Document Outline

• Copyright
• Disclaimer
• Improvement Requests
• New Features in IP Director Version 4.3
• New Features in IP Director Version 4.4
• Improvements in User Manual Version 4.3 & 4.4
• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Logging and Browsing
• Part 3: Ingest and Play-Out
• Part 4: System Management and Troubleshooting
• 1.1 INTRODUCTION
  • Recorder panel Use Depending on XT Mode
  • How To open a recorder panel associated with a channel
• 1.2 RECORDER PANEL SHORTCUTS
• 2.1 INTRODUCTION
• 2.2 HOW TO OPEN INGEST SCHEDULER
• 2.3 HOW TO SCHEDULE EVENTS USING IP INGEST SCHEDULER
  • Time Area
  • Clip area
• 2.4 TIMELINE
  • 2.4.1 Recorder Channel Status
  • 2.4.2 Clip Status
  • 2.4.3 Other Elements
• 3.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 3.1.1 Purpose
  • 3.1.2 Overview of the Display Modes
• 3.2 OPENING THE VTR CONTROL PANEL
  • 3.2.1 How to Open the VTR Control Panel From Channel Explorer
  • 3.2.2 How to Open the VTR Control Panel From the Toolbar
• 3.3 VTR CONTROL PANEL MODE 1: TRANSPORT MODE
  • 3.3.1 Purpose
  • 3.3.2 Screen elements and functions
    • Device bar
    • Mode selector
    • Time code field
    • Preroll field
    • Jog bar
    • Transport buttons
    • Status bar
• 3.4 VTR CONTROL PANEL MODE 2: AUTO-EDIT MODE
  • 3.4.1 Purpose
  • 3.4.2 Screen elements and functions
    • Mark IN - Duration - Mark OUT
    • Mark IN / Mark OUT buttons
    • Recorder bar
    • Clip Information fields
  • 3.4.3 How to Make a Clip in Auto-edit Mode
• 3.5 VTR CONTROL PANEL MODE 3: BATCH DIGITIZE MODE
  • 3.5.1 Purpose
  • 3.5.2 Screen elements and functions
    • Batch List management buttons
    • Import / Export buttons
  • 3.5.3 Batch Digitize Procedure
    • How to Create and Process a Batch List
    • Editing a Batch List
    • Managing Batch Lists
    • Importing a Batch List
    • Exporting a Batch List
• 3.6 VTR CONTROL PANEL SHORTCUTS
• 4.1 INTRODUCTION
• 4.2 OVERVIEW OF THE CONTROL PANEL
  • Channel Media Pane
  • Linked Video Display Pane
  • Transport Functions Pane
  • Clip Creation Pane
  • Tabbed Pane
    • Clip Information Tab
    • Metadata Tab
    • Ganged Channels Tab
    • Clip-List Tab
• 4.3 VIEWS OF THE CONTROL PANEL
  • Minimal View
  • Transport Functions View
  • Clip Creation View
  • Full View
• 4.4 CHANNEL MEDIA PANE
  • 4.4.1 On-Air Button
  • 4.4.2 Channel Field
  • 4.4.3 Pane Display Icon
  • 4.4.4 Lock Icon
  • 4.4.5 Loaded Media Field
  • 4.4.6 LSM ID Field
• 4.5 TRANSPORT FUNCTIONS PANE
  • 4.5.1 Time Information Group Box
  • 4.5.2 Left Timecode field
  • 4.5.3 Right Duration field
    • When a clip is loaded
    • When a record train is loaded
    • When a play-list is loaded
  • 4.5.4 Play Mode Icon
  • 4.5.5 Custom Speed Field
  • 4.5.6 Browsing within Video Material with the ShuttlePRO
  • 4.5.7 Jog bar
  • 4.5.8 Play Icon
  • 4.5.9 Pause Icon
  • 4.5.10 Fast Rewind Icon
  • 4.5.11 Fast Forward Icon
  • 4.5.12 E/E Icon
  • 4.5.13 Direct Access Buttons to the Trains on the ShuttlePRO
  • 4.5.14 Snap Icon
  • 4.5.15 Ret Icon
  • 4.5.16 Grab Frame
• 4.6 CLIP CREATION PANE
  • 4.6.1 Time Information
  • 4.6.2 Goto IN Icon
  • 4.6.3 Goto OUT Icon
  • 4.6.4 Mark IN
  • 4.6.5 Mark OUT
  • 4.6.6 Clear IN
  • 4.6.7 Clear OUT
  • 4.6.8 Update Clip Icon
  • 4.6.9 New Clip Icon
  • 4.6.10 Last Clips Created List
  • 4.6.11 Gang Function
  • 4.6.12 Sync Function
  • 4.6.13 Take Function
  • 4.6.14 Secondary Control mode
  • 4.6.15 Clip Status
• 4.7 SAVE CLIP WINDOW
  • Window Overview
