User manual

To add a Live Background (motion content layer) to your empty

Preset, proceed as follows:

1/ Press the [BKGND LIVE] button to activate the Live Background

outline rectangle on screen. The touch screen of the Axion2

will display a yellow rectangle, indicating the selected area, and

your Preview output will display an empty selection rectangle.

2/ The blue Main/Preview section light will blink to indicate you

can select the source you want to use as a Live Background.

Press a [SOURCE PREVIEW] button (#1 to #12). The selected

image will now appear on your Preview output.

3/ Press the [TAKE] button to view the result on your Main output.

To clear a Live Background from your Screen, proceed as follows:

1/ Press the [BKGND LIVE] button to select the Live Background

you wish to clear from your Screen.

2/ Press the [CLEAR] button once. In the Axion2 Settings section,

a message will be displayed at the bottom of the touch screen

to conrm your action. Press the [CLEAR] button again to

conrm. The Live Background will go to black on the Preview

output. Press the [TAKE] button to take off the background on

your main output.

* TIP * : You do not need to clear a background to switch its source,

simply select another frame into your background frame layer and

take it to see the result on your main screen.

Adding a background

Clearing a background

5-3. LIVE BACKGROUNDS

With the Axion2, you can save the transition settings of any layer

into 4 handy User Effects which can be called back and edited at any

stage. To do this, proceed as follows:

1/ Select a layer and congure the in and out transitions as

required via the Element page on the touch screen.

2/ Once all the desired settings have been made, press Save To

User Effect 1 to store the settings into the User Effect memory 1.

3/ To recall the User Effect, press the [USER EFFECT 1] button in

the Preset Edition of the Axion2. The User Effect will appear

as you have set it up on your Preview output.

4/ Press the [TAKE] button to view the result on your Main output.

User Effects