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Interpolating and damping incoming data for dominant layer parameters
Dominant Value delay concept
The concept behind the global setting Dominant Value delay is that you have incoming data via the API to remote layer parameters. It may happen that incoming data is jittery and leads to unwanted results. With the dominant Value Delay setting, you can smooth out and dampen jittery data with interpolation between two subsequent incoming values. The interpolation time is set in milliseconds. Now, the values of two subsequent incoming data packets will be interpolated and faded within the given time. This results in a smoothing of the incoming values over time, allowing PIXERA to deal, for example, with jittery DMX input data in a way that ensures that layer position animations avoid any jumps on the output.
The global setting can be set independently for Opacity, Volume, Transformations, and Effects.
Finding the setting
You can find the setting in Tab Settings > General > Timelines
Important information
This is a general setting
Dominant Value delay is a general setting. Meaning that if you set a delay for Opacity, all layers in the project will have the delay/interpolation applied.
Fading PIXERA layer parameters via CONTROL
Setting an action/button in PIXERA Control to remote a parameter on a layer will have a fade parameter in the block builder. This fade parameter will overrule the global setting.
For UI elements this can be changed by using the API browser, in deleting the fade parameter. In an action change from block builder view to LUA scripting and remove the 0 fade value. Instead of .setValue(myValue, myFadeTime) use .setValue(myValue). Now the global setting will be applied.
Dominant Value Delay is not a Multiuser feature!
As dominant values are not part of a multiuser session, the fades will not be applied to a backup, for example. We assume that layer remoting data is sent independently to a multiuser machine, so to the main and backup, for example. To achieve the dominant value delay on all multiuser machines do the following:
>send data to all multiuser machine
>set global dominant vale delay settings accordingly on needed main systems
Layer parameters only!
Dominant Value Delays are for layer parameters only. They do not affect routed data for moving screens etc. nor for data interaction that is coming in via the “direct API” (tracking inputs). If you require damping on incoming tracking data please refer to this article:
https://help.pixera.one/en_US/tracking-modules
Layer data via DMX
the global Dominant Value Delay will be applied to parameter changes that are remoted via DMX. With the new DMX patching, you can remote this on a per-layer basis with the interpolation parameters offered in the DMX patching window.
Pixera 25.1 RC 22 | 11. June 2025 | OK