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1. another task Task Name sequence Enable Set _Execute Task An example of such sequence is if you want to start a Digital Clock thanto OnStart Play Digital Clock El start a picture and move it horizontally on screen over a specific period of M Areta some OnEndDelay Play Picture Te time and at finally to start another task You will have the following m Loopinterval 5000ms Onloop Movel200Pictue gt i sequence of tasks Loops Count TO 0 unite Iv OnStop Start timer y 1 Task Play Digital Clock 1 z 2 Task Play Picture 1 to be started 5 sec after the beginning of the o gt carea sequence 3 Task Move Picture1 to be started 10 times at every 5 seconds 4 Task Start timer1 In this example you have to fill the setup window like it is shown in the following screenshot Into Task Name enter the name of your time sequence sequence 1 Into OnStart field select the name of the first task in the sequence Play Digital Clock 1 Select the name from the drop down list If you don t want to have task on sequence start uncheck relative Enable check box Into Delay before Loop field enter the interval of delay in milliseconds 5000ms 5sec This is the delay after the sequence start and before the start of the loop task Into OnEndDelay field enter the task which will be executed with this delay PlayPicture71 Select the name of the task from the drop down list with ex
2. XK Cancel The dialog to the right will appear so you could define Formatting of the linked file Check the M Header row check box if the first row of the linked document is a column header and should not be visible on the screen 105 Channel in a Box Lite Check the M Format rows check box if the file consists column delimiters like coma semicolon etc Checking this check box will activate Columns Delimiter radio buttons Check the M Skip Blank rows check box when there are empty rows in the linked file they will be skipped on data scrolling in the text object Check the M Group up to blank row check box if you want to show into the text object a group of data separated by empty row Check the M Group by paragraph check box if you want to show into the text object a group of data separated by some Paragraph Delimiter Checking this check box will activate Paragraph Delimiter radio buttons Columns Delimiter is a symbol which is used for separating the data by columns in the text file You can choose between Tabulation Tab Comma and Semicolon as delimiter or you can define your own delimiting symbol in field Other In our example the column separator is Tab Paragraph Delimiter is a symbol which is used for separating the data by paragraphs in the text file You can select a certain number of rows as paragraph separation or you can define a symbol which to be used as paragraph separator
3. Channel in a Box Lite For example the Name of a metadata category is Producer and the Value is a person a company Thus if you have the producer s name in DataBox Person and map it to AirBox Producer that information will be transferred automatically when you drag clips from DataBox to the playlist grid You can use these fields in graphic rules to present information that does not appear in the playlist columns Click on the Metadata name cell to enter the name that will be used as reference in the Graphic Rules In the Metadata value cell enter the additional information that should be presented in the graphics while this clip is on air Please refer to the Graphic rules section for detailed explanation about the metadata implementation Except for showing information about the currently playing clip metadata categories can be used for changing the links to picture and sound objects in TitheBox Thus you can change the image shown in a picture object or the sound that is played in a sound object All you have to do here is 1 Specify the Metadata name in the left column For example new picture 2 Specify the file path to the new media to load in the column to the right For example E Pictures pic A Dark Night jpg NOTE The file path should be local for the TitheBox machine Thus you will have new picture E Pictures pic A Fantastic Voyage jog in one of the rows Then go to Settings gt Graph
4. NOTE This plug in is still BETA Working with Yahoo and binding pictures to objects are still in development at this stage FileLink Data Provider Select this plug in if you intend to link certain objects in TitleBox to text documents File Edit Format View Help Earlier in this Manual it was described a simple file link It is assigned to a text object and shows the whole a Header Col_1 Header Col_2 Header Col_3 text document as It Is Line 1 col 1 Line 1 col2 Line 1 col 3 EER ER Omagh Line co 1ne 0 ne D Unlike simple File Link the FileLink Data Provider allows the user to modify how the text from the text iinescori Lineacol2 Linea col 3 Line 5 col 1 Line 5 col 2 Line 5 col 3 document will be displayed on screen Line 6 col 1 Line Col 2 Line col3 Example 10 By using FileLink Data Provider one text document could be interpreted as a table E ocal Me name or It is applicable for texts where the data is organized in columns and rows like in the c Users MartinalDesktopttestixt fal example Test4 txt file in the right screen shot The user can define in what kind of UA A order to display the rows and columns 7 Header row Tab Comma Vv Y Format rows Semicolon Other E Select the FileLink Data Provider and press Config Browse for the file you need Wy nig ies i z I Group up to blank row Paragraph Delimiter select it and press Open Group by paragraph Rows fic fe Char a
5. Service Settings Service listening port 217 Ee Do not show test events Y Service Access Username playbox Service Access Password easplaybox Advanced Default data port PASY Bound Port Min PASY Bound Port Max External Server IP For PASY mode transfers 11 2 1x Service is not running amp Close Here you have to enter the IP address of the EAS unit as well as some advanced details of the connection If there is connection username and password defined you have to enter them also When you are ready press the Play button in order to start the service NOTE lt is very important to set the proper time zone to the system and the system clock to be accurate in order the service to work correctly IMPORTANT TitleBox works with decoders produced of Digital Alert Systems LLC with FCC ID RBVDASDEC 1EN 11i Channel in a Box Lite TASK MANAGER Task Manager is an instrument for creating specific tasks in TitleBox A task is an action which is executed in TitleBox like play object stop object etc The Task usually is performed when happens a specific condition The condition trigger on which Task is executed is defined by user The condition trigger on which the task is performed is called event An event could be the object s status like play stop etc or a command First you have to create a task and then you can assign this task to an event Suppose that the
6. Back Mornings 10 30 11 Wait Key Press Durat Y News 12 Enab 5 Lock Slide 5 Slide 6 Sliding the mouse over the Global Layer Links line will open a drop down list of all Layers available in the Master container The Slide Actions list contains four commands related to the Slide Controller They will be executed when the duration of the current slide is over Views Neshto si KukuRigu None is the default slide action no command will be sent to the Slide Controller when the slide duration is over when the duration of the currently selected slide is over it will send a stop command to the Slide Controller A Stop small sign will appear in the lower right corner of the slide thumbnail to notify the operator about the assigned action AJump To action will make the Slide Controller loop between the current slide and the specified Jump To slide Wait Key Press is a pause command sent to the Slide Controller Playback of slides will resume at any key stroke The following sign a will appear in the thumbnail to notify the operator Selecting Assign Shortcut will open a shortcut defining dialog To define a shortcut click in the LL a Shortcut string and press the keys you would like to assign me Command Below select the command to be executed at pressing these keys Toggle Play Stop Toggle Play Stop to show hide the slide off the screen A Play From Slide to sta
7. Support Add Delete Property Decklink Video Capture 2 width 0 Height 0 X cares Custom Support this is an advanced option Click on it to select the filters to use in this object on your own You can add filters to the graph by clicking on the Add button A list of all available filters will open for you to select from To view the properties of a filter in the graph select its line in the list and press Properties You can crop the image Width and Height by using the relevant spin boxes under the preview window When a direct show object is selected in the TitleBox preview area an object specific toolbar appears under the standard ones oO Ww Alpha 100 Mode Center v Pure Fast Loop jo 3 WV Keep Aspect x0 y fo ie y 7 Use Alpha Audio Delay o ms Volume J The i Properties button opens a list of all filters used in the current graph Check MAlpha to use the video s alpha channel You can adjust it by using the percentage spin box to the right In this toolbar there are two drop down lists one for selecting the display Mode Stretch or Center and another one for the scaling quality If the Pure Fast quality is selected the CPU usage is lower Enter the Loop number to repeat the video as many times as you want Loop O means that the video will be endlessly repeated Loop 1 means that the video will be played once Loop 2 m
8. r E E Right clicking on any object invokes a menu like the one shown in the PY copy an screenshot to the left 5 Paste Ctrl A Paste As Copy The upper half of the menu contains the most common status and editing Send Copy To Link To Multiple W commands a Add To Scheduler Ctrl H Master Container Master Base Layer MB Scheduler Properties ie er The Send Copy To command allows you to easily create copies of the Set File Link Slide 2 us Layer 3 i currently selected object of all slides and layers in your project Assign GPI Event Slide 3 Layer 4 Assign Tas Slide 4 gt E E f R assign Data Source sides Set File Link select this item to invoke a browse dialog to locate the FEM property text file txt or rtf to which you would like to link your object Thus your object s content will be updated every time the linked text file is saved An additional window will open to display all objects and their file links if any in the current project You can set change the file links from within the Links dialog Just press the browse button to the far right of the relevant row to open a new browse dialog 3 Object File Link 12 Property Tools L C Users Martina Desktop 11 txt na If you right click on the selected row the following dialog will open Y Active Set File Link 4uto Play On File Change Change File Path If you do not want to have a link anym
9. x Channel in a Box Lite When you use subtitles you should also enter a TapelD value read more about this value in the SubtitleBox section further in this manual You can view and edit the House D Star and Category information in the relevant strings The colored square next to the Category string represents the color which will be displayed in the Category column of the playlist You can change this color by double clicking in the square Use the Notes string to type your notes about the clip NOTE Content metadata fields like Category Star Notes could be filled directly into the AirBox playlist In this case the information is saved only for the current playlist If you use the same file in the new playlist you have to enter metadata again unless you have saved it via the Settings preset field It is also possible to keep all metadata in DataBox Then when you create a playlist by drag amp drop files from DataBox the metadata will be transferred too You just need to define in DataBox options the fields for transfer Another possibility is to use external user s database traffic MAM etc for preparing playlist Then you can transfer metadata from this database to playlist The exact metadata transfer depends on the term of integration of this third party database Keep in mind that if you change some metadata inside the playlist the change will be valid only for the current playlist The change
10. Mixing This metadata is used only if a Shift Transition is selected in the Transition property tab Here you can define the MShift Type and the MShift Direction of the Shift transition Audio metadata M Language the language of the sound MLevel the audio level of the current clip in dB TIP By using audio level metadata you can specify a different audio level for each file in the playlist For example you can use it to decrease only the audio level of the commercials in the playlist NOTE On playout the clip metadata if there is such settings have a higher priority than the output settings created in the Output settings dialog For example if the aspect ratio in the main video output is set to 4x3 and the ASCS Aspect size conversion strategy is set to Balanced Letterbox This means that if there are files with an aspect of 16x9 in the playlist they will letterboxed at the output Channel in a Box Lite Let us assume that you have a particular file with aspect 16x9 in the playlist which you do NOT want to be letterboxed but rather you want it to be zoomed Then in the properties of this particular file check the MASCS check box and select Fullscreen Zoom in the respective value field NOTE Values in Field order input as well as Item input Aspect metadata do not have any effect on the playout These fields are connected to the file in the playlist and are used if the information for Field or
11. sec defines the time before a clip s end for showing the progress bar inside the block timer see View Block Timer For instance if a 15 second value is set the progress bar will be visible in the last 15 seconds of the clip playout During the rest of the time the progress bar will not be displayed just the counter itself MOverlay channel number first channel is m big figure showing the AirBox instance will be displayed in the grid background You have to set the number of the first channel The numbers of all subsequently open channels will be updated automatically You just have to check the Overlay channel number box in the Settings of each AirBox if you want to view it in the grid Video preview aspect ratio select the aspect ratio for the Video preview window This is necessary because some decoders cannot report the aspect ratio of the playing content so this must be selected manually in order to properly preview content Frame rate this entry is necessary for estimating all kinds of time values i e end time playlist duration etc while there is no accessible frame rate of a currently played file for example AirBox is in Stop mode Missing files Missing files is the third tab in the Settings dialog box It refers to automatic handling of e x missing files in the playlist General Interface Missing files Automation Grid 04 J Show duration of missing files MShow duration of missing files if th
12. 2 Create your TitleBox projects 3 Export them via Network gt Export project as template giving them respective names 4 impl template files are exported in the templates folder 5 Go to Project Options look at Network tab Remember the TitleBox channel ID and Port values Confirm any changes 6 Go to Network gt Net control Run it That s all for TitheBox Now it stays in standby mode and executes the commands coming from AirBox Please note that it is not possible to edit objects in TitleBox while in this mode AirBox settings 1 Go to Settings gt Modules then to Remote control tab Enable TitleBoxNetCtrl Output setting with Yes Click Configure Enter same Channel ID and Port values as in TitleBox settings Confirm 2 Go to Events gt Add Insert event gt TitleBoxNetCtrl Output 3 There are two modes for event insertion Wizard or Advanced selectable through the Advanced button You are recommended to choose the Wizard mode for now The functions are self explanatory but since this module is still under development some of them are not functioning as desired 4 In Wizard mode you can choose between Template Control and Play Project the first one is for global TitleBox control commands the second one is for project objects control commands 5 If you have entered Play Project mode further you can select your project by list all exported template projects should appear in this list Select a whole
13. CB_390_TS_Dinv Randonee 7 1902 48 28 22 _ 00 03 50 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48 KAMELIA_KAK D fe ae ee Ctrl 8 52 19 00 00 30 21 MPEG 2 PAL 48 ANTO_PLANETA PPY i 1 02 52 50 15 04 10 00 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48 CB_390_TS_Dinwv Playlist loop Shift 2 1907 02 51 12 00 03 50 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48 catt KAMELIA_KAK D clip Loop Shift Alt 2 1 07 06 42 09 00 00 30 21 MPEG 2 PAL 48 AVTO PLANETA Override QC restriction 1 07 07 13 05 04 10 00 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48 CB_390_T5_Dinw 1 11 17 14 02 00 03 50 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48 KAMELIA KAK D Select all Ctrl A 1 11 21 04 24 00 00 30 21 MPEG 2 PAL 48 AVTO PLANETA Deselect Ctrl D maas oaoa fuecz ___ o8 990 75 Drw ee Ser layis st 36 17 oowsso 22 mrEo 2 PaLI s8 I KAMELIA_KAKD ansa52714 INMAN MPFG PAI 1 4A AVTO PI ANFTA Find Replace Ctrl F Both AirBox and ListBox provide the option of printing the current playlist After choosing the Print command a Print Preview window opens and displays the current playlist The columns and their order of appearance are the same as in the grid Inthe Print Preview dialog you can change the columns size and adjust the following settings The drop down list to the left contains all currently connected printers Here you can select which printer to use To the right of it you can select the Font type and Font size of the printed document aria l Z Pri
14. NOTE The Animation Sequence is limited to 32 bit TGA 91 Channel in a Box Lite Direct Show Media Properties TitleBox allows for inserting all kinds of Direct Show compatible media DX Media Property xj tos Crop Source SS File E mpeg2 Counter IBP 8Mbit_ mpg w Capture Device s Virtual Channel ID 1 Custom Support Support Add Delete Property Source7141620 width 26 Height 24 a x Cancel First you have to specify the source media The File string contains the file path or URL to play in the object Press the Load button to the right to browse for it tox NOTE In the dialog you should specify the URL of a live network stream File or URL nms eventt comeurospor comfeflector36105 SS not a link to a file YX Cancel The Capture Device drop down list contains all direct show compatible capture devices installed in the PC like FireWire camera DeckLink card etc Select one of them Channel in a Box Lite Example 3 Direct Show Media Capture Device If there is a separate DeckLink card installed TitleBox could use it as a capture device It will be visible as DeckLink Video Capture 2 in the capture list as in the screenshot bellow DX Media Property Source Media M Crop Source Cflef 4 Decklink ideo Capture 2 84 Capture Device C Virtual Channel ID 1 Custom Support
15. Port define which communication port will be used for the streaming By default it is 1234 Interface if there is more than one network card in the PC you need to specify which one should be used for the Channel in a Box Lite If you select a Preview output a dialog as the one to the right will appear Select the Video Renderer Type from the drop down list and place a check next to the streams you wish to output Video Audio NOTE If there are Closed Captions in the content that is played you will be able to see General MPEG settings e p Multiples Type Es Program stream C Transport stream TS Mus Rate Audio Bit Rate m a O bites CPU Facta G ppr E IF setting Address 224 0054 Butter Size iz bytes Pork pos H Interface joao Multicast Multiples MainConcept MPEG Multiple Mus Settings Video Encoder MainConcept MPEG Video Encoder Seltings Audo Encoder MainConcept MPEG Audio Encoder Settings streaming in this string If you leave it empty AirBox will stream through all of the available interfaces Multicast check it to stream to all PCs in the network Protocol the network protocol Inthe Output drop down menu select whether the output to be sent over ASI or over IP Inthe MPEG settings field configure the following If you click on Program stream the protocol will be switched automatically to UDP with Transport stre
16. once you pile up a slide on top of another one the first slide will remain on the screen even if the second one is stopped Thus if you want to stop the first slide you will have to do this manually Clear Previous the previous slide will be removed immediately off the screen its out transitions if any will not be executed Loop specifies how many times the Slide Controller should play all slides in the project The default value zero means endless loop the Slide Controller will play all slides one by one repeatedly fa Slide Line is selected you will see the following properties Slide 2 Property Duration Enabled True Lock False PlayMode pmCrossPlay ViewName Slide 2 Duration this is the time in seconds for showing the selected slide with the Slide Controller If you decrease this value to zero the duration will be set to Auto Auto duration is applicable when there are objects with different duration in the slide In such a case the Slide Controller will show the slide until the longest duration is through then will go to the next slide in the list TIP 1 Use it for objects like crawl roll and animation when they are looped Enabled it is equal to the M Enable check box in the slide s row Lock reflects the padlock status in the slide s row Play mode how TitleBox should treat the previous slide on starting the currently selected one Please check the project propertie
17. Digital Media Technologies Ltd 7 Iskarsko shose Blvd Building 15 5 Floor 1528 Sofia Bulgaria Tel 359 2 9703050 Fax 359 2 9717700 playbox playbox tv www playbox tv Channel in a Box Lite Contents LEGAE INO TG naciona edici n 2 CONTENT S ree 3 PREFACE naaa 6 STYLE CONVENTIONS sado 7 INTRODUCTION aotasiaaisaaiai ironia 8 e AAA A 8 A 8 E O a E E E toreheraenntoncnetoneretancanutiencnerenttnct 8 A OOD ON EE E E E E E EE E E E E 8 o a E E A A E E E E 8 INSTALLATION rer aA AAA EEA E AAE AA 8 QUICK START aeinn ee ee ee Oe ee ne ee ee 8 POO PMNOUPU U UO00 OPPnn o i E 10 GETTING STARTED A 10 USER INTERFACE nere 10 T DI ri tica 10 METIDA brasil eada 10 MINV DUIDOSO ZONO ria ets 10 AMBOS caia dai 11 Sc OO O 20 Playback Control and COUNTEFS cococcccocnccccnncccnncoonnconnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnonnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnnnnns 20 Playlist Control BU LONS oocccconnccoccncccnncoonccoonnononncnnnnonnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnannnns 21 The Volume SIC oooocoocicicnnniniococcinin cn 21 Trimmer Server en 21 MENUB A Roos 22 File Menu nn 22 Edit Menu nn 23 View Menu nnan r nannan nr annann ane 27 Settings MCNQU 1cccccccccneccceeccueecneeeesseeesseeeeseeesseeeeseeeeaeeeeseeesseeesseeesseeesseeesseeesseeesseeessesesseeessneessneesaes 32 Tools MONU iii rannan nEn PAn A EPAR PAEPAE PAED E DEERE Rra nrnna 58 Commands Menu 00 0 1ccccccececcccecececeeeecece
18. If you have closed the external video window you can view it again by Y checking this line Pressing it once again will hide the window back Arrange windows Clicking on this line will align all open timers around the main AirBox window es eo General Colors Settings Menu da Output Logo A A i Logging The Settings menu contains the most important settings for the AirBox a Auto fill Fixed time events G enera I Complex items z eis Graphic rules This Settings dialog box IS divided into several tabs Filename parser Admin gt Save settings Genera l Load settings General tab contains general functionality options MUse Clip Trimmer if checked AirBox will open the Clip Trimmer upon double SE jj x clicking Over a clip If this flag is not checked the Clip Pr oper ties dialog will open General Interface Missing files Automation Grid Quana gt instead JV Use Clip Trimmer y 7 R Disable trimming while playing MDisable trimming while playing restricts changes in the currently playing list IV Enable IP Remote Control Transmit actual file timecode M Transmit actual file timecode AirBox transmits the actual file timecode embedded in z n a vals oo the clip file This timecode can be used by external applications such as SubTitle Plus Sinope IV Auto refresh playlist viewer every Auto save playlist MARemove old media items on append removes
