Grass Valley Cobalt v.2.87 - Manual (Page 2)

Cobalt User Manual- document version: 2.87 – Page 2
1. Grass Valley Product Support ......................................................................................................... 4
2. About this document........................................................................................................................ 4
3. Credentials ...................................................................................................................................... 4
4. Playout Control (POC) ..................................................................................................................... 5
5. Installation ....................................................................................................................................... 6
5.1 Workstation requirements for POC and TX/MAM..................................................................... 6
5.2 Installation ................................................................................................................................ 7
6. Starting POC ................................................................................................................................. 13
7. The POC interface......................................................................................................................... 14
7.1 Overview ................................................................................................................................ 14
7.2 Channels in the horizontal view.............................................................................................. 15
7.3 The active Playlist (vertical view) ........................................................................................... 16
7.4 The offline Playlist (vertical view) ........................................................................................... 19
7.5 Events .................................................................................................................................... 21
8. POC initial setup............................................................................................................................ 22
8.1 The vertical view .................................................................................................................... 22
8.2 The horizontal view ................................................................................................................ 22
8.3 Saving a custom POC-view ................................................................................................... 23
8.4 Changing the date format for the date pickers ....................................................................... 23
9. Working with Playlists .................................................................................................................... 24
9.1 Creating a new Playlist ........................................................................................................... 24
9.2 Schedule Import ..................................................................................................................... 24
9.3 Copying a Playlist ................................................................................................................... 25
9.4 Exporting a Playlist as CSV or XML-file ................................................................................. 25
9.5 Deleting a Playlist ................................................................................................................... 25
9.6 Actions for active Playlists (vertical view) ............................................................................... 26
9.7 Actions for offline Playlists (vertical view) ............................................................................... 29
10. Activating Playlists and Scheduling Events ............................................................................... 31
10.1 Activating a Playlist ............................................................................................................. 31
10.2 Dragging Events from one Playlist into another Playlist to schedule Events ...................... 32
10.3 Dragging Assets from TX/MAM into a Playlist to schedule an Event .................................. 32
10.4 Copy-paste Events between active Playlists ...................................................................... 32
11. Checking Event status in the active Playlist ............................................................................... 33
11.1 Workflow ............................................................................................................................. 33