High End Systems DL.3 Chapter 1: Product Overview

DL.3 Digital Light User Manual 1
Chapter 1:
Product Overview
This chapter describes the features of the DL.3 fixture 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 up to three 3-D graphic objects.
DL.3 fixtures use 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 three 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 and can accept SDI, S-Video and RGBHV formats from external sources.
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.
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.
Features
System
• 6500 ANSI lumens output
• 2000:1 Contrast Ratio creates exceptional video black
• SDI, RGBHV and S-Video connections accept a wide range of media device inputs