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Note
To see the menu bar, the window must not be full screen. In full screen mode the menu bar is hidden.
4.6.2 Combined Version
In the MagicQ PC application window MagicHD settings are accessed from the Media Player menu:
View Media Output Toggle the MagicHD window
Select Player From the patched MagicHDs in the show, select which one to
emulate in the local window
Load MagicHD
Demo Load the MagicHD demo show, and open the player window
Full Screen Toggle full screen mode
Window. . . Launch the window size dialogue
Convert all media Force conversion of all media in the convert directory
Convert file Interactively choose a single file for conversion
Stop conversion Stop media conversion if it is in progress
Rebuild index Force the media index to be rebuilt
Rebuild thumbnails Force all thumbnails to be rebuilt
Deploy Media TBD
4.7 Status
MagicHD is intended to output on a projector or video screen in a show environment, controlled using DMX . As such there is
no mechanism to feed status back to the user. Apart from the HUD there is no GUI. MagicHD reports warnings, errors and some
supporting information, to its log file , but this is only intended for post mortem analysis.
When there is status to feed back to the user it appears in the status bar on the HUD :
and in the combined version, in the input display window in MagicQ PC:
4.8 Window Size Dialogue
The window size dialogue box is launched from the menu . It allows the output window to be positioned accurately, and its size
to be fixed.