Document Outline

• 1 Support
• 2 About this document
• 3 Channel Composer Concepts
  • Assets, Metadata, Scene Parameters and Test Media
  • 3.5 Main Event
  • Projects and Channel Packs
  • 3.7 Channel Pack Activation and Scheduling
• 4 Channel Composer: getting started
  • 4.1 System Requirements (Mac)
  • 4.2 Installation Mac
  • 4.3 Requirements (Windows)
  • 4.4 Installation Windows
  • 4.5 Starting Channel Composer
  • 4.6 Setting preferences and customizing Channel Composer
• 5 Working with Projects
  • 5.1 Creating or opening an existing project
  • 5.2 Importing a Project
    • 5.2.1 Importing a Project from a Channel Pack on disk
    • 5.2.2 Importing a Project from the TX/MAM database
  • 5.3 Merging Projects
  • 5.4 Restoring a Backup
  • 5.5 Exporting a Project
  • 5.6 Exporting a Project to disk
    • 5.6.1 Exporting a Project to the TX/MAM database
    • 5.6.2 Exporting a Project to Playout
  • 5.7 Managing Exports
• 6 Working with Templates
  • 6.1 Opening a Template
  • 6.2 Creating a new Template
  • 6.3 Renaming a Template
  • 6.4 Deleting a Template
  • 6.5 Copying a Template
  • 6.6 Displaying Object properties on the Timeline
  • 6.7 In Points and Out Points
  • 6.8 Keyframing
    • 6.8.1 Keyframing
    • 6.8.2 Updating keyframes
    • 6.8.3 Deleting keyframes
    • 6.8.4 Copying keyframes
    • 6.8.5 Detaching keyframes
  • 6.9 Template settings
  • 6.10 Commands
  • 6.11 Template Rules
  • 6.12 Try-out mode
  • 6.13 Pixel Perfect
  • 6.14 Creating an Operator Panel
  • 6.15 Adding Objects
  • 6.16 Modifying an Object's properties
  • 6.17 Transform gizmo
  • 6.18 Layering Objects
  • 6.19 Grouping Objects
  • 6.20 Locking Objects
  • 6.21 2D and 3D-mode
  • 6.22 Prefabs
  • 6.23 Copying Objects
  • 6.24 Deleting Objects
• 7 Object Types
  • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.1.1 Stage Objects
    • 7.1.2 Transform and Blending properties
    • 7.1.3 Players
    • 7.1.4 The Main Player
  • 7.2 Live
  • 7.3 RTic-compatible Tickers
    • 7.3.1 The set_ticker_story<ticker_number> Template
    • 7.3.2 The clear_ticker_stories<ticker_number> Template
  • 7.4 Subtitles
    • 7.4.1 Introduction
    • 7.4.2 Properties
    • 7.4.3 Mode Specific
    • 7.4.4 Workflow subtitles
    • 7.4.5 Subtitles in TX/MAM
    • 7.4.6 Subtitle workflow in Channel Composer
    • 7.4.7 The Subtitle Applet
    • 7.4.8 The Subtitle Template
    • 7.4.9 The Subtitle Out Template
    • 7.4.10 Flags
    • 7.4.11 Example
    • 7.4.12 Applet command line arguments
  • 7.5 Controllers
    • 7.5.1 Anchor
    • 7.5.2 Stack
    • 7.5.3 FromTo
    • 7.5.4 Oscillate
    • 7.5.5 Link
    • 7.5.6 Controllers How to
  • 7.6 GPIO Command
• 8 Working with Assets, Metadata and Scene Parameters
  • 8.1 Adding Assets
  • 8.2 Metadata
  • 8.3 Scene Parameters
    • 8.3.1 Creating Scene Parameters
    • 8.3.2 Linking Scene Parameters to properties
    • 8.3.3 Linking Scene Parameters to content
    • 8.3.4 Adding a test clip for a Format
• 9 Working with Applets
  • 9.1 Creating a new Applet
  • 9.2 Renaming an Applet
  • 9.3 Deleting an Applet
• 10 Working with Formats
  • 10.1 Opening the Format Timeline
  • 10.2 Creating a new Format
  • 10.3 Renaming a Format
  • 10.4 Deleting a Format
  • 10.5 Adding Templates to a Format
  • 10.6 Timing Templates
  • 10.7 Opt-out
  • 10.8 Adding applets to a Format
  • 10.9 Timing applets
  • 10.10 Simulcast
• 11 Channel Pack Validation
  • 11.1 Basic testing and further analysis
  • 11.2 Basic testing
  • 11.3 Further analysis
  • 11.4 Starting playback statistics
  • 11.5 Interpreting playback statistics
    • 11.5.1 Current and peak player amounts (cur | peak)
    • 11.5.2 Update time (update tm)
    • 11.5.3 Render time (render tm)
    • 11.5.4 Interpreting the measure bars
• 12 Quick Reference
  • 12.1 The Channel Composer workspace
  • 12.2 The main menu
    • 12.2.1 Channel Composer
    • 12.2.2 File
    • 12.2.3 Edit
    • 12.2.4 View
    • 12.2.5 Project
    • 12.2.6 Objects
  • 12.3 87BMain toolbar
  • 12.4 View mode icons
  • 12.5 The Stage
  • 12.6 The Template Timeline
  • 12.7 The Format Timeline
  • Project window
  • 12.9 Objects window
  • Object window
  • 12.11 Project Assets window
  • 12.12 Scene Parameters window
  • 12.13 History window
  • 12.14 Library window
  • 12.15 Text styles window
• 13 Hotkeys
  • 13.1 Global
  • 13.2 Stage
  • 13.3 Template Timeline