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Disguise User Guide

Output professional audio

​Designer can play back a quantised audio file attached to the Track. However, to achieve PA audio quality, it is recommended to embed uncompressed audio within a video file and play that audio back as a Video layer. The audio can be either embedded in the same video file as the video content, or as a separate 16x16px DXV video file.

Audio format restrictions when embedding audio into a video file (pre r15.2)

44.1kHz, 16bit samples, stereo, uncompressed .wav embedded into a 16x16 pixel Quicktime .mov ( DXV preferably)

Playing back audio in a seperate video file

The advantage of rendering the audio into a separate low-res video file, as opposed to embedding it in the same video file as the video content, is that if the audio or video is updated the embedded video file does not have to be re-rendered.

To play back audio in a separate video file:

  1. Render the audio into a 16x16px black DXV video using for example Adobe After Effects. Make sure to have the DXV codec installed.
  2. Copy the video file with the embedded audio to the VideoFile folder in the specific Project folder. See the Placing media files for a project topic to understand where to copy a video file.
  3. Create a Video layer.
  4. Select the video file containing the audio and drop it onto the Video key-frame editor.
  5. Create a new screen of the type Screen and rename it to Audio dummy screen.
  6. Set the resolution of the screen to 16x16px and set the offset values so it’s positioned far away from the other video screens in the Stage. This screen will only be used for audio output and has therefore ​no visual function.
  7. Select the mapping type used for theAudio dummy screen for the Video layer. This will direct the Video layers output to the Audio dummy screen screen.
  8. In the Output Feed level, add a Feed rectangle to the Audio dummy screen screen. This will copy the Audio dummy screen screens content from the Stage level to a Feed scene in the Feed level. Hit Enter or select the Play button to output the audio to a PA.

To play the audio in sync with video content, create a second Video layer, position the video file at the same position on the Video key-frame editor as the video file containing audio, and map the second Video layer to a separate screen.