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Hardata Hdx Video Video Automation User Guide
Index
1. Introduction
2. Models
3. Installation
3.1. Setup Wizard
5. Setup
5.1. Global Preferences
5.1.1. Creating a Station
5.1.2. Deleting a Station
5.1.3. Editing a Station
5.2. Terminal Preferences
5.2.1. Setting up devices
5.2.2. Playout windows
5.2.2.1. Devices
5.2.2.2. GPI Events
5.2.2.3. PlayOut Options
5.2.3. Programming window
5.2.4. Ingest window
5.2.5. IPlay window
6. Use
6.1. Ingest window
6.1.1. Buttons
6.1.1.1. “Menu” Button
6.1.1.2. Search
6.1.1.3. Categories
6.1.2. Category creation
6.1.3. Selecting material
6.1.4. New material
6.1.5. Importing material
6.1.6. Exporting material
6.1.7. Backing up material
6.1.8. Restoring material
6.1.9. Playing back material
6.1.10. Markers
6.1.11. Search/ Find
6.1.12. Refresh
6.1.13. Reload Devices
6.2. Character Generator window
6.2.1. Creating Project
6.2.2. Properties
6.2.3. Loading Project
6.2.4. Deleting Project
6.3. Programming window
6.3.1. Programming tasks
6.3.1.1. Creating Programming
6.3.1.2. Opening Programming
6.3.1.3. Deleting Programming
6.3.1.4. Import Programming
6.3.1.5. Export Programming
6.3.1.6. Random Programming
6.3.2. Preview Actions
7. Shortcuts index
8. Glossary
9. Technical support
1. Introduction
Thank you very much for having chosen Hardata hdxVideo Video Automation, a tool that will
help you manage and play back videos comfortably and efficiently. Your videos will be aired
instantly just with a click!
Hardata hdxVideo allows you to edit material, insert markers, record it and adapt it to meet your
needs, all these just using a mouse from a friendly-user control panel.
You will have the chance to manage the ingest, programming and play out station from a single
monitor. The play out window Works with time zones that drop down in a tree shape for a better
view of its content. The software also includes a powerful character generator, where you will be
able to create projects with text, flash animations, images, and more. You will be able to play
these projects in the air.
Advantages
Easy to Use: It has a carefully designed user interface to make operative tasks and different
modules interaction easier.
Flexible: It allows you to play videos in many formats, such as Mpeg, DV, DivX, H.264 and
many others.
Open: It can be applied to networks and standard PCs.
Safe: It allows effective access control to material in your library.
Reliable: It is conceived to be reliable from its architecture to its execution.
Flash Animation Overlay: It allows you to include flash logos in your playout.
Character Generator included: This will give you the power of overlay any kind of text,
even dynamic text, hour, and images, over the emission programming.
Lower installation and operation cost: It includes an installation wizard, that will allow you
to configure the hole application in a quicker and easier way.
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Modules
2. Models
Movie Version: Developed for small TV Stations and video studios, in a professional to home
way. It works with a standard PC with a secondary video card output. It supports many digital
video formats.
Both versions include a powerful character generator that will give you the power of overlay any
kind of text, even dynamic text, hour, flash logos, and images, over the emission programming.
3. Installation
The InstallShield Wizard will assist you in the installation process that begins by selecting the
language.
After selecting the language press the button Next to continue with the installation.
You must read the contract displayed afterwards and accept its terms so as to continue the
installation process.
In the following step you will be asked about the installation type: hdxVideo with hdxServer or
hdxVideo.
In the next step the wizard will show you the location where it will install the data base, the
Storages. These locations can be changed, if you want.
If the database already exists, it will show a message telling that they will not be modified.
If there is no database at all, and no Microsoft SQL Server is installed either, Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 will be installed automatically.
Then, the Storage location- where the files corresponding to Materials (Audio, Video, Text, etc.)
will be saved- is indicated
Once these settings have been modified or accepted, the installation process begins by
pressing the button Install.
Before that, the wizard will search for components already installed, if there is any.
Immediately after that, you must read the following text so that the devices configuration is set.
