Document Outline

• About this manual
  • Terminology
  • Software versions
  • Valid characters in names and titles of media items
  • Further reading
• About iTX
  • Grass Valley client-server technology
  • The main parts of an iTX system
  • The iTX Desktop
    • Workstation View and User View
    • Pop-up layouts
  • Starting the iTX Desktop
• Quick tour of the iTX Desktop
  • About service status indicators in layout components
  • About system time and local time
• Working with schedules
  • About iTX channels
  • Monitoring and controlling live schedules
  • iTX Desktop components for working with schedules
• The Content Selector
  • About the Content Selector
    • Content Selector palettes
    • Setting up palettes on the Content Selector
    • Changing the properties of an asset in the Content Selector
  • Managing the contents of a palette selection pane
    • Add assets to a palette selection pane
    • Remove assets from a palette selection pane
  • Editing a schedule by dragging and dropping assets from the Content Selector
    • Creating schedule events
    • Primary and secondary events
    • Locating a new schedule event
    • Create a schedule event by dropping an asset into the Schedule Grid
    • Create a schedule event by dropping an asset onto the Timeline Display
    • Remove one or more events from a schedule
  • Working with video clips
    • About the Video Clip palette
    • Adding a video-clip event to a schedule
    • Previewing a video clip in the preview window
    • Changing video-clip properties
    • Using an unknown video clip in a schedule event
    • Adding a VTR event to a schedule
  • Working with logos
    • About the Logo palette
    • Adding a logo event to a schedule
    • Options for controlling the playout of logos
    • Temporary removal of all logos
    • Set the logo-type property
    • Change the title of a logo
    • Change the default duration of a logo event
    • Assign a logo to a different layer
    • Suppress or restore all active logos
    • Clearing all logos at the start of a new schedule
  • Working with external logo inserters
    • About the External Logo palette
    • Options for controlling the playout of logos
    • Adding an external-logo event to a schedule
    • Add an external logo to the palette selection pane
    • Scheduling logos using the External Key and Fill inputs of the LGK-3901
    • Remove an external logo from the palette selection pane
  • Working with CGs
    • About the CG palette
    • Adding a CG event to a schedule
    • Edit a CG in the iTX CG application
    • Change the title of a CG
    • Change the duration of a CG event
  • Working with subtitle files
    • About the Subtitle palette
    • Adding a subtitle event to a schedule
  • Working with still images
    • About the Stills palette
    • Adding a still-image event to a schedule
    • Change the title of a still image
    • Change the default duration of a still-image event
  • Working with voiceover clips
    • About the Voice Over palette
    • Adding a voiceover-clip event to a schedule
    • Play a voiceover clip
    • Change the title of a voiceover clip
    • Change the in-point or out-point of a voiceover clip
  • Working with live events
    • About the Live palette
    • Adding a live event to a schedule
    • Display live-event properties
    • Set a duration of a live event
    • Set the Aspect Ratio Properties for Live Events (OS2 only)
  • Working with sequences
    • About the Sequence palette
    • Adding an existing sequence to a schedule
    • Change the name or title of a sequence
    • Add a blank sequence to a schedule
    • Create a sequence with a fixed duration
  • Working with stored schedules
    • About the Schedule palette
    • Adding a nested schedule to a main schedule
    • Live update of a nested schedule
  • Working with split breaks
    • About the Split Break palette
    • Adding a split break to a schedule
    • Enter a name and title for a split break
    • Select split-break regions
    • Change the default duration of a split break
    • Add events to a sequence for each regional channel
    • Adding events for playout in the main channel during a split break
  • Working with slide shows
    • About the Slide Show palette
    • Add a still image or audio clip to the slide show
    • Change the order of the still images or audio clips
    • Change the duration of a still image
    • Preview a still image
    • Adjust the volume of an audio clip
    • Add a slide show to a schedule
