User's Manual Instruction Manual
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Disclaimer
- Improvement Requests
- Regional Contacts
- User Manuals on EVS Website
- 1. Introduction
- 2. User Interface
- 2.1 OPENING OF DATABASE EXPLORER
- 2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE DATABASE EXPLORER
- 2.3 DATABASE EXPLORER TOOLBAR
- 2.4 TREE VIEW
- 2.5 ELEMENT GRID AND SEARCH OPTIONS
- 2.6 STATUS BAR
- Clips, Clip Elements and Nearline Files
- 4. Clips View
- 4.1 INTRODUCTION
- 4.2 UNDERSTANDING CLIP STRUCTURE ON AN EVS VIDEO SERVER
- 4.3 VIRTUAL LSM ID / REAL LSM ID
- 4.4 CLIP TREE STRUCTURE
- 4.5 CLIP DATA COLUMNS
- 4.6 CLIP CONTEXTUAL MENU
- 4.7 DELETING A CLIP
- 4.8 EDITING A CLIP
- 4.9 COPYING OR MOVING A CLIP
- 4.10 SENDING A CLIP TO A DESTINATION TARGET
- 4.10.1 Send To Menu
- 4.10.2 How to Send a Clip to the Default Archive
- 4.10.3 How to Send a Clip to a Destination Folder (Destination Target)
- 4.10.4 How to Add a Destination Target
- 4.10.5 How to Delete a Destination Target
- 4.10.6 How to Send a Clip to an XStore Workstation (Running CleanEdit Applications)
- 4.10.7 How to Send a Clip to an Avid System Using the AVID Transfer Manager
- 4.10.8 Transfer Monitoring
- 4.11 HOW TO MODIFY THE T/C IN OR THE DATE OF A CLIP
- 4.12 PUBLISHING A CLIP
- 4.13 LINKING CLIPS
- 5. Clip Elements View
- 6. Playlists View
- 7. Timelines View
- 8. Bins View
- 9. Logs View
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION
- 9.2 LOGS TREE STRUCTURE
- 9.3 HOW TO CREATE A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.4 HOW TO RENAME A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.5 HOW TO DELETE A LOGS DIRECTORY
- 9.6 HOW TO PUBLISH A LOG DIRECTORY OR A LOG SHEET
- 9.7 HOW TO VIEW THE LOG DIRECTORY OR LOG SHEET PROPERTIES
- 9.8 HOW TO DELETE A LOG DIRECTORY OR A LOG SHEET
- 9.9 HOW TO EXPORT A LOG SHEET FROM THE TREE
- 9.10 HOW TO EXPORT A LOGGING PROFILE FROM THE TREE
- 9.11 PRINTING A LOG SHEET
- 9.12 LOG EVENT COLUMNS
- 10. Media Files View
- 11. Searching the Database
- 12. Loading and Playing Media from the Database Explorer
- 13. Database Explorer Shortcuts

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2.3.6 ASSIGN BUTTON
The Assign button is used to assign keywords to one or several clips. It can be
activated in Clip, Clip element or bins/clips branches of the Database Explorer.
HOW TO ASSIGN KEYWORDS TO ONE OR SEVERAL CLIPS
To assign keywords to one or several clips, proceed as follows:
1. Select a clip or clip element in Clip, Clip element or bins/clips branches of
the Database Explorer grid.
2. Click the Assign button. It becomes colored to indicate that the Assign
mode is active.
3. Open a keyword grid or a keyword dictionary.
The Apply button must be active (colored) in the keyword grid or dictionary.
Refer to Keyword Management chapter in part 2 of this manual.
4. Select the keywords you want to assign to the media.
5. Click the Apply button.
Keywords are assigned to the clip or clip element and appeared in Keywords
columns of the Database Explorer grid.
2.3.7 REFRESH BUTTON
This performs a manual refresh of the element grid.
2.3.8 SAVED FILTERS BUTTON
The Saved Filters mode can be activated by clicking the Saved Filters button.
Then, the button becomes colored and the Saved Filters pane is displayed at the
bottom of the window.










