Visibox Terminology
Simply put, a Visibox Project contains a number of Songs, each of which may contain a number of Clips.
Project
The Project is the top level. It holds the Songs that make up your set list as well as their order, the Clips they contain, and their respective settings. The Project file collects all of your Songs and Clips into one place so that you can transfer it from one computer to another.
Song
A Song is the container Visibox uses to organize a grouping of Clips. It typically represents a piece of music, although it may be some other unit of a non-musical performance.
Note that a Song simply holds the visuals that play while you perform, so you do not need to upload an audio track for the song. However, you can attach audio clips to be used as backing tracks while you play. Attaching audio clips is discussed in the “Setting Up Your Project” section of this guide.
TIP: Use the Visibox Song list as your set list!
The Visibox Song list can do double duty as your set list. It is easy to rearrange the songs on the fly and if you print it out and it looks pretty nice! So even if you have songs with no visual components, including it in the Song list has advantages.
Clip
Clips are the visual elements that form the basic building blocks of a Visibox project. They are what the audience actually sees. Clips can be video files (MP4, M4V, MOV, or WEBM), image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, SVG, TIFF, or WEBP), Camera Clips (live video inputs), Color Clips (solid colors), or Visualizers (live generative visuals). You can adjust the speed of clips, the loop style, and what happens when you retrigger a clip once it is already playing. If the video used for a Clip has audio, that audio will play unless you Mute it (you can also adjust the relative volume).
Camera Clip
A Camera Clip displays a live video feed from a connected video input device — a USB webcam, an HDMI capture adapter, or a virtual camera. If your computer sees it as a camera, Visibox can use it as a Clip. See Connecting Cameras & Video Inputs for setup details.
Color Clip
A Color Clip is a solid-color Clip — most commonly black. Color Clips exist because Visibox must always be playing something in order to play audio attached to a Song. If you want to play “nothing” visually (for example, during a song that only needs a backing track), a black Color Clip is the way to go. You can also choose any other color, and Color Clips work well as canvases for Effects. Color Clips replace the older “Placeholder Clips” from previous versions.
Effect
An Effect is a real-time visual transformation applied to a Clip — motion, color shifts, glitch, distortion, or audio-reactive animation. Effects do not modify your original media files. Visibox includes a library of built-in Effects and you can create your own in the Effects Editor. Each Effect has adjustable Intensity and Speed parameters.
Visualizer
A Visualizer is a special type of Clip that displays live, generative, audio-reactive visuals instead of a media file. Visibox includes two visualizer engines: MilkDrop and ISF (Interactive Shader Format). You can browse, create, and edit Visualizers in the Visualizers Editor.
Next, let’s get a birdseye view of the Visibox interface before moving onto more detailed instructions on how to use it.