19. Play for a Layer only the objects in this layer will be played Respectively if you push Play for an object T tleBox will show only this object If a Slide is in Stop mode it will not prevent you from playing its Layers and objects Pressing the Shortcut mode button will enable the shortcuts functionality Thus if you have assigned some shortcuts to slides in your project you will be able to control these slides using the relevant shortcuts Please check the Preview section below for details Co WO Channel in a Box Lite Project Preview area The project preview area consists of three tabs as described below Details In this tab you can view the hierarchical structure of your project It is divided in two parts project tree and properties Project tree The project tree part is further divided in two levels Level 1 that contains the Project line and the Master container and Level 2 that contains all regular slides x i Level 1 The Project line is situated on top It displays the filename of the current project The line control buttons 1 here have a slightly different functionality as compared to the other lines e gt gt below These buttons control the Slide Controller that will play all slides in the project one after the ne e other see the Slide control section for details Under the project line you will find a list of all Details Preview Properties unassigned obje
20. Press Apply button to accept the settings Press Close button to close the window without saving the changes EAS Emergency Alert System Data Provider The Emergency Alert System EAS is a national warning system in the United Stated of America put into place in 1997 The EAS requires broadcasters cable television systems wireless cable systems satellite digital audio radio service SDARS providers and direct broadcast satellite DBS providers to provide the communications capability to the President to address the American public during a national emergency The system also may be used by state and local authorities to deliver important emergency information such as AMBER alerts and weather information targeted to specific areas Each State and several territories have their own EAS plan The EAS regulations and standards are governed by the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC Federal Communications Commission All EAS equipment must be FCC certified for use 110 Channel in a Box Lite TitleBox is connected to EAS decoder unit via LAN connection The messages coming from EAS unit are connected to TitleBox objects via EAS data provider EAS data provider is started as service It could be assigned to a text and to an audio object When you select EAS data provider from a list of dataproviders the following setup win window opens Instance Configuration IP Access Filter
21. choose one of them If you do not select an event by default the timer will show the time Wan remaining till the end of the playlist A progress bar indicates how much of the time has already passed The color of the progress bar and that of the numbers can be set from Settings gt Colors gt Timers Timecode Timer The timecode timer displays the timecode received from the LTC Reader plug in if available The incoming LTC should be connected to the sound card of the playout server Daily playlist viewer Channel in a Box Lite The Daily Viewer is a tool that will help you manage your daily playlists In the x area above you can view all daily playlists The number in the brackets in front of the start time represents the number of days remaining till the start For example if there is a two in the brackets and then 12 00 00 this means that the playlist will start in two days twelve hours 14 5 2005 r 10 55 24 3 19 15 16 i Ed 10 56 28 115 19 16 20 Morning 27 55 2005 r 10 56 02 16 19 15 54 Morning 28 5 2005 r 10 56 13 17 19 16 05 Mornina 29 5 2005 r 10 56 24 181 19 16 16 a MPEG2 48 kHz MPEG2 48 kHz Glona_DobreDobal Viktoria_MobaSe 00233 When you click once on a daily playlist row its items will be displayed in the grid below Double clicking on a daily playlist line will load it immediately Please note that this will interrupt the playback MPEG2 48 kHz 11 11 01 0
22. A rBox will jump to the next bookmark in the playlist that has a later Time zone thus skipping some of the clips that are between the two bookmarks WARNING DO NOT use fixed time events within a bookmark s time range Channel in a Box Lite Note Adds Inserts a comment line in the playlist Transition This feature Adds Inserts a transition into the playlist You can read a more detailed description of AirBox events in Clip Properties gt Transition Event This feature Adds Inserts events into the playlist You can read more detailed descriptions of AirBox events in the section AirBox Events Delete Commands Delete current from list This item removes the currently selected clip from the playlist Delete unsupported clips This command will remove all unsupported clips from the current playlist It is used mainly when you import online media library files in your playlist The OML files might contain avi and wav files Both types are inserted in the playlist using the Import tab delimited functionality from the File menu AirBox will consider the wav files as an unsupported format so use the Delete unsupported clips command to cleanup your playlist Clear List This command removes all clips from the playlist Clip Trimmer Invokes the Clip Trimmer It allows previewing non destructive trimming and exporting parts of the currently selected clip to new files Properties Clip s properties are described in detail
23. MENU BAR The Menu Baris situated in the upper left end of the window and contains the same menus as AirBox However some of the options are disabled as they are not relevant in playlist preparation The following paragraphs contain description of the differences that appear in ListBox Please check the A rBox File menu section above for detailed information about the common settings File Edit Yiew Settings a New PlayList Ctrl N Load playlist Ctrl 0 FI le Men u Append playlist Ctrl Alt Ins Insert playlist Ctrl Ins Import playlist Ctrl I Save playlist Ctrl 5 Export Logs to XLS Save playlist as Alt 5 g A i 6 Fo i e o Save daily playlist Ctrl Q This File menu item appears in AirBox but it is not visible in ListBox Print playlist Ctrl P Export playlist as XLS Export capture list Reload Graphic Rules This File menu item appears in AirBox but it is not visible in ListBox Edit Menu Alt F4 This menu contains commands related to playlist editing As it is identical to the A rBox Edit menu please check the relevant section above for details View menu This menu is identical to the AirBox View menu The only difference is that in ListBox you cannot view external preview window while in AirBox you can Settings menu As the Settings menu contains many playback related options here you will find most of the differences between the two modules General In the General tab
24. Such a source can be WSS present in incoming video for example E Channel in a Box Lite NOTE The MExternal aspect contro check box is related to the External aspect control button on the TitleBox toolbar MDisable ScreenSaver disables the screensaver on the machine on which TitleBox is in use WatchDog The WatchDog plug in is used in TitleBox systems working on pass through mode Its purpose is to switch the by pass relay card in case of TitleBox crash in order to bypass a video signal General Network Output WatchDog WatchDog component loaded YES The WatchDog works with a dedicated PlayBox Bypass relay card You can read more about this ues card on our website playbox tv Configure WatchDog g If the bypass relay is not installed please do not call You need to have an installed PlayBox Bypass relay card in order to configure the WatchDog plug configuration of the WatchDog in When you press the Configure WatchDog button the following window opens lojx Activate the plug in first by double clicking on the entry under the ee cs a Activated column next to the corresponding Plugin so that the Relay GPI switch plugin No text in it turns to Yes Then press the Setup button to open the set up window Relay channel fi y cues Inthe Device Select field you will see the list of the installed ByPass Relay cards Select the card you need and press OK IMPORTANT Even if the
25. be copied Pointing with the mouse cursor at a playlist s row displays a hint containing the clip s file name and IN OUT timecode values Double click over a clip invokes the Clip Trimmer if it is enabled from Settings General gt General gt MUSse clip trimmer If you trim a clip in the playlist the change will not be permanent but valid ONLY for this playlist If you add the same clip to another playlist it will appear un trimmed there A detailed description of Clip Trimmer can be found further in this user s manual If the use of Clip Trimmer is not enabled the clip s properties dialog will open Add gt Insert gt m m Delete Del Rig ht cl ick Jump Alt Space Loo Right mouse click over a row invokes a pop up menu of playlist and events commands e Add activates a drop down list for appending various items to the end of the playlist See their may awe detailed description in the Edit menu section Paste Ctrl V Insert opens a drop down list for inserting various items before the currently selected item in o maet sobbed Properties Ctrl Enter the playlist The Add and Insert drop down lists are identical Delete deletes the selected playlist row s a dialog asks confirmation before the deletion Jump click it to interrupt the currently playing clip and jump to the currently selected highlighted item in the playlist Loop marks the selected clip for repeating until this option is cancell
26. 0 re Angle i ore ontour o a Placement Width Slant Char Spacing Word Spacing 100 0 0 100 Base Line Char Caps Position o Normal y Normal y Set Default X Cancel The Set Default at the bottom button restores the TitleBox native settings NOTE TitleBox supports all true type fonts Pressing LE invokes the Paragraph formatting dialog box where you can set all paragraph formatting options The Script State and Script Control areas are related to the use of Arabic language and Arabic Arabic Indian digits in the project x Justify Text Align ki Mer Left Indent First Line Space Before 5 pt fo pt o pt Right Indent Line Spacing Space After pp 100 2 z o pt E Auto Wrap Script State TRATE TF Override Direction 7 Digit Substitute J Display Ctrl Chrs Arabic Num Context Script Control Neutral Override Context Digits Numeric Override J Legacy BidiClass Set Default Cancel The Set Default button at the bottom restores the TitleBox native settings The S button in the toolbar allows you to change the color of the background Channel in a Box Lite Press to view a transparency background in the preview area while editing The following fields in the toolbar provide general text formatting options font font size bold italics underlined text alignment font color The Leal button inserts a still picture Press it to open a
27. 422 Controller section Exit Click it to close CaptureBox Uz Channel in a Box Lite View Menu Use this menu to open some additional windows to the main CaptureBox window Preview Window You can use it to monitor the video currently present on the encoder input Sony transport This command shows the RS422 controller window The RS422 controller is described profoundly above in the User Interface section FireWire Transport This command shows the FireWire IEEE 1394 controller windows Volume Meter Shows the volume amp peak meter for the currently captured audio The Volume amp peak Meter is described in more details in the User Interface section above 17 52 19 This command displays the system time window dos n CPU Monitor Capturing on some hardware platforms is quite CPU intense To prevent poor encoding and frame dropping CaptureBox has an automatic protection which will stop the capture if the CPU usage goes above 85 This monitor will help you predict such possible situations and set your PC prior to starting the capture A drop down menu activates on right clicking in this window In it you can select which CPU to view if there is more than one Besides you can view all CPUs simultaneously or an average value of the CPUs usage TIP You can arrange all windows together by pressing lt Shift F12 gt Capture Menu Compensation It invokes a dialog box for adjusting the capturing
28. Back in the Gradient properties dialog you can change the position of the point by dragging it Also you can add as many color change points to the gradient as you like Finally click OK Pressing Linvokes the Paragraph formatting dialog box where you can set all paragraph formatting options The two buttons to the right concern the background Press LELto view a transparency background during editing in the preview area 7 Text formatting buttons font font size bold italics underlined text alignment font color Object links buttons Push the button to insert a still picture object link Push the button to insert OLE compatible objects Use the drop down list to fix their position withinin the Roll Crawl object The Text Template Properties section above contains a detailed description on how to import OLE compatible TIP When a Roll Crawl or Text object is linked to a text file txt or tf you can insert a still picture in the text the image will be displayed among the characters according to the position of its script in the text Write the following command in the text file lt BITMAP gt file path of the image file lt BITMAP gt Make sure that BITMAP is written in capital letters Please check Example 1 above 1 Save your image Let us assume the file name is logo bmp located on DA 2 Enter the text in a file for example Hello this is a test project 3 Continue writing the following
29. Direct Show Media Source als Insert a Banner object EF Create a Digital Clock object with custom background and font Insert a flash object Insert a Power Point presentation Create a Primary shape squares ovals triangles with outline offsets Create a browser object Create a Screen capture object ED e E e NOTE In TitleBox Lite you have restrictions regarding the number of objects you use in your project While you can have numerous objects in your project you can only play up to 7 of them simultaneously Furthermore you cannot have more than 2 animation objects in your project including animation sequences tga files and Direct Show objects System Bar The system bar is situated at the bottom of the interface window It contains buttons for hardware control ON AIR playout notification filed It blinks red when TitleBox is on air i e the Program driver is playing Program this is the button that controls the program output driver Pressing it will start stop the graphics frame buffer If it is not running no graphics will appear in the output Pressing the arrow to the right of it opens a drop down list that contains several items Stop Play stop or play the program output driver Clear will erase the graphics frame buffer so there will be no remnants from any previously loaded projects Program Driver SetUp opens the settings options of the currently selected Program driver Drive
30. FF where H stands for hours M for minutes S for oe seconds and F for frames per second TimeCode 10 00 00 00 X corca IMPORTANT Depending on the standard you are using PAL NTSC etc make sure to enter the corresponding number of frames in Settings gt General gt Interface gt Frame rate 25 for PAL and 29 97 for NTSC 6 3 NOTE Be aware that when you are using PAL the timecode separators are and when you are using NTSC they are 5 Logo event Logo On Starts displaying the logo set in the preceding Logo Preset event If there is no preceding 3 Logo Preset event the first logo preset from the list in Settings gt Logo gt Logo Presets will be C Logo On displayed r Vogo Of Logo Off Stops displaying the logo Fn E Logo preset Sets a logo preset which will be displayed after initiating the Logo On event The NN E preset number corresponds to its number in the preset list in Settings gt Logo gt Logo Presets wal x cuca If you check the MActivate now box in the event dialog box the logo will appear immediately You can also activate the logo before or after the beginning of the following clip by setting an offset to it Return event This event will return the playback at the position before a previously executed Jump For example if you have a movie in your playlist and at a certain time you decide to jump to a block of commercials somewhere in the playlist and then go
31. PETER ER to be generated by the AirBox application nde Symbol Length ms 50 he E Press the DTMF settings button to open Bits per Sample 416 7 Pause Length ms 50 the DTMF set up window Moro Channels E Spec Symb Len ms 50 omen Output settings Here Channels Mask i Signal Level 50 Y Enabled Max True Peak dBFS E you can define the parameters WorkingMode Mix y Referent Zero Level dBFS 23 of the DTMF tone Frequency Bits per sample number of Mono Channels and Channels Mask X Cancel Depending on the Channels Mask the DTMF tone is sent to a specific audio channel If Channels Mask is zero 0 the DTMF is not sent If it is one 1 DTMF is sent to the 1 mono channel If it is two 2 DTMF is sent to the 2 mono channel ole alas Decoder Please restart the Application Length of the standard Symbolin DTMF sequence numbers from 0 to 9 and letters A B C D Pause Length length of the pause between symbols Specific Symbols Length Specific symbols are all symbols in the DTMF strings different from numbers from 0 to 9 and letters A B C D Signal Level the signal level in percent Working Mode here you can set the DTMF to either be Mixed with the output audio or to Replace the output audio x Audio Ch ann els Tab Video Audio General Audio Channels Logo AUX Sou_4 In the AirBox Lite version you can only define on
32. Port 2 TitleBox Channel ID TitleBox s channel ID it corresponds to AirBox gt Settings oe gt Modules gt Remote control TitleBox Net Control gt Configure Channels NetControl Port select a network port for receiving commands This is the port at which TitleBox receives commands from third party applications like AirBox NetControl commands Alarm amp Control Port select a network port for communication with PlayBox applications like AlarmBox or TitleBox Text Client TitleBox Options O o Options Output Options General Network Output WatchDog y spect Ratio y Here you can set the aspect ratio of the output The default setting is 4 3 The slider below determines the smoothness of the font characters The greater the value the smoother the font lee di None Normal Max Rectangular rendering gt 2 CPU MRectangle rendering is recommended for more powerful systems It changes the algorithm of A graphics rendering for optimizing the performance Do not use it on single CPU machines M External aspect control as it increases the CPU load Y Disable ScreenSaver NOTE Using of this option with animation objects and Direct Show Media objects is not recommended M1 Restart render on aspect change check this box to restart the rendering when the aspect ratio is changed MExternal aspect control it is intended for automated switching of the aspect ratio according to an external source
33. Program Script Task to be executed when you load unload start or stop your project simply save the corresponding script with one of the following names OnProjectLoad this script will be executed right after a project is loaded OnProjectUnload this script will be executed right before unloading a project OnProjectStart this script will be executed right before starting a project OnProjectStop this script will be executed before stopping project NOTE If you have more than one script bearing one of the abovelisted names TitleBox will only execute the first one from the list i e the oldest one Input Events gt Select Input Event O E R A On Play On Stop C On Pause OnAutoStop C OnLoop Gn End Display GldData Gn Start Display NewData C On End InputT ransitio C On Start DutputT ransition C On DataReady On PropertyChange The events are triggers on which the tasks are performed The Input Event dialog opens when you select an object right mouse click and select TaskManager from menu The input events for the TitleBox Lite version are restricted to Keyboard events Channel in a Box Lite Keyboard Shortcut KeyBoard events User HotKey Ctrl Keyboard events are user definable keyboard shortcuts for some action List Clear These events are connected to some task so when the keyboard combination is press
34. a Box Lite from our website www playbox tv 2 Unzip the downloaded folder 3 Run the nstall exe file 4 Push the button Next in the installation wizard and accept the license agreement 5 Push Next once again and select the folder where you want Channel in a Box Lite to be installed via the Browse button By default Channel in a Box Lite is installed under folder C Program Files PlayBox Technology Ltd Channel in a Box Lite 6 Push Next and press the Install button 7 Inthe Setup Registry dialog that appears select the desired output settings for your channel from the drop down list 8 Press Finish and take a look at the Readme file Congratulations You can now start using Channel in a Box Lite QUICK START Open CaptureBox and select the MUSE plug in Press OK Connect the video source signal to CaptureBox video input Select the media folder you wish to capture to Fill in the Tape ID or Channel field and type the file name you want to capture the content to Channel in a Box Lite Click on the Manual Capture button When required stop the capturing by pressing the Abort button Congratulations You have just captured your first CaptureBox clip Now you can use this clip in your PlayBox playlist To create a PlayBox playlist open ListBox select your desired output type and press OK Right click on the grid and select Add gt Media file Browse for the files you want to insert in the playlist and click on the Open button
35. a slight inaccuracy limited to half a GOP for the IN points and a couple of frames for the OUT points If the stream s GOP size is one I frames only then trimming will be frame accurate Volume Control You can change the audio volume and audio balance of the clip using the relevant sliders in the Clip Trimmer The new values will not take effect in AirBox playback These sliders are used for convenience during the trimming Volume process H Balance Volume box shows the volume level of the clip playback There is a reset button beside the slider to restore the default value Balance box shows the clip playback L R balance There is a reset button beside the slider to restore the default value Status Bar It is located along the lowest part of Trimmer window Position 00 01 39 16 Zoom Frame 1 7 63 W219 H iMpeg2 PALiMovie Goodies4 315hrekiTrailer mpag The first field Position shows the current timecode when dragging over the trim bar The second field Zoom Frame shows the scale of the Zoom zone The third field Version displays the current Trimmer version The last field shows the clip s filename and location TRIMMER PAGES There are six pages on the right side of the Trimmer Window Info Zones Shots Filters Stream and Extra _ Extra External Output Congiuration info Zones Shots Filters Stream a Video C l p nfo File name D playbox Elly files_fo
36. back to the same position in the movie you can insert a Return event after the commercials you would like to play Thus the movie playback will resume after the end of the commercial break from the point before the jump Fill event Opens the Fill event properties dialog For more information see section Settings menu 3 Auto fill further in this chapter Channel in a Box Lite NOTE The minimum fill time is 2 seconds In case you have gaps that are less than 2 seconds long you can use the Default Start Tolerance option in Settings menu gt Fixed time events NOTE The Fill event is in the format HH MM SS i e it is secons accurate Complex Items Opens the Custom Complex Event dialog A list of all previously defined complex events is displayed for the sake of convenience For more information see section Settings menu gt Complex items further in this chapter Status Bar The status bar is located at the lowest part of the AirBox window Total duration 1 09 55 00 20 End at 1 21 27 59 20 Selection 04 10 00 22 Black Magic 1 Mixed Playback PAL f The Total Duration field shows the total playlist duration The End At field shows the time when the playlist will end if not looped of course If there is a question mark after Total Duration and End At this means that there are missing files in the playlist and their duration is included in the total duration i e the actual total length of the playli
37. categories for which to disable the execution of commands related to external triggers The category names correspond to the Categories set in Clip Properties gt General tab for each playlist item WARNING The automation has a higher priority than the Automation graphic rules and the Automation event in the Edit menu The latter will both not operate properly when using Automation so please do not use them simultaneously Eb Missing files Automation Grid Quality control 20 10 20 53 AM EH Add 10 20 53 AM 10 20 53 AM 10 20 53 AM 10 20 53 AM a 10 20 53 AM 10 20 53 AM F Delete 10 20 53 4M Start 10 20 53 24 End 10 20 53 HV Disable automation for following categories EF Add E Delete X Cancel Channel in a Box Lite Grid General Interface Missing files Automation Grid jalo Grid columns The Grid tab allows you to control the columns that appear in the playlist grid En El You can add new columns by pressing the Plus En button above the list Generally a new uE column will contain a Metadata name as it appears in the first column of the clip properties gt Thus once you enter some metadata for a clip its value will appear in the corresponding column Tye in the grid E zon EA e e a O E Notes All columns are Visible by default Double click in the green tick mark to turn them Y bala 7 Produceer Invisible Font
