mimoLive’s layers are a powerful tool that enables users to create stunning graphics, animations, and other video overlays. With a vast selection of layers available, users can produce TV-quality live shows and events with ease. Each layer serves a unique purpose, from displaying scores in sports events to adding breaking news banners to your stream. Moreover, Mimolive offers users the ability to create custom layers using Apple’s Quartz Composer technology, allowing for endless possibilities in creating unique graphics for any event.
Working With Layers
Continue reading Layers, Settings and Variants for more advanced information about how to work with layers and how to create variants.
List of mimoLive Layers
Audio Layers
The Audio Layers section contains all layers in mimoLive that process audio signals during live production.
Layout Layers
Layout Layers provide tools for arranging, combining, and presenting multiple visual sources within a mimoLive composition. These layers control how video, graphics, and other content elements appear on screen—whether side by side, overlaid, framed, animated, or dynamically positioned.
- Follow Layer
- Video Carousel Layer
- Split Screen Layer
- Presenter 2D Layer
- Overshoulder Insert (OTS) Layer
- Quicklook 3D Layer
- Source With Distortion Layer
- Station Logo Layer
- Interview Layer
- Picture in Picture (PIP) Window Layer
- Picture in Picture (PIP) Layer
- Placer With Transition Layer
- Placer Layer (most important)
Switcher
Switcher Layers provide tools for managing and automating transitions between multiple video sources during a live production. These layers are designed to streamline source selection, enable smooth real-time switching, and support automated workflows for hands-free operation.
Lower Third
Lower Third Layers provide tools for creating professional on-screen titles that introduce speakers, label content, or provide contextual information during a live production.
Text Layers
Text Layers in mimoLive provide a versatile set of tools for displaying, animating, and formatting textual information in your live productions.
- Flying Text Animation Layer
- Sidebar Ad Layer
- Annotation Layer
- Burning Text Layer
- Static Text 3D Layer
- Static Text Layer
- Heading with Object Layer
- Scrolling Credits Layer
- Subtitles Layer
- News Crawl Layer
- Breaking News Layer
Graphics
Graphics Layers in mimoLive provide a wide range of visual elements that enhance the look and feel of your live productions. These layers are designed to help you add decorative, informational, or branded graphics to the screen—whether as backgrounds, overlays, animations, or thematic visual effects.
Time
Time Layers in mimoLive provide tools for displaying clocks, timers, and countdowns during your live production. These layers are ideal for adding temporal context, managing event pacing, or creating anticipation for upcoming segments.
Backdrops
Backdrop Layers in mimoLive provide dynamic and visually engaging backgrounds that enhance the atmosphere and visual identity of your live production. They are especially useful when working with greenscreen setups.
Interaction
Interaction Layers enable real-time engagement with your audience by integrating live comments, reactions, and social media activity directly into your broadcast.
Sports
Sports Layers provide specialized tools for producing professional sports broadcasts, enabling you to manage replays, display scores, track game progress, and present team information in a clear and engaging way.
Weather
Weather layers provide tools for creating clear, engaging, and broadcast-ready weather segments. These layers make it easy to present meteorological data—such as forecasts, temperatures, icons, and live weather conditions.
Data Viz
Data Viz Layers provide tools for presenting real-time information in clear, engaging, and visually dynamic formats. These layers translate audio levels, playlist metadata, and numerical datasets into visual elements.
Effects
Effects Layers provide tools for enhancing your live production with interactive visual effects that help guide viewer attention, highlight important details, or magnify specific areas of the screen.
- Spotlight Layer (Mouseposé Effect)
- Magnifying Glass (Magnifier, Loupe) Layer
- Painter Layer / Telestrator (optional Addon)
Portrait
Portrait Layers are designed specifically for working with vertical video formats. As portrait-oriented content becomes increasingly common on mobile-first platforms and social media, these layers help you present vertical video in a clean, professional, and visually optimized way.
Spherical
Spherical Layers are designed for working with 360° video, VR environments, and equirectangular projections. These layers allow you to place and manipulate 2D content within a full panoramic sphere.
Tools
Tools Layers in mimoLive provide essential utilities that support the production process behind the scenes. Unlike visual or content-driven layers, these layers are designed to assist operators, streamline workflows, and facilitate communication or data exchange within a mimoLive document or between multiple systems. Tools Layers can help with tasks such as organizing project information, managing auxiliary […]
Diagnostic
Diagnostic Layers are designed to help you analyze, measure, and verify the technical aspects of your live production setup. These layers do not serve as visual elements for your audience but instead provide valuable feedback to operators.
Control
Control Layers provide remote-control capabilities for external hardware such as switchers and PTZ cameras. These layers allow operators to integrate and manage external devices directly from within a mimoLive document.
Getting More Layers
In addition to the built-in layers, more layers are available through the Layer Store. Some, more specialized layers require additional purchases.
Custom Layers
Layers are based on Apple’s Quartz Composer technology. It is possible for you to create your own layers
following the Custom Layer API using Quartz Composer. It is also possible to hire Boinx Software to create custom layers.