At this point, a short “readme” showing simply and quickly how to continue with the first
configuration steps and start-up window of the product comes out.
When you first run hdxVideo Movie, you will see a new winwos called Setup Wizard. This
wizard will help you to set up the workstation configuration in an easy way.
If you want to run the wizard later, you can find it in the Setup Menu, Setup Wizard.
Fists of all, the wizard will let you choose a language. It will be automatically set in the language
you chose in the installation.
After selecting the language you want, hit next. The following step will configure the resolution
that workstations will use. This is a global parameter, and will affect all the workstation that are
connected to this server.
Next, you must choose an environment. This will set the Video Output to Fullscreen + Preview
to the window you select. All the other windows will be set to Preview automatically. It is
important to know that only one window will have the Fullscreen attribute on. This is
recommended to prevent and avoid emission mistakes. However, you can manually add this
attribute to the other windows if you want.
Finally, you will set the audio and video devices you want to control. The list will be filled with
the devices previously installed on the system.
In this section we are going to enter in touch with the first steps of hdxVideo. As being, starting
the application, you can connect to the hdxServer and learn how to access, to each of the
windows of hdxVideo, which will allow you to do each of the tasks of automation in your video
station.
As soon as the program executes, the User Name and Password is requested for login into the
hdxServer, which can be in your PC or in a specific terminal in your network (If you do not know
this information consult with the responsible person from the area or with your network
administrator).
If it is the first time that you run the system, this one has a user created of the following way:
Username: Administrator
Password: Supervisor
This user is a super administrator, who cannot be eliminated, but if it is allowed to change the
password. With this user, using the hdx User Manager, you can create other administrator users
or general users.
Once time the hdxVideo is running, will appear a main window which shows the following
information:
This button shows a menu that gives us the possibility of open a window of Ingest of
the following way:
This button shows a menu that gives us the possibility of open a Broadcast Window
This button shows a menu that gives us the possibility of open a window of
Programming for every station. Example:
This button shows a menu that gives us the possibility of open the IPlay Window,
which contains multiple pages with materials that can be emitted as a live assistant
of a Program of studio. This menu appears of the following way:
This button allows us to change the user of the system without need to close the
program and to return to open it.
Logo of the program: This one informs us the version of the product (pro, xp, iplay, office,
exchange). In addition if you do click on the logo, it will open a window, which allows you to
change the user's code to the hdxVideo.
With the purchase of the product, you obtain a user's code that interacts with the security
dongle (hardlock) that uses the application. The customer agrees with Hardata and expiration
date, measured in hours of use of the license: ten days, thirty days, etc. By which a new code
will be requested to the company for the next period. Once the time has expired, hdxVideo will
block the use of the product.
One week before the code expires hdxVideo will send a warning by opening a dialog box, which
will request you to enter a new code. In this moment you will have to communicate with Hardata
to request the new code. Hardata will request you, your previous code and will provide the new
one. When you obtain the new code, you will place it in the dialog box, or will do click in the logo
of hdxVideo which finds in the upper right of the main window of controls to enter it.
The customer can also ask for a definitive code, which will not request for a constant code
change, but will decline the security and safety level.
5. Setup
The first step to be able to start working with hdxVideo is to set up the existing devices and to
create the stations; to do so press the button Setup that drops down the following menu in
which you must select one of the options to set up.
Setup
Allow repeating codes: If enable, this option will let you use repeated material codes.
It is also possible to add a station by placing the cursor on the option Stations and pressing the
button Add.
In the new window you must assign a name to the created station and then accept or cancel if
you change your mind.
Note: In Movie Version, you will only be able to play one station.
Then, a window where all the controllers installed on your equipment are displayed will come
out.
For each driver you can create one or more devices (as in the case of Windows Media Video
HDX Device Driver–(v1.0.1.6), there is Def_WM, Def_WM-preview); to do so proceed as
follows:
Select the driver, press Add or else, while pointing at the option click on the mouse right button
and click on Add.
Likewise, there are the options to Delete or to see the installed device properties pressing
Properties…, or double-clicking on it.