38. description of the Lovo event here Tae Pa Assign event Media view a detailed description of the insertion of media files here 28 Channel in a Box Lite Complex event view a detailed description of the insertion of Complex items here Playlist invokes a browser dialog through which you can assign a playlist file to be loaded upon pressing the respective button Jump shortcut invokes a dialog through which you can assign a jump command to a specified item designated by its index number in the playlist or a jump Command to an existing bookmark in the playlist designated by its name Unassign Use this command to disable an already assigned event to the respective button Edit Use this command to edit an already assigned event to the respective button Set title Use this command to set a title to appear on the respective button Set hint Use this command to set a hint to appear when the pointer is positioned on the respective button Picture Assign picture this menu option opens a browser dialog from which you can select a picture to be loaded as a logo upon pressing the respective button Clear picture this command will remove the picture selected in the assign picture option above Log Selecting this item in the View menu will open a Log View window It is used to show the events that have occurred during the AirBox operation TIP All windows can be freely resized and moved around
39. files by drag and dropping the Or Y relevant squares in the preview window i e file 1 can be Total Duration displayed on monitor 8 etc or by using the blue arrows above the By Biase TC Fie file list The files in the preview window are arranged horizontally in Volume up to 4 rows of up to 4 files each This means that if there are 16 dar oro Sd 3 H Balance A files in the bunch the most possible the first row will contain files Position 00 00 04 Zoom 1 24 V 1 0 0 91__DAplaybox Elly files_for_test PlayBox mpa 1 to 4 the second one will contain files 5 to 8 etc The MCreate TC file check box is situated at the bottom of the file list If you check this box a TC file will be created automatically saving you settings such as n and Out points file order etc Thus you will be able to use your settings again the next time you open the relevant file Extra External Output Congiuration Info Zones Shots Filters Stream Clip Filters ER Video Renderer External Audio Renderer MainConcept ImageScaler Stream Split Universal Source This tab provides information about the filters that participate in playing the current clip and an opportunity for changing the filters settings The Windows Registry contains a key HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Digital Media Technologies Ltd PlayBox 2 0 DXPresets in which you could create your own string values containing groups of preferred filters
40. from the last drop down list to the right and make it transparent by checking the MUse Key Color box The last check box to the right is related to aspect ratio incompatibility If your flash has a 4 3 aspect ratio and the output in Project menu Options gt Output is set to some other aspect ratio such as 16 9 for example checking this box will ensure the correct displaying of your flashes in the working area NOTE You must have a Flash Player installed on your PC in order to play these objects WARNING Do NOT close the preview window of the flash object and do NOT minimize the TitheBox window Channel in a Box Lite Power Point Objects TitleBox allows you to insert Power Point presentations in your projects Just press the PowerPoint Presentation button from the object palette and draw a rectangle in the work area Then browse for the file location You can change the file later by double clicking in the Power Point object or by pushing the Properties button in the toolbar If you right click on a PowerPoint object or push the Properties 212 button the PowerPoint properties window will open lt is interactive and allows you to control your slide shows The name of the currently selected object is written in the window caption WARNING Do NOT minimize the TitleBox window while displaying a power point presentation this will hide it from the output Do NOT close the preview window of the object IMPORTANT You must ha
41. have been enabled in Settings menu gt Modules gt Remote Control a Please note that by default all events will be executed simultaneously If you want to execute some of them later please specify the required positive offsets NOTE Negative offsets will not be executed IMPORTANT Please make sure not to overlap later offsets with other clips graphics rules NOTE In AirBox Lite you can have up to 3 rules and 3 properties at atime NOTE To view alist of the commands used in Graphic Rules please refer to Appendix 1 below Channel in a Box Lite Filename Parser This module will allow AirBox to Parse names of files and get information from them It provides an easy way to use information included in the file name x without using a database You can make the most of this feature if you have a I Use File name parser standard naming structure for your clips Filename EBMusicLime_Biscut The_road_to_heaven live mpg In this setting dialog box you have to tell A rBox how you name files so it will Activa Sha parai jisa know what certain parts of your filenames mean The dialog box is divided into Music al aja three zones the uppermost zone provides options to write browse for a sample Metadata options filename and to set general parsing rules presets in the middle zone you I Convert all underscores to spaces should explain the naming structure by including metadata fie
42. if missing file exists every sec use this option to enable an audio alarm if there are missing files in the playlist Thus you will be alerted if there are missing files or if you accidentally delete a clip related to the current playlist UI Ul Channel in a Box Lite NOTE The alarm is output on the PC speaker M Try to resume on missing live stream every min automatically checks if a missing live stream has been reconnected to AirBox in a period of time defined by the user MAuto fill missing files and live streams AirBox will look for the auto fill category according to your preferences Use category of the clip AirBox will use the auto fill category as specified in the missing file s properties In case there is no such category the default auto fill clip will be played out Custom category here you can select from your own categories prepared in advance in Settings menu gt Auto fill dialog Automation This tab allows you to manage the Automation settings that you have defined in your playlist Disable automation in following time zones here you can list the time zones to disable the execution of commands related to external triggers First you have to specify the Start and the End time of a zone and then press the Add button to add it to the list To remove a zone from the list select it and press the Delete button above Disable automation for following categories here you can define
43. in the playlist will start playing 5 seconds later the 15 second duration of the complex event has expired NOTE When the complex event duration is zero the included events offsets will be calculated in relation to the surrounding clips The AirBox playlist and playback will not be paused Please refer to the following example Let us assume that we have created the same complex event but with zero duration AirBox is playing the clip situated before the complex event in the playlist 5 seconds before its end Event C will be executed Two seconds later 3 seconds before the clip s end Event A will be executed Three seconds later the clip ends and the next clip in the playlists starts playing Two seconds after its beginning Event B will be executed Channel in a Box Lite G h m R i rap IC u es Y Use graphic rules for current AirBox The information contained in the AirBox playlist can be displayed automatically over iie the video output through the TitleBox Net Control functionality The main AE DEn so application of this feature is for music channels to display the performers names ening and song titles a EL Media EME Non TitleBox First of all you have to create a TitleBox template with the objects that will display the information contained in the playlist In the example below we have created f i y Param Notes v is v TB_Music tmpl It contains a background picture
44. ins sR AR Be 112 A A AA TA 112 EAE eV Esau cet Set a Aa 115 Assigning a task to AN CVONT 0 cccccccccsccccuccceenseccuessuensucceesausssuecsesausssuesuetausnsuessessusseseseesausneseseusausnens 116 CLIP TRIMMER 0 aaa 117 USE INE aaa a ie tg Pig EEEE ty 117 POIS WES Nip EERE 117 TTT ATCT CON TO A AA ia 117 VIU ORTO eee ee ae ee ee en een een iaa 119 BI SM AN A A aia 119 TRIMMERN PAGES asa e ade do ed rd do ende leed ca eo 119 video CD WA ia 119 IDOLOS pp 120 A eS eee Sen ere eee er eer ee 120 AD SNS a ds 120 Channel in a Box Lite cn P terete ers cree tert cre 121 EMETERIO 121 LIVE VIEWER 2 da a ea 122 GETTING STARTED vrvicetnsetacesessacatcashnectansstasbansheantenshaatbanabasshalcnsaeade 122 MAC A II eee ee ee 122 USER INTERFACE scisiesnsetasstacesassnacataseieawsanebaastarsbaaahesaiaasieaetabesaastaabananns 122 APPENDIX 1 GRAPHIC RULES COMMANDS USED FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AIRBOX AND TITHEB OX ion CS 124 APPENDIX 2 INTEGRATION OF AIRBOX WITH TITLEBOX 126 Channel in a Box Lite Preface Dear PlayBox customer Thank you for purchasing our product We would like to assure you that you have chosen the most cost effective and versatile TV automation system on the market As always we are trying to stay close to our customers needs making sure they all receive adequate support and satisfaction Your opinion about our product is an exceptionally valuable source of information for us The ease of working with
45. is designed to specify the procedure upon insertion of files that are not saved locally in the AirBox machine This is a precaution option The playback could stop upon network failure if your whole content is remote or the playlist could end earlier if some of your files are stored locally and the network fails AirBox will label all remote files as missing skip them and hence the end time of the playlist will be reduced by the duration of all missing files When Warn is selected the rows of all network stored files in the playlist will become dark green A note Remote file will appear in the Type column When Allow is selected you will not be notified whether your files are stored remotely or locally Thus you will take the chance to trust your network MPEG Remote file MPEG Remote file If Reject is selected the rows of all network stored files in the playlist will become red brown when selected A note Rejected remote file Remote file will appear in the Type column These files are considered missing and will be skipped during playback If you have left the Show duration of missing files flag unchecked the playlist time will be recalculated accordingly see the Missing files section below Channel ID enter the ID of the output Channel here Default code page select the default text encoding Interface The Interface tab provides the following user interface options MAuto popup LogView on error
46. is the Slide counter By default it shows the elapsed time since the start of the current slide If you want to see how much time remains to the end of the slide duration click in the Time gt cell It will turn into lt Time and will start counting down The last row has three parts play status loop value and the number of the currently playing slide In the bottom of the Slide Controller are situated the playout control buttons They provide hints and hotkeys Button Command Shortcut we A a a de ML ala io a a e r By default the Slide Controller is a separate window that appears outside the Slide Manager If you want to lock it to the Slide Manager window right click in the counter and select Dock in Manager 102 103 Channel in a Box Lite DATA SOURCE MANAGER The Data Source Manager allows users connect to different data providers through the selected plug ins This engine allows connecting different properties of a TitleBox object to different data sources or providers like RSS channels html files xml files or third party data bases Besides the same data source s can be related to different objects in TitleBox The dialog below opens after pressing the Data Source Manager Button in the main TitleBox interface Data Source Manager Object DataSouce Field Update Cursor Offset Effects L Crawl 1 Crawl 2 __ Picture 1 pesi a zi Data Sources O Weather Data Provider 02 Weat
47. le elec Preset 2 Preset 4 Preset 5 Logo presets 1s sp Here you can trigger logo presets by clicking on them The preset numbers correspond to those in the e es Settings menu gt Logo dialog Preset 10 Preset 11 Preset 12 Preset 14 NOTE In AirBox Lite you can use up to 4 logo presets Shue Preset 15 Preset 16 Jump to This is just a shortcut lt Ctrl Shift gt By using it you can jump to a clip at your will Just press and hold down lt Ctrl Shift gt enter the desired clip s number and then release the lt Ctrl Shift gt Help Menu This menu contains useful information about the AirBox module and the possibilities for getting technical support from us PlayBox Help Opens the AirBox context sensitive help PlayBox Doctor This module gives the opportunity to generate easy to complete problem reports It is integrated in each PlayBox module It can gather almost all the information needed for the PlayBox support team in order to provide you with the prompt answers without too many questions about your system configuration Channel in a Box Lite The Basic User s manual contains a detailed description of the PlayBox Doctor Report and other functionalities If you do not have the Basic manual you can download it from our website www playbox tv gt Support gt Download gt PlayBox Literature About Displays the About box of the AirBox module It contains useful information such as
48. objects show their type lock status and transitions You can enable disable the icons from Project menu Options gt General gt MShow Objects Icons Channel in a Box Lite The color bar at the bottom of the work area displays the current mode of operation By default the preview mode is outlined in blue You can change this color in the Project menu Options gt General tab Toolbars The Toolbar is designed to facilitate the project management the individual object control as well as the object ordering and alignment UPewv h SE 23238 ll43 vidll amp 2 8 gt a tg 112 NamefPicture 1 Delay 0 00 Duration 0 00 5 Ft A2RM Oe Air S t eljka Sry pn SM wa SM hea SM Tego lt In Cut None 111 00 3 0 Norma 3 Out Cut None v 111 00 mietein Normal v j 4 Alpha The New Open and Save buttons correspond to the relevant commands in the File Menu The Cut Copy Paste and Delete buttons correspond to the relevant commands in the Edit Menu 0 Normal LdPaste as Copy In Slide will create a new instance of the object that is copied in the clipboard Unlike the simple Paste that creates a new object Paste as Copy does not create objects All changes applied to the originally copied object will be applied to all its instances The Select Display device 8 button opens the list of available hardware drivers from which you can select the one to work with See also the corresponding sec
49. of this options dialog there are several fields that are not accessible in ListBox MRestart playback after this setting is always enabled TC transmission options as they are related to on air subtitling they are not needed in ListBox All the other settings in this dialog are the same as in AirBox gt Settings menu gt General gt General Interface In the Interface tab there are two options that are always enabled and inaccessible Modules AirBox Output tab here you can find a list of presets that will be used for file verification while building your playlists in ListBox All you have to do is select the platform and file format you intend to use for playout in A rBox and double click to assign it Channel in a Box Lite Tools menu The Tools menu is identical to the AirBox Tools menu Please check the relevant section above for details Commands menu The commands menu contains some playback related and logo related commands As they are identical to the AirBox commands please check the relevant section above for details Help menu PlayBox Help This menu item opens the ListBox context sensitive help It is still under development PlayBox Doctor Open it to start a tool that automatically collects data about your system and current setting in order to provide you with proper support All you have to do is fill in the mandatory fields and send the resulting PlayBox Doctor report to us See detailed de
50. presets All filters of the currently selected preset are displayed in Filters page There is a legend at the bottom of the page The sign marks all filters from the preset The sign marks filters that are included in the preset but do not participate in executing the current particular file Preferred Not Used There is a Property button right under the tab name Pushing it will open the property page if any of the selected filter You could change the filter s setting there Info Zones Shots Filters Stream Extra External Output Congiuration External Output Configuration External Video Renderer This tab allows you to select the externalvideo and audio renderers AS V Flip fields Use the External Video Renderer drop down list to select the desired video renderer from the list of available ones Enable the Flip fields option if you want to flip the fields of the corresponding clip paced ease eta DirectSound Digital Audio HDMI _ gt Use the External Audio Renderer drop down list to select the desired audio renderer from the list of eet available ones v Apply X Close 121 Channel in a Box Lite Live Viewer Live Viewer is an additional application which is installed together with A rBox lt allows the users to view the live events set in AirBox GETTING STARTED Installation Where to Install it Live Viewer is usually installed under folder C Program Files PlayBox Technol
51. project or some objects from it 6 Click Finish That s it Run AirBox When the time for a T tleBox event approaches respective commands are being sent to TitleBox and it runs the appropriate objects Channel in a Box Lite AIRBOX Admin rights 55 Auto Fill 47 Automation 35 Block Timer 27 Bookmark 25 Bookmark 25 Clip Properties 15 Clip Properties Fixed time 16 Clip Timer 27 Clipboard 28 Color settings 36 Color Settings 36 Commands menu 59 Complex events 48 Complex Items 20 Counters 11 Current Playlist 11 Daily Playlist 28 Dummy Clip 24 dummy clips 24 Edit Menu 24 Event 26 File Menu 22 Filename parser 54 Fill Event 20 Fixed start 47 Fixed Time Clip Properties 16 General Clip Properties 15 General Settings 32 Graphic rules 50 Graphic Rules 23 Help menu 59 Incomplete Clip 24 incomplete clips 25 Interface Settings 33 Internal Events 19 Live Input 56 Live input stream 25 Live Inputs 25 Log 29 Log view 11 Logo 38 Logo Event 19 Logo options 43 Media Files 24 Media Folders 58 Metadata 17 Missing Files 34 Modules 37 MultiformatOutput audio settings 39 MultiformatOutput AUX source 43 MultiformatOutput logo settings 43 MultiformatOutput video settings 38 Note 26 Playback Counters 20 Playback modules 37 Index Playlist 12 Playlist and clip buttons 21 Playlist Color Coding 13 Playlist Contro
52. ready press the Save And Apply button The new file will be created in destination folder Depending on status of this proccess the next three squares will flash First square is Running status Red Stop Green Running Second square is Error status Red Error Green OK Third square is Converting status Yellow Converting Green W aiting for file change If the source file is updated periodically keep the Delimiter inserter opened It will create a new file at each saving of the source file Converting square will show the status Back into the Data Source Manager window drag the FileLink data source from the right to a text object in the left When you release the mouse button a link fine tune dialog will open so you could select which column from the file should be linked to that text object NOTE Currently with File Link DataProvider you can link your text object only to txt files aU aY a UD 107 Channel in a Box Lite ODBC Data Provider Instance Configuration This plug in allows connecting to ODBC compatible database formats and displaying the information they contain on the screen XML D Demo Arrival xml XLS D Demo Arrival_tranform xsl O Treat first row as header Choose the ODBC Data Provider in the list of available plug ins and press Config O Use out of process transformation The ODBC Connection Manager will open Press BI create a new connection The following dialog will open for
53. streams Bookmark This is a special virtual item that can be used as a target point for incoming triggers GPI input or DTMF x input or by itself It will cause AirBox to Jump to the following item in the playlist according to several additional conditions as described below Name Bookmark1 SW Time zone The bookmark properties dialog contains a Name string and a Time zone area When inserting i PETEN rom 122 bookmarks you must enter a Name and you can optionally enter a Time zone as well depending on eesesseoseseseoecesseosesssesesesesosesesesg IV Force jump on time The time zone represents a validity period of the relevant bookmark It can act as a target for GPI or DTMF input when Jump to bookmark in time range is selected as a command in the relevant vox X Cancel setup dialog When Force jump on time is checked the bookmark will act as a fixed time event and AirBox will jump to it when its time is through This can happen in two cases if the expected trigger does not arrive until the time specified in the To string or when you are using bookmarks alone in the playlist For example ajump operation will be executed to the bookmark in the screenshot at 16 36 32 o clock if the expected trigger has not arrived by that time WARNING Please note that the To string will force AirBox to jump and execute the following items in the playlist This might interrupt the playback order so be carefu
54. the PlayBox products results mainly from the suggestions and comments of our current respected customers This manual is structured into several sequential chapters each aiming to ease the installation fine tuning and use of our products We hope that you will enjoy working with it and we are anxiously looking forward to receiving your feedback Please send your questions suggestions and assistance requests to support playbox tv General feedback playbox playbox tv Helpdesk fax number 359 2 9717700 Channel in a Box Lite Style Conventions e File names software documents or terms are written in italics The data is written in the settings ini file The file is located in C Program Files DMT AirBox For further information read Shortcuts reference book The VTR is controlled via RS 422 Direct quotations from the computer screen are presented as follows Menu Items and commands x Tab Page names 7 Column names i e in a playlist or another grid Field names check boxes Buttons 2 Screen readings are written in square brackets The keyboard keys are enclosed in lt gt signs Terms are described in the Glossary at the end of the manual e The arrows used in the setting procedures mean as follows 7 gt A menu item follows a gt A page tab name follows gt A field name a check box name or a value name follows Except for arrows you can distinguish between the relevant menu cate
55. the default auto fill will be executed instead NOTE When playing auto fill categories AirBox will first look for clips that can be played out as a whole then for clips that can be truncated Thus if you have a two minute gap and the auto fill category contains the following Clip 1 with Duration 3 00 Truncate YES Clip 2 with Duration 2 05 Truncate NO Clip 3 with Duration 1 50 Truncate YES NO AirBox will playout Clip 3 first since it can be played out to its end and then Clip 1 since it can be truncated This comes to illustrate that the order of the clips in the category can be changed automatically depending on the gap size Channel in a Box Lite To delete a clip from the current category select it and press the delete selected clip xl button If you want to remove the entire ps category press the delete category F button NOTE If the user does NOT define any auto fill clip AirBox will use its own default auto fill clip which is simply an empty video showing a black screen Fixed time event When there is more than one fixed time event in the playlist it might conflict with other fixed starting times this can happen if you insert append a playlist containing fixed time events to the current playlist also containing fixed time events in it The first section in this dialog is designed for setting the rules for automated resolving of such conflicts between consecutive fixed time events Default sta
