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EVS IPDirector Version 6.2 - June 2013 CONTROL PANEL User Manual User Manual

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Menu Item

Description

Two options are available from the sub-menu:

Copy long (copy of the original clip, with its guardbands)

Copy short (copy of the playlist element, with guardbands as
defined in the settings)

For more information, refer to the part 6 of the user manual.
The Status icon of the playlist elements changes from

to

or vice versa in case the element was on the nearline.

indicating an XT clip that is distant to the playout

channel.

indicating an XT clip that is present locally on the

EVS server where the playlist playout channel is located.

Convert to
Timeline

Opens the Make a Timeline Online window and permits to convert the
selected playlist into a timeline which could then be managed through
IPEdit. Refer to the IPDirector manual related to IPEdit for more
information.

Convert to
Edit

Converts the playlist to an edit.

Send to

Provides a submenu with the list of possible destinations to which the
user can send the open playlist.
Examples of possible destinations are:

the user's default bin

a default archive target

any target destination visible on the GigE network that has been
defined in the Remote Installer (CleanEdit targets, Avid targets,
Final Cut Pro targets, File targets, EVS servers targets). This is
used to make A/V material available to external systems.

Flatten to XT

Displays a list of hi-res EVS servers and pages available on the XNet
network to which the user can store a consolidated clip out of the open
playlist.
The flattened clip will have the same VarID as the original playlist.
That is the reason why the flattened clip cannot be stored on the same
EVS server as the original playlist, otherwise, this would result in a
VarID conflict.

Backup to
Nearline

Provides a submenu with the list of nearline folders to which the user
can back up the open playlist to a file.
The transfer types and file formats are defined in the Nearline definition
in the Remote Installer.

Import

Allows importing the playlist structure and playlist related information
from an XML file into IPDirector.

Export

Allows exporting the loaded playlist structure and playlist related
information from IPDirector to an XML file or CSV file.
See

the Playlist Panel user manual

.

Publish

Opens the Publish Playlist window in which the operators can specify
the user groups the loaded playlist should be published to.
The playlist will be published to the selected groups on the condition

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