  • Later Access to the Data
  • 4.7.1 Fields in the Save Clip Window
  • 4.7.2 Clip Location
  • 4.7.3 Clip Name
• 4.8 CLIP INFORMATION TAB
  • 4.8.1 Keyword List
  • 4.8.2 Interest Level Icons
  • 4.8.3 Clip Type Icons
  • 4.8.4 Source Field
  • 4.8.5 On XT Field
  • 4.8.6 Creation Date
  • 4.8.7 Published to Check Boxes
  • 4.8.8 Linked to Clips List
  • Display Thumbnails Check Box
  • 4.8.10 Grab Thumbnails Button
  • 4.8.11 Owner Field
  • 4.8.12 Clips Sent to List
    • Possible Transfers
    • Transfer Information
    • Transfer Status
    • Viewing Detailed Transfer Information
• 4.9 METADATA TAB
• 4.10 GANGED CHANNELS TAB
  • 4.10.1 Introduction
  • 4.10.2 Transport Command Synchronization On Ganged Player Channels
    • Trains
    • Clips
      • GO TO IN/OUT and SYNC ALL T/C
      • NEXT and PREVIOUS
    • Play-Lists
• 4.11 CLIP-LIST TAB
  • Off-line and On-Line Play-Lists
  • Distant and Local Play-Lists
  • 4.11.1 Channel Media Pane
  • 4.11.2 Video Display
  • 4.11.3 Clip Transport Functions
  • 4.11.4 Clip-List Menu
  • 4.11.5 Play-List Name and LSM ID
  • 4.11.6 Play-List Functions
    • RECUE
    • Times Until Transition
    • NEXT
    • SKIP
    • Clip Transition – Transition Type
    • Clip Transition – Transition Duration
  • 4.11.7 Element List
    • Field Description
  • 4.11.8 Colour Code in the Element List
  • 4.11.9 Contextual Menu
    • Cut/Copy/Paste an element
    • Remove Element / Remove All Elements
    • Organizing the Columns in the Element List
• 4.12 CONTEXTUAL MENU
• 4.13 SETTINGS
  • 4.13.1 Clip Creation Settings
    • Guardbands
    • Default Clip Duration
    • Open Save Window
    • Create Clips on All Synchronised Recorders
    • Automatic Clip Creation based on Logs
    • Default XT for Partial Clip Restore
    • Last Clips Created List
    • Back to Default
  • 4.13.2 Transport Settings
    • Speeds
    • Automatically Start Playing Clip When Loaded on Control Panel
  • 4.13.3 Take Effect Settings
    • Default Effect Type
    • Default Effect Duration
  • 4.13.4 Image Capture Settings
    • Default Path for Captured Images
    • Capture Images on all Ganged Recorders or Linked Clips
• 4.14 CONTROL PANEL SHORTCUTS
• 4.15 ASSIGNING A CHANNEL
  • 4.15.1 How to Open and Assign a Channel to a Control Panel
    • How to Open the Control Panel and Assign a Channel From the Channel Explorer
    • How to Open the Control Panel and Assign a Channel From the Main Menu
    • How to Assign a Channel From the Channel Field
    • How to Assign a Channel From the ShuttlePRO
• 4.16 LOADING MEDIA
  • 4.16.1 How to Load a Train in the Control Panel
  • 4.16.2 How to Load a Clip in the Control Panel
  • 4.16.3 How to Load a Play-List in the Clip-List Tab
    • In the Clip-List Tab
    • From the (Mini) Database Explorer
• 4.17 MOVING WITHIN MEDIA
  • 4.17.1 How to Jump to a Given Timecode Within the Loaded Media
  • 4.17.2 How to Play a Train with a Delay
• 4.18 CREATING AND EDITING MEDIA
  • 4.18.1 How to Create Clips in the Control Panel
  • 4.18.2 How to Rename a Loaded Clip
  • 4.18.3 How to Create a Play-List in the Control Panel
  • 4.18.4 How to Delete a Play-List in the Clip-List Tab
  • 4.18.5 How to Rename a Loaded Play-List
  • 4.18.6 Selecting Elements in a Play-List
  • 4.18.7 How to Move Elements Within a Play-List
  • 4.18.8 Adding Elements To a Play-List
  • 4.18.9 How to Remove Elements From a Play-List
• 4.19 USING KEYWORDS & METADATA
  • 4.19.1 How to Add a Keyword to a Clip
