User guide

Viz Engine Administrator’s Guide

5. Open the Audio plug-in editor, and add an audio clip to the Test Clip drop-zone,

and click Play

Tip: Always have a set of test clips that will provide audio for the different channel

setups.

See Also

• To add new audio channels

• To add multi-language audio channels

• To add multiple audio channel configurations

• To delete audio channels

• To manually activate an audio device

7.5 Audio Plug-in

The Audio plug-in allows a designer To configure audio channels .

The Audio plug-in is located in Viz Artist’s Function Container section, and can be

applied to any container.

This section contains information on the following topics:

• Audio Clip Mixing Modes

7.5.1 Audio Clip Mixing Modes

The Audio plug-in has four different audio clip mixing modes; Default, FX and Manual.

These are all selectable from Viz Artist.

This section contains information on the following topics and procedures:

• Default

• FX

• Manual

• To configure audio channels

Default

The Default mode uses the Channel settings stored in the clip. For example FrontLeft

and FrontRight are mixed to the aliases FRONT_LEFT, FRONT_RIGHT and so on. See also

Audio Settings .

If Viz Engine is configured with fewer channels, Viz Engine mixes the remaining clip

channels according to the channel geometry. For example if Viz Engine only has stereo

configured, but the clip used has 7.1 surround sound, Viz Engine mixes LeftBack and

LeftMiddle to FRONT_LEFT and so on.

Pan slider, Audio plug-in