EVS IPDirector Version 5.9 - January 2011 Part 6 User’s Manual - Manual (Page 74)

IPDirector Version 5.9 – User Manual – Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
Issue 5.9.B
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1.6.2 I
NSERTING
V
IRTUAL
E
LEMENTS IN A
P
LAYLIST
I
NTRODUCTION
You can insert manually a virtual element in the playlist. This makes sense when
you already need to have your full playlist run order, but the media corresponding
to a playlist element is not yet available on the XNet network (still in post-
production or not yet being restored from the archive, for example).
H
OW TO
I
NSERT A
V
IRTUAL
E
LEMENT IN A
P
LAYLIST
To insert a virtual element in a playlist, proceed as follows:
1. In the Playlist Panel, select the playlist element before or after which you
want to add a virtual element (depending on the Insert playlist setting).
2. Right-click and select Insert virtual element from the contextual menu.
The Insert a virtual element window opens:
3. Specify the VarID.
4. Do one of the following:
• If you do not precisely know the TC IN and TC OUT of the clip that will
replace the virtual element, tick the Use clip boundaries option and type
the TC IN and TC OUT, if you want to get an estimation of the playlist
duration.
• If you know the TC IN and TC OUT of the clip that will replace the virtual
element, tick the Use virtual element boundaries option and type TC IN
and TC OUT values as closed as possible to the clip TC IN and TC OUT
values, as far as the virtual element values are included in the clip
duration.
5. Click OK.
A virtual element has been added to the playlist. When the clip with the same ID
will be made available on the XNet network or on an on-line nearline, this clip will
automatically be matched to the virtual elements on playlists.