Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 53)

3-18 Xstudio User Manual
Orientation to Xstudio’s desktop
Xstudio’s desktop icons and toolbars
In Design mode, Xstudio’s authoring environment provides you with immediate access to
key features by placing floating toolbars, buttons, icons, and browsers directly on the
Xstudio interface.
You can move the Xstudio toolbars and icons by dragging them by their titles (e.g. the word
“Font”) to its new location. You can also change the orientation of the floating toolbars by
double-clicking on their titles making them line up vertically or horizontally.
Should you find yourself short on space in the interface because too many browsers and
tool windows are open at the same time (e.g. Asset Browser, Gallery, Data Manager, Action
Editor, Property Browser), you can instantly close all of them at once by selecting H
IDE
B ROWSERS /T OOL W INDOWS from the V IEW menu, or by clicking CTRL+D.
The following table identifies and describes the toolbars and icons that are accessible in
Design mode:
Data Manager icon Displays or hides the D ATA M ANAGER . 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
• Menu command: V IEW >D ATA M ANAGER
Ingest icon Opens the I NGEST F ILES dialog box, which allows you to create Xstudio
assets from files that are not native to Xstudio, e.g. image and audio files.
While these files are not actually modified in any way when ingested, they
are made into assets -- in other words, they become usable within Xstudio.
See
“Ingesting files created using third-party applications” on page 4-14 for
more information.
Properties Browser
icon Displays or hides the P ROPERTIES B ROWSER (only available in Design
mode). The Property Browser displays and allows you to edit the
attributes/properties, of the object selected on the canvas, or the canvas
itself. For example, the Property Browser allows you to change the size and
appearance of objects, transitions, images, cel animations, data sources,
and more.
See “Setting the canvas’ properties” on page 4-3 and “Appendix C - Xstudio
properties” on page 15-1 for more information.
Alternative access:
•
Keyboard shortcut: C TRL + R
• Menu command: V IEW >P ROPERTY B ROWSER