MBOX EXTREME™ MEDIA SERVER USER MANUAL
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Description

Features

The Mbox Extreme™ Media Server is a case-mount unit which allows advanced integration of video
and automated lighting. Powerful real time rendering, built-in effects, and interactive 3D objects
provide tools for combining pre-recorded video and still images to create visual imagery, which can be
displayed by any projector, LED wall, plasma screen or low-res LED lighting fixture.
The Mbox Extreme server can be programmed and operated directly from DMX512-based moving
light consoles, allowing ease of coordination between video/image effects and lighting cues. Intricate
Mbox Extreme sequences can be generated instantly on site without the need for offline video
processing, rendering or editing. The Mbox Extreme stock library includes a wide variety of video
clips, still images and 3D objects. Custom media files may also be added.
The Mbox Extreme software runs on a rack-mounted Apple® Macintosh® G5 computer controlled by
DMX512 or Art-Net. All video, still images and 3D objects are stored on directly on the Mbox
Extreme hard drive, allowing instant access to any file. Mbox Extreme is available in either a single or
dual-server rack and each server is equipped with one video output that can be used to drive a
projector, LED wall or plasma screen. The included I/O module provides analog (RGBHV), DVI, SDI
and HD-SDI outputs for video.
Note: The Mac® G5 provided requires the Tiger™ (10.4) operating system.
Feature List
• Real time rendering.
• Movable camera viewpoint.
• Keystone correction.
• Ambient and directional light sources.
• Five interactive, scalable layers that can be configured as
backgrounds or 3D geometric objects.
• Digital gobos that can be used as backgrounds, masks or for
advanced layer blending effects.
• Image tiling and edge-blending.
• Pixel mapping.
• Layer break-out view.
• Mapping of textures (videos or still images) to 3D objects and digital gobos.
• Real time crossfades and transitions between videos and images on the same layer.
• Effects including blur, pixelate, LED Wall, twirl, color, exposure and alpha adjustment can be
applied individually or in combination.
• Accepts live video input – SDI, Composite and FireWire® (DV).
• Advanced video playback with direction, speed and in-point/out-point control.
• User-configurable aspect ratio and output resolution control.
• Control by DMX512 or Art-Net.