User's Manual Owner's manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Disclaimer
- Improvement Requests
- Regional Contacts
- Part 1: General Workspace
- Part 2: Logging
- Part 3: Browsing
- Part 4: Ingest
- Part 5: Playout – Control Panel
- Part 6: Playout – Playlist Panel
- Part 7: Editing
- 1. Player Control Panel
- 1.1 INTRODUCTION
- 1.2 USER INTERFACE
- 1.2.1 Opening of Control Panel
- 1.2.2 Overview of the Control Panel
- 1.2.3 Views of The Control Panel
- 1.2.4 Channel Media Pane
- 1.2.5 Transport Functions Pane
- Time Information Group Box
- Left Timecode Field
- Right Duration field
- Play Mode Button
- Browsing within Video Material with the ShuttlePRO
- Jog Bar
- Playlist Element Tags
- Play Button
- Custom Speed Field
- Pause Button
- Fast Rewind Button
- Fast Forward Button
- E/E Button
- Direct Access Buttons to the Trains on the ShuttlePRO
- Snap Button
- Ret Button
- 1.2.6 Clip Creation Pane
- 1.2.7 Clip Information Tab
- 1.2.8 Metadata Tab
- 1.2.9 Ganged Channels Tab
- 1.2.10 Clip-List Tab
- 1.2.11 Control Panel Contextual Menu
- 1.2.12 Settings
- 1.2.13 Control Panel Shortcuts
- 1.3 ASSIGNING A CHANNEL OR THE SOFTWARE PLAYER
- 1.4 LOADING MEDIA
- 1.5 MOVING WITHIN MEDIA
- 1.6 CREATING MEDIA
- 1.7 EDITING MEDIA
- 1.7.1 How to Rename a Loaded Clip
- 1.7.2 How to Modify Playlist Information or Rename a Loaded Playlist
- 1.7.3 How to Edit a Clip Duration
- 1.7.4 Modifying a Playlist Element
- 1.7.5 How to Move Elements Within a Playlist
- 1.7.6 Adding Elements to a Playlist
- 1.7.7 How to Remove Elements From a Playlist
- 1.7.8 Applying a Macro Command on a Playlist Element
- 1.8 DELETING MEDIA
- 1.9 USING KEYWORDS & METADATA
- 1.10 PUBLISHING AND TRANSFERRING MEDIA
- 1.10.1 How to Publish a Clip to a User Group
- 1.10.2 How to Send a Clip to an External Destination
- 1.10.3 How to Send a Playlist to an External Destination
- 1.10.4 How to Export a Playlist
- 1.10.5 How to Export a Part of an Element to a target From the ShuttlePro
- 1.10.6 How to Export a Part of an Element to a target From the Control Panel
- 1.10.7 How to Import a Playlist
- 1.10.8 How to Restore a File to an EVS Video Server
- 1.11 USING GANGED CHANNELS
- Software Player
- Video Display

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Part 5: Playout
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Player Control Panel
EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2010
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Tabbed Pane
The right part of the Control Panel window, highlighted in light blue on the above
outline, contains several tabs:
Clip Information Tab
The Clip Information tab displays general data on the clip such as keywords,
interest level, creation date, etc.
For detailed information on the Clip Information tab, refer to section 1.2.7 ‘Clip
Inf
ormation Tab’, on page 30.
Metadata Tab
The Metadata tab makes it possible to view and modify the user-defined metadata
associated with the clips in the Control Panel.
For detailed information on the Metadata tab, refer to section 1.2.8 ‘Metadata
Ta
b’, on page 35.
Ganged Channels Tab
The Ganged Channels tab makes it possible to easily control the ganged channels.
For detailed information on the Ganged Channels tab, refer to section 1.2.9
‘Ganged Channels Tab’, on page 36.
Clip-List Tab
The Clip-List tab makes it possible to create simple playlists and view playlists
created with the Playlist Panel.
Note
Production playlist is a software option, which requires the license key
50 being imported to XSecure. Without this code, playlists may be loaded
on a Control Panel and played out but may not be edited.
For more information on the required license key, contact the Support or
Sales team.
For detailed information on the Clip-List tab, refer to section 1.2.10 ‘Clip-List Tab’,
on page 40.