  • 4.19.2 How to Delete One or More Keywords From a Clip
  • 4.19.3 How to Add or Modify Metadata of a Clip
• 4.20 PUBLISHING AND TRANSFERRING MEDIA
  • 4.20.1 How to Publish a Clip to a User Group
  • 4.20.2 How to Send a Clip to an External Destination
  • 4.20.3 How to Send a Play-List to an External Destination
  • 4.20.4 How to Export a Play-List
  • 4.20.5 How to Import a Play-List
• 4.21 USING GANGED CHANNELS
  • 4.21.1 How to Play a Ganged Channel
  • 4.21.2 How to Synchronise The Timecode on All Player Channels
  • 4.21.3 How to Temporarily Ungang and Gang Again One or More Channels
  • 4.21.4 How to Remove a Channel from the Group
• 5.1 INTRODUCTION
• 5.2 INGEST KEY AND FILL CLIPS
  • 5.2.1 At Clip Creation
  • 5.2.2 After Clip Creation
• 5.3 KEY AND FILL CLIPS ASSOCIATION
  • 5.3.1 How to Associate Key and Fill Clips
  • 5.3.2 Rules in Key and Fill Clip Associations
  • 5.3.3 How to Disassociate Key and Fill Links
  • 5.3.4 How to View Key and Fill Associations
  • 5.3.5 How to View Key Clip Information
  • 5.3.6 browsing for key and fill clips
    • Key clips
    • Fill clips
    • Fill & Key clips
• 6.1 INTRODUCTION
• 6.2 THE MENU BAR
• 6.3 THE EXPLORER
  • 6.3.1 How to Create a Play-List using the Explorer zone
  • 6.3.2 Off-line and On-Line Play-Lists
  • 6.3.3 On-Line Play-Lists and Alternative Control Protocols
• 6.4 THE PLAY-LIST ZONE
  • 6.4.1 Creating a Tab for a Play-List
  • 6.4.2 Removing a Tab from the Play-List Zone
  • 6.4.3 Removing all Tabs from the Play-List Zone
  • 6.4.4 Play-List Status and naming conventions
    • Initial Tab Status
    • How to Make a Play-List On-Line
    • How to make a Play-List Idle
    • Change the Channel Allocated to the Tab.
    • Play-List management in case of an XT disconnection
    • Insert/Replace a Play-List on an Existing Tab (no channel association)
    • Inserting or Replacing a Play-List on an Existing Tab with associated channel with an on-line play-list
• 6.5 THE AREAS OF A PLAY-LIST TAB
• 6.6 THE ON-AIR AREA
  • 6.6.1 How to Cue up a play-list to the On-Air Panel
  • 6.6.2 Play-List Transport Controls
    • PLAY
    • PAUSE
    • GOTO IN
    • GOTO OUT
    • RECUE
    • NEXT
    • SKIP
    • LOOP
    • PREVIEW TRANSITION
  • 6.6.3 On-Air Play-List Modes
    • LOCK
    • 1 PGM / PGM-PRV mode
    • ON-AIR
  • 6.6.4 On-Air Displays
    • Information Display Settings
      • Times to transition
      • On-air time Display
      • Display options in the elements area
    • XT Channel On-Screen Display
  • 6.6.5 Contextual Menu From the Play-List Name
  • 6.6.6 How to Export a Play-List
  • 6.6.7 How to Import a Play-List
  • 6.6.8 How to Delete Unused Play-Lists
• 6.7 THE PLAY-LIST EDIT AREA
  • 6.7.1 Introduction
  • 6.7.2 Drag and Drop in the Play-List Edit Area
    • Drag and Drop Clips
    • Drag and Drop Bins
    • Drag and Drop Trains
    • Move Elements around in a Play-List
    • Modify Playback Parameter Values in a Play-List
    • Values Modified By Direct Entry
    • Values Modified By Selection
  • 6.7.3 Using Contextual Menus to edit a Play-List
    • Cut/Copy/Paste an element
    • Remove Element
    • Modify Element Playback Parameters
    • Define Audio/Video Effect
      • Link video and audio parameters
      • Video Effect and Audio Effect zones
    • Set Speed
    • Define Start Mode
      • Still Mode
      • Start Mode
      • Manual Override on Start mode settings
    • Reset transition to default
    • Advanced Insert Modes
    • Insert LIVE or DELAY
      • From Which Feed?
