User's Manual Instruction 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
- Part 8: Editing
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Browser
- 3. Player
- 3.1 OVERVIEW OF THE PLAYER PANE
- 3.2 ASSIGNING PLAYER CHANNELS TO IPEDIT
- 3.3 VIDEO DISPLAY
- 3.4 DISPLAY ON THE TIMELINE ENGINE
- 3.5 LOADED MEDIA INFORMATION
- 3.6 TRANSPORT & CREATION FUNCTIONS
- 3.7 TIMELINE EDITING BUTTONS
- 3.8 PLAYER TRACK SELECTION
- 3.9 AUDIO MONITORING
- 3.10 LOADING MEDIA ONTO THE PLAYER
- 4. Timeline
- 4.1 OVERVIEW OF THE TIMELINE ELEMENTS
- 4.1.1 Timeline Name and IDs
- 4.1.2 Timeline Display
- 4.1.3 Edit Command Bar and General Editing Functions
- Overview
- Undo
- Redo
- Insert/Overwrite Global Mode
- Set Timeline Mark IN
- Set Timeline Mark OUT
- Mark Current Element Selection
- Clear Timeline Marks
- Delete Between Mark IN and Mark OUT
- Select Elements From (or to) Nowline
- Add Edit at Nowline Position
- Extend
- Extend Slow/Fast
- Match Frame in Player
- Clear Mark IN
- Clear Mark OUT
- 4.1.4 Transition Effects Bar
- Locator Icons
- 4.1.6 Transport Command Bar and Transport-Related Functions
- 4.1.7 Timecode and Duration Fields
- 4.1.8 Timeline Track Selection Buttons
- 4.1.9 Locator/GPI Selection Buttons
- 4.1.10 Scale Bar and Move Bar
- 4.1.11 Audio Volume Automation, Swap & Mute Buttons
- 4.2 TIMELINE MANAGEMENT
- 4.3 TIMELINE EDITING
- 4.4 MARKING AND SELECTING TECHNIQUES
- 4.5 PLACING MEDIA IN THE TIMELINE
- 4.5.1 Applicable Principles
- 4.5.2 Editing Modes From the Player
- 4.5.3 Adding Media in Insert or Overwrite via the Keyboard, ShuttlePRO or Player Icons
- 4.5.4 Adding Media in Insert or Overwrite Using Drag-and-Drop Actions
- 4.5.5 Adding Media Using the Match Frame Replace
- 4.5.6 Changing the Camera Angle of Timeline Elements
- 4.5.7 Appending a Timeline to the Open Timeline
- 4.6 DELETING ELEMENTS FROM THE TIMELINE
- 4.7 MOVING ELEMENTS WITHIN THE TIMELINE
- 4.8 EXTENDING TIMELINE ELEMENTS
- 4.8.1 Introduction
- 4.8.2 Overview of the Extend Actions
- 4.8.3 Extending in Insert or Overwrite Mode
- 4.8.4 Extending OUT in Insert or Overwrite Mode
- 4.8.5 Extending In or OUT in Insert or Overwrite Mode
- 4.8.6 How to Extend IN or Extend IN Slow/Fast a Timeline Element
- 4.8.7 How to Extend OUT or Extend OUT Slow/Fast a Timeline Element
- 4.9 TRIMMING ELEMENTS IN THE TIMELINE
- 4.10 SLIPPING ELEMENTS IN THE TIMELINE
- 4.11 SLIDING ELEMENTS IN THE TIMELINE
- 4.12 TRANSITION EFFECTS
- 4.12.1 Introduction
- 4.12.2 Selection of Transitions and Tracks on Which to Apply the Effects
- 4.12.3 Effect Types
- 4.12.4 Effect Duration
- 4.12.5 Effect Positions
- 4.12.6 Add/ Modify Transition Effect Window
- 4.12.7 Transition Effect Settings
- 4.12.8 Adding Transition Effects
- 4.12.9 Modifying Transition Effects
- 4.12.10 Deleting Transition Effects
- 4.13 AUDIO SWAPS AND MUTES
- 4.13.1 Introduction to the Swap/Mute Function
- 4.13.2 Overview of the Ways to Define Swaps and Mutes
- 4.13.3 Automatic Swap Definition
- 4.13.4 Automatic Mute Definition
- 4.13.5 Manual Swap Definition in the General Display Mode
- 4.13.6 Manual Swap Definition in the Swap/Mute Zoom Mode
- 4.13.7 Swap/Mute Configuration Window
- 4.13.8 Adding Audio Swaps
- 4.13.9 Modifying Audio Swaps