  • Working with an external subtitler
    • About the Ex Subtitler palette
    • Adding an external subtitle event to a schedule
  • Working with external CG devices and graphics systems
    • About the Clarity palette
    • Add a Clarity CG template to the palette selection pane
    • Adding a Clarity CG event to a schedule
    • Change the name of a Clarity CG template
    • Change the properties of a CG template
    • Change the duration of a Clarity CG event
    • About the VizRT palette
    • Add a VizRT CG page to the palette selection pane
    • Adding a VizRT CG event to a schedule
  • Working with GPIs
    • About the GPI palette
    • Adding a GPI event to a schedule
    • Select the GPI matrix
    • Change the duration of a GPI
    • Set the time mode of a GPI
  • Working with studio sources
    • About the Studio palette
    • Adding a studio-source event to a schedule
    • Change the default duration of a studio-source event
  • Working with router events
    • About the Router Event palette
    • Adding a router event to a schedule
    • Configure a router event
    • Change the default duration of a router event
  • Working with a studio switcher
    • About the Studio Switcher palette
    • Adding a studio switcher event to a schedule
  • Working with VANC data
    • About the VANC Data palette
    • Adding a VANC-message event to a schedule
    • Set up a SCTE 104 message
    • Add a SCTE 104 message event to a schedule
  • Working with enhanced SCTE104 data
    • About the SCTE104 palette
    • Adding an enhanced SCTE104 message event to a schedule
    • Set up and insert an enhanced SCTE104 message:
    • Add an enhanced SCTE104 message event to a schedule
  • Working with rating categories
    • About the V-Chip palette
    • Adding a rating-category event to a schedule
    • Select a rating system
    • Change the title of a rating category
    • Change the duration of a rating category
    • Specify sub-rating options for a rating category
  • Adding comments
    • About the Comment palette
    • Adding a comment line to a schedule
• The Event Editor
  • About the Event Editor
    • Changing the properties of an asset in the Event Editor
    • Event timings in local time or UTC
  • Editing events of different types
    • Editing a video-clip event
    • Editing a CG event
    • Editing a logo event
    • Editing an external-logo event
    • Editing a still-image event
    • Editing the properties of a sequence
    • Editing a voiceover-clip event
    • Editing a subtitle event
    • Editing a stored schedule
    • Editing a live event
    • Editing a slide-show event
    • Editing a GPI event
    • Editing a VANC-message event
    • Editing an Enhanced 105 VANC message event
    • Editing inbound enhanced SCTE 104 VANC message events
    • Editing a split-break event
    • Editing an external subtitle event
    • Editing an external CG or graphics event
    • Editing a rating-category event
    • Editing a studio-source event
    • Editing a router event
  • Saving or cancelling changes to events
  • Changing the title of the item in an event
    • Change the title of the item in an event
  • Setting event playout times
    • About the timing properties that affect event start and end times
    • Possible time modes
    • Set the time mode for an event
    • Set the start time for a fixed event
    • Set the end time for a fixed-end event
    • Set the time offset for a secondary event
    • Manual events
    • Set the manual property for an event
    • Join-in-progress events
    • About the display of local or UTC start times for events
    • About DST and the timing of fixed-start and fixed-end events
    • Enter an event start time that could be before or after the end of DST
    • Enter an event end time that could be before or after the end of DST
  • Setting event durations
    • Durations for different types of event
    • Automatic durations for secondary events
    • Change an event duration
    • Set an automatic duration to make a secondary event finish at the same time as its primary event
    • Set an automatic duration to make a secondary event start and finish at the same time as its primary event
  • Setting the regional channel for a regional event
    • About regional channels
    • Set the regional channel for a regional event
  • Video and audio transitions for primary events
    • Add a transition at the start of a primary event
  • Creating a picture-in-picture effect
    • Picture-in-picture formats
    • Mix and zoom options for a picture-in-picture effect
