User's Manual User Manual

Issue 5.8.B IPDirector Version 5.8

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User Manual

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Part 6: Playout

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Playlist

Panel

EVS Broadcast Equipment – July 2010

Note

IPDirector automatically restores playlist elements with status ‘MISSING’

(if hi-res content is available in the corresponding clip) when the user

selects the Copy clips locally option in an on-line playlist.

Restoring Clips Manually

You can restore manually a playlist element as described below if:

• You have not restored a playlist element when the playlist was put on-line.

• You want to restore playlist elements on off-line playlist.

To restore clips manually, proceed as follows:

1. Right-click the playlist element to restore and select Restore Elem. in the

contextual menu, and Partial Restore or Full Restore.

The Make a Playlist Online window is displayed in case the playlist is off-

line.

2. In this window, select the EVS server on which you want to restore the

playlist element as an XT clip.

3. Click OK.

The restored playlist element is now available on an EVS server and its status

changes from to or , depending

on the EVS server on which the element has been restored.

1.6.4 MOVING ELEMENTS WITHIN A PLAYLIST

POSSIBLE OPERATIONS

Playlist elements can be moved within the playlist in one of the three following

ways:

• A drag-and-drop operation within the Playlist Panel

• A drag-and-drop operation within the Clip-List of the Control Panel

• Cut/Copy/Paste operations using the Windows shortcut keys (CTRL+X, CTRL+C

and CTRL+V)

• Cut/Copy/Paste options in the Clip contextual menu of the Clip-List tab in the

Control Panel. Refer to Control Panel chapter in part 5 of the user manual.