Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 46)

Xstudio User Manual 3-11
Orientation to Xstudio’s desktop
Data Manager Displays or hides the D ATA M ANAGER (only available in Design mode). The Data
Manager allows you to change the data sources associated with an Xmedia
object, or link data to a primitive. Data sources can be databases, Excel files, text
files or RSS (an XML format that distributes news headlines, links and abstracts
collected from the Web).
See “Linking objects to a data source” on page 9-1 for more information.
Alternative access:
•
Keyboard shortcut: C TRL +T
• Icon/Button:
Asset Browser Displays or hides the A SSET B ROWSER (only available in Design mode). The
Asset Browser is a collapsible panel on the left-side of the Xstudio interface that
allows you to view and access assets according to type and category.
Related topics:
•
“Xstudio’s primitives” on page 3-21
• “Appendix A - Asset Browser” on page 13-1
Alternative access:
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Keyboard shortcut: C TRL +A
• Click the gripper bar on the left-side of the Xstudio interface in Design Mode
Gallery Displays or hides the G ALLERY B ROWSER (only available in Design mode).
The Gallery Browser is a collapsible panel on the right-side of the Xstudio
interface that displays the contents of an Asset Browser category as proxies
(thumbnails) or as a list of detailed asset information. The contents of the Gallery
Browser can be dragged and dropped into control panels or templates. By
default, only the root category of Xmedia objects appears in the Gallery Browser,
and you have added other categories manually.
Related topics:
•
“Xstudio’s primitives” on page 3-21
• “Appendix B - Gallery Browser” on page 14-1
Alternative access:
•
Keyboard shortcut: C TRL +G
• Click the gripper bar on the right-side of the Xstudio interface in Design
Mode
Publish Progress Displays or hides the P UBLISH P ROGRESS window, which allows you to see a list
of all of the assets that have been published during the current Xstudio session.
See “Publishing assets to output devices” on page 11-3 for more information.
• Keyboard shortcut: C TRL +B