      • IN Zone
        • Delay
        • T/C IN
      • OUT Zone
        • Unknown
        • T/C OUT
        • Duration
    • Modify LIVE or Delay
    • Insert/Edit Comment
      • Insert a comment
      • Edit a comment
    • Insert Tag
      • Introduction
      • Define Element Tags Window
        • Select Element Zone
        • Tab Configuration Zone
      • Specifying a Timecode for the Tag to be Activated
      • Tag Types
        • GPI
        • Hide On
        • Hide Off
        • Mute On
        • Mute Off
        • Swap audio tracks
    • Swap Audio Tracks Window
      • Adding predefined audio swap configurations
      • Using the Customize Option to Set up an Audio Swap Tag Type
      • Conflict between Mute and Swap Audio Tracks
    • Linked Clips
    • Insert a Linked Clip
    • Replace by a linked clip
    • Preview a linked clip
    • Group Elements
    • Selecting a New Group
    • Adding Elements to an Existing Group
    • Ungrouping Elements
  • 6.7.4 Organizing the Columns of the Edit Play-List Tab
  • 6.7.5 Auxiliary Clip on a Play-List
    • Defining the Auxiliary Clip Associated to the Play-List
    • Adding an Auxiliary Audio Clip to a Play-List
    • Removing the Auxiliary Clip Associated to the Play-List
  • 6.7.6 XT Channel On-Screen Display in Play-List Edit Mode
    • General Information
    • Tag information
      • Swap audio tag
      • Hide tag
      • Mute tag
      • GPI tag
      • Tags placed on the same field.
• 6.8 THE PREVIEW CONTROL PANEL
  • 6.8.1 Default channel associated to the preview control panel
  • 6.8.2 Associating a Channel to the preview control panel
  • 6.8.3 Video display management
  • 6.8.4 Loading a Clip on the Preview Control Panel
    • Browse and Redefine IN and OUT Point of the Element
    • Inserting or Appending a Clip Into a Play-List
  • 6.8.5 Loading a Record Train in LIVE Mode
    • Inserting the Train (in LIVE) Into the Play-List List
      • Insert LIVE
      • Append LIVE
      • Delay With Insert or Append
  • 6.8.6 Loading a Record Train in PAUSE or PLAY
    • Inserting the Train (in PAUSE or PLAY) Into the Play-List
      • Insert DELAY
      • Append DELAY
      • Values with Insert and Append Delay
    • Creating a clip from the preview control panel
  • 6.8.7 Loading and Modifying a play-list element from the play-list tab
• 6.9 PLAY-LIST SETTINGS IN THE TOOLS MENU
  • 6.9.1 Introduction
  • 6.9.2 Play-List – General Settings
    • Insert Mode in Play-List
    • Action Taken when the Channel is Set to IDLE
    • Default Pre-Roll Duration
    • Display Warning Messages
    • Display 3rd time information in the on-air Panel
    • Default Play-List Colours
  • 6.9.3 Play-List – Default Transition Settings
    • Default Speed For Elements
    • Default A/V Effect Parameters for Transitions
      • Link Video and Audio Parameters Option
      • Video Effect and Audio Effect Zones
    • Default start mode parameters for transitions
      • Still Mode
      • Start Mode
  • 6.9.4 Play-List – Predefined Values Settings
    • Predefined Effect Duration
    • Predefined Audio Swap Configuration
    • How to Add a Predefined Configuration
• 6.10 GPI CONFIGURATION
  • 6.10.1 Introduction
  • 6.10.2 Overview of the GPI and Auxiliary Tab
  • 6.10.3 XT server Selection Pane
  • 6.10.4 INPUT GPI Configuration Pane
    • Example
    • Action
    • Channel
    • Trigger Mode
    • Delay
  • 6.10.5 OUTPUT GPI Configuration Pane
    • Example
    • Output Mode
    • Advance
    • Pulse duration
  • 6.10.6 Auxiliary Track Configuration Pane
• 6.11 PLAY-LIST EDITOR SHORTCUTS