Designing For Real-Time
Whether you are building for interactive, live shows or virtual production, Notch provides workflows to deliver real-time rendering.
Notch Blocks
Notch Blocks are self-contained, single-file exports from Notch Builder.
| Managing Performance in Media Servers | Unless your media server has a 'side-car' GPU dedicated to Notch rendering, your Notch effects will be sharing the same GPU processor as the media server software. |
| Using Notch in Ai | Avolites Ai supports the *native* playback of Notch Blocks from v9.1 in both it's software and hardware versions. |
| Using Notch in disguise (formerly d3) | Using Notch in disguise. |
| Using Notch in Hippotizer | Green Hippo have *native* Notch playback support from version 4.2 (patch required) |
| Using Notch in Screenberry | Screenberry native Notch playback support from version 2.6.0 (patch required) |
| Exposing Attributes | Exposing properties to host applications / media servers |
| Proxy Block | Exporting a proxy block to a media server allows you to control a Notch standalone running on the same or different PC. |
| SDK Dependencies when using Media Servers | Notch utilises a number of 3rd party SDKs that require the installation of such SDKs and/or DLLs onto the media server that is going to be used for your project. |
| Using FXPlayerHost to test Blocks | FXPlayerHost is a small application for testing Notch blocks. |
| Using Notch in 7thSense Delta | 7th Sense Delta servers have *native* Notch playback support from version 4.2 (patch required) |
Standalone
Run your project as a Windows Application.
| Interface | The UI of standalone explained |
| Launching Standalone | How to launch a Standalone Executable |
| Using Standalone in Production Environments | Learn how to correctly set up your exported application for production |
| Key And Fill | Learn how to set up key and fill for use in Standalone |
| Multi Head Output | Learn how to use standalone with multiple output feeds |
Topics
| Remote Network Editing | Notch Builder Pro is able to remotely edit Notch projects running as Standalone or Blocks on local or remote machines. |
| Remote | Learn how to use Notch remote to control blocks or standalone applications. |