coolux Releases the New Pandoras Box Version 5.7 Software

coolux, the creators of the award winning Pandoras Box product family, released the new Pandoras Box Version 5.7 software at the beginning of July.

New Pandoras Box 5.7 Software features include the Venue Sites, which are used for visualizing complete stage-, installation- and show-setups in realtime, using 3-D models.

Media content can be pre-programmed per output and can then be routed to different 3-D models this way, the company says.

Instead of just offering a standard 3-D mapping approach for pre-visualization, one can now use a realtime compositing environment as a complete whole to simulate video projectors virtually, using a light projection approach, the company says.

Media content and content compositing can be used completely independently from the visualized 3-D scenes.

Another aspect of Venue Sites relates to being able to test and play around with the simulations of complex media installations. This way, one can for example train oneself to set up a spherical projection or a softedge projection without having to use real projectors in the process, the company says.

The new version 5.7 includes a completely re-designed text editor. Different font styles can now be used within a single text asset. An automatic horizontal and vertical scrolling capability is also part of this tool's latest development.

When working with the new text editor, one can even use and add an unlimited amount of text to a continuous text input, the company says.

The latest Pandoras Box audio feature development makes it possible to input ASIO sound as well as HD-SDI embedded audio.

Users can route, delay, and record ASIO inputs. Sound data can be used on ASIO tracks and programmed to the timeline, including different delays for different output signal chains.

The Pandoras Box timeline now acts as an automated audio desk, or can alternatively be triggered via external commands.

Users can now decide to scale all content to the native resolution, even across several machines and across different resolutions. Pixels can be entered directly into the interface, in order to position layers and cameras. These settings can then also be applied directly by creating a new project without any further user action being necessary, the company says.