User`s manual

5. Menu and toolbar
Barco – iStudio – R5976569 – user's manual – revision 09 – March-2007
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Properties tab
The functionality of the Properties tab depends on the object type.
Properties tab – Video
A video object displays a video or RGB source. Additional information can be arranged over or beside the video.
On the Properties tab there are again nine tabs arranged, to configure all this information. The table below lists
the options on the various tabs and their meaning:
Tab Options description
Video Source selection and display properties:
Source
Transparency level
Scramble level
Enabled / Streams
A video or RGB source connected to the HYDRA must be selected
Defines the transparency of overlying objects
Defines the level of the scrambling
If the source is a streaming video source, then the selection of a video
stream can be enabled. This overrules the stream selection from the
source properties dialog; please refer to section 5.3.7 Setup source.
Audio Properties of audio bars
Width
Scale
Horizontal audio
bars
Condense Audio
Plain
Visible
Width of the audio bars
Type of the scale (BBC PPM, DIN, Nordic, VU, Ext VU or AES/EBU is avail-
able, please refer also to section 5.3.7 Setup source – Audio Tab above, for
more details about audio scales)
Displays the audio bars horizontally instead of vertically
Horizontal bar is only half as wide as the video window; two bars can be
shown next to each other.
Scale of audio bar is visible or not
Audio bar is visible or not
For audio sources of NGM-164 the scale type selected in this dialog has no influence on the
scale used for data formatting but is only used as decoration. Instead the scale is defined in
the setup NGM-164 dialog!
If one embedded or external audio source is displayed multiple times in different objects
the same scale type has to be selected each time. Otherwise the last set scale type is used
as scale type for all representations of this source!
Tab Options description
Tally Properties of the tally
Tally
Style
Shape
Position
Disabled
Color
Visible
A combination of two out of three tallies can be selected. They are dis-
played by default on the left and right side of the video. For Quad input
cards please see the note below.
The color mentioned first is used to displays the left tally,
the color mentioned as second is used to display the right tally.
The settings round or square determine the shape of the tally. With the
setting fill the background color of the UMD is used for the left tally and
the right tally is not displayed! The UMD is displayed irrespective of the
visible button on the UMD tab is checked or not.
Either the border of the object or the UMD or both can be used for the
tally
Specifies the color of the tallies, when they are disabled:
Either default colors as defined in Style, the UMD color, border colors, or
a user color selected in the Color list below.
Defines the user color, if selected in the Disabled list
Tally is visible or not