Avid iNEWS ControlAir v1.1 Addendum to v1.0.5 User Manual
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1. To change the order of columns in the playlist 1 Click the appropriate column to select it 2 Drag and drop the column to another position at the top of the playlist The column order will persist to subsequent ControlAir Workstation sessions 12 of 17 To change the text of column headings 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Click the Fonts tab as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Category Playlists z Fonts Columns Column Title Page DEVICE MEDIA ID Story Field Type STATUS CHANNEL v Edit Column Hide Italics Bold Underline Cancel Apply 3 Inthe Columns section click the column from the Columns list 4 Click the Edit Column button To activate the Column Title and Story Field Type fields as well as the Hide Italics Bold and Underline check boxes 5 Typeanew titlein the Column Title text box 6 Click the Apply button to save the settings To hide a column or change the text style for the contents of a column 1 Click the appropriate Hide Bold Italics or Underline check boxes in the Columns section 2 Click the Apply button to save the settings To reference a column to an iNEWS story field 1 Type the Field Type from the iN EWS story form into the Story Field Type field 2 Click the Apply button to save your settings 13 of 17 The text for the title story field is filled in by Contro2. Managers DMs support a playback panel for playout of machine events Some new options have been added to make playback from panel more configurable The Options dialog now contains a setting to make the ControlA ir Workstation keyboard automatically skip over Unavailable events To change these settings 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Click the Operations tab as shown 15 of 17 Options 3 Click the Cursor skips Unavailable events check box 4 Click the Apply button to save the new settings 16 of 17 Copyright and Disclaimer This manual is copyright 2003 Avid Technology Inc All rights reserved All Avid products are covered by U S and foreign patents issued and pending Information in this publication supersedes that in all previously published material Specifications and price change privileges reserved The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and is protected under the copyright laws of the United States and other countries U S GOVERNMENT USERS RESTRICTED RIGHTS Use duplication or disclosure by the U S Government is subject to restriction as set forth in subparagraph b 2 of the Technical Data and Computer Software Commercial items clause at DFARS 252 211 7015 or in subparagraph c 2 of the Commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52 227 19 as applicable Avid is a registered trademark of Avid Technology Inc Media Brow
3. would display the time only if the Workstation cursor was on the event when it was played by the playback pand Playlist Ordering Starting with ControlAir version 1 1 playlists will be listed in the ControlAir Workstation in the order that they appear in the iN EWS SySTEM Map story This behavior has changed from previous versions where the playlists would be listed in the ControlAir Workstation in the order which they were loaded in iN EWS Typically SySTEM MAP can only be modified by iN EWS system administrators Contact your system administrator if playlists are not being listed in the desired order 5 of 17 Reserving and Releasing Playlists New functionality has been added to the ControlAir Workstation to reduce the process of Releasing one playlist and Reserving another playlist to a single user action If a show is Reserved and the user Reserves another an optional prompt will request confirmation that the first show is to be Released Unreserved A new option has been added to the Options menu to specify whether the user will be prompted to confirm the Release of the currently Reserved show when they attempt to Reserve another show To change this setting 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Select the Operations tab as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Large Video Clock Time Remaining v Cursor skips Unavailable events Lock B
4. Avid iNEWS ControlAir Version 1 1 Addendum for iNEWS ControlAir User Manual Version 1 0 5 This document serves as an introduction to the new functionality included in Avid iN EWS ControlAir version 1 1 It covers the following five areas of system administration and operations affected by the additional functionality System Administration iNEWS Integration ControlA ir Server ControlAir Workstation Display and Playback ControlAir Playback Panel This addendum is intended to be used to supplement the A vid iN EWS ControlAir User Manual version 1 0 5 and does not represent a standalone manual for the administration or use of ControlA ir Note Before installing ControlAir version 1 1 for the first time Avid recommends that system administrators and operators become familiar with the contents of all ControlA ir Release N otes Addendums and the Installation and O perations M anual provided by Avid Technology Inc lof 17 Table of Contents System AGMiInIStratlOn ic ois ods we eee ed ele ee es es eed ee es ee eee ee 3 INEWS integration 22 3 aa a dare a ied anette deh ee etd ana eed dade Weed ee 4 COntrolA If Servery oraaa a aaa oder mete anh aaa ee eatin eh od eet ete 4 ControlA ir Workstation Display and PILAYDACK eee eee ee eeeeeeeseseseseseeeeeeeesestaeaeaeaeseeeeeeeteneteteteeeeeeaeaeaes 4 KEENE EA E E T fin caatiaetegssbeaegeadsdtacssautav cncaiacedbevathaes cdhaataseseenars 4 Message Banaag aeaeaie Eiee aee ia scat asaed