    • About the picture-in-picture format dialog
    • Set the size and position of the items in a picture-in-picture effect
    • Adjust the background audio level for a picture-in-picture effect
    • Add a background image to a picture-in-picture effect
    • Change the format stored in a preset-format button
    • Set a mix transition into, and out of, a picture-in-picture effect
    • Set a zoom action into, and out of, a picture-in-picture effect
  • Transitions and vision effects for secondary events
    • Setting transitions and vision effects for logo events
    • Set a transition for a logo event
    • Set a wipe, slide or squeeze effect for a logo event
  • Using the Event Editor features for sequences
    • Restricting the use of a sequence to a defined period
    • Prevent iTX starting a sequence before the start of a break window
    • Set iTX to skip a sequence that it does not start by the end of a break window
    • Apply a standard set of transitions to the events in a sequence
    • Prevent iTX switching a pass-through channel back to its live source before a sequence has played out for a specified duration
    • Prevent iTX continuing to play out events in a sequence after a specified duration
    • Inserting an SCTE 104 message to trigger the insertion of local advertising
  • Changing volume levels for voiceover events
    • Set volume levels for a voiceover event and its primary event
    • Set the duration of the audio ramps at the start and end of a voiceover event
    • Replace the video clip or live asset in one or more events
  • Selecting a videotape machine to play out a VTR event
    • Select a videotape machine for playout
  • Setting up the recording of sequences and live events
    • About the different recording modes
    • About channel default settings
    • Use the Event Editor to quickly mark an event for recording
    • Use the Schedule Grid to quickly mark an event for recording
    • Use the Event Editor to specify settings for the recording of an event
    • Use the Schedule Grid to specify settings for the recording of an event
    • Edit the recording properties for an event
    • Monitor a recording
    • Preview a recording
    • Cancel a recording
    • Scheduling notes
  • Changing the GPI output for a GPI event
    • Change the GPI output for a GPI event
  • Changing the routing properties for a router event
    • Change the routing properties for a router event
  • Changing the external subtitle file for an external subtitle event
    • Select a different subtitle file for an external subtitle event
  • Entering information in editable CG text blocks
    • Enter information in an editable CG text block
  • Changing page details in a VizRT CG event
    • Change VizRT CG page details
  • Changing the rating category for a rating-category event
    • Change the rating category for a rating-category event
  • Entering and viewing schedule notes
    • Enter notes for a schedule event
  • Using the follow-next feature
    • Set up iTX to automatically display details for the next event in the Event Editor
• The Timeline Display
  • About the Timeline Display
  • Adding an event to a schedule by dropping an asset onto the Timeline Display
  • Tracking an event on the Timeline Display
  • Viewing information about an event
  • Changing the view of the Timeline Display
    • Zoom the Timeline Display
    • Shift the focus of the Timeline Display
  • Changing the track configuration of the Timeline Display
    • Change the track configuration of the Timeline Display
    • Using the default track configuration of the Timeline Display
• The Schedule Grid
  • About the Schedule Grid
    • Changing properties of assets in video-clip and logo events
    • Channel-status indicators
  • Creating a schedule event by dropping an item into the Schedule Grid
  • Noting the time mode of events
  • Tracking an event
  • Viewing information about an event
  • Preventing schedule underruns and overruns
  • Show or hide secondary events
  • Change the order of schedule events
  • Event warnings
    • Media limit warning
    • Invalid in-point warning
    • Modified media warning
    • Acknowledge a warning
    • Fix a warning
  • Add a filter to the Schedule Grid
  • Using the options in the Schedule Grid menu
    • Defining the Schedule Grid view
    • Set up the column arrangement and text appearance in the Schedule Grid
    • Restore the default column arrangement in the Schedule Grid
    • Set up the Schedule Grid for drag-and-drop schedule changes