56. the screen staying on top of other windows lt Ctrl gt click on a Timer window will change its appearance Check it out Right clicking on any timer window opens a drop down menu Select Can Snap in it to lock the timer position to the main window Channel in a Box Lite Plug in windows Select this item to display the additional windows available with the currently used output module Volume control window VU amp Peak Meter 1 Volume Control Momentary Loudness Meter Loudness Short Term Loudness Volume Slider Front Left Front Right Front Left Back Left Front Right LFE Subwoofer Back Right Front Center This is an additional window which appears close to the main AirBox window You can resize it by stretching its edges The image to the right shows the Volume control window of an AirBox that has two different audio configurations The first one is for stereo i e a left and a right audio channel the Default section to the left The second one is for 5 1 audio i e 5 audio channels the Channel section to the right Notice that the Default section shows only two channels as it represents a stereo output while the Channel section shows six channels as it is for 5 1 output The colored fields in the window are volume amp peak meters The narrower band shows the peak levels in each separate channel and the wider one to the right shows the overall peak levels The blue scroll to the right sho
57. the selected logo over the output video This is the option to be used in most cases pis Y Set A Remove Pressing the Configure button while the Logo tab is selected will open oO the Logo configuration dialog box where you can define Logo Presets to be used later in AirBox see the Logo section of the Settings menu description further in this manual AirBox 8 Output This window contains information about the settings of the currently active plug in and allows its fine tuning The Output Setup dialogs may vary depending on the decoders models Usually these settings are defined at the factory so you do not have to adjust them unless advised by our support team As explained in the Preamble section above there are two major playout modules supported by Airbox The AirBox playout is defined in the AirBox Settings gt Output menu described below Video tab Here you can define the parameters of the AirBox video output The settings will affect ALL files in the playlist Video Standard specify PAL or NTSC video standard Field Order corrects the order of the field Flip Image check this box to flip the video vertically NOTE Flip Image will affect ALL files in the playlist Aspect Ratio the aspect ratio of the video output Aspect Size Conversion Strategy it is used to define how the output video will look like if the output aspect ratio is different from the aspect ratio of the files in
58. the slider Check the box under it to mute the output sound This Volume Slider is connected to the slider situated in the Volume control window If you move the slider from here it is moved in the Volume Control window too Trimmer Server The trimmer server starts upon AirBox start up lt was developed for two major purposes 1 To enable working with the main A rBox interface while the Clip Trimmer is open 2 To eliminate the possibility of interfering with the on air playback process The Trimmer is described in details in the Clip Trimmer chapter further down this manual Channel in a Box Lite NOTE You can open only one Trimmer per instance File Edit View Settings Tools Commanc New PlayList Ctrl N Load playlist Ctrl O ME N U BAR Append playlist Ctrl Alt Ins Insert playlist Ctrl Ins Import playlist Ctrl I Save playlist Ctrl s Save playlist as Alt 5 Save daily playlist Ctrl Q Fi le Me n u Publish playlist Print playlist Ctrl P Export playlist as XLS Export logs in XLS files Export capture list Reload graphic rules Rescan file durations New Playlist As This command evokes the ListBox module it opens a new blank playlist for editing The File menu contains all playlist file related commands Load playlist Loads an existing playlist file ply You can also open a Dalet Automation XML playlists xm WARNING Loading a playlist on the currently playing AirBox windo
59. user wants to start Object when Object2 stops Then the task which have to be created is Start Object1 and the condition e the event is OnStop Object2 Tasks For creating tasks you can start the Task Manager from Project menu gt Plugins gt Task Manager The window will open also if right mouse click over an object in TitleBox working area and select Task Manager from the list Task Manager x m Available Tasks Scroll weather Data Provi DataProviderC Scroll Cursor 1 Scroll XML Data Provider 01 DataProviderC Scroll Cursor 1 Pulse to COM1 DTR GPI 30 ms Start test Event Sequen test Stop test Event Sequen test Play Sound sample_sound Sound sample_sound Pulse Event sample_event Windows Event sample_event All tasks are visible into the Task list To create a new task press the related icon from the menu bar To delete a task select it and press delete button from the menu bar The tasks could be executed manually for test purposes Press play button to start a task and stop button to stop a task The available tasks are L Object Control It provides options for creating object related tasks Play Object Stop Object Toggle Y Play Stop Pause object Move Object Select one of these options and then select an Fone Play Ubject object from a drop down list at the right of the window In this drop down list are listed all F y objects existi
60. we called this object jas an amasl Background a text object for the performer s name called Star and a text object for the song title called Title OLE Skin tie anton on Nert i J Skip this action if there is an empty field po Action time ofsa a percent gt Once the template is created and available in the templates folder see TitleBox NetControl description above go to AirBox Settings menu gt Graphic rules end_hide Action script LOAD_TEMPLATE Video_Clip_Template Shapel play Shape2 play Text3 text Later On Text text clip_start CAT_Movies HHMI Text2 text clip_title CAT_Movies M Preset values asss clip_title clip_location Zoclip_categoryX clip_notes clip_star clip_start clip_duration The rules for extracting playlist information and displaying it over the video are set here The Graphic rules dialog contains three fields Rules Conditions and Actions of The Rules field contains a list of all available rule presets Y oK X Carcel Rules are organized in Groups You can create new groups by clicking on the Folder gt icon in the Rules zone By default you will see a General group with an Example Rule in it The Conditions field contains the list of all necessary conditions that will enable executing the relevant actions below as per the currently selected Rule In case you use Metadata from the clip properties dialog as
61. 0 03 03 MPEG2 48 kHz Movie_001c 11 20 05 000328 MPEG2 48 kHz Raina_LiubovNeProsis MPEG2 48 kHz Roma00AN335040a ShotBox Selecting this View menu item will show hide an additional window with buttons 3 for fast switching insertion of custom events ik eo 2 Logo OFF 3 Leitch Switcher co 4 Show logo preset 4 All clipboard buttons can operate in two modes 0 zl f 5 Show logo preset 5 6 Show logo preset 6 7 Show logo preset 7 8 Show logo preset 8 Execute mode pressing a button while in this mode will execute the event assigned to it immediately In case a live stream is assigned to this button visite heh 10 Stop at 1 Somo 12 Sinton a live stream row will be inserted In the playlist and the playback will jump to It 1 Sipe toi 1 Sion 16 Sov nt NOTE No offsets will be applied to the events while in this mode NOTE In execute mode a complex item is treated as an events container All events assigned to it will be executed immediately with no offsets NOTE In AirBox Lite you can use up to 4 logo presets Insert mode 4 pressing the relevant button will insert the event assigned to it in the playlist You can specify the point of insertion by using the location toggle button Insert as next gt will insert the event after the currently playing clip If AirBox is in Stop or Pause mode the e vent line will be inserted as the next line to be executed after resumin
62. 0 y B Y U Center y T laa Y Center y Use this toolbar to edit the digital clock s common text attributes such as font size color blur shadow etc and background attributes This toolbar has already been described in the Text template properties section above If you click once on your Digital Clock item the toolbar below will appear below the standard TitleBox toolbars ja ma fz A E E El MM Long Date v Initial 00 00 00 F Stop oo 00 00 Mask MEE gt gt Time Offset 00 00 00 The Digital clock has four modes of operation It can run as a clock or a counter or it can display Long or Short Date While in clock mode the object runs as an ordinary digital clock You can choose its time format through the 12 24 hours clock er The twelve hour time format is active when the button is pressed and the twenty four hours format when it is not pressed FAAR The background color is changeable through the Palette button Select a mask for the clock in the Mask drop down menu Update the mask by using the green arrows button Me next to it If you have changed the mask you will have to press this button to show it on the display In counter mode some additional options are available You can select the counter to be countdown by pressing the Ol Countdown MM button If you push this button the counter will count from an Initial time to a Stop time or until the MI Stop bo
63. 09 MPEG 2 48 kHz Car Sports2 Part 1 Mike s New Car Trimmed Original duration 00 03 35 E impeg24Mike s New Car mpg P24 13 30 01 00 00 00 Ext event Video Scale UL P31 13 30 01 00 01 09 MPEG 2 48 kHz Clip Sports Mike s Trimmed Original duration 00 03 35 E mpeg2 Mike s New Car mpg 13 31 10 00 00 00 Ext event Video Scale 100 00 00 25 MPEG 2 48 KEG Car Sports ds For the Birds LiubovNePrasi Raina check movie Trimmed Original durati E mpeg2 Mike s New Car mpg 00 00 24 MPEG 2 48 KAZI 00 00 25 MPEG 2 48 00 00 04 Missint Mike s New Car Trimmed Original duration 00 01 09 E or the Birds Trimmed Original duration 00 0 ike s New Car mpg or the Birds mpg Liu e Jaina immed Original duratior HEA DTMFRaina_LiubovNe AA q _ gt _ AAAAAAA lt lt lt lt lt 9 4 Max duration 20 minutes MI Trimmed Original duration 00 01 49 E Amp PAL 16_9 MI_Trailer mpy 00 00 00 Logo U Nice Title For the Birds2 Video Scale UL 00 00 39 MPEG 2 48 KAZI 00 03 15 MPEG 2 48 Ki 00 00 00 Ext event ounter IBP 8Mbit_ mpg or the Birds mpg ike s New Car mpg PAL 16_9 The Saint mpc PAL 16_9 The Saint mpe The Saint check movie Trimmed Original durati E c The Saint Trimmed Original duration 00 02 02 E JF T 4 Original duration 00 00 41 E ma bammed a 22 14 02 25 00 01 09 MPEG 2 48 kHz Off Mike s New
64. 14_00_00 ply where 2003 stands Cancel for the year 11_20 is for MM_DD month_day and 14 _ 00 00 is HH_MM_SS hour_minutes_ seconds Only files with such a naming structure will be played automatically when AirBox is running in this mode Now you can use the Save daily playlist feature in the AirBox File menu to achieve this naming automatically IMPORTANT If you are using the Daily playlist folder option make sure that you have defined a folder where the daily playlist folder is situated Playback recovery options Here you can specify what AirBox should do in case of accidental restart abnormal termination of the module The following options are available if AirBox is not running in daily playlist mode MLast playback status Play Pause Stop if checked it resumes the last playback status of AirBox depending on the status in which it was before stopping MLast played item from the last playlist if checked it resumes the last item from the playlist that was played by AirBox before stopping M Last played position in the last played item functions as the two previous options but it also remembers the position of the last item to resume status exactly at it is The interval for saving the last position is changeable through the spin box below M Catch up with schedule according to system clock this option allows playlist recovery after a failure and synchronizes it with the system cloc
65. 2 If you add an MPEG transport streaming output a dialog like the one to the right IP 224 0 0 101 will appear Enter the P address Port number and Interface name of the respective port aooi OOOO AirBox to which you wish to send the transport stream Interface Preview Configuration Video Renderer Type Video Mixing Renderer Directx 9 them in the preview window Pressing the Plugin Setup for a predefined MPEG Transport Stream in the Outputs tab invokes a dialog like the one to the right In the P settings field configure the following Address enter the IP address of the remote machine to receive the stream If you check Ml Multicast i e streaming to multiple machines you will have to enter a special multicast address in the Address field the multicast addresses are in the range between 224 0 0 0 and 239 0 0 0 TTL stands for time to live for the Internet packets This spin box is active only if the M Multicast box is checked The higher the TTL value the longer the packets will live and pass through more network routers By default the TTL is set to 1 which is enough for local networks Buffer size in this spin box you can specify the size of the IP packets to be sent along the network This size should be a multiple of 188 bytes which is the size of an MPEG 2 TS packet We recommend a 1316 bytes buffer size which will comply with the standard network MTU
66. 4 is the off setter HHMM is the time format The time format can also be HH or HHMMSS or HHMMSSFF As in NTSC mode the start time appears as a drop frame timecode in the playlist it would be more convenient to display the start time according to the system time on the PC There are two options for the system time script T for short system time according to the Regional settings and TT for long system time according to the Regional settings Thus instead of Next text clip_ start HHMM you should type Next text clip_start T Now you can show information about upcoming clips that belong to a certain category The script format is CAT Category Namel index Title text clip_title CAT_Movies clip_start CAT_Movies In the example above the content to be displayed in TitleBox object Title is the title of the next clip down the playlist that belongs to Category Movies then a dash and then the start time of this clip Text1 text clip_title CAT_Movies 1 clip_start CAT_Movies 1 In the example above the content to be displayed in TitheBox object Text1 is the title of the second clip down the playlist that belongs to Category Movies then a dash and then the start time of this clip IMPORTANT There should be no plus or minus signs in the category name Instead of Category you could use the Star as an index modifier to show information about upcoming clips in the playlist Thus the scrip wi
67. A Fantastic Voyage jpg With this example action script AirBox will send a command to TitleBox to 1 Load the project called template tmpl 2 Play the object called picture and replace the currently loaded picture file with the one specified in the Metadata tab of the currently playing clip under metadata category new picture LOAD_TEMPLATE template tmpl picture MEDIA METADATA_ new picture Where picture is the name of the object that we want to control MEDIA means that this command contains information about a new media file to be loaded in this object YMETADATA_ new picture This is the place from which AirBox should read the new file path for the media file to be loaded Again the format is METADATA_MetadataName where MetadataName is the same as in the Metadata tab of the clip properties dialog in the first column The same action script applies to sound objects LOAD_TEMPLATE template tmpl sound MEDIA METADATA new sound09 Thus TitleBox will load project template tmpl play the object called sound and replace the currently loaded file with the one specified in the Metadata tab of the currently playing clip under metadata category new sound NOTE The Metadata name is case sensitive You must type it exactly as it appears in the file properties dialog You can display information about the title of an upcoming clip in the playlist The preset value descriptor has the following
68. Audio output of certain clips you can use the following Action script MUTE_ON Type IMUTE_OFF in the Action script to switch the audio back ON TIP If you are using the Next command in AirBox all graphic rules that would have been executed in normal playback will be executed at once This might cause an unpleasant flickering of your graphics To avoid this check M Skip this action on Next TIP If some of the information that should be displayed in the graphics object is missing from the playlist you can skip sending the whole command by checking M Skip this action if there is an empty field TIP To enable disable a Graphic rule or an entire Rules group select it and press the Enable disable E button If you want to disable the use of all graphic rules just un check O Use graphic rules for current AirBox at the top of the Graphic rules window TIP You can rename a group or a rule by clicking on it while it is selected To move rules from one group to another just drag n drop them If you need to assign some events to be executed instead of the above actions you can do that in the External events tab Like in other set up dialogs you can choose the event type after pressing the New event L button The event settings dialog varies according to the event type you select Please check the events descriptions in the Edit menu section above NOTE the list of available events will contain only the plug ins that
69. Box n is the off setter and HHMMSSFF is the time format to be used Be aware that the time format can also be HH or HHMMSS In case you are in NTSC mode the start time is displayed in accordance to the PC system time Thus instead of HHMMSSFF here you should use T or TT where 125 Channel in a Box Lite clip_title CAT_CategoryName n clip_start CAT_CategoryName n 1LOGO_ON ILOGO_OFF SHOW_LOGO_ PRESET n AUTOMATION ON AUTOMATION_OFF 1MUTE_ON IMUTE_OFF T stands for short system time TT stands for long system time Use this line to display the title of the next clip if n 0 down the playlist that belongs to the category designated by its name You can also use n as an off setter Use this line to display the start time of the next clip if n 0 down the playlist that belongs to the category designated by its name You can also use n as an off setter Use this command to show hide the logo from the screen Use this command to display logo preset number n where n is between 1 and 16 and stands for the respective logo Preset as configured in Settings Logo Enables disables the incoming GPI DTMF triggers Switches the audio on off Channel in a Box Lite APPENDIX 2 Integration of AirBox with TrtleBox TitleBox settings 1 Run Programs gt PlayBox Technology Ltd gt TitleBox gt PLNetinst exe and select a folder for your TitleBox templates
70. Car Mike s New Car Trimmed Original duration 00 01 09 E mpeg2 Mike s New Car mpg IF iler mp _ E o md 14 03 35 00 01 48 MPEG 2 48 kHz Trailer MI Trimmed Original duration 00 01 49 1 E mpeg2 PAL 16_S MI_Trailer mpc 24 14 05 24 00 01 48 MPEG 2 48 kHz Trailer MI Trimmed Original duration 00 01 49 1 E mpeg2 PAL 16_9 MI_Trailer mp Total duration 00 46 58 1 Loop at 14 15 49 Selection 00 01 48 Mixed Soft Playback Grid Features The Color Coding in the grid provides additional information for the users Dark Blue bar shows the currently selected clip all actions i e Move Up Down are applied to it Red text rows contain events You can insert the same events as in AirBox Red colored rows represent clips which cannot be found at the specified file location A red minus appears in front of the clip position number Drag n Drop It allows dragging playlist items within the grid or from one grid to another from DataBox or from to AirBox If you hold down the lt Ctrl gt key while dragging the executed operation is Copy If you just drag n drop the operation is Move Multi selection allows simultaneous manipulation of many clips move randomize etc Clips can be added to the selection by holding the lt Shift gt or lt Ctrl gt key The lt Shift gt key selects from to while the lt Ctrl gt adds a single clip to the selection Double clicking over a clip inv
71. DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Lid Channel ina Box Lite User Manual December 2 This guide explains in detail all functionalitiesof the Version 1 2 Channel in a Box Lite modules Channel in a Box Lite Legal notice The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose without the prior written permission of DMT Ltd The software described in this manual is owned by DMT Ltd It is protected by Bulgarian Copyright Law as well as by international copyright treaties and may be used or copied only in accordance with the license agreement DMT Ltd provides this manual as is without any warranty either express or implied This publication may contain typographical errors or technical inaccuracies While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document DMT Ltd assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions Nor is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein Changes are periodically made to the information herein They will be incorporated in new versions of the manual Please check the PlayBox website regularly for User Manual updates DMT Ltd may introduce changes or improvements in the products described in this manual at any time without any special notice Please address your comments or questions to
72. Each VTR with RS 422 SONY protocol can be used in CaptureBox Switching the active window between the main and this one is done by pressing the lt Insert gt key It is possible to attach this window to the main one by moving it close to any of its edges Thus the VTR control panel will RS 422 Controller O TET Deaf jor move together with the main window Here is a short description of the VTR control panel I Tape AutoEE Confia E The VTR brand is displayed in the window s caption If there is no connection the text race Pc NA Not Connected will appear Display Indicators TCR has three possible states T CR normally read timecode T R corrected timecode TCG generated timecode red Recl nh arecord protected tape is inserted in the VTR Local indicates that the VTR is in local control mode and the remote control is not possible Tape indicates that there is a tape in the VTR EOT End Of Tape alarms that the tape is about to end or that the tape end has actually been reached Indicator gt gt or lt lt shows the tape roll direction Prerol indicator informs that the VTR is executing a preroll command Ser vo indicator shows that playback is running stable Cue Up indicator shows that the timecode positioning command has been successfully completed Tape AutoEE and Full EE depending on VTR s model and its settings a combination 3 of these keys opens th
73. Enter the symbol in Char field If you want to separate the source data by paragraphs but there are not delimiter symbols inside your file or the numbers of rows per each paragraph is different then you can use the PlayBox Delimited Inserter Play Box Delimited Inserter TextConvert exe is an additional x application which helps the users to separate the source data file at Source c Users MartinalDesktopttestixt O different paragraphs It is installed through the main TitleBox Seas oe u installation You can start the application from TitleBox main folder by default C Program Files PlayBox Technology Ltd TitleBox Delimiter Tile Rows fs Descr Rows 5 save and poly E i Into the Source field browse the location and name of the source file Into Destination field browse the location and name of the resulting file Select the type of the delimiter symbol in Delimiter field It is possible to have alternating paragraphs with different length number of rows Then you can select the number of rows for the first paragraph in TitleRows field and the number of fields for the second paragraph in Descr Rows Example 11 Let the source file contains news data organized into two paragraphs in the first one there are the titles of the news and in the second one there are the full texts of the news Then the Title Rows number is different than the Description rows number When you are
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75. Go to File menu Save playlist as and browse for the location to save your playlist to Type some name for the playlist and press Save Congratulations You have just created your first PlayBox playlist To start a playout session verify all connections and launch AirBox Select the MPO Mixed Playback module press Set and then OK Load your newly created playlist in ListBox Add a logo to your video output via Settings gt Logo dialog Press Load and open the image your logo In the position field place the logo in the desired position Press okay Press Play to start the playlist You should now see the currently playing video on your AirBox preview Congratulations You have just launched your first AirBox playout session To connect AirBox and TitleBox create a folder from which your TitleBox project templates will be accessed by AirBox Copy the path of folder and go to the A rBox installation folder Open Plnetinstal exe In the dialog that appears paste the path to the folder you just created When completed successfully you will be able to view a Network menu in TitleBox Congratulations now AirBox and TitleBox are connected To add graphics to your video output open TitleBox Select the Mapped Memory Driver from the Program Driver drop down list This driver allows AirBox and TitleBox to use the same preview Press the Crawl button in the object palette to the left and draw a rectangle in the Preview Area Type a text in the Properties