General Settiings
Render mode
Timing
Preroll [TimeCode]: It is the time that takes the device to start up and stabilize the signal
behavior.
This name and address must be the SAME that those set up in LPT properties. Usually the
name of this direction is described before, but it can be different. To corroborate it you must go
to: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel, in this place you must do double click in the icon
“System” and in the "Hardware" tab do click in the button “Device Manager”. In that moment,
there will be opened a window that shows in the shape of tree all the devices. In the item “Ports
(COM and LPT) " you look for the LPT to use and do double click on it, and in the "Resources"
tab there will appear a table "resource settings", where there is a column "setting" in which you
will find the address of the LPT.
General Settings
Wait for GPI Events: Live material will wait for a GPI signal to end transmission.
Force Events to End: Live window will close its transmission when the set up time have been
completed.
Address:
378: Usual address for LPT1.
278: Usual address for LPT2.
3BC: Usual address for LPT3.
Pin: The pin through which the GPI signal is played out must be indicated.
Timing
Preroll [TimeCode]: It is the time that takes the device to start up and stabilize the signal
behavior.
Delay at GPI Event [Time Code]: Delay until a GPI event takes place.
Settings
Timing
Preroll [TimeCode]: It is the time that takes the device to start up and stabilize the signal
behavior.
5.2.2.1. Devices
To assign the devices to the Playout windows, the station to be set up is selected and then Edit.
The aspect of the window will change, and you will be able to press the buttons that were grey
before and now are black.
Add device
Delete device
Edit device
If you press:
afterwards, a new window where you will be able to select- among other devices installed-
Media Server and Matrix Channel comes out.
If you choose:
If you have a GPI controller, you must set up this option and the input and output events.
Input Events
Action Play: The pin through which you want to play out the playback event is set up.
Action Stop: The pin through which you want to play out this GPI event is set up.
Output Events
Playing Status: The pin through which you want to play out the “playing-back” status is set
up.
Stopped Status: The pin through which you want to play out the “stopping” status is set up.
Playout options
Auto load next programming: When this option is enabled, the Playout window loads the
following programming automatically when there are less than five minutes left to finish the
current programming.
Auto-reload Programming: With this option activated the window of Emission reload the
programming that has actually loaded, when this one is saved from another Terminal,
without need to do this action manually.
Delay next segment pre-load on stop (5 seconds): If enabled, this option make a 5 seconds
pause before loading the first clip of the following segment. It is only used if Stop at the end
of each segment is enabled.
Do not play New state materials (only Edites or Ready): If enabled, this option will
automatically skip those clips with status equals to New.
Playback Mode
Non stop play of the entire programming: It does not stop playback until the end of
programming.
Do not detect Input Events: This is a sub option of the previous one, contributes the
functionality of detecting or not the Incoming Events for GPI configured for the Emission's
window when it is in Auto Mode.
Stop at the end of each segment: It stops playback at the end of each segment. This allows
setting up the Playout window button Break so that when the window opens, it is already set
up.
Stop at the end of each clip (Stop at the end of each clip): It stops playback at the end of
each clip.
Preview Device: It is the device with which the material preview can be performed.
Note: In Movie Version, you will be able to open one Ingest window by terminal.
Note: In Movie Version, you will be able to open one IPlay window by terminal.
6. Use
Monitor
Materials List
Category tree
Material list
Icons
6.1.1. Buttons
Time Go To / Go To
This option has the functions of Playback, Stop, Pause and Rec buttons, as well as the quick
execution keys- those aligned at the right.
In the center appear the functions Play Rate, to change the playback speed.
Jog - : It slows down playback complying with the scale present in button Play Rate.
Frame Back: It winds back a frame.
Frame Forward: It winds forward a frame.
Jog + : It speeds up playback- idem to Play- option.
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Markers
This option allows inserting marks in material; it also has the quick execution keys aligned at the
right.
View Preview
If the monitor is not open, press the Menu button and a window similar to the following one will
come out where- when View Preview is enabled- the material to be edited can be previewed.
