Grass Valley Xbuilder Vertigo Suite v.4.8 - Manual (Page 7)

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Introducing Xbuilder............................................................................................................ 1-1
Getting started with Xbuilder.............................................................................................. 2-1
Installation and licensing information................................................................................................. 2-2
Starting Xbuilder and connecting to the Xmedia Server .................................................................... 2-3
Overview of Xbuilder’s user interface ................................................................................................ 2-4
Configuring Xbuilder’s settings .......................................................................................................... 2-6
Adding and configuring a Preview device.......................................................................................... 2-7
Configuring a device for the verification of playlist elements ............................................................. 2-9
Creating, editing and previewing pages and/or scenes................................................... 3-1
Creating an individual shared page from a template ......................................................................... 3-3
Creating pages and/or scene using a Merge List .............................................................................. 3-4
Creating Merge List file in Microsoft Excel.................................................................................... 3-5
Creating an XML Merge List file.................................................................................................... 3-6
Approving or rejecting new pages and scenes created from a Merge List ................................... 3-8
Opening an existing page or scene ................................................................................................... 3-9
Editing a page or scene’s content elements .................................................................................... 3-10
Previewing a page or scene on the Preview device ........................................................................ 3-11
Saving a snapshot (image file) of a page or scene’s playout .......................................................... 3-12
Rendering pages and scenes to a clip file ........................................................................ 4-1
Render to VAF for pre-rendered playout....................................................................................... 4-2
Render to MXF for playout on a video server ............................................................................... 4-3
Render to MPEG for preview........................................................................................................ 4-4
Manual rendering pages and/or scenes to a file................................................................................ 4-5
Batch-rendering of pages and/or scenes to a file .............................................................................. 4-7
Performing Quality Control (QC) and Media Check (MC)................................................. 5-1
Setting up the QC and MC workflows................................................................................................ 5-3
Create and set up the Subfolders and Approved Category folders .............................................. 5-3
Specify Xbuilder’s settings for the QC and MC workflows ............................................................ 5-4
Associate channels to devices in Xbuilder’s Device Manager ...................................................... 5-5
Verify that the system templates are installed and publish them to the SWCG............................ 5-6
Verify the presence of the QC license .......................................................................................... 5-8
Creating a Make List / Air List spreadsheet ....................................................................................... 5-9
Using AE Plug-in and the Make List to create and ingest graphics ................................................. 5-11
Quality Control: Previewing and validating graphics in Xbuilder...................................................... 5-12
Media Check: Graphics publish verification..................................................................................... 5-14
Creating and using playlists ............................................................................................... 6-1
An overview of the Playlist Editor ...................................................................................................... 6-2
Procedural overview for creating a sequential playlist....................................................................... 6-3
Creating a new playlist ...................................................................................................................... 6-4
Opening an existing playlist ............................................................................................................... 6-4