    • Switch off the transition-editing feature of the Schedule Grid
    • Show or hide secondary events in a filtered list
    • Show or hide events that have taken place
    • Set up the Schedule Grid to display warnings of potential underruns and overruns
    • Choose which tracks iTX displays information for in the Schedule Grid
    • Show or hide tooltips
    • Load the global Schedule Grid view
    • Set the Schedule Grid view as the global Schedule Grid view
    • Print the current schedule
    • Cut and paste an event or group of events
    • Copy and paste an event or group of events
    • Delete an event or group of events
    • Delete all events
    • Cancel recent changes to a schedule
    • Update a back-up schedule instantly
    • Update an event or group of events
    • Check for the missing media item in an event
    • Skip an event or group of events
    • Unskip an event or group of events
  • Schedule event colors
  • Cache status indicators
    • Caching progress
  • Changing the transitions for events in the Schedule Grid
    • Change an event transition in the Schedule Grid
  • Changing the duration and media limits from the Schedule Grid
  • Automatic replacement of missing media files with evergreen content
  • About VTR events in the Schedule Grid
    • Cue the VTR event
    • Play out a VTR event
  • Recording schedule events
• The Schedule Manager
  • About the Schedule Manager
  • Loading stored schedules in the Schedule Manager
    • Load any schedule
    • Load a schedule that has date and channel labels
  • Adding stored schedules to the current schedule
    • Add a stored schedule to the current schedule
  • Saving the current schedule
    • Modify an existing stored schedule
    • Save the current schedule as a new schedule
    • Save the current schedule with channel and date labels
  • Creating sequences and sequence templates
    • About sequences and sequence templates
    • Using a sequence template
    • Create a sequence from a group of schedule events
    • Create a sequence or sequence template from a sequence entry
  • Creating a looping schedule
  • Adding an hour or a day to the start time of the current schedule
    • Put back the start of the current schedule by an hour or a day
  • The Schedule Manager menu
• The Next-Event Control Panel
  • About the Next-Event Control Panel
    • Cueing and taking short events
    • Color coding of Cue Next and Take Next buttons
    • Resuming normal playout after a schedule interruption
    • Control the playout of the next event
    • Roll under the current on-air event
    • Resume normal playout after a roll under
• The Live Logo Inserter
  • About the Live Logo Inserter
  • Setting up the Live Logo Inserter
    • Set up the Live Logo Inserter
  • Using the Live Logo Inserter
    • Manually switch a logo on or off in a live schedule
• Channel-control pop-up layouts
  • Using the Emergency Audio pop-up layout
    • Master Audio Level slider
    • Lip-sync buttons
  • Using the Channel Health pop-up layout
    • Emergency removal of logos and captions
  • Using the News Flash pop-up layouts
    • Interrupt a schedule event for a news flash
    • Removing a news-flash sequence before it starts
  • Using the Sequence Control pop-up layout
  • Using the Selected Item Control pop-up layout
    • Manually cue a future event
    • Manually take a future event to air
• Searching with PinPoint
  • The PinPoint dialog and panel
    • Hidden panes
  • Search filters
    • Specifying an asset name in a filter
  • Search blocks
    • Nested search blocks
  • Specifying the sort order of results
  • Multi-domain searching
  • Stemming
  • Searching
    • Perform a search
    • Create a search filter
    • Delete a search filter
    • Clear a filter set
  • Working in the results pane
    • Working in List view
    • Sort a results-list column
    • Change the results-list column format
    • Navigating through a PinPoint list
    • Navigate to an item by typing initial characters
    • Working in Thumbnail view
  • Repeating searches
    • Show the search-history pane
    • Repeat a search
    • Save a set of search criteria
  • Viewing metadata
    • Build a search block
  • Resizing the PinPoint dialog
    • Maximize or restore the PinPoint dialog
• Common operational tasks for iTX Desktop features
  • Playing a video clip in a preview window
    • Indication of the extent of clip media
    • Using the options in the preview-window menu
  • Marking the boundary points of a video clip
