Grass Valley iTX Desktop v.2.6 - Manual (Page 35)

The Content Selector
The Content Selector
About the Content Selector
The Content Selector, on the iTX Channel Control layout, is one of a pair of components that
you tend to work with alternately when you edit playout schedules (the other is the Event
Editor). You use the Content Selector to select assets from the System Database and include
them in schedule events; you use the Event Editor to change the properties of schedule events
that feature these assets.
The assets contain the location details that iTX needs to find media files on the Media Store;
they also contain information about other properties of the media, such as a video clip's in- and
out-points. In the System Database, there is a different type of asset for each different type of
media file on the Media Store: video clip, CG, logo, etc.
The Content Selector gives you access to the System Database through PinPoint (an iTX tool for
database searching). You can search the System Database, select assets and copy these to the
Content Selector. In this way, you create shortlists of assets on the Content Selector that you
can use in schedule events. More details , page 173.
You can modify assets on the Content Selector (e.g. change an in-point), before using them in
schedule events. Changes you make in this way do not affect the original assets in the System
Database.
As well as assets, the Content Selector handles other types of item you can use in schedule
events. You use these items for operations such as the insertion of VANC data in the video
signal and the playout of graphics from an external Vertigo XG graphics system.
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