From 6856fb8846a58de2c6b950e22655eb223c061016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ichthyostega Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:05:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] DOC/Intro: expand on the global pipes (master bus section) --- doc/user/intro/intro.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/user/intro/intro.txt b/doc/user/intro/intro.txt index 1ab67a354..59e2fdcb4 100755 --- a/doc/user/intro/intro.txt +++ b/doc/user/intro/intro.txt @@ -285,15 +285,21 @@ footage for preview creates a simple internal timeline. -Busses -~~~~~~ +Global Pipes +~~~~~~~~~~~~ // TODO: needs rewriting. -The GUI provides a separate _bus view_, showing the master busses (subgroups) -in a manner similar to an audio mixing desk. Any bus is just a means of collecting -and and adding (aka overlaying) together output of various kinds of media -(video, audio, number of channels), produced by various processing elements and -from other busses. These global busses can be conceived as being part of the -timeline. +The GUI provides a separate _bus view_, showing the _global pipes_. These are the +master busses for each kind of output (image and sound) and collect the output of +the subgroups, in a manner similar to an audio mixing desk. Any _pipe_ is just a +means of collecting, mixing or overlaying output produced by other pipes. +A simple (linear) chain of effects can be applied within each pipe. + +Most of the pipes are managed automatically, e.g. the pipes corresponding to +individual clips, or the pipes collecting output from transitions, from nested +sequences and from groups of tracks. At some point, at the level of the +timeline, all of the processed data is collected within the aforementioned +global pipes to form the small number of output streams produced by rendering +and playback. Each timeline uses a separate set of global pipes. Asset View