Grass Valley Xplay Vertigo Suite v.5.0 - Manual (Page 151)

7-2 Xplay User Manual
Appendix B - Creating and editing pages in Xplay
Embedded versus Shared pages
Before creating a graphics page, you must decide whether the new page will be an
embedded page or and a shared page. Note that both types of pages provide the same
playout performance in a playlist. The main consideration that should be taken into account
is whether the page is intended to be included in only one or many playlists.
Embedded pages exist only within a playlist, and it is the playlist that is saved as a whole
in the Xmedia Server. As a result, the individual page does not exist anywhere else, not
even in the Pages root category of the Asset Browser. Embedded page can be reused
outside of its playlist if its playlist is inserted or appended to another playlist, or if the page
converted into a shared page using the S
AVE AS S HARED PAGE command in Xbuilder. An
advantage of using embedded pages is cleanup - once the playlist is deleted, all the pages
in it are gone too.
Shared pages exist in the Xmedia Server (accessed from the Asset Browser) as distinct
assets and can be used in many different playlists as a common element. An application
example of using shared pages is a sports scoreboard that is used in the playlists for many
different rundowns (i.e. news show, sports show, late sports, etc.). In such a case, the
shared page would only be created once, updated automatically (or manually), but only one
“copy” of that page needs to be updated for the updates to apply to all of the shows. One of
the drawbacks for shared pages is that deleting the shared page asset from the Xmedia
Server affects all shows that used that page.