Many shows today involve combining multiple layers of video content, either on a single display screen or across multiple screens of various resolutions. When you're working with a media server, there are some tricks that you can take advantage of to set up the scale, aspect ratio, and X & Y position palettes to reduce the need to resize your content ahead of time…Since media servers are so flexible, they allow previously-rendered content to be quickly and cleanly resized to match almost any type of pixel configuration of a display device. The alignment rectangle feature of the Mbox EXtreme v3 greatly simplifies the process of mapping out the pixels within the raster of a display device. Give this feature a try the next time you are mapping content to a display if it requires sizing and scaling, and you'll free up more brain-time to dream up creative visuals for the stage.
-Vickie Claiborne, from "Video Digerati," PLSN, Marc 2011
