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IP Director Version 4.3 – User Manual – Part 2 – Logging and Browsing
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3.7.6 HOW TO ASSIGN A PLAYER CHANNEL TO THE
DATABASE EXPLORER
To assign a player channel to the Database Explorer, proceed as
follows:
1. Open the Channel Explorer and the Database Explorer
applications.
2. In the Channel Explorer, select the player channel to
assign to the Database Explorer.
3. Drag and drop the selected player channel to the bottom
right field in the Status bar of the Database Explorer.
The player channel is displayed in this field. All actions
requesting an association to a player channel, for example the
Browse, Play and Auto-Chain functions, will be performed in the
assigned player.
3.7.7 HOW TO CREATE THUMBNAILS IN DATABASE
EXPLORER
To create a thumbnail a video display window must be
associated to the Database Explorer window.
To establish the association, the Player Channel displayed in the
Video Display needs to be assigned to the Database Explorer as
explained in section 3.7.6 ‘How to Assign a Player Channel to
the
Database Explorer’, on page 114.
When
the clip is loaded on the Video Display, you can press the
Photo button or use shift + P from the keyboard to add the
thumbnail to the loaded clip.
Note
For IP Director to create a thumbnail in this way, the
output of the selected channel must be connected to an
input of the workstation’s video board and the picture
displayed in a video display window on the VGA
Note
Thumbnails can be created automatically when there is
an X-File designated within the thumbnails
configuration in the Management Console application of
IP Director. Please see the Technical Reference manual
for further details