • 4. Color Correction
    • ❗TACHYON - V11.1 Release Note
  • Tachyon Learning
    • TACHYON Learning walkthrough
  • Shortcuts
    • TACHYON Shortcuts
  • How to ?
    • Get Started
    • Map a MIDI Slider
    • Use Timecode
    • External TCP/UDP Control Specifications
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  • Color Management
  • UV
  • File Management
  • 3D Scene
  • UI/UX
  • IO
  • Logs
  • Shadow
  • Network Assistant
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  1. USER GUIDE

TACHYON - V11.1 Release Note

Timeline

  • The preload media option is now disabled by default.

  • Timeline Editing: Shortcut to trim clips to fade-in/out points.

    • Trim using Ctrl+Shift+[ or Ctrl+Shift+] to consider the beginning or end of a transition.

  • Snap playhead to fade in/out values.

  • Visual cue when a clip snaps to the playhead.

  • Visual cue when a region snaps to the playhead.

  • New DMX clip icon.

  • Display icon when the media clip is linked to a fixture.

  • New media clip icons.

    • Icon for media type (image vs. video).

    • Icon if frame blending is enabled.

  • Ability to frame selected clips from Clip Properties using the shortcut [F].

  • Improved Clips Cache now evaluates all clip types.

  • Added the ability to specify universal cross-fade delay threshold.

  • Photon's new synchronization mechanism supports Nvidia Gsync, allowing perfect multi-server frame accuracy and smoother playback.

Color Management

  • REC2100 colorspace and PQ curve are now supported for color transformation, allowing for even more accurate and vibrant colors.

  • The Color Picker is now an independent module, making it more user-friendly and streamlined. It can directly be accessed with a simple shortcut: [Alt+Y].

UV

  • UV Preview with Hierarchy rendering:

    • Users can now preview an assembled version of UVs inside a hierarchy of objects. This tool lets users see the UV clusters of each object that makes up a hierarchy rendering and allows them to snap the texture to clusters independently.

  • UV conversion and realtime splitting improvements (automatic media slicing for multi-server super high-resolution playback):

    • Added splitting support for Virtual Projector and LED screen

    • Added LED preview and timeline preview splitting support.

File Management

  • Export CSV

    • Now includes an index column.

    • Export CSV index starts at 1.

    • "Hide original" option is now considered.

  • New File Manager filters:

    • File Sequence: Groups .seq files and their associated VCI files.

    • Converted: Groups only converted VCI files.

    • Originals: Groups only imported original files.

      Ignores and disables the hide originals toggle automatically.

  • New LED splitting on conversion support.

    • The systems can automatically crop the required slice of video at conversion for each playback machine based on its connected LED processor coverage.

  • Notch blocks now appear in used/unused Filters.

  • P2P version 2023.

    • New and improved high-performance internal transfer engine for File Manager is now P2P v3, resulting in significantly better performance on high bandwidth networks.

3D Scene

  • Improved 3D object transparency rendering.

  • Virtual Projectors performance optimization.

    • Introducing vertex clipping mechanism to reduce the amount of pixels rasterized.

  • FBX SDK update to 2020.3.1.

UI/UX

  • Greatly improved Font Rendering.

  • Redesigned Scalable interface (4k compatible) with redesigned iconography.

  • Maximizable windows now have a dedicated indicator icon and can restore the original size.

  • Added instant search in all combo boxes.

  • Keyframe Editor now follows the zoom factor.

    • Improved shortcuts consistency.

    • Albion Monitoring shortcut is now ALT+SHIFT+A ● Profiler shortcut is now ALT+P.

    • Undo Manager is now ALT+SHIFT+U.

IO

  • Projector control:

    • Introducing a new basic control feature for the Christie HS series.

  • Network Show Control:

    • The GET_SYSTEM_STATE command will now provide the current task's percentage (%) in its reply.

    • The new REMOVE_MEDIA command can now delete media from the Media Library, including files in playlists and the content folder.

  • DMX:

    • DMX layer control of "media index" now starts at 1.

      0 means "No Media".

    • DMX layer control performances using a "media index" with many media files are greatly improved.

    • DMX Show Control value is now applied to its linked parameter only on value change.

    • DMX timeline control of "region index" now starts at 1. 0 means "Do Nothing."

Logs

  • Improved logs when PHOTON connects or disconnects from projectors.

  • Improved log messages in case of errors when pressing on "NVIDIA Control Panel" from the Settings window.

  • Improved "Log Manager" internal networking pipeline.

  • Prevent overzealous logging from PJLink projectors.

  • Reduce the number of log entries for missing VCI / VCD files.

  • Complain only once about excess cameras in a project.

Shadow

  • You can save a project using the Shadow module without recording other actions.

    • The project will be saved in a shadow session if no recording types are selected (e.g. mouse, PSN...)

Network Assistant

  • A new option to delay the startup of VNA to allow all system resources to complete boot.

TACHYON

  • New FREE and DOWNLOADABLE version Tachyon Learning.

    • 2x watermarked output.

  • Added Virtual Projector support in the 3D Scene.

  • Added Composer clip support in Timeline.

  • Added FBX support.

  • Various UI improvements.

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