Grass Valley iTX Desktop v.2.6 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- About this manual
- About iTX
- Quick tour of the iTX Desktop
- Working with schedules
- The Content Selector
- About the Content Selector
- Managing the contents of a palette selection pane
- Editing a schedule by dragging and dropping assets from the Content Selector
- Working with video clips
- Working with logos
- About the Logo palette
- Adding a logo event to a schedule
- Options for controlling the playout of logos
- Temporary removal of all logos
- Set the logo-type property
- Change the title of a logo
- Change the default duration of a logo event
- Assign a logo to a different layer
- Suppress or restore all active logos
- Clearing all logos at the start of a new schedule
- Working with external logo inserters
- Working with CGs
- Working with subtitle files
- Working with still images
- Working with voiceover clips
- Working with live events
- Working with sequences
- Working with stored schedules
- Working with split breaks
- Working with slide shows
- Working with an external subtitler
- Working with external CG devices and graphics systems
- About the Clarity palette
- Add a Clarity CG template to the palette selection pane
- Adding a Clarity CG event to a schedule
- Change the name of a Clarity CG template
- Change the properties of a CG template
- Change the duration of a Clarity CG event
- About the VizRT palette
- Add a VizRT CG page to the palette selection pane
- Adding a VizRT CG event to a schedule
- Working with GPIs
- Working with studio sources
- Working with router events
- Working with a studio switcher
- Working with VANC data
- Working with enhanced SCTE104 data
- Working with rating categories
- Adding comments
- The Event Editor
- About the Event Editor
- Editing events of different types
- Editing a video-clip event
- Editing a CG event
- Editing a logo event
- Editing an external-logo event
- Editing a still-image event
- Editing the properties of a sequence
- Editing a voiceover-clip event
- Editing a subtitle event
- Editing a stored schedule
- Editing a live event
- Editing a slide-show event
- Editing a GPI event
- Editing a VANC-message event
- Editing an Enhanced 105 VANC message event
- Editing inbound enhanced SCTE 104 VANC message events
- Editing a split-break event
- Editing an external subtitle event
- Editing an external CG or graphics event
- Editing a rating-category event
- Editing a studio-source event
- Editing a router event
- Saving or cancelling changes to events
- Changing the title of the item in an event
- Setting event playout times
- About the timing properties that affect event start and end times
- Possible time modes
- Set the time mode for an event
- Set the start time for a fixed event
- Set the end time for a fixed-end event
- Set the time offset for a secondary event
- Manual events
- Set the manual property for an event
- Join-in-progress events
- About the display of local or UTC start times for events
- About DST and the timing of fixed-start and fixed-end events
- Enter an event start time that could be before or after the end of DST
- Enter an event end time that could be before or after the end of DST
- Setting event durations
- Durations for different types of event
- Automatic durations for secondary events
- Change an event duration
- Set an automatic duration to make a secondary event finish at the same time as its primary event
- Set an automatic duration to make a secondary event start and finish at the same time as its primary event
- Setting the regional channel for a regional event
- Video and audio transitions for primary events
- Creating a picture-in-picture effect
- Picture-in-picture formats
- Mix and zoom options for a picture-in-picture effect
- About the picture-in-picture format dialog
- Set the size and position of the items in a picture-in-picture effect
- Adjust the background audio level for a picture-in-picture effect
- Add a background image to a picture-in-picture effect
- Change the format stored in a preset-format button
- Set a mix transition into, and out of, a picture-in-picture effect
- Set a zoom action into, and out of, a picture-in-picture effect
- Transitions and vision effects for secondary events
- Using the Event Editor features for sequences
- Restricting the use of a sequence to a defined period
- Prevent iTX starting a sequence before the start of a break window
- Set iTX to skip a sequence that it does not start by the end of a break window
- Apply a standard set of transitions to the events in a sequence
- Prevent iTX switching a pass-through channel back to its live source before a sequence has played out for a specified duration
- Prevent iTX continuing to play out events in a sequence after a specified duration
- Inserting an SCTE 104 message to trigger the insertion of local advertising
- Changing volume levels for voiceover events
- Selecting a videotape machine to play out a VTR event
- Setting up the recording of sequences and live events
- About the different recording modes
- About channel default settings