- 4.13.10 Deleting Audio Swaps
- 4.14 ADJUSTING THE AUDIO VOLUME ON THE TIMELINE
- 4.14.1 Introduction
- 4.14.2 Accessing and Leaving the Volume Automation Mode
- 4.14.3 Overview of the Possible Actions
- 4.14.4 Audio Volume Automation Panel
- 4.14.5 How to Change the Graphic Volume Range
- 4.14.6 Preliminary Actions Before Any Increase or Decrease on the Volume Automation Curve
- 4.14.7 Increasing or Decreasing the Global Volume of a Track
- 4.14.8 Increasing or Decreasing the Volume on Part of a Track
- 4.14.9 Modifying the Volume On a Given Position of a Track
- 4.14.10 Resetting the Volume
- 4.15 CONSOLIDATING A PART OF A TIMELINE
- ‘Replace’ Versus ‘Create Clip From Timeline’
- 4.15.2 Process Overview
- 4.15.3 Assigning a Recorder Channel to IPEdit
- 4.15.4 Replace Settings
- 4.15.5 How To Render Part of a Timeline Using the Replace Function
- How To Consolidate a Part of a Timeline Using the Clip Creation From Timeline Function
- 4.15.7 How To Cancel a Consolidation Process
- USING LOCATORS IN IPEDIT
- 4.17 USING GPIS IN IPEDIT
- 4.18 USING MACRO COMMANDS IN IPEDIT
- 4.19 IPEDIT SETTINGS
- 4.1 OVERVIEW OF THE TIMELINE ELEMENTS

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Menu Command Description
Create Timeline
Opens the Create a Timeline window to create a new
timeline and make it directly editable in the Timeline
pane.
Close Timeline Closes the current timeline loaded in the Timeline pane.
Clear Timeline Removes all elements of the current timeline loaded in
the Timeline pane. The timeline remains available in the
Database Explorer or Browser as an empty timeline.
Reload from XT Reloads the timeline from the EVS server.
Merge Blank
Elements
Merges together the blank elements that are contiguous
in the timeline.
Add Blank Allows you to add a blank of the desired duration from the
nowline on the selected tracks in the active mode (Insert
or Overwrite)
Find blank elements Lists the blank elements inside the opened timeline,
which allows the user to easily localize and manage them.
From the Find Blank Element window which lists the
blanks (track, TC IN, TC OUT and Duration), you can
double-click the row corresponding to a blank element to
position the nowline on the corresponding TC.
Copy/move Timeline Opens the Copy Timeline window that allows you to
create a copy of the timeline and all timeline elements to
another server.
Copy clips locally Creates a copy of all distant timeline elements onto the
local server.
Publish Opens the Publish Timeline window to publish the
timeline to selected group of users.
Edit/Rename Opens the Edit a Timeline window in which you can
modify the timeline properties as entered when the
timeline was created. The audio configuration can
however not be modified.
IPEdit Settings Opens the Settings window directly from the IPEdit user
interface, instead of navigating to the Tools > Settings
menu.
Delete Timeline Deletes the loaded timeline from the IPDirector Database
and from the server. It will no longer be available in the
Browser or DB Explorer.
Delete Timeline and
Clips
Deletes the loaded timeline from the IPDirector Database
and from the server, as well as the clips created by the
timeline engine.










