Footage: Tears of Steel © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, trimmed and shown inside Deckboy with the original audio removed. Music: YMCK — Family Music (2004), used with permission. The music has its own permission; it is not covered by Deckboy's software licence.
The current desk, in action
Explore video playback, effects, scopes and warp from v0.99.419. The effects, scopes and warp demos use Deckboy's generated material and bundled examples.
Moving test card · real analysis and output counters · v0.99.419
Earlier trailer / v0.99.397
A minute of clips, slides, lower thirds, projection mapping and effects from the earlier release.
What is in it
- One list — clips taken to air with a push, an iris, a wipe and a dip.
- Anything is a cue — a live web page, then a slide deck: a PDF, PowerPoint or Keynote file becomes one cue per slide, notes included.
- Lower thirds — the new arcade look, with its slow wobble.
- Projection mapping — a layer pinned onto a steep board in linear, which folds along the diagonal, then switched to perspective, which keeps a flat board flat. New in 0.99.397.
- Text mode — a face redrawn in ASCII density characters, getting finer on every beat until it resolves.
- Schlieren and Chladni plates — two of the effects no other playback application has.
- Sixteen effects switched live on the beat, with the recorder counting frames: none dropped.
Nobody touched the mouse
Every shot was driven down the same TCP control port a Stream Deck or a Bitfocus
Companion button would use — TAKE, FX ADD schlieren,
VIDEO OUTPUT LAYERWARP MODE perspective — and recorded by Deckboy's own
programme recorder from the released 0.99.397 build. The frame count in the effects run
is that recording's own: every frame the recorder owed, with no dropped-frame alarm.
The titles, captions and the swirl were added afterwards.
Credits
Music: YMCK — 「ジョン・コルトレーンは回転木馬の夢を見るか」 (Does John Coltrane Dream of a Merry-Go-Round), from FAMILY MUSIC, used with permission. ymck.net
Footage: Sintel and Tears of Steel © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, studio.blender.org. Hurricane Ian from the International Space Station: NASA.
The first trailer
The 0.99.374 trailer shows Deckboy's control window at work — transitions, a window cue, a web page cue, slides with presenter view — and its music is Deckboy playing itself: the 2A03 chip voice, a Tone cue fired down the control port and run through the application's own audio rack.
Feature clips
Short ones, one feature each, recorded from the released 0.99.397 and cut with captions that name what is on screen. Each comes in a vertical version for phones. Music: YMCK, used with permission; film footage: Tears of Steel © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0.
Projection mapping, in perspective
10 seconds · linear folds the board, perspective keeps it flat · vertical version
The arcade lower third
11 seconds · in, a wobble, and out · vertical version
Anything is a cue
12 seconds · a live web page, then a PDF slide deck · vertical version
Text mode
9 seconds · a face resolving out of ASCII characters · vertical version
Levels and curves
12 seconds · a grade built live, first in the effect list · vertical version
Databend
12 seconds · the picture played through an audio chain, turned up until it tears · try it in your browser · vertical version
Reuse it
Deckboy-generated silent captures and the first trailer with its original music are GPL-3.0 like the rest of the project; take them for an article or a talk. The music-backed v0.99.397 trailer is yours to share and embed as it is, but its music belongs to YMCK and its footage carries the credits above, so please don't cut it into anything else.