Pixel Mapping for LED Banners and Video Walls

What is Pixel Mapping?

With Pixel Mapping, you can remap content from a high resolution to a different output resolution. This is useful for LED banners, video walls, and other displays that require a specific pixel layout.

Example: your content is designed at 8704x192 pixels (a wide LED banner), but your display processor expects a 1920x1080 HDMI signal. Pixel Mapping cuts your content into strips and rearranges them so they fit within the output resolution.

When do you use Pixel Mapping?

  • LED banners with a wide or unusual resolution
  • Video walls where input content needs to be distributed across multiple panels
  • Non-standard screen layouts that don't match the source resolution

Enabling Pixel Mapping

  1. Go to Screens in the sidebar.
  2. Click on the screen you want to configure.
  3. Open Settings and scroll to Advanced.
  4. Enable the Pixel Mapping toggle.
  5. Click on Configure to open the mapping editor.

Configuring Regions

In the mapping editor, you set the input resolution (your content format) and the output resolution (what your display processor expects).

Auto-slice

For LED banners, use the Auto-slice function:

  1. Enter the input resolution (e.g., 8704x192).
  2. Enter the output resolution (e.g., 1920x1080).
  3. Set the Strip width (e.g., 1920 pixels).
  4. Click Auto-slice - the editor automatically creates regions that cut the input into strips and stack them vertically on the output.

Manual regions

You can also add and adjust regions manually:

  1. Click Add region.
  2. Set the source area (the part of the input content you want to crop).
  3. Set the destination area (where it appears on the output canvas).
  4. Drag regions on the output canvas to reposition them.

Saving and Pushing

  1. Click Save in the mapping editor.
  2. Click Save in the screen settings.
  3. The mapping configuration is automatically pushed to the screen.

The screen applies the new mapping immediately to all content (images, videos, and designs).

Tip: Design your content at the full input resolution (e.g., 8704x192). The mapping only changes how the content is rearranged for the output - it doesn't scale or crop your designs.

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