76. Language Options gt Regional Options After pressing the Customize button go to the Date tab There you can check your current system date settings and change them at your will Flash objects Flash objects similar to sound objects are actually links to flash files To create a flash object press the flash button in the Object palette and draw a rectangle Two windows will open as soon as you release the mouse WO Os gt D Channel in a Box Lite button a standard browse dialog to locate the flash file and an interactive properties window The name of the Flash object is displayed in the caption of the properties window When a flash object is selected in the work area the following toolbar appears underneath the standard TitleBox toolbars hk i Showa y High y IV Use Key Color C Background MV Corect Aspect Ratio A a Press the Pointer button to show your mouse pointer on the output Thus the operator s actions will be shown on the monitor Use the Invert button to change the color of the pointer that is displayed on the output Select the mode in which your flash should be displayed from the first drop down list to the left It contains all standard flash settings Make your choice in accordance to the system capabilities of your PC Use the second drop down list to set the quality of your flash image Practically this is an anti aliasing setting of the flash object You could select a color
77. Lite The Complex items field to the left contains a list of available presets and several buttons for preset management To create a new preset press the Create new complex item button and enter its name in the New Complex Item dialog You can edit this name later by pressing the Edit button To delete a Complex event from the list press the Bin button The Properties field in the right contains the essence of the complex event a sequence of Beginning events and Ending events You can add beginning or ending events by pressing the Add new external event L button in the Beginning Ending events section respectively Pushing these buttons invokes a drop down list of all enabled external events NOTE To have any external event available in the list make sure it is enabled in AirBox Settings menu gt Modules gt Remote control tab Each time an event is being added its settings dialog opens for you to make the relevant adjustments they can be edited further on and specify its offset if necessary The events are executed in accordance with their offsets and regardless of their order in the Beginning Ending events list NOTE The beginning events can have earlier and or later offsets while the ending events can have only earlier offsets TIP If you need to make some fine tuning of a certain external event when inserting a Complex item in the playlist select it and press the Gear wheel el button above it Thu
78. MS Sans Serif y Row Height fi 8 Y OK X Cancel To remove acolumn from the list click on the Minus button Click EE to restore the factory defaults Change the Font and the Row Height settings through the respective fields Access Restrictions This General Settings tab allows you to add restrictions for non administrator users i e users who do NOT have the admin password defined in the Admin section of the settings menu The following restrictions can be added from here M Change settings if checked this option restricts the user from changing any AirBox settings M Change playlist if checked this option restricts the user from changing the playlist M Change playback status if checked this option restricts the user from changing the playback status i e selecting a play stop or a pause command Colors This option allows users to define the colors used in the A rBox playlist for color coding as well as for timers xi PlayList Timers X Cancel Reset Playlist colors Background playlist background Playing currently played clip Event event rows Cued a clip prepared for playback Missing missing file rows Note note comment line You can define colors for Normal and for Selected status of each playlist row Timer colors Clip timer colors for the progress bar and the letters in the Clip Timer xi Block timer colors for th
79. Options gt General gt Fields to AirBox notes You can edit these notes in the clip properties dialog in ListBox TIP You can choose the columns to be shown in the grid Go to Settings menu gt General Grid and check the ones you would like to see If you would like to change the columns order rearrange them in this dialog or simply drag their headers while working in the playlist Status Bar Total duration 00 46 58 1 Loop at 15 08 55 1 Selection 00 09 42 1 Mixed Soft Playback We The Status bar is located in the lowest part of the ListBox window 62 Channel in a Box Lite lts first cell Total Length shows the playlist duration If it is longer than 24 hours the number of days will be displayed in brackets in front The figure in parenthesis in the end shows the number of rows in the list The Second field End at Loop at shows when the playlist will end If the playlist is longer than 24 hours the number of days will be displayed in brackets in front The third cell Selection Length represents the duration of the currently highlighted lines in the grid The fourth cell displays the currently active plug in NOTE ListBox is always running on the Software Mixed plug in As this plug in supports virtually all file formats please go to Settings menu gt Modules Output and select the plug in you are planning to use in AirBox This will allow for correct file verification in ListBox
80. VTR Clip Data fields This field is designated for clip description Here you can also enter the tape ID the initial and the final timecode as well as the clip name Folder this field describes the folder in which files will be captured Pressing the browse button next to it opens a browse dialog box where you can specify a hard disk and a folder for storing the captured clip Under the field you can see information about the free disk space at the selected disk Tape ID In this field you must type the ID of the source tape from which the footage will be captured This is very important if you work with more than one tape or the tape timecode is not continuous Jn and Out fields specify the initial and the final timecode respectively If you choose to fill in the information manually you could use either of the following separators colon semi colon dot Folder el Free disk space Not available Tape Df Duration ay Comment Ee I o i Tilef a File Name Clear Clip or comma Of course you do not need to enter the leading zeros in any field For example if you enter 1 2 3 this will be translated to 00 01 02 03 If you do not enter any disjunctive symbols in the timecode this will be interpreted as a number of frames For example if you enter 100 this will be interpreted as 4 seconds 00 00 04 00 Duration Its value is automatically calculated by subtracting
81. a E golf0007 tga E golf Es football_new0036 tga E football_new0047 tga E g0lF0008 taa Es golfo E football_new0037 tga E football_new0048 tga 8 golf0009 tga FES golf Desktop EMMA TEjfootball_newn049 tga fee golF0010 tga Ee golf ES Efootball_new0039 tga S golf0000 tga golf0011 tga FBS golFo My Documents 82 Football_new0040 tga E golFo001 tga E golF0012 tga ES golFo E gt Football_new0041 tga E golfo002 taa E golf0013 tga Egolf E gt Football_new0042 tga E g0lF0003 tga E golf0014 tga Egolf Load Sequence As 50 Sel Index 38 gt j Full Frame JV Load All a E CA Filed First Load From el File name football_new0038 tga _ Open My Network P CB Filed First F Load To El Files of type Targa Files tga y Cancel Besides you can load animated gif files If you use the Add button TitleBox will load only the first picture of the file If you use the The Open button TitleBox will load the entire range of gif images NOTE We do NOT recommend using gif sequences for high quality applications since they have only 256 indexed colors and do NOT have 8 bit transparency just one color can be either entirely transparent or entirely solid If you want to load only a part of the files uncheck the M Load All box and enter either the number of the first or the last file of the sequence or both by checking the MLoad From and MLoad To boxes and filling the relevant
82. a condition parameter type its name in the cell to the right and then specify the operator In the Actions field there are three lists and a couple of check boxes The list to the left contains all actions related to the currently selected rule The Action Script list represents the commands that will be sent to TitleBox during the currently selected Action The Preset values list contains the variables that can be added to the script and are used most often For better understanding of the Graphic rules please follow the example below x To create a new rule select the group folder to which it should belong and press the New rule Name usic Oo button in the Rules field Enter the name of your template and press OK s Cancel Then go to the Conditions field to the right and set the conditions for executing Actions we will set them later In the example above we have set the Parameter to Category the Operator to is and the Value to Music Thus when the condition Category is Music is fulfilled the Actions below will be executed To add a new action press the New Action button in the Actions tab and enter its name Clip_Start_Show in our example then press OK This action will show the selected information from the play upon clip start In the Action time offset spin box specify the desired offset for execution It can be in percentage from the clip duration or in milliseconds select this in the spin
83. a field M Include letters and M nclude numbers are checked by default If you uncheck some of them the filename parser will ignore the relevant characters i e will not include them in the field You have to set your preferences for each metadata field separately select it by clicking on it Finally you have to specify the length of each metadata field This is not a problem if you choose to name your files with fixed length for each field Ocheck the Fixed length flag and specify the number of characters using the arrows The corresponding characters in the Filename field will be highlighted in blue so that you can see your setting However setting variable lengths is a bit more complicated Check the Variable length flag in the lower right field and then specify minimum and or maximum characters to be included in the relevant metadata field If you have set a Minimum value but the relevant metadata field contains fewer characters you will need some Pad symbol to fill in the gab If you have set a Maximum value but the relevant metadata field contains more characters you will have to insert a NONE field before the SEPARATOR tield thus telling AirBox to ignore the remaining symbols to the separator Back to our example Lime _Biscuit contains 12 symbols If we set a minimum value of 15 symbols and a Pad symbol for the Star field the Filename Parser will display Lime Biscuit in the playlist grid If we set a maximum of 9 sy
84. abetical order i e if the last clip name was Sofia the new filename will be Sofib then Sofic and so on Of course there is an option to enter a new name manually Plus button increases the File name Clear Clip button clears all clip data Capturing In this version of CaptureBox you can only use one method of capturing manual capture This mode can be applied only if Tape ID File Name and Folder fields are filled in If the timecode field n is empty pressing this button will open a window for manual start of the capturing If the n field contains a timecode CaptureBox will start counting down for the same amount of time before commencing the capture Press the Finish button to stop the capture Using the Time Delay Instant Replay option TDIR TDIR functionality is available only for mpg files i e for plug ins where mpg files are supported To use the TDIR option launch AirBox and right click over the grid Choose Add Insert Incomplete clip from the context menu You can also Add Insert Incomplete clips from the Edit menu In the Clip Properties dialog browse and point the location where the clip will be captured Type the Filename and copy it lt Ctrl C gt you will need it later in CaptureBox Start the playback Next run CaptureBox and prepare for capturing make the necessary settings and fill in the Clio Data fields Use lt Ctrl V gt to paste the filename you copied from AirBox There should be a
85. al time rendering of sequences thus Fomo A sah g reducing the system resources load during playout We recommend using it EE zz for large sized animations with numerous frames The resulting file format is seq2 0 C Program Files Digital M bg0000 tga 1 C Program Files Digital M 4bg0001 tga 2 C Program Files Digital M 4bg0002 tga 3 C Program Files Digital M Abg0003 tga 4 C Program Files Digital M 4bg0004 tga 5 C Program Files Digital M 4bg0005 tga 6 C Program Files Digital M Abg0006 tga hd Count 12 Used 11 Duration continuous The properties of this object appear in the dialog to the right It is similar to the Animation properties dialog and most of the options are the same To load an already existing sequence file click on the Open sequence bution To create a new sequence file click on the Add Images button and browse for them In the Open sequence dialog select the images to load and click Open You can use the arrows to change the image order In the Range spin boxes specify which images should be included in the sequence All of them are included by default Once you have loaded all the frames you want to include in the sequence press the a Export Sequence button and save the file NOTE Fielded animations are NOT supported Use frame based animations with each field in a separate file Then use speed of 2 for proper speed and field interpretation
86. am you can choose between a UDP and an RTP protocol The MPEG stream settings are situated at the right side of the window There are two options for the Multiplex Type Program or Transport stream When O Transport stream is selected the TS Mux Rate spin box becomes active so you could either select MAutomatic or fix the Mux rate manually The Audio Bit Rate is adjustable for both stream types It is 192kbit s If you select Program stream the network protocol will be switched automatically to UDP With Transport stream you can choose between UDP and RTP CPU time factor similar to IP Pump in IP Streamer we use the CPU clock to generate the PCRs of the Transport Stream Enter the value from the stream analyzer in this spin box to compensate the inaccuracy of the CPU clock frequency Pressing the Multiplexer Settings button will open the MainConcept Multiplexer properties dialog You can view the parameters of the output MPEG 2 TS stream in it The Video Encoder Settings and the Audio Encoder Settings are described below 42 43 Channel in a Box Lite Logo This tab contains two fields General and Fade The first one contains the following check boxes MUse Logo if not checkea the user will not be able to use logo MUse Subtitles check it to enable the usage of subtitles MbLogo on top you can use it to avoid eventual overlapping of the logo and the subtitles To adjust the duration of the Fa
87. ance of the Volume Meter changes if you place a check in the Auto Update box gt xj General Scales Numeric Scale Title Indicators MaxPeak momentary F Misible IV Auto Update Ok Cancel Apply Left Width 36 Top 29 a Height 136 E Inthe Scales tab you can show hide the scales via the Visible box and set the scales type to Momentary or Short Term E E Color Values Use the Left Top Width Height Tick Size spin boxes to edit the appearance of the bars o gt ae Front Color Black n Position jo E The Color Values field allows you to edit the bar colors depending on the peak levels Finally use Ar the Outline field to set borders in your desired positions and or colors mee Outline xj J Left Right Color E Custe General Scales Numeric Scale Title Indicators MaxPeak Eo Bee goo Default X JV visible Distance f E Width js a Justify Top Left IV Auto Update Ok Cancel Apply Color Red X Bottom Right Center Ticks Element Properties Text F 10 Position fes Color E Olive y The Numeric Scale tab allows you to configure the appearance of the numeric scales in the Volume Meter You can show hide it via the Visible check box set its Width Distance Position and Color Furthermore you can choose the number of Ticks values shown in the scale via the respective spin box This tab also allows yo
88. and pressing the Add Del or Prop button respectively When you are ready press the OK button at the bottom of the Mixed Audio Channel Settings window The newly defined audio stream will appear in the stream list IMPORTANT If you have defined more output audio streams than you have in your file then by default the extra streams will be empty It is possible to dublicate the first output audio stream into the extra streams For further instructions and help please contact our PlayBox support team Support playbox tv Outputs This tab allows you to select the type of output SD HD or streaming output with which your AfrBox is going work NOTE This version of AirBox allows you to select only one type of output at a time 41 Channel in a Box Lite As shown in the image to the left the Outputs tab allows you to view a list of already configured outputs The Output Name column shows you the Individual names you have given to each separate output In the Output Type column you can see the AirBox ae online een rias e OF x Cancel for removing it To add a new output preset simply press the Add button at the bottom You can select from one of the following types of outputs DeltaCastHD MPEG Transport Streaming Decklink or a Preview Depending on your selection a different setup dialog will appear B Select Device lugin ID Decklink1 type of that particular preset The Clock column th
89. and the Duration set for the Dummy Clip does not correspond to the actual duration of the clip the clip will be trimmed accordingly Use the Fixed time tab if you would like the Dummy Clip to start at a specific point in time Check the Clip Properties dialog 3 Fixed time description for details on fixed time settings Use the Transition tab to define transition settings for your dummy clip if you wish You can read more about it in the Clip Properties dialog Transition description Add some more info about the file in the Metadata tab You can use this info later in the graphic rules functionality Check the Clip Properties dialog Metadata description for details about Metadata description Incomplete Clip Just as the Dummy Clip this menu item opens the Clip Properties dialog Usually the incomplete clip is still being captured at the moment of playback You need to create such an Incomplete clip entry in the playlist and check MLive delayed file At a given time you start capturing this clip to the specified location and once there are a few seconds of it available on the storage AirBox marks it as a valid clip and it can be played immediately Thus capturing and playback proceed simultaneously If you want to predefine the file length despite its real length just check MSet out point of live item With this setting the file will be played exactly until the time you have specified even if it is longer NOTE The TDIR option is ha
90. ape background and fill these will be mixed as well The Angle value is in degrees and it is valid for polygon and star shapes only The Square button in the far right of this toolbar fixes the aspect ratio of the shape object It will change your object to fit a square and will keep this shape when you resize it WARNING You will NOT be able to revert to your previous shape after checking the Square check box Browser Properties i i i Browser Open Dialog x The browser object uses Internet Explorer to display web pages as graphics on the screen A a URL fhttp mai08abvbod x As soon as you release the mouse key after drawing the object s rectangle the Open page dialog will X Cancel appear in the work area Type in the URL you would like to browse or paste it from the clipboard Once you click OK the object specific toolbar will open under the standard toolbars In it you can type another URL to be loaded in the browser object UR hte wimabvbo ll da 96 Channel in a Box Lite The Properties 2 B button will invoke the Browser Open Dialog In it you can see the currently loaded web page If the object s dimensions are smaller than the page itself you can use the scrolls to select which part of the page to be shown on screen IMPORTANT If a link in the webpage is set to open in a new window you will not be able to open it in the same browser object There is no practical way to grasp such a window int
91. appen When reloading playlist In the field below you can set two additional rules on playlist reloading reload the playlist immediately or reload the playlist after the end of the currently played clip Reload playlist immediately Depending on the playlist type Regular or Daily the behavior of AirBox is different Regular not Dail laylist operation There are two possible situations for reloading the playlist Channel in a Box Lite 1 If the currently playing clip its List ID is available in the newly edited playlist AirBox will reload the new playlist and will start playing it from the next item next List ID Thus A rBox will jump to the next item in the playlist 2 If the currently playing clip List ID is removed from the newly edited playlist then AirBox will reload the new playlist and will start playing it from the beginning Daily playlist operation AirBox will remove all items from the current playlist after the currently played item Instead of them AfrBox will load the items from the newly edited playlist IMPORTANT In daily playlist you can edit only those items which come after the currently playing item IMPORTANT You can save the changed playlist and reload it only if there is no pre cashed file or playlist A pre cashed file is a file locked for playout Wait for playing clip end NOTE This option is available only for Regular not for Daily playlists 1 If the currently playing
92. ar a I Nomat y The button is related to the objects OLE object or pictures inserted into the text Press this button to open the list of all objects that are already inserted into the text objects The insertion of the objects is described in details in the previous section 3 You can set an auto refresh period for the object Press the clock gt button in the upper left corner to Embeded Obj activate this function and set the refreshing period in seconds by using the arrows Thus if you update the original file it will be refreshed automatically in your TitleBox project In addition right mouse clicking on an object in the list will invoke a context menu containing several useful options Update it is valid for OLE objects only Open Update Size you can set a custom size to your inserted item e Full size display the original size of the object Invert Aplha Invert Alpha inverts an object s alpha channel ad Update from file it is valid for picture objects only Use Key Color If you want to open an image as a background push the Open image button Use the drop down list to the right to fix its layout in the object Normal Stretch Tile or Center Delete the background image by pushing the Ld button 84 Channel in a Box Lite Text Object Property Tools The property dialog box for text objects allows for displaying different texts consequently for s
93. ars in the respective field When you are done with the configuration of your Add Renee paar shortcut keys press the Add button The new key combination will be assigned to the respective command To exit the dialog press OK Channel in a Box Lite APPENDIX 1 Graphic Rules Commands Used for Communication between AirBox and TitleBox In the table below you can find a list of commands used in the AirBox Graphic Rules option IMPORTANT All of the commands used in Graphic Rules are CASE SENSITIVE LOAD TEMPLATE TB_ProjectName tmpl ObjectName play ObjectName stop ObjectName text ObjectName media PlaylistColumn text clip PlaylistColumn clip_title clip_location clip_category clip_notes clip_star clip_start clip_duration clip_start_date metadata_MetadataName clip_title n clip_title BM_Test1 clip_start n HHMMSSFF Points out which template created from a TitleBox project is addressed Sends a play command for the corresponding TitleBox object designated by its name Sends a stop command for the corresponding TitleBox object designated by its name Used for adding text to the corresponding TitleBox object designated by its name Used for adding media to the corresponding TitleBox object designated by its name This line contains the name of the AirBox playlist column PlaylistColumn object Title and a description of the text that it should contain For exa
94. ata source appearing Into the header line of the Property window is visible the name of the selected data provider Into Update area you have to specify how often to update the source information Select Automatically to update the data automatically on source change Automatically option is available only for EAS data provider and File link data provider Select Every xx sec to update the data periodically at every xx sec By default the update is at every 60 seconds The term cursor further in that section is used to define the cursor position into the data source Into Cursor scroll area you can specify how to move the cursor to the next row if the data source has many rows Manually or at Every xx seconds lf select Manually you can start the data 4 E provider manually from main data provider menu A NOTE The cursor continue cycling even the connected object is not played on air This means that when you start again the object it will show data from current cursor position DataDistributor properties Data Source Weather Data Provider 01 Update Automatic Every 60sec 3 Cursor scroll C Manual f Every 25 sec M Cursor control Scroll by fi rows Reset cursor on dataset change Reset cursor on field change J Start cursor scroll on any Object play M Objects control Stop Objects on bottom cursor TT Stop Next Slide on bottom cursor Stop Objects o