Get Snapshot
6.1.1.2. Search
It searches according to the word entered. The search result will appear in the material list.
6.1.1.3. Categories
It is an explorer that displays the existing categories and also the options to show the search
results (Search Results…), and a folder that works as the Windows recycle bin- where the
material that is no longer needed will be saved for later destruction evaluation. (Outdated
materialsl…).
Assign a name to the category, a three-character prefix and also indicate from what index you
want to start counting the ingested material.
The option Delete deletes the selected category provided that it is empty.
Refresh Categories refreshes the screen containing the categories, because any change made
in any other terminal is not updated immediately.
Show Subcategories Content: It shows the subcategories content contained in the selected
category.
Properties: It shows the name, prefix and the number of material contained in the selected
category.
This process is carried out by pressing the right button of the mouse on the Material list and
selecting New Material from and choosing the device where is it located.
Afterwards, a card in which you must assign a title, the ID number and the In and Out time
codes will come out.
After having created live material, you must set up the device through which it will be played
back; you can do this from any window by modifying the properties in the material card, in the
following way:
Pointing at the material press the right button of the mouse and select properties.
For the material to be played back with a device set up in Comments, it should be entered as it
is seen in the image: the text DeviceName=*****, (‘*****’, represents the device name that must
be written in the same way that in the Configuration window: it is case sensitive).
For those users who do not need other live outputs, they should not set it up in comments and
will be free to add any comment.
Note: By default, if no output device is set up, the material will be played back in the first one
that appears in the device list.
For the execution of GPI commands you have the chance to set some values in the
“Comments” section of the material card; the settings are the following:
Type GPI: This type of command allows to move or execute a state of specific device PIN, in
the following way:
MSecSinceStart=XXXX It runs the command after the time indicated in milliseconds (if you
want to execute 1 second since the start you must enter 1000).
MSecBeforeEnd=XXXX It runs the command at the time indicated before the end (if you want
to execute 1 second before the end you must enter 1000).
GPI=X It sets up the logical GPI number through which the GPI commands will be executed.
Refer to device manual to know about physical pins. This information is available in Air
configuration window too.
GPIValue=(ON or OFF): The value entered as ON/OFF will be the value that PIN will take when
executing the command.
Note: MSecSinceStart and MsecBeforeEnd cannot be set up together because the command
will be executed only once; if it is mistakenly done this way, the first set up line will be taken into
account.
Important: Please respect the format as it is shown in the example: upper and lower cases as
well as blank spaces, any mistake could prevent the commands from executing properly.
Example:
To specify the command type, you must indicate it with the parameter:
CommandType=XXXX (Ej: CommandType= GENERAL)
Type GENERAL: This type of command allows you to realize actions on the application, like
change the reproduction mode (Manual or Automatic Mode), satellite control (Local or
Remote Mode), or any other type of actions or functionality changes, where the parameters
must have the following way:
Example:
Change to Automatic Mode Change to Manual Mode
Time Codes
In the TimeCodes tab the Start and End time, and the In and Out (introduction or final
comments) if there is any- are set up:
Start: It depends on the material source, if it is a tape, the Time code where the material starts
can be entered.
End: Same as mentioned before, but with End time code.
Total Length: It is the material total length.
In: It is a start mark made inserted in the material.
Out: It is an end mark made inserted in the material.
Play Length: It is the length between marks.
Optional
In the Optional tab, you will be able to enter additional data such as Album, Year, and other
customized data.
Once the file has been selected the import process starts. When it has finished, a card to
complete the file identification data comes out.
Then it asks you the file access path from where you want to restore the material: look for a .hdt
extension file, once you found it, press Open and the restoring process begins.
If the material exists, a warning message shows up. You can accept it, cancel it or ignore it.
Accept (OK): When you restore many materials and some or many of them already exist, this
message appears. By pressing OK this material is not restored and it remains with the rest of
the material until another material within this category is found.
Cancel: It cancels the whole operation.
Ignore: When there are materials to be restored, press Ignore and it will restore all the materials
that it is possible to restore; this message will not show up again.
This method restores the four files stored by the backup process.