- Use the Event Editor to quickly mark an event for recording
- Use the Schedule Grid to quickly mark an event for recording
- Use the Event Editor to specify settings for the recording of an event
- Use the Schedule Grid to specify settings for the recording of an event
- Edit the recording properties for an event
- Monitor a recording
- Preview a recording
- Cancel a recording
- Scheduling notes
- Changing the GPI output for a GPI event
- Changing the routing properties for a router event
- Changing the external subtitle file for an external subtitle event
- Entering information in editable CG text blocks
- Changing page details in a VizRT CG event
- Changing the rating category for a rating-category event
- Entering and viewing schedule notes
- Using the follow-next feature
- The Timeline Display
- The Schedule Grid
- About the Schedule Grid
- Creating a schedule event by dropping an item into the Schedule Grid
- Noting the time mode of events
- Tracking an event
- Viewing information about an event
- Preventing schedule underruns and overruns
- Show or hide secondary events
- Change the order of schedule events
- Event warnings
- Add a filter to the Schedule Grid
- Using the options in the Schedule Grid menu
- Defining the Schedule Grid view
- Set up the column arrangement and text appearance in the Schedule Grid
- Restore the default column arrangement in the Schedule Grid
- Set up the Schedule Grid for drag-and-drop schedule changes
- Switch off the transition-editing feature of the Schedule Grid
- Show or hide secondary events in a filtered list
- Show or hide events that have taken place
- Set up the Schedule Grid to display warnings of potential underruns and overruns
- Choose which tracks iTX displays information for in the Schedule Grid
- Show or hide tooltips
- Load the global Schedule Grid view
- Set the Schedule Grid view as the global Schedule Grid view
- Print the current schedule
- Cut and paste an event or group of events
- Copy and paste an event or group of events
- Delete an event or group of events
- Delete all events
- Cancel recent changes to a schedule
- Update a back-up schedule instantly
- Update an event or group of events
- Check for the missing media item in an event
- Skip an event or group of events
- Unskip an event or group of events
- Schedule event colors
- Cache status indicators
- Changing the transitions for events in the Schedule Grid
- Changing the duration and media limits from the Schedule Grid
- Automatic replacement of missing media files with evergreen content
- About VTR events in the Schedule Grid
- Recording schedule events
- The Schedule Manager
- About the Schedule Manager
- Loading stored schedules in the Schedule Manager
- Adding stored schedules to the current schedule
- Saving the current schedule
- Creating sequences and sequence templates
- Creating a looping schedule
- Adding an hour or a day to the start time of the current schedule
- The Schedule Manager menu
- The Next-Event Control Panel
- The Live Logo Inserter
- Channel-control pop-up layouts
- Searching with PinPoint
- Common operational tasks for iTX Desktop features
- Playing a video clip in a preview window
- Marking the boundary points of a video clip
- Changing the audio level of a previewing video clip
- Specifying properties for video clips and voiceover clips
- Audio output channels
- Source Format and Active Region settings
- Identifying 3D-stereoscopic video clips
- Looping a video clip
- Copy Guard settings
- Display the Clip Properties dialog
- Select the audio output channels for a voiceover clip or a secondary video clip
- Set the source format and active region of a video clip
- Mark a video clip as stereoscopic-3D
- Set up looping for a video clip
- Change the copy-protection setting for a video clip
- Entering a value in an iTX time-entry box
- Entering values in a date-and-time box
- Switching a recorded voice countdown on or off
- The CG application
- About the CG application
- Working with text
- Creating and editing CG text
- Select the text operating mode
- Create a simple text block, containing fixed CG text
- Create an editable text block
- Create a dynamic text block
- Resize and move a text block
- Specify a font for CG text
- Set the alignment of CG text
- Set the spacing of CG text
- Apply a drop shadow to CG text
- Apply a solid fill to CG text
- Apply a graduated fill to CG text
- Apply a textured fill to CG text
- Edit CG text
- Apply a crawl to CG text
- Save text properties as a text-layer style
- Apply a text-layer style to a text block
- Set the group number for a text block
- Delete a text block
- Working with rectangles
- Creating and modifying rectangles
- Select the rectangle operating mode
- Create a rectangle
- Resize and move a rectangle
- Apply a solid fill to a rectangle
- Apply a graduated fill to a rectangle
- Apply a textured fill to a rectangle
- Change the color and thickness of a rectangle border
- Select a pre-defined rectangle layout style
- Set the group number for a rectangle
- Delete a rectangle
- Working with background images
- Resizing and moving CG objects
