Playlist Pane

When the playlist is active, you can double-click an item to bring up the template/form where you can fill out information and/or take the item to air. Drag items to rearrange them or add them to groups.

Right-click an item to bring up the playlist shortcut menu:

• Stop or Pause the video.

• Cue: Prepare the clip for playout so the first frame is ready in the player.

• Cue Append: Prepare the clip for playout. The clip will start automatically when the current clip ends.

• Take: Performs a direct take on the selected page.

• Continue: Continues the playout of an element.

• Take Out: Takes the element out (hard cut).

• Read: Reads the element.

• Prepare: Prepare the clip in the pending player without affecting the current clip, so it is ready to be played out. The clip will not start automatically after the current clip. Requires Viz Engine 3.3 or later.

• Initialize Playlist or Initialize Element.

• Cleanup: Cleans up all renderers that have an item in the current playlist (i.e. clears all loaded graphics from memory for those channels). To clear all renderers, go to the Main Menu > Viz Engine Menu > Cleanup Renderers

• Schedule Playlist: Activates the playlist. If for example Begin time has been set, the playlist must be scheduled before the changes take effect.

• Stop Playlist: Stops a previously scheduled playlist.

• Set external GPI cursor: Sets the external cursor for a selected element. The cursor indicates the element that will be taken if, for example, a “take and advance” General Purpose Input (GPI) action is executed.

• Auto Preview: Automatically enable preview of next element from selected.

• Sync with Program Channel: Sync the preview with what’s showing on the program channel. Say you have a lower third on the preview and are showing a fullscreen video on the program channel. See how they add up in the preview.

• Configure VDCP: Open the Video Disk Control Protocol (VDCP Tab).

• Remove: Delete the selected item(s).

• Create Group: Create a new group. The new group will be created above the currently selected item. Groups cannot be created when multiple items are selected.

• Tree: Organize the elements in the current playlist and change the font used

  Tip: Right-click the column headers and select Store as Default to use these settings and to set layout preferences for all new playlists. See Playlist Columns for more information.

Playlist Cursors

A cursor visibly indicates the item, if any, being acted on in a playlist. When a playlist is active and playing, the current item playing will be indicated with a green arrow.

When GPI is enabled, the external GPI system’s cursor will be displayed in any client that is using the same profile as the external system. The red arrow indicates which item in the playlist is next, according to the external automation system.

Playlist Tool bar

• Stop video, if running. Icon active (dark black) if video running.

• Pause video, if running. Icon active (dark black) if video running.

• Cue: Prepare the clip for playout so the first frame is ready in the player.

• DirectTake: Performs a direct take on the selected page.

• Continue: Continues the animation on the selected page, or any that is loaded in the same transition logic layer as the selected page.

• Take out the selected page, or any that is loaded in the same transition logic layer as the selected page.

• Init playlist / Init selected (Initialize): Loads the playlist or the selected page(s) on the program and preview renderer.

• CleanUp (both visibly and loaded memory content) on the Viz Engine renderer.

• Concept: Select the required Concept for the playlist.

Using the Playout Mode

Selecting the Playout Mode as a playlist column the user can can choose between three options; None, Duration and Timecode.

• Timecode is the default option and the time is set in the Timecode column. It indicates that an element should be played out relative to the parent group or video.

• To enable looping of a group, the Playout Mode must be set to Duration before the Loop column must be toggled on. The duration must be set on all elements in the Duration column. Remember to use the Stop button in the Playlist Tool bar in order to stop the loop.

• The None option does not allow for playout.

• Other options besides None/Duration/Timecode that may be shown in this column are read-only.

Playlist Filter and Filter Editor

Use the Filter option to filter what items the playlist will show. You can create as many filters as required with the New option and existing filters can be edited or deleted. When you have created filters simply select the filter to use in the drop-down list. Any items that do not satisfy the filter selected will be hidden from display, not deleted. Deselect filtering to show all items.

In the example below we create a filter that only shows items in the playlist where the description mentions the word Mosart:

Use the drop-down entries and check-boxes to create a filter as required, based on the template attributes.

Playlist Search

Search the playlist. This is a simple search, not a filter. Go to the next match by pressing Enter.

Thumbnail View

Change the thumbnail size.

Playlist Status

If there is a VDCP handler for the playlist in the Media Sequencer, this button will display the status. Click the button to set the playlist to active/inactive.