The powerful Layer concept of BoinxTV means that you have
virtually endless possibilities for designing your show template. Feel free to use one of the included templates as a starting point and by simple customization
create a unique signature for your show. Take inspiration from the following, incomplete, gallery of demo reels highlighting technology in BoinxTV.
Computer Graphics
Character Generation
Chroma Keying
Video/Audio Sources1
Playing Video
Video Scaling
Picture-In-Picture
Presenter Screen
Two/Three/Four Up
Photos and Documents
Video Switching2
Network Cameras3
3D Video
Audience Interaction
1 BoinxTV Home only allows the use of one camera.
2 The Video Switcher layer is not available in BoinxTV Home.
3 Network cameras are not available in BoinxTV Home.
Creating Your Own Layers
For example, you might want to create games that can be played on-screen, receive SMS text messages from your audience, display real time depth and position information from a submarine over a live video that sends it or display stock market information.
The real power of BoinxTV lies in the fact that the Layers are actually made with a Mac OS X technology called Quartz Composer. Quartz Composer is an amazing visual environment for creating complex animations which are called Quartz Compositions.
Quartz Composer comes with the Apple Develoer Tools on your Mac OS X DVD. Apple Developer Connection members can download the software from the ADC website
In theory, anyone can create their own BoinxTV Layers. To work with BoinxTV, the Quartz Compositions must contain certain elements so that BoinxTV and the layer can talk to each other and that the layer can display the media files BoinxTV sends to it. The technical documentation is included with BoinxTV under the Help menu.
