Feature Tour

Demos/Shows/feature-tour.show.toml
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# Feature tour: every show-file setting, on two Agency tracks. The comment
# above each section says what it uses. Edit a value while it plays and the
# change applies after a short pause. ⌘⇧F for Stage. Format: docs/SHOW_FILES.md.

[show]
title = "Feature Tour"
out = "renders/feature-tour.mp4"   # render target, relative to this file
size = "1920x1080"
fps = 60

# Settings every song and section start from.
[defaults]
code = "hide"        # visuals only; sections below turn the code on
camera = "drift"
grain = 0.15

# ---- 04 · First Incident (110 BPM, 64 bars) ------------------------------

[[song]]
source = "../Songs/agency/04-first-incident.strudel"
mode = "matrix-rain"          # for any section not listed
titles = true                 # a // LABEL card on every section's downbeat
passes = 1                    # times through the form before the next song
fade = { in = 2, out = 2 }    # bars up from black, and down at the end

# A custom title card, a locked-off camera, a palette, and a caption line.
[song.sections.intro]
title = "04 · FIRST INCIDENT"
palette = "blood"
camera = { move = "still", punch = 0 }
text = [{ say = "the pager goes off", at = 3, hold = 3 }]

# The song's code types itself in over 2 bars, then lights up as it plays.
[song.sections.verse]
mode = "neon-circuit"
camera = "push"
code = { follow = "solo", type = 2 }

# Shots: a cut every bar, entered with a glitch.
[song.sections.lift]
shots = ["spot-field", "kaleidoscope"]
every = 1
transition = "glitch"
palette = "toxic"

# Each shot its own palette; one holds 4 bars with its own camera.
# A kick strobe, a camera slam on each cut, and a bump on each kick.
[song.sections.drop]
shots = [
  { mode = "vector-nexus", palette = "vapor" },
  { mode = "tunnel", palette = "ice" },
  { mode = "iso-city", bars = 4, palette = "sunset", camera = "orbit" },
]
every = 2
transition = "flash"
strobe = { on = "kick", strength = 0.2 }
camera = { move = "drift", punch = 2, kick = 2 }
text = [{ say = "ALL HANDS.", at = 8, hold = 1.5, style = "card" }]

# Up from black into a slowed, letterboxed scene, with the whole song
# faint behind it: no scanlines, heavy grain.
[song.sections.break]
mode = "ascii-scope"
transition = "black"
palette = "amber"
speed = 0.5
letterbox = 2.39
grain = 0.5
scanlines = false
code = { follow = "off", opacity = 0.35, scrim = false }

# Fast cuts with a short glitch, a snare strobe, a handheld camera.
[song.sections.drop2]
shots = ["kaleidoscope", "tunnel", "plasma", "cockpit"]
every = 1
transition = { kind = "glitch", bars = 0.15 }
strobe = { on = "snare", strength = 0.4 }
camera = { move = "shake", punch = 1.5, kick = 3 }

# No title card here, a slow pull back, then the song's fade out.
[song.sections.outro]
mode = "lissajous"
titles = false
camera = "pull"

# ---- 09 · Night Drive (104 BPM, 64 bars) ---------------------------------
# The next song starts on the downbeat, at its own tempo.

[[song]]
source = "../Songs/agency/09-night-drive.strudel"
mode = "cockpit"
palette = "ice"
transition = "fade"    # every section dissolves in; the first comes up from black

# Only this section has a card: `title` turns its card on.
[song.sections.ignition]
title = "09 · NIGHT DRIVE"
text = [{ say = "called back in at 11 PM", at = 3, hold = 3, place = "top" }]

# Two modes, a dissolve every 4 bars.
[song.sections.highway]
shots = ["forest-drive", "cockpit"]
every = 4
palette = "sunset"

# An ultra-wide frame, an orbiting camera, the playing code in a sheer
# column on the right, and a line at the top.
[song.sections.skyline]
mode = "iso-city"
palette = "vapor"
letterbox = 2.76
camera = { move = "orbit", punch = 0 }
code = { follow = "solo", place = "right", size = 22, opacity = 0.6, scrim = false }
text = [{ say = "C# minor · 104 BPM", at = 1, hold = 4, place = "top" }]

# Double speed, a flash in, a strobe on every beat, the code folded to the
# playing section.
[song.sections.tunnel]
mode = "tunnel"
palette = "neon"
transition = "flash"
speed = 2
strobe = { on = "beat", strength = 0.3 }
code = "fold"

# Per-shot palettes and cameras.
[song.sections.highway2]
shots = [
  { mode = "forest-drive", palette = "sunset" },
  { mode = "cockpit", palette = "ice", camera = "shake" },
  { mode = "neon-circuit", palette = "neon" },
]
every = 4
transition = "glitch"

# A calm close.
[song.sections.exit]
mode = "lissajous"
camera = "pull"