95. ation of the fixed time logics Custom auto fill category DEFAULT CLIP Everyday fixed time clip When using fixed start times you always have to account for the other fixed times in the playlist Therefore the first two lines in this tab contain information about the preceding fixed time event and its duration and the fourth line prompts the start time of the following fixed event if any If you try to set a start time which is in conflict with the surrounding events the time picker Oo Oax background will become red A warning message will appear upon clicking OK and the allowable start time will be prompted until you set it URL FILE D Demo MPEG SONY mpg Previous Jf OK X Cancel gt Next The two spin boxes are situated between the Previous and Next fixed event rows describing the current fixed time event Check the MUse fixed start time box and enter the time In the Day offset spin box enter the number of days to go prior to executing the fixed time event Day offset zero means the date of the A rBox startup When using fixed start times two types of time conflict might occur overlapping of playlist items or gap in the playlist In the first situation there is not enough time to playout all clips in the playlist before the fixed time event starts Therefore you can choose between two M Custom overlap resolving options Skip currently running event when this option is selected AirBox will
96. be played first when the Play button is pressed The time refreshes every 2 seconds The following clips hold positive times calculated according to the current time and the duration of the preceding clips During Play mode this column shows the actual starting time for each clip If there has been a Jump command or a clip has been trimmed during Play mode the starting times of the following clips will be recalculated accordingly If for any reason a file is removed or renamed after the playlist is loaded it will be considered missing and hence colored in red AirBox will skip it and will jump to the next available clip The Start Time column will be recalculated accordingly Duration 12 Channel in a Box Lite Shows the actual duration of each clip Naturally if a clip has been trimmed its actual duration will be reduced The duration of the part to be shown will be displayed in the playlist and will be used for calculation of the starting times of all following clips Type Shows the type such as MPEG of the clip this is quite useful to determine the major type of compression since many decoders do not allow different compression types to co exist in the same playlist Category Contains category information This information could be entered manually from the user into the playlist or could be fed from some outstanding database for example DataBox NOTE If category is taken from DataBox you can define a field color for the
97. bjects connected to the same data provider if any of these objects is stopped It is useful when the project is control remotely Start Objects on any Object play check this to start all objects connected to the same data provider if any of them is started Start Objects on automatic update check this to start all objects connected to the same data provider on automatic update of the data source It is relevant if Automatic update is checked Automatically is available only for EAS data provider and File link data provider Press OK button to save Source Link settings After that an Object Link Properties window will appear Here you have to anal define how to link the data from the data source to the TitleBox object A SREE EET Links Text TemparatureC In the header of the window you can see the name of the TitleBox object to which data provider is assigned and the name of the data provider vr Next is a Links area where are three main columns Link Name this is the type of the selected object Text Sound etc fase i i C ffset J0 r Use object in out effect Field here you can see the list of all available fields from the data source he A E Select from drop down list one of them which you want to show into the DalaDisbtorpropetis Zok X Conca TitleBox object NOTE You can assign a data source field to a TitleBox object only if they are from the same type text soun
98. box to the right Finally carefully describe the action in the Action script field LOAD_TEMPLATE TB_Music tmpl This line describes which template will be used to show the text from the playlist Background play a Play Command for the picture object Background Title text clip_title This line contains the name of the TitleBox object Title and a description of the text that it should contain as you see in this case we will extract information from the clip_ title column of the relevant playlist entry You can drag n drop the Preset Values from the list to the right Star text clip_star similar to the above here we have described which cell contains the information to be displayed in the Star text object AirBox sends out this command to TitleBox through the net control option and the clip title and the performer name are displayed EN JU Channel in a Box Lite Now we have to send out another command to hide the graphics We will call it Clip_Start_Hide Avchons ias Eal Ip Start Show Clp Start Hide Clip End Show Clip End Hide LOAD_TEMPLATE TB_Music tmpl point out which template is addressed Background stop A Stop command for the Background object Title stop A Stop command for the Title text object Star stop A Stop command for the Star text object WARNING All entries in the Action script field are case sensitive so enter them exac
99. browser dialog for selecting a picture image to be inserted inside the text into the text object A button inserts OLE compatible objects When you press it the following dialog will appear Del Create New Microsoft Equation 3 0 Cancel Microsoft Graph Chart Microsoft Office Excel Chart Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Microsoft Picture Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Microsoft PowerPoint Slide MIDI Sequence Create from File l Display As Icon Result Inserts a new Adobe After Effects Project object into your document If you choose Create New the relevant application opens and you will be able to create the desired object Any changes in the relevant OLE object will be visible in TitleBox when saved If you choose Create from File you will be prompted to browse for it You can create a link or display it as an icon through checking the relevant box x C Create New File Cancel Create from File JE Elly pics Browse l Link I Display As Icon Result Inserts the contents of the file as an object into P your document so that you may activate it using ll the program which created it The drop down list for vertical alignment is used to manage the position of the inserted OLE objects into the text object Background properties If you click once on a text object the following object specific toolbar appears in the last line of the TitleBox toolb
100. can change the colour of the drawing canvas from the Work Space drop down palette To change the colour of the surrounding area use the Back palette The M View grid box is checked by default If you do not want to view the grid dots uncheck it TIP You can adjust the distance between the dots in the Project menu gt Options gt General tab If the MASnap To Grid box is checked all objects in the project will be aligned to the nearest grid point If you want to load a picture as a background in the work area you can browse for it after pressing the 5 button NOTE Currently it is not possible to unload the background file unless you close TitleBox You can just change it TIP You can take a snapshot of the current output fill and key from TitleBox by pressing lt Ctrl F12 gt keys on your keyboard Then you can paste the shot into a picture editor and save it to a file Channel in a Box Lite Object Palette The Object palette contains buttons for all supported graphics objects Click on the object you need and draw a rectangle in the work area to create it Press this button to select object s by dragging a rectangle around them Create a Still picture object a Create a Text Template object with background Create a Roll object vertically running text Create a Crawl object horizontally running text Create an Analogue Clock object with custom background and clock hands Create an Animation File Insert
101. ce tab to fill in the Location of the clip You can read more about it in the Clip Str Kkameia x CategowfMusc Il Properties dialog Source description Notes faporoxinste minas y O In the General tab fill in the Title of the clip The IN and OUT points the Duration and the I Estimated dwaton focfpo 00 00 T Set out point oflive item 7 Live delayed file Timecode are also editable If you want you can write the Category Star and Notes You can make the module remember each last string entry by checking the box next to its row If you want you can select the File type or leave it as Auto Read more about it in the Clip Properties dialog General description Settings preset y o H x URL jFILE _ Previous Y OK X Cancel Next NOTE If you do NOT know the Duration of the clip you would like to add as a Dummy Clip you can put a random number in the Duration field When the clip is present AirBox will automatically update its duration as long as the following conditions are satisfied 1 The M Auto update clip s duration option is checked in Settings menu gt General gt General tab 2 The following phrase is added in HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Digital Media Technologies Ltd PlayBox 2 0 AirBox 1 OverwriteOutpointOnAutoUpdate dword 00000001 3 Steps 1 and 2 are done for each AirBox instance for which you would like to use that option If one or more of the above conditions are not fulfilled
102. clip its List ID is available in the newly edited playlist AirBox will finish playing it Then it will load the new playlist and will start playing the next clip accordingly 2 If the currently playing clip List ID is removed from the newly edited playlist A rBox will reload the new playlist and will start playing it from the beginning When selecting this radio button you have two additional options MAllow clip trimming check it if you would like the currently playing clip to be trimmed upon playlist reloading M Offset whole playlist check it if you would like the whole playlist to be offset upon playlist reloading xf Default auto fill clip Nas d MPEG2 NTSC Spottslllustrated S ports1 0_Miami_Florida mpg E Auto fill d 3 a Auto fill categories In the Auto fill options dialog you can specify a default auto fill clip and Music ofthe 80ies d eala create your own auto fill categories containing certain clips These settings are Category clips necessary for the automatic filling of gaps that may appear in your playlist when using Fixed time events E impeg2ADiscreet_2002_9Mbitikamelia_Rec 00 03 23 07 No 2 JE mpeg2 Glloria_DobreDo6al mpg 00 04 04 08 Yes 13 E mpeg2 2Video mpa 00 00 00 00 No 4 J E mpeg2 Gloria_DobreD o6al mpg 00 04 04 09 No 5 JE mpeg2 lota mpg 00 00 30 00 Yes B E mpeg2 Roma00 4N335040a mpg 00 00 18 11 No E mpeg2 Viktoria_MoliaSe mpq 00 03 50 14 No E mpeg2 0023a
103. clip using DataBox Options gt Default values gt Color to AirBox The Category and its color can also be defined manually in AirBox or ListBox You can fill in the entire clip rows with their Category colors In order to do this go to AirBox Settings General gt Interface and select MColor entire row by category Title Shows the clip s title or filename Location Shows the file location full path Star Contains data describing the artists in the clip Notes Contains additional data NOTE If the Note is taken from DataBox you have to specify in DataBox Options gt General gt Fields to AirBox Notes what exactly field to be transferred 1 TIP You can change the columns order by drag n dropping them 1 TIP A double click in the first column that contains the items numbers will invoke the clip properties dialog Double clicking in any other column will open the Clip Trimmer if it is enabled in Settings menu General see the description further in this manual Color coding The color coding of the playlist s rows provides additional information to the user Pink row outlines the currently playing clip It is visible in PLA Y and PAUSE modes only Yellow row it is visible only while switching between clips It shows which clip will be played next In that moment the yellow clip is being actually fed into the decoder circuit This happens during the last couple of seconds before the end of the
104. contact our PlayBox support team support playbox tv AirBox also provides a possibility to import playlists from simple text files tab delimited or comma separated text files There are two workflows with A rBox playlists ordinary playlist and daily playlist The difference is that the daily playlist is loaded automatically at an assigned day and time while the ordinary playlist should be loaded manually Daily playlists require specific naming structure in order to be played on the desired date and time automatically The structure is YYYY_MM_DD_HH_MM_SS where YYYY stands for year MM month DD date HH hour MM minutes and SS seconds For example if the name of the playlist is 2011_11_20 14 00 00 ply it will be loaded exactly on November 20 2011 at 14 00 h 2 00 pm The AirBox playlist contains video clips and events commands which are described in details further in this chapter Playlist Grid This is the main part of the AirBox interface dedicated to the playlist play order visualization When you launch AirBox depending on your startup settings you will see an empty window and you will have to load create a playlist or you will see the opened playlist The Grid Columns If there is a playlist loaded in A rBox you will see information about the clips in different columns Start Time This column contains each clip s starting time During Stop mode it shows the current time for the clip that will
105. create a list of tasks related to objects in the current project Check the detailed description in the Task Manager section DataSource Manager This plug in opens the Data Source Manager It contains all supported data providing plug ins You can use them to translate different types of data and display the information that they contain in some of the TitleBox objects Please check the Data Source Manager description further below to S Channel in a Box Lite Options Press it to open the Project Options window It contains three pages General options Network options and Output options General Options These options allow for defining the colors the safe area and the grid of the Work area lt i E grosgesesesseseessseseg Workspace E Button Face Back Color O Cream Workspace set a color for the area that surrounds the workspace Back Color set a background color for the workspace M Back image you can select an image for background via the browser button T Beckinegs i M Work Area set a color for the borderline of the work area 7 WokAea ERa y Preview Mode set a background color for the workspace when it is in preview on ff mode M SateFrame fv 90 2 JH 90 f Safe Frame check it to view the safe area in the workspace You can adjust its oe Mw El size by using the H and V percentages to the right 7 ViewGid Gay y Safe Frame color choose the co
106. ction freeze at a first clip frame It defines the delay in milliseconds before pausing on the first frame since different decoders behave differently in regards to the first clip frame This function is both decoder and computer dependent You will have to find the most suitable one for your setup via testing NOTE This affects only some old Playout plug ins Audio Streams depending on the hardware platform used AirBox can playout more than one audio stream Default Offset this is a general offset measured in milliseconds that will apply to all newly inserted external events The positive values mean later execution of the events and the negative values mean earlier execution This offset will appear in the Notes column in the playlist upon inserting an external event Pre roll event time The command reaction times for external events is different depending on the devices Still if you find out an acceptable compromise value that will serve your needs you can set a general offset value to be applied in run time to each external event you add in the playlist Thus you will not have to enter the same values each time you create an event This offset will not appear in the playlist NOTE Do not forget to account for the pre roll event time when you set additional offsets in the events properties dialogs The offsets and the pre roll event time are summed up in runtime The next field Network Files Restrictions
107. cts if any These objects are present in the object but do not belong to any of its 2 U Project Untied Document slides Click on the plus sign in the beginning of the project line to view them You might need to an lo show hide such objects manually without affecting the rest of the project roer 20M 7 Layer2 1 The Master Container line is situated right under the project line In it you can create layers to O ad E Text 1 be assigned later to the regular slides below By using these master layers you will avoid inserting the same objects in numerous slides For example if you need a logo shown in Slides 1 3 7 below TOEN just create a Layer in the Master container Then go to Slide1 click left mouse button click the uae Assign Layer Cl button and select the logo containing layer from the drop down list Repeat the Master Base Layer procedure for Slides 3 and 7 Thus each time TitleBox displays Slide 1 3 or 7 it will also display the Layer 2 Layer 3 logo containing layer from the Master Container Another way to do this is just drag n drop the Layer from the Mater Container to the relevant slide Level 2 All slides are listed in this part of the Slide Manager window You can create as many Slides and Layers as your computer can handle You MUST have at least one Layer per slide Each element is displayed in a separate line Each line starts with a plus sign You can click in it to expand the relevant lev
108. d button Use the Edit button to change the settings of an already existing audio stream The Remove button will delete the selected stream 56 Channel in a Box Lite Audio Device Decklink Audio Capture Format PCM 2ch 44100 Hz 16 bits Streams Dekails El Streami L English Old E ee Pressing the Add Edit button invokes the dialog to the right Here you can select the Front Left number of Mono Channels a maximum of 2 in this version and enter the language of i Front Right the input i Front Center LFE Subwoofer Back Left i Back Right PlayBox Live Editor a Live_l Type UDP 2 gan Liv ive_ vea Auto Start wes y Closed Captions If you select UDP for an input type a dialog as one to the left will BE appear Here you should set the UDP Adaress Port and Program ID rUDP UDP Add 192 168 10 10 i i i i ite i i ii The live inputs configured in AirBox are visible in the Multi AirBox Manager and in the Live Viewer UDP Port 1 UDP Program ID 0 ofi Channel in a Box Lite Tools Menu This menu was created to accommodate some useful tools in AirBox Change file path This module is intended for relocating file paths If you have built a playlist and for some reason the file locations have been changed here you can quickly relocate file paths This can be done easily Just fill in the Old folder field with
109. d etc Master column you can select one of the data provider s columns to be a Master column Enter YES in Master column field if the selected field is from this master column Set a column to be a Master if you want to reset the cursor for all columns on data change in this particular column In Data control area you can set a Cursor offset this is the offset upon the cursor for displaying the data into this particular TitleBox object Example 9 Let us show the data from data source in a table 3x3 3 rows and 3 column in TitleBox You have to draw 9 objects in TitheBox project each connected to a separate field from data provider Into DataSource Link Properties gt Cursor control gt Scroll by enter 3 scroll should be equal to the numbers of table rows Into Object Link Properties gt Cursor offset cursor offset should be O for the first row 1 for the second row and 2 for the third row If you want to use in out effects you have to check the relative check box Channel in a Box Lite Press the OK button to save the settings NOTE In TitleBox Lite you can only use one data provider at a time Weather Data Provider This data provider displays information coming from weather forecast sources For now the only available provider is YAHOO weather In this way online weather information will be shown in the objects To adjust the Weather Data Provider click the E button in the main TitleBox interface The Data Sou
110. d ZONE son lt opens a button menu Bookmark creates a single split point at the current play head position You can change the Zone name Bookmark by default and timecode manually Simple skip zone creates a two point zone The first point is the current play head position and the second is 5 seconds later by default You can change the Zone name and timecodes manually Advanced skip zone creates a four point zone The first point is set at the current play head position By default the second point is 1 second later the third point is 5 seconds later and the fourth point is 6 seconds later You can change the Zone name Advanced Zone by default and timecodes manually Extra External Output Congiuration Info Zones Shots Filters Stream 3 Nr 9Q902 F 00 00 00 00 E A Zone 2 PE 00 00 43 19 E A Zone 3 FE 00 01 33 07 H A Zone 4 i qu To add a next marker in the Zone press the Add Zone marker button It will add a marker 10 seconds after the last marker in that zone by default To delete a marker from the Zone select it and press the Delete Zone marker Mi button It will delete all markers except the first one which can be deleted only by deleting the whole zone To delete a Zone select it and press the Delete Zone button from the page or from the main window By pressing the Clock buttons you can choose a display mode of the markers T i y Time show
111. de In and Fade Out effects when showing hiding the logo use the relevant spin boxes situated in the Fade field AUX Source These are settings for using an additional video source There are three possible AUX Sources Previously prepared File you need to enter its location here UDP stream enter the IP address and port Live video a video signal coming from a Live Input as it is defined in the Live Input settings window Here you have to enter the name of the live source exactly like it is entered in the Live input window NOTE Keep in mind that when creating the resize control event you have to specify an offset of at least 1 second 1000ms Check the MUse Second Source Audio box if you want the output audio to be the one coming from the AUX source IMPORTANT It is recommended for the live stream video standard and fields order to be similar to the playlist input video NOTE This plug in supports the transition between clips in the playlist Please check the clip properties description for details Configure Logo Presets x Logo Logo Preset Preview mOn Startup No logo C Last used C Logo 1 E PE puc ral The Logo settings dialog is used to configure logo images for displaying EE in AirBox their position on the screen transparency etc m Display TO Auto Show Matte Color ES Apply ES None Show Black Invert Alpha C White ul Hide Color The Logo Pr
112. delay compensation in frames The capturing delay is hardware specific so the values in this dialog are determined after the method test and mistake Setup It opens a capture setting dialog box This command duplicates the SetUp button situated under the batch capture grid The dialog box is different according to the encoder used See the Capture Settings section to view the description of some encoders setting dialogs Capture It is active only when you work in Capture mode the Capture tab is selected It provides three options that duplicate the relevant buttons under the clip data fields Manual Capture starts recording the currently available video source A dialog box will appear prompting for your confirmation 71 Channel in a Box Lite TitleBox GETTING STARTED The TitleBox module is an on air graphics manager You can create different static or dynamic objects in TitleBox such as rolls crawls still pictures clocks etc and save them in projects The projects could be used directly for broadcasting or as customized templates TitleBox works together with the AirBox playout Separate objects in TitleBox can be started or stopped via AirBox by inserting TitleBox Net control events in an AirBox playlist For more information about a AirBox TBNetCTrl event please see AirBox Settings gt Modules gt RemoteControl gt TitleBox NetControl chapter USER INTERFACE TitleBox HD NOT FOR RESALE D Shared Titl