5. Workstation from displaying any story lines for stories that have no machine events It also grays out the Hide only stories without event and title or page check box as shown This does not apply to break stories Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Enter display scroll position in Bo k percentage 30 Expand playlist while loading V Hide all stories without events cr Playlist Display Device Definable Colors In previous versions of ControlAir machine events were differentiated by the information listed in the ControlA ir Workstation columns including the Device column A new setting was added to the Options menu to allow the user to select different background colors per device for certain columns in the workstation grid The user has the option to choose whether the color settings apply to the Device Media ID and Page columns either individually or across multiple columns These color settings are assigned by device name with the ability to specify different colors for up to 10 devices 10 of 17 In the figure shown the user has chosen to differentiate events on the pluto70 AirSPACE by displaying them with an orange Page column Page Siug Device Media ID BBIQATE ST BCSTESTING SHO Cy 05 HI BARWN FIRE w p uto7 o breakin piuto7o LOST MONEY piuto7 o i _lo m EE El 5 E w To change the device or column colors 1 From the Broadcast
6. e there is no bold separator line between MILLIONAIRE the story line and health 1a machine event within that story The figure above also illustrates that Break lines have been modified to take up only onelinein the ControlAir Workstation display as opposed to two lines as was the case in previous versions Playlist Display Hiding Stories The Broadcast Options dialog now includes two settings to determine whether blank stories or stories with no machine events will be displayed in the ControlAir Workstation playlist 8 of 17 To change these settings 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Select the Screen tab as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Enter display scroll position in Bo K percentage 30 Expand playlist while loading Hide all stories without events V Hide only stories without events and title or page 3 Checking the Hide only stories without event and title or page check box will prevent the ControlAir Workstation from displaying any story lines for stories that havea blank Title field Sometimes called the Slug a blank Page N umber field and no machine events This does not apply to break stories The defaults for the Hide only stories without event and title or page and the Hide all stories without events settings are off unchecked 9of 17 Clicking the Hide all stories without events check box prevents the ControlAir
7. field ou eeeeeeseceseseeesteeeeeeeeeeeeeeaeaeaeseseenenatataeataeeeeeeeeesess 13 Playlist Display Selected EVO cecccec cesses sseseseseseaeseseseeeneneneneneceseseseeasasssassesenenensnataneseseseseeeeesess 14 To change the display of a selected event oo eeeeeteeteteteteteteteteeeeeeeeeeeeaeaeaeseseneenenatateseeeeesaeaeaeaees 14 ControlAir Playback Panel acini ies iaid ani ea cli Wan ia a ai ee eee 15 2 of 17 System Administration In earlier versions of ControlAir any operator had the ability to change the ControlAir Workstation preferences affecting the look and feel of the application In ControlAir 1 1 contains a new option which allows the local PCs Administrator to lock the ControlAir Workstation s preferences by making the Broadcast Options menu read only This lock applies all the settings in the Options dialog and also includes the ability to reorder grid columns To lock the preferences 1 Loginto the PC using an account with Administrator privileges 2 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog The Options dialog appears as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Large Video Clock Time Remaining Cursor skips Unavailable events Do not prompt for Auto Release V Lock Broadcast Options Cancel 3 Select the Operations tab 4 Click the Lock Broadcast Options check box The Options dialog is now read only to all users without Admi
8. lAir Text for all other fields will be taken from the story form provided by the iN EWS Server Any text field may be associated with a grid column By default the page number field is associated with the PAGE column Story field text will extend from its associated column across any columns which are not associated with another story form field Playlist Display Selected Event A new menu option was added to make the display of a selected event configurable The user has the option to change the font face size and attributes for the selected event making it stand out further from the other events in the ControlAir Workstation playlist To change the display of a selected event 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Click the Fonts tab as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Category Cursor Row v Columns Column Title Story Field Type OK Cancel From the Category list select Cursor Row Click the Fonts button Make desired changes Click the Apply button to save the new settings aU RW 14 of 17 QATEST BCSTESTING SHOW RUNDOWN Reserved by mbtest08 CS OE Es 09 DUCK ELEPHANT H3 BARN FIRE i oluto7o breakin 29 M N The default font for the cursor row setting is the same as the font used for an event row but using a larger font size ControlAir Playback Panel Starting with ControlAir version 1 0 5 some video Device
9. menu select the Options dialog 2 Select the Devices tab as shown The drop down list displays a list of the devices currently connected to the ControlAir Server 11 of 17 Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Device Column Colors Cee v Te Colors Add Device Remove Device Back Coloss For best results use dark text and limit background colors to lighter shades top few rows of the color chart or custom Apply to l Device M MediatD colors Examples Enter the Rescan Device Name 3 Select the device using the down arrow in the Device Column Colors section 4 Select the text and background colors from by clicking the Text Colors or the Back Colors buttons respectively 5 After the colors are defined select whether the settings are to be applied to the Page Device or Media ID columns by clicking the appropriate check boxes in the A pply to section on the Device tab The default for the Device Column Colors settings is black text on a white background Playlist Display Column Based Rules A new set of menu options was added to the Options dialog providing the ability to change the order of columns and their appearances in the ControlA ir Workstation playlist This includes a range of options including the ability to change the column titles hide columns change the text style for the contents of a column or reference a column to an iN EWS story field