    • Change the in-point or out-point of a video clip
  • Changing the audio level of a previewing video clip
    • Change the audio level of a video clip
  • Specifying properties for video clips and voiceover clips
    • Audio output channels
    • Source Format and Active Region settings
    • Identifying 3D-stereoscopic video clips
    • Looping a video clip
    • Copy Guard settings
    • Display the Clip Properties dialog
    • Select the audio output channels for a voiceover clip or a secondary video clip
    • Set the source format and active region of a video clip
    • Mark a video clip as stereoscopic-3D
    • Set up looping for a video clip
    • Change the copy-protection setting for a video clip
  • Entering a value in an iTX time-entry box
    • Using a shortcut when entering a time value
    • Entering a time value through the Time Calculator
  • Entering values in a date-and-time box
  • Switching a recorded voice countdown on or off
• The CG application
  • About the CG application
    • Operating Modes
    • Multiple objects and layers
    • Editable text blocks
    • Dynamic text blocks
    • Transparent objects
    • Transitions and vision effects
    • Saving your CGs
  • Working with text
    • Creating and editing CG text
    • Select the text operating mode
    • Create a simple text block, containing fixed CG text
    • Create an editable text block
    • Create a dynamic text block
    • Resize and move a text block
    • Specify a font for CG text
    • Set the alignment of CG text
    • Set the spacing of CG text
    • Apply a drop shadow to CG text
    • Apply a solid fill to CG text
    • Apply a graduated fill to CG text
    • Apply a textured fill to CG text
    • Edit CG text
    • Apply a crawl to CG text
    • Save text properties as a text-layer style
    • Apply a text-layer style to a text block
    • Set the group number for a text block
    • Delete a text block
  • Working with rectangles
    • Creating and modifying rectangles
    • Select the rectangle operating mode
    • Create a rectangle
    • Resize and move a rectangle
    • Apply a solid fill to a rectangle
    • Apply a graduated fill to a rectangle
    • Apply a textured fill to a rectangle
    • Change the color and thickness of a rectangle border
    • Select a pre-defined rectangle layout style
    • Set the group number for a rectangle
    • Delete a rectangle
  • Working with background images
    • Using the image controls
    • Select the image operating mode
    • Load an image
    • Resizing an image
    • Change the color and thickness of an image border
    • Set the group number for an image
    • Delete an image
  • Resizing and moving CG objects
    • Manually resize an object of any type
    • Manually move an object of any type
    • Automatically centralize an object
  • Changing the stacking order of objects
    • Re-order layers
  • Working with multiple objects
    • Select multiple objects of any type
    • Select all objects of the same type
  • Undoing and redoing changes
    • Undo a change
    • Redo a change
  • The Color Selector
    • Use the Color Selector
  • Setting properties (visual effects, crawl speeds) for groups
    • About groups
    • Select the animation operating mode
    • Specify a playout layer for a group
    • Set a transition for a group
    • Set a vision effect for a group
    • Set the speed of a crawl
    • Preview transitions and vision effects
  • Using the template controls
    • About the file-management buttons
    • Select the template operating mode
    • Load an existing CG template
    • Save changes to the current CG template
    • Save changes in a new CG template
    • Export a CG template as a graphic
    • Load an animated logo
    • Change the position of an animated logo
    • Clear the workspace
  • Setting the CG application window options
    • About the CG application window options
    • Select the options operating mode
    • Set the grid options
    • Show or hide the safe-area guide frame
  • Closing the CG application
• Ingesting files through the Media Store Inbox
  • Valid formats for media files and other types of file
  • Re-importing media files
  • Ingest media files through the Media Store Inbox
  • Ingest reference MOV and MXF files through the Media Store Inbox
• Ingesting media by using an Encode Server
  • Crash recordings, automatic recordings and batch recordings
  • Recording from a videotape
  • The ingest layouts
    • The Manual Ingest layout
    • The Dual Ingest layout
