Snowmix Tutorials on YouTube

Introduction

This page list the Snowmix YouTube Playlists available at the Snowmix YouTube channel named Snowmix4Video. Snowmix playlist are short tutorials with each tutorial focused on a narrow topic. For better understanding each tutorial, then prerequisites for a tutorial with a higher number are that concepts presented in tutorials with a lower number have been understood.

More playlists to come.

Snowmix YouTube Tutorials - The 100 Series

The playlist for the Snowmix Live Video Mixer by Stacking introduces Snowmix basic video feeds and how to do basic video mixing by stacking. Snowmix 101 - The basic video feed mixing by stacking. This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating one basic video feed and display it. Commands and keywords presented are: system geometry system frame rate system socket system ctr port stack system mix always moinitor border feed add feed geometry feed live feed idle feed socket In addition to this, the input2feed utility is used for demonstration.

Snowmix 102 - The basic video feed, stackign 2 feeds.

This tutorial presents creating two basic video videos and mixing them with the stack coomand
Additional commands and keywords presented are:

• feed coor

Snowmix 103 - The basic video feed, stacking, changing placement/coordinates.

This tutorial presents how to move around with two basic video feeds. Stacking is used for mixing.
Additional commands and keywords presented are:

• feed info

Snowmix 104 - The basic video feed, stacking and PiP, Picture in Picture.

This tutorial presents how to scale a basic video feed, do a PiP Picture and swop between two feeds as well as how to create command macros and call/execute them.
Additional commands and keywords presented are:

• feed scale
• command create
• command end
• loop
• message

Snowmix 105 - The basic video feed, flip and stack.

This tutorial presents how to flip a basic video feed and stack it. 4 basic video feeds are creating using same source and then scaled and presented as 2 by 2 and then 3 of them are indivudal flipped.
Additional commands and keywords presented are:

• feed flip
• feed clip

Snowmix YouTube Tutorials - The 200 Series

The playlist for the Snowmix Live Video Mixer with virtual feeds introduces Snowmix virtual feeds and demonstrate how to do video mixing using these virtual feeds. Snowmix 201 - Virtual Feeds - Basic 1 of 2. This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating virtual feeds and mixing/display virtual feeds. Virtual feeds may represent video feeds and image. This is 1 of 2 video. Commands and keywords presented are: vfeed add vfeed source vfeed geomertry vfeed coor vfeed clip vfeed overlay

Snowmix 202 - Virtual Feeds - Basic 2 of 2.

This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating virtual feeds and mixing/display virtual feeds. Virtual feeds may represent video feeds and image. This is 1 of 2 video.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• vfeed alpha
• vfeed clip
• vfeed scale

Snowmix 203 - Virtual Feeds PiP - Picture in Picture..

This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating virtual feeds and mixing/display virtual feeds. In this tutorial an example for PiP Picture in Picture is shown.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• vfeed alpha
• vfeed source

Snowmix 204 - Virtual Feeds Animation..

This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating virtual feeds and mixing/display virtual feeds. In this tutorial virtual feeds are animated meaning we will see live feed shrinking/enlarging as well as rotating and moving and fading with alpha blending.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• command at
• vfeed align
• vfeed coor
• vfeed rotation
• vfeed source
• vfeed move alpha
• vfeed move coor
• vfeed move rotation
• vfeed move scale
• vfeed move clip

Snowmix YouTube Tutorials - The 300 Series

The playlist for the Snowmix Live Video Mixer with Shapes introduces Snowmix shapes and how to use 2D shapes and geometries for video mixing. Snowmix 301 - Basic Shape Feeds 1 of 2. This tutorial presents the basic setup for shape based feeds and how to use them for mixing live video. Commands and keywords presented are: shape add shape feed shape paint shape list shape place shape shape place overlay

Snowmix 302 - Basic Shape Feeds 2 of 2.

This tutorial presents setting changing offset, rotation, alpha and scale for a placed shape referenmcing a feed shape. This is second of two video for basic shapes.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• shape place
• shape place offset
• shape place rotation
• shape place alpha
• shape place scale
• shape place help

Snowmix 303 - Basic Shape Feeds PiP - Picture in Picture..

This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating shape feeds. In this tutorial an example for PiP Picture in Picture is shown.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• shape place alpha
• shape place shape
• command create/command end
• command at

Snowmix 304 - Basic Shape Feeds Animation..

This tutorial presents the basic setup for creating shape based feeds and mixing/display shape based feeds. In this tutorial shape feeds are animated meaning we will see live feed shrinking/enlarging as well as rotating and moving and fading with alpha blending.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• shape place move alpha
• shape place move coor
• shape place move scale
• shape place move offset
• shape place move rotation
• command at

Snowmix YouTube Tutorials - The 400 Series

The playlist for the Snowmix Live Video Mixer with Images introduces images in Snowmix shapes and how to inlcude and use images for video mixing. Snowmix 401 - Basic Image Overlay. This tutorial presents the basic setup for loading images into SNowmix and display them for live video mixing. Commands and keywords presented are: image load image place image align image scale image alpha image overlay

Snowmix 402 - Image overlay & scripting.

This tutorial presents basic scripting and loaded image to create an application counting time for frames.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• image align
• image anchor
• image coor
• image place
• image image
• command create/command end
• loop
• next

Snowmix 403 - Image Indexing & SCripting..

This tutorial presents the index images and uses an example to demonstrate how to use use indexed images in a basic script listing for frames. In this tutorial indexed images are also used to create a larger image, take a snapshot of this image and save it to disk for later use.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• image help
• image index load
• image index set
• image index incr
• image source frame
• image write
• command deleteline
• command addatline
• command list
• command create/command end
• loop
• next

Snowmix 404 - Indexed Images Replayi & Scripting..

This tutorial presents indexing a loaded image, create a basic clock script usign the indexed image. We then demonstrate how t ouse advanced scripting for recording individual mixed video into individual images, saving the images to disk, loading them again as an indexed image and using it to replay the recorded clip.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• command create xxxxxxx.tcl
• snowmix parse (in tcl)
• command at

Snowmix 405 - Images & Transparency..

This tutorial presents how to handle images with transparency and how to improve the mixing of same onto a live video.

Commands and keywords presented are:

• image premultiply
• image load
• image alpha
• image scale
• image place
• image filter
• image source image
• image source frame
• image help
• command addatline
• command at
• command restart