Resolume Avenue & Arena Manual Installing ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Registering ................................................................................................................................. 2 Entering your Serial ............................................................................................................... 2 Updates .................................................................................................................................. 3 Online Verification .................................................................................................................. 3 Offline Registration ................................................................................................................ 4 Unregister .............................................................................................................................. 4 One License, Many Machines ................................................................................................. 7 Registering Using a Dongle ..................................................................................................... 8 Permanent and Irrevocable .................................................................................................... 9 No Internet Required ............................................................................................................ 10 One Dongle per Computer ................................................................................................... 10 Stuff Happens ...................................................................................................................... 10 Yearly Renewals ...................................................................................................................... 12 This is not a subscription! .................................................................................................... 12 Signing up for another Tour ................................................................................................. 13 Beat the System ................................................................................................................... 13 Basic Vocabulary ..................................................................................................................... 14 Clip ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Layer .................................................................................................................................... 14 Group ................................................................................................................................... 14 Composition ......................................................................................................................... 14 Deck ..................................................................................................................................... 15 Effect .................................................................................................................................... 15 Parameter ............................................................................................................................ 15 Shortcut ............................................................................................................................... 15 Quickstart Tutorial .................................................................................................................. 16 Trigger Clips ......................................................................................................................... 16 Mixing .................................................................................................................................. 17 Effects .................................................................................................................................. 17 Have a Play! ......................................................................................................................... 19 Clips ........................................................................................................................................... 20 Triggering Clips .................................................................................................................... 20 Column Triggering ............................................................................................................... 20 .............................................................................................................................................. 21 Trigger Settings ................................................................................................................... 21 Resize .................................................................................................................................. 23 Thumbnails .......................................................................................................................... 24 Persistent Clips .................................................................................................................... 24 Cut/Copy/Paste/Rename/Clear ............................................................................................. 24 Show & Strip ........................................................................................................................ 25 Snapshot .............................................................................................................................. 25 Clip Colors ............................................................................................................................ 25 Auto Pilot .............................................................................................................................. 25 Clip Properties ...................................................................................................................... 26 Layers ........................................................................................................................................ 29 Blending and Compositing ................................................................................................... 29 Too Much of a Good Thing ................................................................................................... 30 Eject, Bypass and Solo ......................................................................................................... 35 Layer Order .......................................................................................................................... 36 Layer Transition ................................................................................................................... 36 Previous / Next Clip .............................................................................................................. 36 Layer Properties ................................................................................................................... 37 Layer Transport Controls ...................................................................................................... 38 Trigger Options .................................................................................................................... 39 Mask Layer ........................................................................................................................... 39 Lock Content ........................................................................................................................ 40 Duplicate, Rename, Clear Clips and Remove ....................................................................... 40 Groups ....................................................................................................................................... 41 Creating Groups ................................................................................................................... 41 Adding and Removing Layers ............................................................................................... 42 What Happens in the Group, Stays in the Group! ................................................................ 43 Group Blending .................................................................................................................... 43 Group to Slice Routing ......................................................................................................... 44 Composition .............................................................................................................................. 45 Settings ................................................................................................................................ 45 Properties ............................................................................................................................. 47 Crossfader ............................................................................................................................ 47 Direction Controls ................................................................................................................ 49 Trigger Options .................................................................................................................... 50 Decks ........................................................................................................................................