EVS IPDirector Version 5.6 - May 2009 Part 6 User's Manual - Manual (Page 4)

IPDirector Version 5.6 – User Manual – Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
EVS Broadcast Equipment – May 2009
Issue 5.6.D
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................... III
WHAT’S NEW? ................................................................................................................. V
ABOUT THIS MANUAL.................................................................................................... VI
1. PLAYLIST PANEL.................................................................................................... 1
1.1 INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................1
1.2 USER INTERFACE......................................................................................................................2
1.2.1 Opening A Playlist Panel.........................................................................................................2
1.2.2 Overview of the Playlist Panel.................................................................................................2
1.2.3 Channel Media and Tranport Functions Area .........................................................................5
1.2.4 Playlist Grid...........................................................................................................................13
1.2.5 Status Bar .............................................................................................................................16
1.3 CHANNEL MANAGEMENT .......................................................................................................19
1.3.1 Idle State...............................................................................................................................19
1.3.2 How to Associate a Player Channel to the Playlist Panel......................................................20
1.3.3 Limitations to Channel Assignment.......................................................................................20
1.3.4 Off-Line and On-Line Playlists ..............................................................................................21
1.3.5 PGM/PRV Mode ...................................................................................................................22
1.4 PLAYLIST MANAGEMENT........................................................................................................23
1.4.1 Creating Playlists ..................................................................................................................23
1.4.2 Opening and loading a playlist ..............................................................................................27
1.4.3 Moving within a Playlist Element...........................................................................................31
1.4.4 Modifying Playlist Information ...............................................................................................32
1.4.5 Copying a Playlist .................................................................................................................33
1.4.6 Deleting playlist.....................................................................................................................33
1.4.7 Publishing and Transferring a playlist ...................................................................................36
1.4.8 Generating Continuous T/C Track.........................................................................................40
1.5 PLAYLIST EDITING...................................................................................................................42
1.5.1 Adding elements to a playlist ................................................................................................42
1.5.2 Moving elements Within a Playlist.........................................................................................48
1.5.3 Removing elements from a playlist .......................................................................................49
1.5.4 Modifying a Playlist Element .................................................................................................50
1.5.5 Adding a Linked Clip to a Playlist..........................................................................................51
1.5.6 Grouping Elements in a Playlist ............................................................................................52
1.5.7 Inserting comments in a playlist ............................................................................................54
1.5.8 Converting a Playlist to Timeline...........................................................................................55
1.6 PLAYOUT EFFECTS AND PARAMETERS ...............................................................................56
1.6.1 Adding audio and/or video effects.........................................................................................56
1.6.2 Setting the Playout Speed.....................................................................................................60
1.6.3 Stopping and/or Starting automatically the playout of a playlist ............................................61
1.6.4 Resetting Playout parameters to default ...............................................................................67
1.6.5 Using Action Tags into a Playlist to Trigger Transport Functions or Playout Effects .............67
1.6.6 Applying a Macro Command to Trigger Playout Effects........................................................76
1.6.7 Skipping an element in the playlist........................................................................................78
1.6.8 Looping playlist elements during playout ..............................................................................79