Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 40)

Xstudio User Manual 3-5
Orientation to Xstudio’s desktop
Design Mode vs. Production Mode
Following the natural workflow of creating and playing out broadcast graphics, Xstudio has two
work modes: D
ESIGN and P RODUCTION .
Design mode is Xstudio’s authoring environment, which allows you to create and edit scenes,
control panels, templates, and pages. You can also use it to modify the look of objects, animate
scene objects, assign actions (an action executes a specific command), create links to data... etc.
Figure 3-2. Xstudio’s Design mode environment components
When you have finished authoring, you can preview the playout by switching to
P
RODUCTION mode and take your finished work to air. Production mode allows you to edit
content (e.g. change text in text boxes and/or make new selections from drop-down lists)
and control graphics (e.g. operate a control panel).
Figure 3-3. Xstudio’s Production mode environment components
Menus
Toolbars Icons Status Bar
Gallery Browser
Asset Browser
Action Editor
Project window
Animation Editor
(Template/Panel)
(Scene)
or,
Menus Status Bar
Next To Air
Playout controls
window