113. der and Aspect ratio of the file is not available in the file itself or if it is wrong Wait event nue Internal Events C WatUrii 36 Canca 00 00 00 Stop event Inserting such an event in the playlist will stop the playback automatically at reaching this point of the playlist This function is useful for news and other interactive sessions StopCue event Automatically stops the playback upon reaching this point of the playlist and shows the first frame of the next clip Wait event Temporarily stops the playback A dialog box appears to specify the type of waiting Wait means that playback will stop and standby for a certain period hh mm ss For example aaa EEE 00 01 00 means that the playback will wait for 1 minute oo Ne 6 wait TC event Shift Ctrl A P P 2 a a YY Lo o event Ft Ctri Wait Until means that playback will stop and automatically resume at a defined time Diner ORS hh mm ss For example 14 00 00 means that the playback will start at 14 00 00 o clock a ii Automation Wait TC event Automatically stops the playback and resumes it upon reaching the specified time code e g coming from an external timecode generator The message to the right will be displayed on the AirBox window and the Master counter will continue running See the LTC reader description in the Settings menu gt Timecode section further in this chapter xj The TimeCode format here is HH MM SS
114. dialog box and press OK Press the two Play buttons one in the bottom of the window and one in the third row of the taskbar Congratulations You have just created your first TitleBox crawl object Notice that the TitleBox graphics object is directly overlaid on your A rBox preview Channel in a Box Lite AirBox GETTING STARTED AirBox is a universal SD HD content playout and streaming software Depending on the hardware platform and supported files in the playlist there are different types of AirBox playout playback modules USER INTERFACE The main interface window is divided into several areas Title Bar This is the topmost horizontal bar of the AirBox window lt contains abbreviations of all options enabled on the dongle the AirBox channel number and the name of the currently executed playlist file If the playlist has been changed but not saved there is an asterisk after the playlist name Menu Bar The MENU BAR is described in detail in the Menu Bar section Multi purpose zone The multi purpose zone is situated to the left of the master counter It consists of several tabs that allow quick navigation through the most frequently used functionalities in AirBox Use the arrows in the upper right corner to scroll the tabs TIP 1 To show hide tabs in this zone right click on it and check un check the ones you need AirBox Streamer HD PRO MS B 1 Daily playlist 1 18 2012 3 18 43 PM te iol x File E
115. displayed only while the text is running The second one will glue the texts one after another without any space in between The third button will display the background continuously The last two buttons in this toolbar La deoncern the Queuing functionality After pressing one of these buttons TitleBox will remember the changes for background colors and text colors and it will play them one after another e you will be able to make a queue of color changes loops If none of the above buttons is pressed TitleBox will show only the latest change You can choose how to switch between changes loops while in play mode Channel in a Box Lite Use Lti you want to display the subsequent loops one by one i e to leave a between them empty or with background color depending on your settings see the previous paragraph In addition use if you do NOT want any space between the successive loops in the object T tleBox will generate one loop out of all loops in the queue Text and Background Properties You can edit the common text attributes such as font selection size color blur shadow etc and background attributes from another object specific toolbar It appears in the last row of the TitleBox toolbar when you double click a Roll Crawl object Another way to invoke it is by pressing the Property button Li tin the second row of the toolbar while a Crawl Roll object is selected Write the new texts directly in the ob
116. displays the Log View window automatically when an error occurs MAuto change items in Block Timer list the block timer will follow the subsequent events in the playlist as selected in the block timer dialog box If not checked the timer will remain fixed at the selected event in the list After this event has passed the block timer will read negative values since the origin point will remain fixed in the past Add original duration in notes after trimming if checked once you trim a clip AirBox will automatically insert information about its original duration in the Notes column in the playlist If you do not want to see this information just leave this box unchecked MCopy HouselD to TapelD a convenient way to automate assigning reference information needed for subtitles insertion x General Interface Missing files Automation Grid Quana L gt MV Auto popup LogYiew on error Y Auto change items in BlockTimer list V Add original duration in notes after trimming Copy HouselD to TapelD MV Show frame values in playlist I Color entire row by category M Show external event s thumbnails in the hint Disable misusable critical shortcuts Large status bar Use extended MPEG info tip V Hide hardware reset button Always show playing item on top of the arid J Show progress bar in block timer Overlay channel number first channel is Video preview aspect ratio Channel in a Box Lite MI S
117. dit View Settings Tools Commands Help Preview Counters Current playlist Playlists Log _4 gt E aag Zee la7 62 NN 0 9 Clip timer SP a KJA 48 10 A _390_TS_Din 1104 17 49 07 00 03 50 22 PAL 48 k KAMELIA_KAak DA 1104 21 40 04 00 00 30 21 AL 48 AYTO_PLANETAH 1 04 22 11 00 04 10 00 22 CB_3 11 34 21 17 00 03 50 22 Qo 12 11 35 27 04 04 10 00 22 EG 2 PA a 48 CB_390_TS_Dinw Qi 13115 45 28 01 00 03 50 22 SL 48 KAMELIA KAK D 14 15 49 19 23 Q 15 15 19 59 50 16 20 03 41 13 8 20 04 12 09 00 00 30 21 00 03 50 22 00 00 30 21 00 03 50 22 MPEG 2 2 PAL 48 k MPEG 2 PAL 48 k MPEG 2 PAL 48 k MPEG 2 PAL 48 k MPEG 2 i 2 PAL 48 k AVTO_PLANETA HI KAMELIA_KAK DA AVTO_PLANETA H KAMELIA_KAK DA ANTO_ PLANETA HI MPEG 2 PAL 48k CB 390 TS Dinw MPEG 2 PAL 48 k On HIT 50_4 mpg IN 00 00 00 00 MPEGS Les OUT 00 00 30 21 MPEG 2 PAL 48 k E IM MPEG 2 PAL 48 k AVTO_PLANETA H 27 PUUA a 00 00 00 00 Missing Selection 04 10 00 22 Black Magic 1 Mixed Playback PAL Total duration 1 09 55 27 2 End at 1 00 27 45 10 10 Channel in a Box Lite Preview This tab shows the currently playing video The Video window can be moved outside the main window by checking External video window from the View menu If you accidentally close the window you can view it again by checkin
118. e interrupts the playback and pauses on the first frame of the selected clip You can also activate it by holding down the lt Ctrl gt key and pressing the Jump button at the same time Use this to prepare a playback clip while displaying its first frame on the output Since this is a machine and decoder dependent function you may have to increase the Cue Delay time from the Settings dialog box Settings gt General General gt Cue delay Reset hardware resets the hardware driver If under any circumstances bad MPEG media or bad system setup playback is distorted so badly that normal PLA Y and STOP commands cannot help use this button to reset the hardware decoder NOTE This button is not visible by default In order to show it go to Settings menu General gt Interface tab and remove the tick M Hide reset hardware button WARNING Pressing the Hardware reset button will interrupt the playback Playlist Control Buttons aiaidie 2 o s 2l0 Most of these buttons actually duplicate the commands found in the File menu and Edit menu All buttons provide hints Here is a description of the playlist control commands El New playlist open ListBox Open existing playlist HA Save playlist Save playlist as a Save playlist as Daily This button will be greyed out if you have not specified a daily playlist folder in the Settings menu gt Start Up ale Add clip at the end of the playlist Insert a clip above the curr
119. e In order to do that once you have defined your desired settings enter the Save current settings to new preset button in the Settings preset field and enter a name for the selected preset Once you have saved some settings for your input you can load them via the Apply settings from selected preset Ol button You can also remove a preset via the Delete selected presel x button Source The Source tab contains a basic clip description information The Type fields shows whether the input is from a File a Live or a UDP source CB_390_TS_DinWSS_Iframe_MC76_15 Properties Source General Fixed time Transition Metadata Type UDP y Parameters If the input is a File the Parameters field shows the file Path a Address 22411 If itis a Live source then the Address of the source is indicated in the field below This Address Pot 1234 3 IM Program ID fico corresponds to the Name of the live stream as it is defined in the Settings gt Output gt Live Inputs tab M Source 192 168 11 5 When the Type of the source is UDP by default and the user can enter the IP Address of the source machine and the number of the Port which receives the input There are also two additional options for this type of input Settings preset VA y Ol bl x URL UDP 192 168 11 5 224 1 1 1 1234 Program ID 1010 MProgram ID if you check this box you can to choose which program to be output by AirBox if the st
120. e Audio stream with up to 2 mono Steams Stream Details channels Default E Channel Presset Type 1 Mono Mono Channels 1 Audio Level 0 dB Output Type Raw Stream Input Type Complete_Main H Language ID und E Channel Mapping Meta Data Streams audio tracks The currently defined stream is visible in the Streams window When you select it you can see the details for this audio stream in the next Stream Details window 5 X To define remove edit the stream Remove General AA co press the Add Del Prop button Properes respectively at the right side of the Presset stereo y Output TypedRaw Stream y window Jf OK X Cancel Mono Channels Count 2 3 Settings cr E P the order of the streams in the stream list use the Up and Down epee Meron Meta Data When you press the Add button the set up window will open Enter the name of the new stream in the Name field Inthe Preset field you can select a preset for a channel mapping from a drop down list Here you can see a list of the most popular channel mappings Front Left Front Right Keyl Yaluel OK Cancel Channel in a Box Lite For example if you select Stereo the channel mapping will contain a Front Left and a Front Right channel If you select 3 front LFE there will be Front Left Front Right Front Center and LFE Subwoofer In Mono Channels Count enter t
121. e E E circuitry Config button opens a configuration dialog box where you can define Compot com F Aweys onto Com port the port to which the recorder is connected A MM A Timecode type the type of the timecode LTC VITC etc nda i E E eet Maie i Play Delay the delay in frames of the video recorder start towards the capturing start Pees i E This setting refers to the Capture mode REC Delay the delay in frames of the clip start towards the video recording start This setting refers to the Print to tape mode n REC Latency the frame offset of the records beginning toward the clips N point This setting refers to the Print to tape mode NOTE The REC Delay and REC Latency fields are accessible only when the MEditing VCR box is checked Always on top check it if you want to see the RS422 window always on top Editing VCR it should be checked if you use an editing video recorder If the box is checked you can set the REC delay and REC latency fields and the Video recorder edit mode Video recorder edit mode you can choose between Insert and Assemble Reclnh box allows or forbids the REC button in order to protect the tape from accidental mistakes The Shuttle slider allows shuttling within the particular VTR capabilities If the VTR allows it you could achieve variable speed by shifting this button left or right The Jog slider allows frame accurate po
122. e logical parts control buttons at the top slides thumbnails and a project structure situated in the predominant part in the middle further divided into three tabs and a properties area at the bottom where you can find a detailed description of the currently selected element in the list above Gala Sle Project control buttons Details Preview Properties Channel in a Box Lite The first three buttons at the top of the Slide Manager window are used for controlling Slides You can Add Insert and Delete slides by using them NOTE The difference between Adding slides and Inserting slides is that when you add a slide it appears at the bottom of the slides list while when you insert a slide it appears above the currently selected slide The following two buttons are used to control Layers You can Add or Delete layers While in the Details tab you can show hide slides thumbnails by pushing the Thumbnails button In case you need to move a slide or an object just drag n drop it to the new place where you would like it to be If you want to show hide pause a slide a layer or an object manually slide the mouse pointer to the end of its row The Play Stop Pause gt buttons will appear They are related only to the currently selected line The elements hierarchy will be observed i e when you push Play for a Slide all Layers and objects that belong to it will be played if not disabled If you push
123. e object within the project and it does NOT affect the output In case you need to move a slide or an object just drag n drop it to the new place where you would like it to be Channel in a Box Lite Properties In the area under the project tree you can see the property s window for the currently selected line project slide layer or object The properties of the Project Line contain some default settings that will affect all newly created slides Project Untitled Document Property DefaultColor DefaultSlideD uration DefaultSlidePlayMode pmCrossPlay Loop 0 Default color this color will be applied in the preview thumbnails of your slides You might need it in case there are some white characters in a text object that would be impossible to see on a white background Default slide duration the time for showing the slides when playing them with the Slide Controller Default Play mode the way of showing the slide on the screen Cross Play if the previous slide has an out transition the following slide will appear as soon as the out transition starts Stop Previous if the previous slide has an out transition the following slide will wait for this transition to end and only then will appear on the screen Add the previous Slide will remain on the screen and the following will be overlaid on top of it Currently there is a known limitation related to this type of play mode
124. e progress bar and the letters in the Block Timer PlayList Timers TC timecode timer colors for the progress bar and letters in the TC Timer Clicking on the desired color box enables a combo box for selecting a color or defining a custom one The Reset button resets the selected field to default colors All the screenshots in this Users Manual are made with default AirBox colors and all explanations are in accordance to them Clip Ti x Cancel Block Timer Reset 36 UI Channel in a Box Lite Modules AirBox Output Here you can select the active playback module depending on the installed o mE Tae a x A Bos Dutpul emote control Logo hardware platform Check the latest list of platforms supported in AirBox in i Available modules X Cancel http www playbox tv or write to playbox playbox tv 1 Black Magic Mixed Playback PLBlackMagicMixed pbx 1 IPPump MPEG Progr 2 IPPump MPEG Program Dumper PLIPPump pbx Select the desired module from the list of available modules in the upper 3 IPPump MPEG Program Dumper PLIPPump pbx Configue _ window and assign it to the corresponding AirBox channel in the lower 4 IPPump MPEG Program Dumper PLIPPump pbx a j 1 Mixed Soft Mixed Playback PLMixed pbx window by double clicking on the module or by pressing the Set button 2 Mixed Soft Mixed Playback PLMixed pbx a 2 Mivnd Coft Mivod DiavhacLiDl Mivnad nhu This op
125. e situated under the preview window In box displays the In point timecode Out box displays the Out point timecode Duration box displays the clip duration It is equal to the difference between n and Out points After entering the In and Out timecodes the Duration value will be calculated automatically Moreover after entering the In and Duration values the Out point timecode will be calculated automatically It is possible to lock the In Out or Duration value but not all the three of them of course by clicking on the lock icon to the right of the box Thus you can protect their values from changing by mistake for example To enter values in the In Out or Duration box you can use the arrows beside them or type numbers in the boxes Position box contains the timecode of the currently selected point in the clip If you type another timecode in this box and press lt Enter gt the marker will move to the relevant position Total Duration box displays the original untrimmed duration of the clip Details box it shows the part of the clip enclosed in the zoom frame The Trim bar visualizes the clip length and the clip markers The Zoom frame is a yellow square in the trim sar MANO Ml It defines what part of the clip is being shown in the Detail View lt is quite useful for long clips You can move or resize the zoom frame by mouse dragging You can define a new Zoom area by drawing a rectangle through dragging the mous
126. e some RSS sources news channels for example give opportunity to user to order the visible into browser data differently by date or by title etc while TitleBox data provider extracts the data from the original xml file of the RSS and there is no possibility to re arrange their order TIP 1 You can use downloader exe described in XML data provider section for downloading RSS feed first It is useful in case the link to the RSS breaks HTML Table Data Provider Choosing this plug in allows you to insert data into TitleBox object from an html file Choose it from the list of available plug ins and press Add button The following window will open Instance Configuration URL File path D Demo arrival2 html Empty value string Header Format Column 0 Tables found in HTML Selected table 0 Column i Column Column 3 OO Trainm OO Tostat DO Arrivinc OO Delay C OO 13207000 BankyaOO 14 320 OO 08610000 Burgas DO 14 34C DO 50206000 PernikCOO 14 340 URL File path enter here the location of your html table Empty value string enter here the string which you want to be visible if there are no data into the table Header format this is the format of the table header By default it is Column 0 Into Tables found in HTML area you will see the list of tables found into the source html file In order to see a table you have to select a line and press Get Table button in the bottom of the window
127. e while holding its right button Channel in a Box Lite SPLIT button splits the clip and thus defines separate sections in the clip After splitting the clip each new clip section appears as a separate row in the play list You can play them separately change their order insert other clips between them etc You can define In Out points for each section of the split clip The In Out and Duration boxes display information about the selected section Multiple In Out definitions are used for skipping some parts of the clip during its playback Thus you can exclude existing commercials titles etc from the original clip You can create separate sections also by pressing repeatedly the In Out buttons Pressing the IN button after an existing Out point creates a new section after the existing one Pressing the Out button before an existing IN point creates a new section before the existing one IN button marks the IN point for start of playback in AirBox The IN point marker is colored green and by default it is at the beginning of the clip OUT button marks the Out point for end of playback in AirBox The OUT point marker is colored red and by default it is at the end of the clip You can set an In Out point by dragging the IN OUT marker on the trim bar or by entering timecode directly into the IN OUT box The IN OUT markers show the frame before after i e if the marker is on the Out point you actually see the next
128. eBox projects soccer_SD_Ammended thd De oj x File Edit Network Object Project Help Hes es fe 5 GX me ojo a alo e a S fs gt 0 cu EA CTA A Name Digtal Clock 21 ji _ Delay 0 00 sec j Duration 0 00 sec 3 E an A ef s aa ara 3 tn a oo oo saltas ali a eaoNema a EOI E oe Pr noe A a Town fora IS Loom E zhny MM ole no Ca is elie WW mandi M Ml Moure Details Preview Properties oor 3 Master Container NM Biva EE regas gA wnn po at G al f Picture 11 4 c E t Sie A El Biltord W BBires SO IB 7 Layer2 1 O ld E Picture 1 60 M E Slide 1 EM Banu E Ml eyes ao MBA 7 Layer 1 14 ny 8000 2 side2 EUR BaRBELE Rr a a Mi 9 Layer 1 4 20M F Slide 3 a a ME 7 Slide 4 SAL Fa T aner 1 51 Arsena EEE o Program O Preview Update C Overlay Mapped Memory Driver v2 0 x 750 Y 339 Work Area TitleBox interface is very user friendly and it can be used easily in a live environment The main part of the user interface is the Work area It shows the objects their positions types and status Objects can be moved and resized in this area If an i is too Tod and is not rendered yet a yellow black sign saying Rendering will appear on the screen This sign will automatically disappear when the rendering is complete The little icons in the upper left corners of the
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130. eans that the video will be played twice and so on Any loop number different from zero represents how many times the object will be looped MKeep Aspect check this box to preserve the aspect ratio when resizing the object The next two spin boxes control the image s X and Y offset in relation to the object s center Use them while in Center mode to move the video vertically or horizontally within the object boundaries When in Center mode you can use alpha matte to fill in the space between the edges of the video and the object s borders You can select its Color from the Samra palette to the left of the MUse Aloha check box The two sound controls are situated at the end of the toolbar The Audio Delay spin box allows for adjusting the A V sync of the object To the right of it you can find the Volume control NOTE The audio of your DirectShow objects will be output on the Default Audio device set in Windows Control Panel Sound and Audio Devices gt Audio WARNING As the playout of direct show media objects is carried out by third party filters we cannot guarantee the A V sync of these objects N9 Channel in a Box Lite s Banner Properties Pushing the Insert Banner W button invokes a dialog box for you to create a list of picture files They will be displayed as a slideshow Use the respective buttons i 1 ito add insert and delete pictures from the list invert their alpha move them Up a
131. ected text line up Moving down moves the selected text line down MAuto refresh box automatically displays the changes made in the currently loaded text file even during its play out T Roll Crawl Properties There are three groups of properties for these objects similar to the text template common text attributes continuity mode and queue options and dynamic speed properties The first two are controlled through object specific toolbars while the third one can be set in the specially designated dialog box Continuity and Queue mode When a crawl roll object is selected single click the following string appears in the last row of the toolbar j e linked image cannot be displayed The file may have been moved renamed or deleted Verify that the link points The gear wheel CA button opens the Embedded Objects list This is the one already described for text objects Please check above in the Manual Speed field controls the speed of dynamic objects such as animations crawls and rolls lts value can be positive right to left movement or negative left to right movement If zero the object is frozen NOTE You can change the speed interactively at any moment even when the object is running on air If the value in the Loop field is 0 the object will be displayed endlessly The next three buttons L zzz refer to the object s background continuity mode The first one means that the background will be
132. ed To remove the check just right click in the clip and choose Loop again NOTE This action differs from the Clip Loop button which loops the currently playing clip not the currently selected one Channel in a Box Lite Auto update use it to include the currently selected clip s in the automatic file duration checking It will update the duration of your clips if the files associated with them have been or will be changed NOTE You have to enable this option first in Settings gt General gt General gt MAuto update duration of marked files The file checking interval should also be set there Cut Copy Paste these options are self explanatory Clip Trimmer opens the Clip Trimmer application if it is enabled in Settings gt General gt General gt M Use Clip Trimmer Otherwise the Clip Properties dialog will open Find detailed information about the Clip Trimmer in the section of the same name at the end of this manual Properties opens a window with clip s properties Clip Properties Most of the playlist consists of clips All metadata connected with any clip could be found in the Clip Properties window It is opened by right mouse clicking over the clip or trough the Edit Menu The Clip Properties window has five tabs Source General Fixed Time Transition and Metadata All of these tabs allow you to save your settings so that you do not have to define the settings for each file every tim
