EVS IPDirector Version 5.6 - May 2009 Part 6 User's Manual - Manual (Page 10)

IPDirector Version 5.6 – User Manual – Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2009
Issue 5.6.D
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1. Playlist Panel
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The Playlist Panel allows multiple playlists to be made, modified and played to air
using an efficient workflow with a great deal of flexibility.
The workflow combines three modules within the application that are needed to
perform the tasks required:
• the Playlist Panel interface to manage several playlists
• the Control Panel used to control a preview channel
• the Database Explorer
The user can load an element from the Database Explorer onto a Control Panel
channel to preview it before adding it to a playlist or directly insert the element
into a playlist in the Playlist Panel. The element can be loaded or inserted by
using drag & drop or simple mouse click operations. Various types of elements can
be inserted into a playlist: clips, trains, playlists, bins, growing clips, clips
associated to logs. It is because not only clips can be included in a playlist made
in Playlist Panel that included items are referred to as elements.
Several Playlist Panels may be used at the same time.
The playlists constructed using the Playlist Panel can be created in an off-line
state without the requirement to use XT channels.
Playlist advanced functions can be used, which means that playlists with different
transition effects between elements can be created in contrast to simple clip-lists
from the Control Panel. A variety of playout effects can be defined such as audio
and/or video transition effects, different playout speed, skipping an element,
looping playlist elements. Different stop or start options can be programmed for
the different elements of a playlist. Tags can be defined on playlist elements at
specific timecode to carry out specific audio or video actions during playout.
This chapter describes the management of Normal playlists. Specificities about
Fill and Key playlists are detailed in a dedicated chapter, in section 2.3 ‘Fill and
Key Playlists’ on page 131.
Note
The Playlist Panel module is a software option, which requires the
production playlist licence key 50 being imported to XSecure.
For more information on the required licence key, contact the Support or
Sales team.