User`s guide

2 Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1.2 Related Documents
1. Viz Template Wizard User’s Guide : How to create and organize templates.
2.
Viz Object Store User’s Guide : How to store and retrieve images from the
image database.
3.
Viz IO Studio Setup User’s Guide : How to configure and calibrate virtual sets.
4.
Viz Artist User’s Guide : How to create scenes and use the Device manager.
1.1.3 Conventions
The following typographic conventions are used in this document:
• Bold Text: Bold is used to indicate emphasized text.
• Italic Text:
Italic is used to indicate text that should be typed, or variables that
should be entered. Italic is also used to refer to related documents.
• Cross References: The color blue is used to indicate cross-references.
• Numbered Paragraphs: Numbered paragraphs are used to indicate tasks that
need to be carried out. Text in paragraphs without numbering represent
ordinary information.
1.2 Words and Expressions
The following are a number of common words and expressions used throughout
the documentation:
• Component: In Viz Template Wizard, components are used to create text
fields, buttons, drop-lists, database connections etc.
• Control Plug-ins: A graphics scene can contain all sorts of objects that can be
controlled from a template such as text, back plates, images, colors and more.
The graphics designer uses control plug-ins to expose objects to make them
editable in a template. When importing the scene to Viz Template Wizard the
exposed objects with control plug-ins appear as list items with check boxes.
• Control Object: Every scene with control plug-ins must have one instance of
the control object plug-in at the root level of a scene tree. Control Object
reads the information from all other control plug-ins. When a scene is
imported to Viz Template Wizard, it reads the information about other lower
level control plug-ins through Control Object.
• Data element: A data element is a template that is filled with data. A data
element holds a reference to its template (original) just as the template holds
a reference to its scene. A data element is contains a set of data and
references to where data (e.g. images and video clips) can be found. In most
cases it is the data element that gets played out on-air, and not the template.
• Newsroom Component: In a Newsroom Computer System (NCS), the
Newsroom Component (NrC) is used to add data elements to a story. The user
is typically a journalist working on a story. The NrC is an embedded
application in the NCS that connects to a database of templates. The templates
can be filled with text, images, video and maps.
• Scene: A scene is built in Viz Artist. It can be a single scene, or one part (layer)
of a combination of scenes (transition logic).
• Template: A template is a customized interface created in Viz Template
Wizard. The template is used in Viz Content Pilot or the Newsroom Component
to create data elements that are added to a playlist for playout. A template is
based on one or several (transition logic) Viz Artist scenes.