Grass Valley GV STRATUS Playout v.2.0 User Manual
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Monitoring and Controlling the Broadcast
Manually enabling or disabling secondary events in the playout
To view the count down to a selected event:
1 In the top menu, click Channel Control.
2 In the Select View list, click the view that you want displayed in the left pane.
3 Click one of the following:
• All Channels: to select a channel from a list of all the channels in the selected view.
To filter the column, click Contains in the column you want to search and type the
text or character that you want to use in the search.
• Channel Hierarchy: to select a channel from list of all the channels in the selected
view organized by their channel hierarchies.
4 In the channel grid, click the event for which you want to see the countdown.
5 Click Selected. The timer changes to display the countdown for the selected event to
go to air.
6 To return the Count To timer to show the countdown to the next scheduled event, click
Next.
Manually enabling or disabling secondary events in the playout
The Channel Control page contains a toolbar of controls, called Manual Controls, that
allows you to manually enable or disable secondary events in the playout. These manual
events do not appear in the channel grid or in the timeline on the Channel Overview page
when they are triggered. They operate in parallel with the events in the scheduled playlist.
If the channel displayed in the Channel Control page is a parent channel, the controls are
also triggered on the child channels although the specific secondary event triggered may
be different from channel to channel. For more information on channel hierarchies, see
When triggered, it normally takes about one second for the associated device to react to
the command and have the change reflected in the playout. The buttons change color to
reflect their state. A button turns amber to indicate the control was triggered and turns
blue to indicate that the action was acted upon by the device.
Control
Description
Logo
Graphic
Audio
Each control is a pair of buttons. The
On
button controls whether or not the
secondary event is present in the playout and indicates its state. When the
On
button is blue, its corresponding event is present in the playout.
The
On
button is paired with a status button which switches between
Unset
and
Ready
depending on the availability of its associated secondary event.
The secondary event associated to the control must be available, and
therefore in a
Ready
state, before it can be placed on air. The secondary
event can either be scheduled in the playlist or manually configured on the
control.
External
The
External
button places the graphic overlay available from SDI In Fill &
Key port on the associated device on air when enabled. When the
On
button
is blue, it is present in the playout.