- Changing the stacking order of objects
- Working with multiple objects
- Undoing and redoing changes
- The Color Selector
- Setting properties (visual effects, crawl speeds) for groups
- Using the template controls
- Setting the CG application window options
- Closing the CG application
- Ingesting files through the Media Store Inbox
- Ingesting media by using an Encode Server
- Crash recordings, automatic recordings and batch recordings
- Recording from a videotape
- The ingest layouts
- The Encode control panel
- About the Encode Server lock button
- About the VTR control button
- Setting the structure of the media file created by an Encode Server
- Preparing your iTX system for recordings
- Using the Encode control panel to record media files
- Using the Tape Ingest layout for single or batch ingest
- About placeholder clips
- Options for ingest on the Tape Ingest layout
- Create a placeholder clip
- Load a placeholder clip in the Clip Holder
- Send a placeholder clip for ingest
- Add placeholder clips to the Batch Ingest control panel from PinPoint
- Set up and start a batch recording
- Start a recording from the Encode control panel
- Previewing and playing out media while it is being recorded
- Using Ingest Manager
- About Ingest Manager
- The standard Ingest Manager layouts
- Bookings for planned recordings
- Choosing a clip name when making a booking request
- Creating bookings
- Editing bookings
- Managing bookings
- About the Instant Ingest Request panel
- Using the Instant Ingest Request panel
- Using a naming rule for an ad-hoc recording
- Monitoring and managing scheduled recordings
- Recording-status colors
- Select which tracks appear on the Timeline Display
- Zoom the Timeline Display
- View different parts of the timeline
- Change the channel selection for the Recording Schedule Grid
- Change what columns appear in the Recording Schedule Grid
- Adjust column widths in the Recording Schedule Grid
- Filter the list in the Recording Schedule Grid
- Delete an entry in the Recording Schedule Grid
- Responding to failed recordings
- Preparing media items for playout
- About the Asset layout
- About database assets and media files
- User rights
- Searching for assets
- Viewing a media file in the Media Viewer
- Working with the Property Editor
- Expanding panels
- Reloading an asset
- Asset locking
- Saving asset changes
- The Asset tab
- Change the name or title of an asset
- Change the production date
- Specify a usage window
- Set timing properties
- Change aspect-ratio properties for a video clip
- Change the field playout order
- Change the transition type or duration
- Identify an asset that is stereoscopic-3D formatted
- Adjust audio properties
- Select a poster frame
- Create or modify a live event
- The Locations tab
- Open the folder for the file associated with an asset
- Delete a file for a single asset
- Delete multiple files for a single asset
- Delete multiple files from the same location
- Manage audio tracks for a video clip
- The Attributes tab
- The Access Rights tab
- Change the clip permissions for a user group
- Assign clip permissions to a new user group
- The Categories tab
- Tag an asset with a category
- Untag an asset from a category
- Create a category
- The Notes tab
- Attach notes to a media item
- The Co-References tab
- The Actions tab
- Create a low-bit-rate proxy copy of a video clip
- Create a set of keyframes for a video clip
- Archive a media file to a DIVArchive
- Restore a media file from a DIVArchive
- Vantage jobs
- Use a Vantage system to transcode a media file
- Use a Vantage system to perform a QC check on a media file
- Use a Vantage system to import a media file
- Durations and Media Limits
- Saving assets
- Locking assets and media-file locations
- Operations allowed with locked assets
- Edit Unlock state
- Copying a locked asset
- Re-importing the media file to a locked media location
- Locking media locations in co-references
- Batch operations with locked items
- Lock an asset
- Lock a media location
- Unlock an asset
- Unlock a media location
- Edit a locked asset
- Reading the Media Store Gauge
- About asset templates
- Working with the Logo Editor
- Working on the Asset Segmentation layout
- Using iTX with a keyboard or hard panel
- Optional features
- The Live CG Inserter
- Next-event gang buttons
- The Count To Control
- The Schedule Preview Control
- The Direct Preview Control
- The Global Editor
- The Live Channel Management panel
- The Live Video Inserter
- Using the Live Video Inserter on the Line Playback layout
- Select edit and playout channels on the Line Playback layout
- Load video clips in the Live Video Inserter from PinPoint
- Load video clips in the Live Video Inserter from an edit channel
- Add video-clip events to a playout channel from the Live Video Inserter
- Add a live event to a playout channel from the Live Video Inserter
- Take events to air from the Live Video Inserter
- The Recue Item control panel
- The Missing Material status channel
- Automatic display of schedule events on a video monitor
- Appendix A: The iTX Import Protocol