10. nistrator privileges The default for the Lock Broadcast Options setting is off unchecked If the Lock Broadcast Options settings is unchecked by an Administrator the workstation preferences may be changed any user 3 of 17 INEWS Integration A major change has been made to the way in which ControlAir interacts with iNEWS In previous versions of ControlAir channel assignment made in iNEWS was reflected in the ControlA ir playlist but not vice versa Changes made in both ControlAir and iN EWS now allow channad assignments made in ControlA ir to be reflected in iN EWS In the case of machine events that exist in the story form the channel will be displayed in the Item Channe field In the case of machine events that exist in the story body the channd will be displayed in the event list queue This feature requires both ControlA ir version 1 1 and iN EWS version 2 0 ControlAir Server ControlA ir now includes the option to have the ControlA ir Server applications including ControlA ir Server AMCPapp and any Device Managers DMs start up minimized This option is enabled by adding the string min to the end of the command lines for each application in the autostart ini file for ControlAir The command lines are listed in the Start Sequence section of the autostart ini file as shown below Start Sequence casvr exe min AMCPApp exe min ChyronDM exe min dmp ChyronDM INF dmp AIRSPACEDM exe min dmp AirSpaceDM dmp Contr
11. olAir Workstation Display and Playback Menu Bar The Expand Playlist and Hide Playlist options as well as their keyboard accelerators have been added to the Broadcast menu Message Bar Both the size of the ControlAir Workstation s message bar and the font of the messages have been increased in size The figure below shows the Version 1 1 message bar 14 56 41 Control s Load Complete UATES I BCS TESTING SHOW RUNDOW Clocks ControlAir now includes an option to choose whether the Time Remaining clock or the Elapsed Time clock is larger on the Workstation display The figures below show the ControlAir workstation clocks in both configurations VideoTimes VideoT imes Elapsed Remainin OO E mmg 4of 17 To change this setting 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Select the Operations tab as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Large Video Clock Elapsed Time ig Cursor skips Unavailable events Do not prompt for Auto Release l Lock Broadcast Options 3 From the Large Video Clock drop down menu select either Time Remaining or Elapsed Time The default for the Large Video Clock setting is Time Remaining ControlAir now displays the Elapsed Time and Time Remaining when an event is played via the ControlA ir playback panel regardless of Workstation cursor position This is a change from previous versions where the clocks
12. osition in percentage V Expand playlist while loading Hide all stories without events F Hide only stories without events and title or page Cancel Apply 3 Click the Expand playlist while loading check box to turn the setting on or off 4 Click theApply button to save your settings 7 of 17 If the Expand playlist while loading setting is on the playlist will be set to expanded mode and new story and event rows will be displayed as they arrive If the Expand playlist while loading option is off the new playlist will beset to compressed mode and remain compressed until it is manually expanded The default for the Expand playlist while loading setting is on checked Playlist Display Story Separator Lines Several new features have been introduced to make the ControlAir Workstation s playlist display more user friendly Most but not all of the changes have been implemented as options with the behavior seen in previous versions remaining the default ControlAir now displays a two pixel wide bold separator line above each break and story line Machine events inside each story are not separated by the solid line The figure below shows four stories in a ControlAir version 1 1 playlist MILLION AIRE pluvio rd hoat 1 jRREAR FIRS T W x ae 7IVE CE Wuior Specia N otice that there is a bold separator line between Break and FIRST WX which area break line and a story line respectively whil
13. roadcast Options Cancel 3 Click the Do not prompt for auto rd ease check box to configure the ControlAir Workstation to make Reserving a playlist force the Release of another playlist without prompting the user for confirmation 6 of 17 4 click the Apply button to save your settings If this option is set to on checked and no video is playing in the currently Reserved show that show will be Released and the requested show Reserved without prompting the user to confirm the action If video is playing in the Reserved show and the ControlAir Workstation user attempts to Release the show either by using the Release command or by Reserving another show the user will be prompted with a dialog box regardless of whether the Do not prompt for auto release option is checked This dialog box contains options to stop the currently playing video and Release the show or to cancel the Release request and let the video play to completion The default for the Do not prompt for auto release setting is off unchecked Playlist Display New Rundown View A new option was added to the Options menu to configure whether new playlists received by the ControlA ir Server will be opened at the Workstation expanded or compressed To change this setting 1 From the Broadcast menu select the Options dialog 2 Select the Screen tab as shown Options Status Colors Fonts Screen Channel Policy Devices Operations Enter display scroll p
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