Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 4)

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Introducing Xstudio ............................................................................................................. 1-1
Xstudio’s role in the Vertigo Suite workflow....................................................................................... 1-2
Types of Xstudio projects: Templates, Panels & Pages .................................................................... 1-5
Procedural overview for creating Template+Scene and Panel+Scene projects ........................... 1-6
Procedural overview for creating Pages ....................................................................................... 1-9
Getting started with Xstudio ............................................................................................... 2-1
Installation and licensing information................................................................................................. 2-2
Starting Xstudio and connecting to the Xmedia Server ..................................................................... 2-3
Configuring Xstudio’s settings ........................................................................................................... 2-4
Servers settings ............................................................................................................................ 2-5
Logging settings............................................................................................................................ 2-6
Workspace settings ...................................................................................................................... 2-7
Asset Defaults settings ................................................................................................................. 2-9
Device settings ........................................................................................................................... 2-10
Browsers settings ....................................................................................................................... 2-11
Connecting Xstudio to an output device .......................................................................................... 2-12
Verifying Xstudio’s installation and setup ........................................................................................ 2-16
Orientation to Xstudio’s desktop........................................................................................ 3-1
Starting Xstudio ................................................................................................................................. 3-2
Design Mode vs. Production Mode.................................................................................................... 3-5
Xstudio’s menu commands................................................................................................................ 3-7
Xstudio’s desktop icons and toolbars .............................................................................................. 3-18
Xstudio’s primitives.......................................................................................................................... 3-21
Control side primitives................................................................................................................. 3-21
Scene side primitives .................................................................................................................. 3-23
Asset Browser and Gallery Browser ................................................................................................ 3-24
Properties Browser .......................................................................................................................... 3-25
Action Editor and Animation Editor .................................................................................................. 3-27
Project Windows - Control and scene sides .................................................................................... 3-28
Safe areas and resolution format................................................................................................ 3-29
Zooming in/out of the canvas...................................................................................................... 3-31
Panning across the canvas......................................................................................................... 3-31
Production mode environment......................................................................................................... 3-33
Creating and opening Xstudio projects and assets ......................................................... 4-1
Creating new projects and assets...................................................................................................... 4-2
Setting the canvas’ properties ...................................................................................................... 4-3
Opening existing projects ................................................................................................................ 4-10
Searching for projects/assets on the Xmedia Server....................................................................... 4-11
Importing assets from another Vertigo system ................................................................................ 4-12
Ingesting files created using third-party applications ....................................................................... 4-14
Ingesting image or audio files ..................................................................................................... 4-14
Ingesting multiple image files or creating cel animations or clips upon ingest............................ 4-17
Ingesting video files .................................................................................................................... 4-22