Grass Valley Xbuilder Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 42)

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Rendering pages and scenes to a clip file
Render to MPEG for preview
Xbuilder’s Render to File feature uses the Vertigo Software CG’s rendering engine to render
pages and scenes into MPEG clip files that can be saved to disk and then viewed on most
media players.
Rendering pages and scenes to MPEG is mainly used in situations where you want to share
and allow others to preview the file’s playout using a portable and common playout format.
The Render to file (MPEG) workflow starts with the creation of master templates in Xstudio.
Once the templates are opened in Xbuilder, pages are created by populating the templates
with instance data (either individually or as a batch using a Merge List). When Render to
File is executed, the new pages are rendered and saved to disk (not the Xmedia Server) as
MPEG clip files. The MPEG files can then be ingested into the Xmedia Server or distributed
for previewing and/or approval.