Otherwise, the video progress is shown in the status bar. Playback speed can be changed by
selecting another one from the PLAY RATE drop-down menu (regular speed is 1 x).
Stop
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Jog
It can also be played back from the Menu button selecting Play or by pressing quick execution
key F1.
From Menu button Æ Actions Æ Play between Marks. If you want to play back from Mark In to
Mark Out, press Menu Æ Actions Æ Play until Out Mark
Pause
Creating markers
When you want to make a marker on material it must be located on the exact place (using either
Pause, Frame Backward or Frame Forward) and pressing the Menu button, select Set Mark In
to Mark In and Set mark out if you want to Mark Out.
Deleting Markers
To delete markers from a material, select from the Menu: Delete Mark In or Delete Mark Out.
Go to markers
To place the cursor on a marker, select from the Menu: Go Mark In (for Mark In) or Go Mark Out
(for Mark Out).
6.1.11. Search/Find
HdxVideo searches by title, either complete or part of it. To do so write the title or one word of it
in the field Search and the search result shows up in the materials frame.
In Categories window there are two options called: Search result and To Kill, the first option is
used if you change the window and want to come back again, so if you press this option, you go
back to the window showing the search results. The second option consists of a folder where
material is store for assessing its destruction later.
Under Outdated Materials, there is another option called Not Played Since, which is a quick
access to those files that were not playback in a specific period of time.
6.1.13. Refresh
When you are working at creation of materials from different terminals could be happen that you
do not see in all the same information. Pressing the right button of the mouse and then
Programming → Refresh the category that is visualized on the screen will be updated adding or
removing the materials corresponding to the modifications realized by other terminals.
Inside each project you will be able to include many kind of items. Items can be text, images or
even flash animations. In addition, every item contains different properties which can be set as
you want.
Fade In: It is the time the projects lasts to appear into the screen. Recommended values are
between 0.5 to 2 secs.
Fade Out: It is the time the projects lasts to disappear into the screen. Recommended values
are between 0.5 to 2 secs.
Versión: Shows the version of the current project. It is Recommended not to modify this
value.
Add Items
From the Items tab, you can add items to the Project. If an item is not checked, though added,
won’t appear in the screen.
Text Items
To add a Text item, press the +Text button and select the text source of your preference. The
sources are:
If the option Show Text Box is enabled, you will see a green rectangle associated to each text.
This will show you which the area of the text Item is.
Properties
Once added the Text Item, you can manipulate it changing its properties.
Image Items
To add an Image Item, just press the button +Image and select the source of your preference:
Image: Loads the image from a file.
Image from snapshot: Loads the image from the snapshot picture of the material that is
being played during the project.
Once loaded, the image is shown in a preview field. You can set its properties by modifying the
following values:
Properties
Propiedades
Delete Items
To delete an item of the project. Just select the item you want to delete, and press Delete
button.
To load an existing project, just click the button. A list will be shown in which you can
select the project you want to open.
To delete an existing project, just click the button. A list will be shown in which you
can select the project you want to delete.
Assign a name to the segment, if you wish, in Description in the New Segment window and
assign a schedule.
If Playlist is empty and no segment has been created so far, when attempting to program
material, HdxVideo will automatically create a segment and will ask for the previous data.
Once the segment is created, you can program material with this method that, from now on, you
will use in this window as well as in Playout window.
Drag & Drop, from Playback window, click on the material and without releasing the mouse
button drag it to the Playlist and drop it in the segment in which you want to program it. Note
that the mouse pointer turns into a circle crossed with a line and then into a rectangle. The latter
shape shows that you can drop it in that area and then it will be programmed.
Programmed material is appears in Playlist as well as the segment length, that is the addition
result of the materials length; this is shown in Programming Segment window.
To create another segment repeat the previous steps; segment creation order determines the
playout order, there is no chronological order so that the programming is played out without a
schedule control though there is an estimate playout time length.
Save the programming once you have finished it or if you decide to finish it some other time.
Pressing the right button of the mouse a window where you can select Programming →
Save…comes out.
