Any production involves a specific operating environment. The session is where Viz Vectar stores the details of that environment. Obviously, then, configuring session settings properly is important:

• What broadcast standard is used in your locale? Is it PAL, common in Europe among other places, or perhaps NTSC, standard throughout North American?

• If your task includes SDI cameras or similar SDI sources, what video format do these sources supply?

• Are cameras connected using hardware inputs, NDI, or a mixture of both connection types?

As you continue, you may make other adjustments relevant to your current production requirements:

• You might adjust cameras using the Proc Amps provided in Input Configuration panels.

• If your production plans include the use of green screen staging, you will doubtless adjust the LiveMatte settings for one or more cameras to provide optimal keying.

• Perhaps you will use Workspace Display Settings to adjust the preview monitor color characteristics.

• What are your output device connection preferences?

  • What video mixes and other internal sources do you want to route to which outputs?

  • Do you intend to configure a connection for a projection system? What external audio connections and adjustments are required?

  • You might create a playlist of custom title pages in a Media Player, along with additional graphic elements for the Buffers. During the course of the actual live production you may perform further fine-tuning, and also add to the media content used in the presentation:

  • You might grab a series of still images from Program Output.

  • Or record video clips from the production for replay.

  • And capture the network Stream output as a file. The list of adjustments, activities and assets involved in a specific production goes on, but the main point to grasp is that the session is comprised of all of the above collectively. If you do not deliberately delete the session, all of your session media and all of your session settings are ready for immediate recall and re- use.

When you re-open an existing session, it’s just as if you were continuing an earlier event. Thus, if you return to the same venue another day under similar conditions, re-open your prior session and you are virtually ready to go. (Of course, it’s the professional course of wisdom to test everything before beginning any event.)

Naturally, you can store multiple sessions and re-open them freely. This greatly simplifies management of files associated with producing unique programs, and easily accommodates different users with their own individual requirements and preferences.

Typical sessions include many media clips, along with graphics, titles and buffers. Naturally, users must ensure make sure that all of media required is on hand for the session. To help with this task, the system will automatically locate the necessary media, even when drive settings have been changed on the system (as, for example, when a session backup has been restored onto different drives compared to the original setup).