Document Outline

• Xstudio User Manual
• 1 Introducing Xstudio
  • Xstudio’s role in the Vertigo Suite workflow
  • Types of Xstudio projects: Templates, Panels & Pages
    • Procedural overview for creating Template+Scene and Panel+Scene projects
    • Procedural overview for creating Pages
• 2 Getting started with Xstudio
  • Installation and licensing information
  • Starting Xstudio and connecting to the Xmedia Server
  • Configuring Xstudio’s settings
    • Servers settings
    • Logging settings
    • Workspace settings
    • Asset Defaults settings
    • Device settings
    • Browsers settings
  • Connecting Xstudio to an output device
  • Verifying Xstudio’s installation and setup
• 3 Orientation to Xstudio’s desktop
  • Starting Xstudio
  • Design Mode vs. Production Mode
  • Xstudio’s menu commands
  • Xstudio’s desktop icons and toolbars
  • Xstudio’s primitives
    • Control side primitives
    • Scene side primitives
  • Asset Browser and Gallery Browser
  • Properties Browser
  • Action Editor and Animation Editor
  • Project Windows - Control and scene sides
    • Safe areas and resolution format
    • Zooming in/out of the canvas
    • Panning across the canvas
  • Production mode environment
• 4 Creating and opening Xstudio projects and assets
  • Creating new projects and assets
    • Setting the canvas’ properties
  • Opening existing projects
  • Searching for projects/assets on the Xmedia Server
  • Importing assets from another Vertigo system
  • Ingesting files created using third-party applications
    • Ingesting image or audio files
    • Ingesting multiple image files or creating cel animations or clips upon ingest
    • Ingesting video files
• 5 Adding and preparing objects on the Xstudio canvas
  • Adding assets to the canvas
  • Adding primitives to the canvas
  • Removing assets or primitives from the canvas
  • Previewing a scene’s layout on a device during development
  • Selecting, grouping, and/or layering objects on the canvas
    • Selecting a single object on the canvas
    • Selecting multiple objects on the canvas
    • Grouping and ungrouping objects on the canvas
    • Layering objects on the canvas
  • Resizing objects using object zones
  • Moving and aligning objects on the canvas
  • Cutting, copying and pasting objects to/from the canvas
  • Modifying the font properties of text objects
  • Editing an image
  • Undoing and redoing edits on the canvas
• 6 Working with scene objects
  • Text2D objects on the scene canvas
    • Creating simple clocks and timers using Text2D scene elements
    • Using embedded text tags within Text2D scene objects
  • Clip objects on the scene canvas
  • Image objects on the scene canvas
  • Cel Animation objects on the scene canvas
  • Video In objects on the scene canvas
  • Crawl and Roll objects on the scene canvas
    • Creating a basic crawl
    • Making basic changes to a crawl or roll
    • Creating a controllable crawl with Xstudio
  • Using scene objects as a mask
• 7 Animating scene objects
  • Animation Editor’s interface components
    • Animation Editor toolbar
    • Keyframe Editor
    • Preview Mode controls
    • Animation Tree and Animations
    • Animation Timeline and Keyframes
  • Creating scene animations
    • Displaying the animated properties in the Scene tree
    • Opening the Animation Editor
    • Choosing a type of animation
    • Adding the object’s animated properties to your animation
    • Adding and setting keyframes
    • Adding and setting a keyer channel
    • Adding and setting a command channel
    • Saving and publishing the template/scene
    • Previewing and scrubbing the animation
    • Setting up an animation action
  • Editing existing animations
    • Renaming animations
    • Deleting channels from the Animation Tree
    • Cutting, copying, and pasting animation elements
    • Resizing and moving channels on the Timeline
    • Moving a keyframe
    • Deleting a keyframe
  • Animated property descriptions
    • General animated object properties
    • Cel animation properties
    • Clip properties
    • Image Properties
    • Text2D properties
• 8 Working with control objects
  • Connecting control objects to scene objects
  • Text objects on the control canvas
  • Dropbox objects on the control canvas
  • Button objects on the control canvas
  • Textbox objects on the control canvas
  • Image objects on the control canvas
  • Checkbox & Radio Button objects on the control canvas
