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CLIPSTER I/O Tool User Guide
6.2 Using the Play-Out Task Mode
With the Play-out task mode of the I/O Tool activated
you have two possibilities at hand to play out material:
1. You can play out a single clip present in the contents area of the
bin, or
2. you can play out clips present in the timeline of the Edit Tool,
either with or without a simultaneous control of an external
device for an immediate record (via RS-422).
Both procedures are explained in this section: First, a description how
to play out a single clip with the I/O Tool is given. This will be followed
by a detailed description of how to play out a timeline (with or without
an immediate record via RS-422).
6.2.1 How to Play Out a Single Clip
To (re-)view a clip either with the video overlay or an externally con-
nected device (e.g. a monitor) you can play out a single clip in the
I/O Tool.
To play out a single clip perform the steps as described below:
y Configure the output format with the button VIDEO FORMAT… of
the selection area to the correct settings (see section “The Video
Format” on page 6-2).
y After this select the thumbnail of the clip to be reviewed in the con-
tents area of the bin.
y Drag and drop it to the control area of the I/O Tool.
With this procedure a simultaneous control of an externally
connected device (via RS-422), for example, for a record op-
eration is not possible. For this you have to add the clip in
question to the timeline of the Edit Tool and perform a play-
out as described in section “How to Play Out the Timeline”
on page 6-14.
To play out a single clip, the clip has to be present in the con-
tents area of the bin. If the desired clip is not available, you
have to either record it or add it to the contents area of the bin,
e.g. via the menu option Add Clip of the context menu of the
bin’s contents area (see section “The Bin” on page 3-3).
When one of the record task modes is active you may have
to configure the output format differently from the input
format. See section “The Video Format” on page 5-4 for
further information about this.