Once programming is saved, if its date matches the date it is being modified, the following
warning appears at the right bottom corner of the screen of all the terminals using Programming
window.
hdxVideo is suggesting you to refresh the screen to update the programming that has been
modified from another terminal.
Edit segment
Press the right button of the mouse and then Segments → Edit, and a window to modify
schedule or description comes out.
Insert segment
This option enables you to insert a segment within a programming because, as we said before,
the segment creation order matches the playout order so by this option a segment can be
added after an existing one.
To do so press the secondary button of the mouse while pointing at the segment located before
the position where you want to insert the segment and select Segments Æ Insert… from the
emerging menu.
To open Programming select Programming → Open and programming date. It can be selected
either from the calendar or from the Programming tab of the created programming list.
Programming update
When working on programming from different terminals it is possible that not all of them display
the same information. Pressing the right button of the mouse and then Programming →
Refresh, the programming will be refreshed in base to the last time that it was saved. If besides
from the own terminal some change had been made, when the Refresh is executed, this one
will ask if you want to save the changes. If we save them then no modification will take place in
the programming and the updates in other terminals will be done on the basis of this one
recently saved.
If you wish to build in your PC the commercial grill and you don’t have HDX Video installed and
you have or remember the code of the advertising to be added, you can write it in a word
processor (like Word or WordPad), then take it in a diskette to the station and to import it from
the Programming window.
Below there is an example of how you should write the commercial blocks of the day:
/10:30:00 Block 1 (Hour of starting of the block with the bar ahead)
AVI00001 (Code of the materials that belongs to the block)
AVI00001 76 (It is possible to add the Traffic Index –optional-)
+COM00006 (Code of the command associated with before material)
AVI00002
/12:42:10 Block 2 (The block description after the hour)
AVI00001
MUS007
If you want to specifty the description of the block you must put it after the hour of starting of the
block, like the example shows. There are some separators (between the hour and the
description) supported, you can use the space character “ ” (like the example), the character “,”
or “;” (for example: /12:54:20;Bloque 3).
Once time created and saved the file with the extension .txt, to import from a Programming
window in hdxVideo, you must press the right button of the mouse and select from the popup
menu Programming → Import From→ Txt …
Once time opened the file to import, the process of import of programming begins. Import a
programming from a text file is equal to create a new programming, then insert every block and
then Drag and Drop of every material that is inside of the text file generated with the material
codes.
In the case that the text file contains codes that they are not in the database, a message will
warn you about this, and there will be given the possibility of saving them in another file for his
later evaluation.
You must press the right button of the mouse and select from the popup menu Programming →
Export To → Txt …
This function creates a random programming automatically, you only need to set up some
formats and then follow just a few steps to create the desired length programming.
You can create a new segment or create programming into an existing segment; pressing the
right button of the mouse a menu drops down where you can select Random Programming
option and the following window appears:
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Here a given random programming time can be scheduled, setting up the format (creating
formats is explained in the next chapter) and length. Then press OK and a sequence of
materials appear in your Playlist completing the indicated time. If the format has few short
materials they will be repeated within the list until they reach the set up length.
Creating formats
In Random Programming window there is an Edit Formats button. If you press it the following
window shows up:
As it can be seen, there are some formats already, but if you need to add one just press Add
button.
Then select the categories for which you are creating the format- it can be one or several.
Assign a name to the format and if you wish, add a format description in the Extended tab.
The next screen shows the Playlist appearance with the insertion of a Random Programming.
With this option you can search materials Find…, search the next one Find next, it searches the
next material having this name or word.
It can be executed by using the Unprogram option and then accepting the confirmation window.
Replacing material
Having both Programming and Ingest windows open, select a material from Ingest window and
then press Replace …in Programming window while pointing at the material to be replaced,
then accept confirmation.
The button Yes to All accepts to replace several materials if they have been selected to be
replaced.
Properties…
It shows the material properties allowing its edition to be able to modify them. Pressing Edit,
title, code, etc. can be changed.
This window shows a monitor where you can see what is being aired. Play, Stop, Next and
Break and 3 timers buttons are also available in it.