    • The Ingest Multi layout
    • The Tape Ingest layout
  • The Encode control panel
  • About the Encode Server lock button
  • About the VTR control button
  • Setting the structure of the media file created by an Encode Server
    • Encode presets for video storage formats
    • Audio channels
    • Asset template
    • Encode profiles
    • Specify the encode settings and asset template for a recording
    • Save the settings for a recording as a new encode profile
    • Recall an encode profile
    • Update an encode profile
    • Delete an encode profile
  • Preparing your iTX system for recordings
    • Set up a recording source for live ingest
    • Set up a recording source for tape ingest
    • Select a recording channel
    • Deny or allow an Encode Server control of a VTR
    • Lock or unlock an Encode Server
    • Set options for new media files and their assets
  • Using the Encode control panel to record media files
    • Perform a crash recording from a line feed
    • Set up and start an automatic recording from a line feed
    • Perform a crash recording from a videotape
    • Set up and start an automatic recording from a videotape
    • Cancelling a recording
    • Performing a back-up recording
  • Using the Tape Ingest layout for single or batch ingest
    • About placeholder clips
    • Options for ingest on the Tape Ingest layout
    • Create a placeholder clip
    • Load a placeholder clip in the Clip Holder
    • Send a placeholder clip for ingest
    • Add placeholder clips to the Batch Ingest control panel from PinPoint
    • Set up and start a batch recording
    • Start a recording from the Encode control panel
  • Previewing and playing out media while it is being recorded
• Using Ingest Manager
  • About Ingest Manager
    • Planned recordings
    • Ad-hoc recordings
  • The standard Ingest Manager layouts
  • Bookings for planned recordings
    • The Scheduled Booking dialogs
  • Choosing a clip name when making a booking request
    • Automatic clip names for repeat recordings
  • Creating bookings
    • Create a booking for a scheduled recording
  • Editing bookings
    • Edit a booking for a scheduled recording
  • Managing bookings
    • Delete a booking for a scheduled recording
    • Suspend the scheduling of recordings for a booking
    • Resume the scheduling of recordings for a booking
  • About the Instant Ingest Request panel
    • Editing a recording job
    • Managing a recording job
  • Using the Instant Ingest Request panel
    • Request an ad-hoc recording
    • Edit an entry in the recording schedule
    • Stop a recording that is in progress
    • Manually start a recording job
    • Put a recording job on hold
    • Cancel a recording job
  • Using a naming rule for an ad-hoc recording
    • Select a naming rule
  • Monitoring and managing scheduled recordings
    • Recording-status colors
    • Select which tracks appear on the Timeline Display
    • Zoom the Timeline Display
    • View different parts of the timeline
    • Change the channel selection for the Recording Schedule Grid
    • Change what columns appear in the Recording Schedule Grid
    • Adjust column widths in the Recording Schedule Grid
    • Filter the list in the Recording Schedule Grid
    • Delete an entry in the Recording Schedule Grid
  • Responding to failed recordings
• Preparing media items for playout
  • About the Asset layout
  • About database assets and media files
    • Co-references
    • Deleting assets and media files
    • Warning when a user deletes an asset in iTX that is in a live schedule
    • Re-ingesting a media file
  • User rights
  • Searching for assets
    • Viewing search results
    • Select an asset to work with
    • Selecting single or multiple assets
  • Viewing a media file in the Media Viewer
    • Playback features for video and audio clips
    • Trimming features for video and audio clips
    • Display of VANC data
    • Working with a video clip while it is being recorded
    • Resizing the Media Viewer
    • Media Viewer settings
    • Preview and modify a video or audio clip in the Media Viewer
  • Working with the Property Editor
    • Expanding panels
    • Reloading an asset
    • Asset locking
    • Saving asset changes
    • The Asset tab
    • Change the name or title of an asset
    • Change the production date
    • Specify a usage window
    • Set timing properties
    • Change aspect-ratio properties for a video clip
    • Change the field playout order
    • Change the transition type or duration
