AJA Control Room - Manual (Page 5)

AJA Control Room v1.0 www.aja.com 5
User-interface Overview
This section discusses the general layout and functions offered in AJA Control Room
application menu bar and user interface screen. The application, by default, opens to the
Viewer page shown in the following figure (the default Viewer Tab is Playback).
Figure 1. AJA Control Room Screen Layout
• Playback—the playback pane loads files from your computer and plays them out
through your AJA hardware.
NOTE: Tabs at the top of the Viewer Screen allow you to easily toggle between Capture, Playback and
Edit To Tape. The Capture and Edit To Tape screen tabs are not active unless the AJA Control
Panel is active with a valid AJA Edit product installed on your computer.
• Capture—the Capture screen allows capturing video and audio to the computer from
an external video/audio source, such as a VTR/DDR, using the AJA hardware.
• Edit To Tape—a workspace where you can perform an Insert or Assemble Edit to Tape
to record your clips to a VTR/DDR.