Regresive segment
TimeCode Total length
Regresive material
TimeCode
Stop Next
Play
Auto Play
While a programming is being aired, some of the materials can be watched with this window
before they are played out. Play, Stop and Pause buttons are available here as well as the timer
showing the remaining time code of the material and a playback progress bar.
Playlist
The programmed segments list to be aired is shown here, which can be displayed just as a
segment list or as a segments and materials list as well. If you wish, one or all the expanded
segments can be seen. To do so press the right button of the mouse and select Segments →
Expand or Expand all (the latter will expand all segments).
The materials that are being played back appear in red, the material appearing as next in violet
and the already played back materials appear in pink (while this date programming is active, if
the window is closed and opened again, these played back materials will appear in white).
Programming Segments
This window shows the programmed segments and it can be closed by pressing . If you
double click on the segments, materials list segments can be expanded or contracted.
You can choose a particular date from the Programming Date calendar or press on the
Programming tab and select from the dates list of created programmings.
If there is no programming created, it can be created then executing the same process as in 5.2
Programming window (Page 60).
Playout can start from the first programmed segment or from where you mark the material;
when pressing Play the day programming will start being played back and 5 minutes before the
end, the next day programming is loaded though the day has not yet ended. As soon as the day
first segment of that programming is played out, the day corresponding to that date will be
loaded in the Playlist. The following days programming will be loaded successively because this
activity is designed for a never ending programming, even though a programming does not
belong to the playout date.
Highlighted material will turn maroon and while it is played back it will turn red. Once the
material is played back it remains pink and it keeps this color while this playout window is open
or while Playlist date does not change, because the previous date programming is deleted from
this Playlist.
If you need to play back by segments, press and will become active, then press
Play; it will play back till the end of the segment and will not continue until Play is pressed again.
You can also use Emission Actions → Play list where Stop, Next, Break and quick execution
keys can be found.
6.4.5. Preview
All the materials can be previewed through the Preview monitor even if programming is being
played out at the moment. Play, Pause and Stop keys can be used in this operation. For
example, highlight the material you need to check and press Play from the Preview window.
The highlighted material turns red.
If you want to air what you are watching in Preview, just press Next and it will be played out at
once, skipping the rest of the programming.
This menu allows you to enable (if you tick the options) or disable (if you unmark them), the
Preview and Programming boards and the Air or Preview monitor.
To clean a cell, open the contextual menu on the position to be emptied and then select “Clear”.
This material arrangement within the pages, is stored by user, so each user has its own 10
pages material arrangement.
You can also adjust the current material playback speed before or during its playback. Such
speed ranges from 0,3x (very slow) up to 8x (very fast). If you do and you have selected a
material as next, the state of this one will be a light green, which indicates that you have this
material selected to reproduce, but as change the speed it will not reproduce it in loop
automatically. It means that it will reproduce only the actual one in reproduction.
It also has a Jog bar similar to that of Ingest window to be able to move over the material that is
being played out at the different speeds.
To play back IPlay window may keep a list of up to two items, so that you can select a material
to play back and while it being played out, you can selected another one from other cell to be
played back once the first material has finished.
To remove the following material to be played back from the list and prevent it from being
played back next, execute the contextual menu over the next item and then select “Unselect
Next” option.
To play back material in cycles, press button Loop while such material is being played back.
The button turns on if the device set up for this window allows its use.
To end this playback mode, press this button again and the list will go to the following selected
material once the current one being played back has finished, or playback ends if there is no
other selected material.
To pause a material, press Pause button during its playback. Material will twinkle until pause is
released and playback is resumed.
7. Shortcuts index
Emission Actions ► Break It plays back until the end of the segment. Ctrl + B
Pause Pause. F3
8. Glossary
Clon: It refers back to an existing material. Materials are physically stored in a device. When
markers or other modifications are required, materials can be clonned refering back to the
physical material position and by modifying the Clon, the original will not be modified.
9. Technical Support
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not doubt to contact us at +54 11 4650 3110 or send an email to tech@hardata.com.
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