    • Identify an asset that is stereoscopic-3D formatted
    • Adjust audio properties
    • Select a poster frame
    • Create or modify a live event
    • The Locations tab
    • Open the folder for the file associated with an asset
    • Delete a file for a single asset
    • Delete multiple files for a single asset
    • Delete multiple files from the same location
    • Manage audio tracks for a video clip
    • The Attributes tab
    • The Access Rights tab
    • Change the clip permissions for a user group
    • Assign clip permissions to a new user group
    • The Categories tab
    • Tag an asset with a category
    • Untag an asset from a category
    • Create a category
    • The Notes tab
    • Attach notes to a media item
    • The Co-References tab
    • The Actions tab
    • Create a low-bit-rate proxy copy of a video clip
    • Create a set of keyframes for a video clip
    • Archive a media file to a DIVArchive
    • Restore a media file from a DIVArchive
    • Vantage jobs
    • Use a Vantage system to transcode a media file
    • Use a Vantage system to perform a QC check on a media file
    • Use a Vantage system to import a media file
  • Durations and Media Limits
    • Changing an event to hold its duration
    • Changing an event to hold its points
    • Disabling Hold Duration
    • Disabling Hold Points
  • Saving assets
    • Save a modified asset
    • Create a copy of an asset
    • Change a duplicate name while saving a copy of an asset
  • Locking assets and media-file locations
    • Operations allowed with locked assets
    • Edit Unlock state
    • Copying a locked asset
    • Re-importing the media file to a locked media location
    • Locking media locations in co-references
    • Batch operations with locked items
    • Lock an asset
    • Lock a media location
    • Unlock an asset
    • Unlock a media location
    • Edit a locked asset
  • Reading the Media Store Gauge
  • About asset templates
    • Create or modify an asset template
• Working with the Logo Editor
  • Display a logo in the Logo Editor
  • Re-position a logo
  • Resize a logo
  • Set a transition or vision effect for a logo
  • Adjust the transparency of a logo
  • Assign a logo to a layer
  • Mark a logo as stereoscopic-3D formatted
  • Entering values in the measurements panel
• Working on the Asset Segmentation layout
  • Clip Segmenter features
  • Load a base video clip in the Clip Segmenter
  • Create segment clips from a base video clip
  • Set segment-naming options
  • Rename segments
• Using iTX with a keyboard or hard panel
• Optional features
  • The Live CG Inserter
    • Set up the Live CG Inserter
    • Manually switch a CG on or off during a live schedule
  • Next-event gang buttons
    • Hold the next event in all live schedules in a selected channel view
    • Cue the next event in all live schedules in a selected channel view
    • Take the next event to air in all live schedules in a selected channel view
  • The Count To Control
    • Select a schedule event for a count
  • The Schedule Preview Control
    • About the Preview Channel layout
    • Set the preview durations
    • Preview the start of a schedule event
    • Preview the end of a schedule event
    • Preview a group of selected schedule events
  • The Direct Preview Control
    • Add a sequence with a video clip to the preview-channel schedule
  • The Global Editor
    • Using the Global Editor
    • Use the Global Editor to make schedule changes in multiple channels
  • The Live Channel Management panel
    • Switch the source of the channel output
    • Handling of manual events in the main channel while rolling under
  • The Live Video Inserter
    • Using the Live Video Inserter on the Line Playback layout
    • Select edit and playout channels on the Line Playback layout
    • Load video clips in the Live Video Inserter from PinPoint
    • Load video clips in the Live Video Inserter from an edit channel
    • Add video-clip events to a playout channel from the Live Video Inserter
    • Add a live event to a playout channel from the Live Video Inserter
    • Take events to air from the Live Video Inserter
  • The Recue Item control panel
  • The Missing Material status channel
  • Automatic display of schedule events on a video monitor
    • Display the schedule events in a selected channel
    • Display the next events in the different channels of a channel view
• Appendix A: The iTX Import Protocol
  • Formatting clip lists
  • Formatting schedules
  • Formatting wipe lists