Each Juggler in a Project has its build configuration of available ports recognised by Compere, and this is exposed in the Properties and Project panels. When a Juggler is added from the Project panel into a Nodes panel, the build options of the Juggler are represented as connector pins: square for external and round for internal. These are used to make connections within and between Jugglers, media sources and output devices. This is the full zoom level of detail for a Juggler node. As the Nodes panel is zoomed out, levels of detail are progressively reduced and ultimately replaced by simple colour blocks. This is a typical Juggler node:
Colours in the Nodes Panel
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Hover over any node and it will be outlined in yellow. |
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Double-click to select it and it will be outlined in bright orange. |
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Select an element of a node and the element will be outlined orange and the parent in magenta. |
Example, selecting a video channel in a Juggler:
The square pins on the left and right margins represent the physical input and output connectors. When a signal is present they are green, and when disconnected they are red. An unexpected red pin is a good indicator of a bad physical connector or cable. |
Properties
Jugglers in the network are visible in the Project panel as a group. An icon indicates that a Juggler is currently included in the Nodes panel. Each Juggler entry in the Project panel can be expanded into its parts, ports and channels. Select any element (left, below – highlights in blue) to examine and edit its properties in the Properties panel (right, below).
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The Nodes assembly panel is where representations of Jugglers and other parts of the system can be connected: to each other, to outputs, to other devices, and to processes. Here you decide how the receive (Rx) ports of Jugglers – whichever type is present – accept media sources, transform them, and put them out to display via the transmit (Tx) ports – whichever type is present – or elsewhere in the system via the system bus.
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