  • ActiveX objects on the control canvas
  • Timer objects on the control canvas
• 9 Linking objects to a data source
  • Data Manager screen items
  • Schemas
    • Creating schemas
    • Editing schemas
    • Renaming or saving a copy of a schema with a new name
    • Deleting schemas
  • Data entities: snapshots, tickers, multi-tickers and classes
    • Creating a snapshot
    • Creating a ticker
    • Creating a multi-ticker
    • Creating a class
    • Setting dynamic keys
    • Editing and deleting data entities
  • Creating data links
  • Prefixes (Scene:, Control:, Data:, L:, G:)
  • Creating and applying lookup tables
  • Editing lookup tables
  • Using social media messages and online polls as a data source
    • Creating a social media data source
    • Creating a snapshot or ticker for social media content
    • Data tables for social media snapshots and tickers
    • Creating a template that retrieves social media content
• 10 Adding logic to control objects
  • Opening the Action Editor
  • Action Editor interface components
    • Editing and ordering buttons
    • Add Actions and Events
    • Action Table components
  • Using the object’s default events
  • Creating custom events
    • User Defined events
    • Data Arrival events
  • Assigning an action to an object
  • Creating custom actions
  • Setting the Target parameter
  • Using the Expression Builder
  • Deleting actions from events
  • Default actions and action parameters
• 11 Saving, publishing and exporting Xstudio projects
  • Saving Xstudio projects and assets
  • Publishing assets to output devices
    • Manually publishing assets to devices in Xstudio
    • Automatically publishing assets to devices in Xstudio
  • Exporting assets to be used on another Vertigo system
• 12 Playing out a scene using Xstudio’s Production mode
  • Playing out a scene associated with a template or page
  • Playing out a scene controlled by a control panel
  • Playing out a standalone scene
• 13 Appendix A - Asset Browser
  • Opening, closing, and resizing the Asset Browser
  • Structure of the Asset Browser
  • Creating Asset Browser categories
  • Deleting Asset Browser categories
  • Renaming an Asset Browser category
  • Publishing a category’s assets to one or more output devices
  • Moving or copying assets to different categories
  • Removing assets from categories
  • Opening and editing assets using the Asset Browser
  • Deleting assets using the Asset Browser
  • Viewing and editing asset properties using the Asset Browser
• 14 Appendix B - Gallery Browser
  • Opening, closing, and resizing the Gallery Browser
  • Switching between Proxy and Detail view in the Gallery Browser
  • Viewing assets in the Gallery Browser
  • Adding and deleting asset categories to the Gallery Browser
  • Refreshing the Gallery Browser
  • Opening and editing assets using the Gallery Browser
  • Deleting assets using the Gallery Browser
  • Viewing and editing asset properties using the Gallery Browser
• 15 Appendix C - Xstudio properties
  • Control object properties
  • Scene object properties
  • Group object properties
  • Formats for text, numbers, dates and times
    • Formatting numbers
    • Formatting dates and times
• 16 Appendix D - Search tool
  • Opening the Search tool
  • Using the search tool’s interface
    • Standard search criteria fields and controls
    • Advanced search criteria fields, controls, and summary
    • Message area: Search status and asset information
    • Results Area
  • Performing a standard search
  • Advanced search procedures
    • Creating a query that uses a single property
    • Creating a query that combines multiple properties
    • Editing a search criteria’s property conditions
    • Saving and loading a search criteria
    • Removing search criterias
• 17 Appendix E - Image Editor
  • Opening the Image Editor
  • Zooming in/out and repositioning the image
    • Zooming in/out
    • Reposition the image by panning
  • Cropping an image
  • Making color adjustments
  • Adjusting the sharpness of an image
  • Using the Image Modification buttons to flip an image
• 18 Appendix F - Script Editor
  • Accessing the Script Editor
  • Script Editor screen items
  • Creating scripts
    • Editing commands
    • Performing a search within the script
    • Adding comments to scripts
  • Opening existing scripts
  • Saving scripts
• 19 Appendix G - External Controls
  • About external controls
    • Serial tab
    • GPI tab
    • Settings tab