WOCube 4
From designing the template to going live. Four tools that speak the same language and a single render engine: you design in Creator, you go on air from PLAY, you pull up stills with DLS, you drive a WATCHOUT 7 show and the Pixelhue P20 switcher with Task+.
Four tools,
one single platform
Not four programs to be wired together: four parts of the same system, with the same projects, the same backups and the same permissions.
The editor where the graphics are drawn: text, images, video, shapes, animation and data.
See Creator → On air PLAYThe control desk: take grid, timeline, triggers and real-time control.
See PLAY → Stills DLSStills playout: grid, sequences, slideshow, template and background.
See DLS → WATCHOUT 7 and Pixelhue P20 Task+The control desk for WATCHOUT 7 shows, with the Pixelhue P20 switcher driven directly: cues, timelines, variables, mixer and countdown.
See Task+ →What it actually looks like
A grid of buttons for the takes, the on-air row with its running clock, and everything else underneath: data, timers, audio, engines.
Data, from newsroom to air
A single manager for variables, tables and protocols: the link to an Excel sheet, newsroom protocols, messages from the audience moderated one by one. It all converges into the templates, and from the templates it goes on air.
People working from outside,
without a system account
Every project can have its own users, separate from system accounts, who log in at a dedicated address. Three roles, each with its own stripped-down view — and nothing else.
Uploads the material
A file area limited to the project folder: upload, move, delete, with previews of images and video.
Data, stills and social
Edits the data exposed by the control room, browses and approves DLS stills, moderates the messages that become rows ready for air.
Updates what is on air
One tab for each exposed variable or table, with automatic saving and printing of long texts.
Built to stay on air
Backups that never destroy
Rotating copies and atomic writes: the file is never rewritten in place, so a blackout halfway through a save leaves the previous one intact. Every restore saves the current state first.
Long sessions and redundancy
Sessions last as long as a control room that runs day and night, and the ghost channel keeps the backup signal up.
Locks and history
Two people on the same project never overwrite each other: the lock is per section and undo works per object, not per screen.
The project in one package
Data, media and templates come out together in a single file. Collaborator passwords never leave.
A host of new features and functions.
- creator Template generator: sign, poll, bar chart, and leaderboard, featuring live preview, styles, palettes, and fonts. The template regenerates at any time without affecting manually added layers.
- creator Matrix-style standings: teams automatically reorder and shift to their new positions as points change. Layout options include 1, 2, or 3 columns; customizable statistics; tie-breaker indicators; top and bottom zone highlighting; and a choice between static or animated versions.
- creator Property formulas, covering position, dimensions, opacity, rotation, colors, and text—can be driven by expressions based on data fields, other layer properties, and time. Value transitions allow elements to animate smoothly when data changes.
- creator Clock: an oscillator with nine waveforms for looping animations—including on static images and during pauses—that ensures deterministic output upon export.
- creator Layer timeline: layers collapsed by default, multiple selection, split at playhead, SHY, icons aligned in fixed columns.
- creator Media: references in templates track moves and renames; direct drag-and-drop into the collection; deletion of a photo from a collection without breaking links; lightweight thumbnails; and unlimited nested folders.
- creator Non-alpha video colors converted to premultiplied alpha, Rec. 709 with video gamma, audio duration matching the image duration.
- creator Marquee selection on the canvas: selects the contained layers, including the children of a null object.
- creator Dual audio during playback: playback speed always 1x; realignment only beyond 0.3 s.
- creator Real-time timeline clock, with no loss of frame fractions.
- creator Export that stopped when changing tabs or selections.
- creator Slideshow preview paused without keyframes; slideshow visible before it starts.
- creator The old automatic slideshow in the Collector has been retired: "Generate" converts it into a timeline-based slideshow while preserving duration and transitions.
- creator To use formulas, clocks, data layers, and rankings in PLAY, the templates must be exported again.
Want to see it work?
The best way to understand WOCube 4 is to watch it work on a real show. Write to us: we will set up a demo on your own material.