Grass Valley Xnews Vertigo Suite v.5.0 - Manual (Page 69)

4-2 Xnews User Manual
Preparing to use Xnews
Creating templates in Xstudio
Templates are built in Xstudio and determine the layout and contents of the on-air graphics.
Meanwhile, pages are instances of a template, which means that the layout is already done
and all you have to do is enter into the template’s variable fields the text, images, or video
clips that are specific to the required broadcast graphic. No matter how many times the
page is edited, the page retains its ties to the template that it was created from. The
advantage of this is that changes to the template are easily propagated to all of the pages
that were built from using that template.
The following procedure provides a high-level overview of how to create a template in
Xstudio. These instructions are only intended to illustrate the template requirements for
creating pages in Xnews. For complete information about creating and using templates in
Xstudio, see the “Xstudio User Manual”.
To create a template in Xstudio:
1.
Open Xstudio by selecting S TART >P ROGRAMS >V ERTIGO X MEDIA >X STUDIO .
The C REATE N EW window appears in the Xstudio window upon opening (figure 4-1 ).
Figure 4-1. Xstudio’s initial screen
2. Select T EMPLATE + S CENE from the C REATE N EW window and then click OK.
An empty template canvas appears and is ready to be populated (figure 4-2 ).
Figure 4-2. A new, empty template canvas