Grass Valley iTX SmartClient v.2.6 - Manual (Page 92)

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Viewing and Editing Metadata
About Annotation Templates
About Annotation Templates
You use an annotation template to add business metadata - either to a whole clip or to an
event in a clip.
The template contains a number of metadata records which it makes available to you. Each
record specifies a set of fields in the iTX System Database in which you can enter
information. The records are divided into ones designed for video clips and ones designed
for events:
• For video clips, you select a record directly from a drop-down list of records. The list is
defined in the template.
• For events, you select a record indirectly by clicking an event-type button to mark an
event: each event-type button is associated with a record. Groups of available event-
type buttons are defined in the template.
Annotation templates are designed by your system administrator. You can use any that are
assigned to the user groups that you are a member of.
Tabs and Panels With the Same Features
In different workspaces, SmartClient may present a particular set of features on either a tab
or a panel. For example, the Browse workspace has an Events tab; the Shot List workspace
has an Events panel.
(In general, a tab becomes visible when it is selected and may be hidden by another tab; a
panel may be always visible, although this depends on whether or not it appears on a tab
that can be hidden.)
The procedures for using the features are the same. So, for simplicity, in the following
topics, we describe the features by referring to just the tabs.
The Metadata Tab
The Metadata tab organizes information about a video clip in separate sections:
Each section displays metadata for a group of related fields.