133. ed the assigned task is executed Press the List button to see all created keyboard shortcuts Press the Clear button to delete all created keyboard shortcuts Assigning a task to an event To assign a task to an event you have to open the Assign Task dialog It is available after right mouse clicking on an object in TitleBox project and selecting Assign Task from menu You will see the list of already created tasks If there are no tasks first create them into Task area of the window Select an event from the available events and then select a task from Task list Press the Create Task button in the bottom of the Assign task window Create Task In the right side of the Assign Task window you can see the list of all tasks related to the currently selected object If you want to see the tasks related to another object just select this object and press the task list button from the main TitleBox window E To see the tasks which are not related to any object keyboard shortcuts unselect all objects in TitleBox and press the task list button 117 Channel in a Box Lite CLIP TRIMMER The Clip Trimmer is used for previewing and trimming clips in ListBox DataBox and AirBox modules You can preview clips even during the on air playback in AirBox Trimmer allows marking IN and Out points for video playout and then the player AirBox plays the video exactly between these points This way no real cutting of the file is pe
134. ed object More detailed information you can read in section Task Manager further in that manual View Events select it to view all tasks assigned for the currently selected object This menu item corresponds to the View Events List button in the toolbar Object list shows a window with a list of all objects available in the current TitleBox project see its description further in this chapter Property opens the Properties window of the currently selected object Property Tools opens additional properties windows for objects text rolls and crawls The commands from this menu except for Assign Task are also displayed in the second uppermost row of the toolbar Project Project Menu E Fl LJ Stop F12 This menu contains project related commands Some of them Play Pause etc are also operated through buttons situated along the bottom of the window Scheduler Shift Ctrl H Mix Object ES Driwer Select Driver Setup ES Task Manager Options GPI Manager A Active Event Tally 254 Data Source Manager Project playout commands Play starts the driver of the graphics frame buffer If this button or command is not triggered you will not be able to show any graphics on the screen Stop hides all objects from the screen but they remain loaded in the graphics frame buffer Clear Buffer clears the graphics frame buffer This command helps avoiding accidental showing of remnants of an o
135. ed to transitions between clips in the playlist The transition settings are applied to the beginning of the currently selected clip 0017J0Q Properties x Source General Fixed time Transition Metadata HiV Set transition Check M Set transition to enable the transition O saaa Specify the transition Duration in frames in the spin box below Type WA Fade z The Type drop down list contains all currently supported transitions Choose the one you need from here M Trim the source clip with the transition duration This checkbox is enabled only when you apply transition for the first time Check this box to shorten the previous clip with the duration of the transition ensuring that enough video and audio content will be available for the transition When this box is checked the previous clip will be trimmed in accordance to the frames set in the Duration spin box when you press OK button For example assume that your AirBox is running in PAL mode 25 frames per second Settings preset sd bed and you have set a new transition with Duration of 50 frames i e 2 seconds to Clip 2 EE Assume further that the preceding item in the playlist is Clip 1 which is 10 seconds long a shies Once you press OK button Clip 1 will be automatically trimmed so that its duration is ae Y ok X Cancel ES reduced by 2 seconds to 8 seconds Thus when Clip 2 starts it will begin with a ee ea EEN transition displaying the
136. el Next to the plus sign you can see a play status notification Further on there are several controls that vary within the different levels You can find a detailed description of each level below 3 gt AE 2 Momings 10 1030 In a Slide line you will see Enable Disable it is under development now check box Assign Layer button Lock Unlock button it is under development now and the Slide name check the Slide Line Properties section below on how to change Slide names If you have assigned some layer s from the Master Container to a slide their number will be reflected in the Assign Layer button Thus if you have assigned one layer a small dark blue square will appear in the button If you assign two layers to the slide there will be two dark blue squares in the Assign Layer button and so on lt gt AASB n a Layer line there is no Assign Layer button as this contradicts the hierarchy However there is a Visible Invisible button This button will hide the currently selected layer from the work area so its objects will not impede you while creating another layer in the same slide After the Layer name there is always a figure in brackets It represents the number of objects contained in this layer gt Haca In an Object line you can see the status of the object play pause stop its visibility status an icon distinguishing its type and the name of the object NOTE The object visibility concerns only the status of th
137. ently selected line Delete the currently selected clip from the playlist Clear playlist remove all lines from the playlist E Use these buttons to Move the currently selected clip s up before the previous clip or down after the next clip the playlist even during playback NOTE You cannot move a clip above the currently playing one Reset playlist position If the current playlist has been started and then stopped the clips that are already played are colored in grey and their order cannot be changed Moreover next time you hitthe PLA Y button playback will start from the first black not played yet clip If you hit the playlist will be reset and the next time you hit PLA Y the playback will start from the very beginning of the playlist Simply put this is a kind of playlist rewinding Randomize selection press it to re arrange the currently selected clips in a random manner This button will display the Properties of the currently selected line While a clip is selected in the playlist grid below press this button to open the Clip Trimmer 19 Undo up to 6 latest actions AS The Volume Slider Probably the less noticeable part of the user interface is the Volume slider It is situated between the multi purpose zone and the playback control buttons It is used to compensate for different sound volume in separate clips You can control it with the and numeric keys on your keyboard or just by dragging
138. ere are any missing files in the playlist their real eN duration or zero duration can be displayed This will affect the playlists Total duration and End D A wanes seus time that are shown in the Status Bar at the bottom If this option is checked a question mark will Check Missing Files every fo see appear after Total Length and End at in the Status Bar If it iS not checked but there are ae spine re he E Set fy to resume on missing ive stream every 5i min missing files an exclamation mark will appear after Total Length and End at in the Status JV Autofill missing clips and live streams Ba r C Use category of the clip Custom category MBlink status bar on missing file in case there are missing files in the playlist the Total Length and End at cells in the status bar will become red and will start blinking MLog message if missing file exists check it to include the list of missing files in the log window X Cancel MShow warning window if there is a missing clip or stream checking this box will ensure that a warning dialog will pop up to prompt the operator that there is a missing clip stream in the playlist MCheck Missing Files every sec When you prepare your playlist you can add files to it that are not available in the online storage yet They appear in AirBox as red colored lines Check this box to let AirBox auto check whether the missing files are already available or not MAudio alarm
139. eset field contains a list of logo presets available for use To load a new preset press the Load button and select a file It will appear in the Preview area If you approve it press the Apply button to save the logo file in the preset list Y OK X Cancel NOTE In AirBox Lite you can use up to 4 logo presets Position 18x19 Invert alpha inverts the alpha key of the logo if the original picture file has an alpha Matte Color this is the background color which should be mixed with transparent colors and thus removed from the logo image Position illustrates the logo position on the screen On Startup these options are used to define the logo appearance upon pushing the x Start button in AirBox Video Audio Genera Audio Channels Logo AUX Sou 4 gt ONO Logo no logo appears when AirBox is started o ae Last used If there are no Logo preset events in the playlist the last used logo I Use Subitles will appear when AirBox is started So E Logo 1 If there are no Logo preset events in the playlist Logo Preset 1 from Fade Out ames 1 3 the list will appear when AirBox is started M Auto show box check it if you want to display the logo while you are editing it NOTE All changes will be shown on the screen immediately Y OK X Cancel Show button starts displaying the logo Channel in a Box Lite Hide button hides the l
140. essing the Up or Down button NOTE If you have selected some preset from Preset list then you cannot edit the Channel Mapping IMPORTANT In case the available in file mono channels are different in count than the ones selected for the output for example you have 2 mono channels in file but define 4 mono channels for the output the re mapping is made by the software up to the most popular re mapping rules If you want to make your own re mapping please ask our PlayBox support team Support playbox tv for assistance Audio Level in dB Enter a value here for changing the output audio level of the current stream The default value is zero 0 which means that there is no change lf you enter one 1 the output audio level will increase by one 1 dB If you enter minus one 1 the output audio level will decrease by one 1 dB Inthe Input Type field you can select from a drop down list a type for the sound in this audio stream like dialogue music and effects commentary voice over etc Inthe Output type field select the output encoding method PCM or DolbyDigital NOTE Currently DolbyDigital output is supported with a Deltacast card only The language of a sound could be selected from the Language field Meta Data this is a list of additional audio metadata for user defined audio streams For example default volume copyrights etc You can Add Delete or Edit metadata by selecting it
141. etween two frames in this Channel in a Box Lite working range place a check in the MLoop box and fill in the Start and End fields as well as the number of loops The frames included in the loop will be highlighted in pale yellow A blue arrow to the right of them will mark the final and the initial frame of the loop After adding your animation to the preview area an additional toolbar will become active In order to see it click on the animation object Speed Z Range From fl 3 To 2 v Loop Count B 3 Start EF 3 End fis af Select the desired Speed and enter the number of times you want to M Loop the animation This taskbar duplicates the range and loop settings in the Properties dialog box You can change those settings here as well Just choose a Range of animation frames to be displayed or check uncheck the MLoop option it enables leader loop trailer functionality When you check M it select the range of frames within which you want to loop If this option is selected the animation will start from the beginning Run to the End frame and loop between Start and End frames If you want the animation to run regularly again simply uncheck M the Loop box NOTE The From and Start fields represent the first frame that will be shown and the To and End fields represent the first frame that will NOT be shown Thus the difference between the To and the From and between the End and Start values will be equal to the number of frames that
142. exports the currently open project as a template It will be saved in the specified Template folder You have to specify this folder during T tleBox Net Control activation see Appendix 4 for details IMPORTANT The project must be exported as a template so that it could be controlled through AirBox Channel in a Box Lite Net control shows the connection status between AirBox and TitleBox IMPORTANT In order to be able to control TitleBox through Net Control output events from A rBox you have to switch TitleBox in Net Control mode TitleBox Network menu Net Control If you want to control a TitleBox project and its separate objects from AirBox you have to export it as a template TitleBox Network menu Export project as template The template folder will open automatically so you do not have to browse for it Just type a name and press Save Object Menu This menu contains object related commands Play shows and runs the selected object on the graphics frame buffer Pause freezes the object but it remains displayed on the graphics frame buffer Stop hides the object from the graphics frame buffer Order This function is active when there are overlapped objects You can move the selected object under or over the others Alignments This function is active when more than one object is selected It allows for aligning the objects to each other Assign Task this function invokes the Task Manager tor the select
143. f rows to scroll cursor 1 Command Script task This command is used if you want to create a task based on TitleBox internal commands You can refer to the TitleBox API to learn more about TitleBox internal commands For example you can create a Script for loading a new project in TitleBox PROJECT LOAD template1 tmpl Further you can assign this task to any of the existing events 3 Command Script Script Name test sript 1 Script text PROJECT LOAD template1 tmpl Load Script Save Script x Cancel 1 Enter the name of the task in the Script Name field Be aware that if you save your script with a certain name recognized by TitleBox it will be executed automatically under given conditions Check the Auto executed Scripts function described below 2 Enter the TitleBox command into Script text field 3 Press OK button to create the task 4 If you want to save the script from created task in a file press the Save Script button 5 If you want to use an existing script press Load Script button and select the script file IMPORTANT In order to use the Script task properly you need to be familiar with the TitleBox API commands which are listed and explained in the TitleBox API User Manual To obtain the latter please contact our support team at support playbox tv Channel in a Box Lite Event sequencer Task This task is designed for generating a time sequence for executing x
144. format clip_title n Afterwards create a script to send this information to TitleBox Next text clip_title 1 Where Next is the name of the text object in TitleBox and 1 is the index off setter to show the title of the following clip Channel in a Box Lite Moreover a bookmark can be used as a reference for presenting information about an item in the playlist Let us assume that the Bookmark name is Test1 and you want to display information about the title of the following clip Then the descriptor value should be Clip_title BM_Test1 To display the start time of an upcoming clip type clip_start n HHMMSS The command sent to TitleBox could be Start text clip_start 3 HHMM NOTE If you are using daily playlists the number n for the next file could correspond to some file in the next day s playlist For example if you have clip_title 100 and the current playlist ends after 90 lines AirBox will continue to count the items from the next day s playlist until it reaches 100 i e 10 more items The number of playlists ahead in which AirBox will continue searching is five 5 by default If you want to change this number please consult with our PlayBox support team Support playbox tv for instructions To show the start time and the title of an up coming clip create the following command Next text clip_start 4 HHMM clip_title 4 where Next is the name of the text object in TitleBox
145. frame but not the last frame of the trimmed part NOTE For MPEG files the trimming is GOP accurate IN points can be positioned only on I frames while OUT points can be positioned on l or P frames Depending on the stream s GOP size this may lead to a slight inaccuracy limited to half a GOP for the IN points and a couple of frames for the OUT points If the stream s GOP size is one I frames only then trimming will be frame accurate NOTE Even if you specify In and Out points in a particular timecode some playout plug ins for ex IPPUMP will correct them to nearest I frame for IN point or l or P frames for OUT point Thus outputted duration could be shorter then specified Play button starts playing the clip Then it transforms to pause resume If you want to play only the trimmed part i e between the N and OUT points press lt Shift gt Play Stop button eg sais the playback and rewinds the clip to its beginning Pause Resume button It stops and resumes the clip playback from the same timecode position Button Y skips one frame forward Button a reverts to one frame backward Button fast forward if it is possible Button rewind if possible Button moves to the next mark point in out bookmark Button moves to the previous mark point in out bookmark Add Zone button marks the beginning of a zone A yellow point appears in the trim bar Delete Zone button L deletes the selected zone
146. g the Show external video window in the View menu Some AirBox configurations do not provide such video overlay functionality In some cases you might want to disable the window since it consumes additional resources from the system Then you will have to uncheck Show External Video Window in the View menu Preview Counters Current playlist Playlists Log 4 gt Counters This tab contains all counters that can be found in the View menu Their names are written in the lower left corner Right clicking in the Clip timer or in the Block timer will invoke a context menu to switch it to count down mode Please check the View menu section below for a detailed description of the counters Current Playlist This tab contains information and simple controls about the currently loaded playlist Preview Counters Current playlist Playlists Log view Name this is the title of the currently loaded playlist It is different from its filename You can JE i Gales change it in the dialog that appears after double clicking in the string Start time 00 00 00 TE 00 00 00 00 Start time by default it is set to zero You can set a different start time for the playlist by either F Cock pispis entering the value or using the arrow keys FF Elyas Loop TC this is an offset that will be applied to the time code which is broadcast over the network eae see Settings menu gt General section lf the 4 Lock playlist box is c
147. g the playback Append at playlist end E wi add the selected command to the end of the playlist TIP 1 If you need to insert an event line in another position in the playlist just drag n drop the relevant button to the line in which you would like to insert it TIP 1 Hold down the Alt key while clicking on a button to toggle the current mode of operation Thus you will switch between Execute Insert modes for this particular command To change the buttons number and appearance press the gear wheel button EJI The buttons setup dialog will pop up Define the dimensions at your will NOTE If the matrix settings cannot accommodate all the buttons a warning dialog will appear and you will not be able to apply the changes NEW For emergency execution of certain items in the playlist you can assign a Jump shortcut to a button The jump to target can be a playlist item number or a bookmark name NOTE You cannot drag these shortcuts to the playlist They work only in execute mode TIP Instead of going to View menu you can press lt Ctrl gt lt G gt to open the Clipboard window TIP Instead of pushing a button you can press the lt Ctrl gt number key to execute the command assigned to the relevant button x Right clicking on a button in the ShotBox invokes a context menu which allows you to do the Se REE dA following Index 2a f Jump to bookmark Name Commercials 5 Logo event view a detailed
148. ght and text size However resizing a Crawl s height and a Roll s width should be done while the objects are stopped Deleting Objects An object can be deleted by selecting it and clicking on the Delete button on the Main Toolbar It can also be deleted by using the lt Delete gt key on your keyboard 81 Channel in a Box Lite All objects can be deleted by clicking on the New Project button and clicking on the No button in the dialog that asks you if you want to save your changes xl Pu alele e slade a Object List CA TS O Ab Bunderishka 86 51 0 00 0 00 p Ab Weather_Plato 87 446 0 00 0 00 PENE i o ab weather_Shiligarmika 87 446 0 00 0 00 The Object list is intended for fast switching and reviewing of objects and their a A Weather_ Todorka 87 46 ooo 000 properties such as Left and Top side positions Duration and Delay Here you edo ii SS an ie H H i 12 Clock 555 108 0 00 0 00 can easily Group Ungroup objects change their Order z order and control AA ao e m their playout and visibility status by pressing the relevant buttons on the toolbar p Hia Temperature 53 448 000 000 ical Logo 546 39 0 00 0 00 ll Background 27 48 0 00 0 00 v Object Properties The Object Properties dialog boxes are different depending on the i object type All buttons have specific pictures and provide hints when you J ause slide the mouse pointer over them x Delete Del
149. gories also by the styles listed above Channel in a Box Lite Introduction MODULES Channel in a Box Lite consists of the following major modules AirBox The most important part of a transmission automation system It performs on air playback and control The module is designed for uninterrupted 24 hours 7 days a week content playout from online media storage It can also be used as a production server with interactive capabilities such as Next Jump Cue etc ListBox A standalone playlist editor designed for arranging previewing and trimming the available content without any hardware decoder requirements It contains useful playlist features such as text searching printing etc CaptureBox Sophisticated ingest round the clock CaptureBox controls VTRs via RS 422 and automatically captures batches of scenes or programs It also allows transferring a program to a tape precisely by using frame accurate timecode positioning Needless to say it also provides semi or completely automated scheduled capturing GPI interface VU peak audio meters and a number of other unique tools TitleBox TitleBox provides fully automated or interactive graphics overlay lt can also be synchronized to AirBox playout sequence It allows insertion of text and dynamic graphic information in accordance to external data sources Text information is received and rendered into high quality graphics on the fly INSTALLATION 1 Download Channel in
150. hannel To export the settings of the current AirBox instance go to Settings menu gt Save config and select the AirBox line The resulting file has extension 067 which means that it contains settings for only one AfrBox channel WARNING Please make sure to name the channel setting file after the instance name so that you know for sure which channel s settings are contained in it Later when you try to load the pb7 file on another system AirBox will not be able to distinguish which channel s settings you load therefore you need to recognize this from the filename To export the settings of all AirBox channels select All AirBox instances The resulting file has extension ob0 Later when you load it on another machine it will affect all AirBox channels available there Live Inputs Opens the Live Inputs editor When you are using AirBox with a live input device you have different configurations in the Live Inputs tab Channel in a Box Lite The Live Inputs dialog allows you to add as many live inputs as you wish and edit their settings The Live Inputs dialog contains a list of all available live inputs They are designated by a Live name and an ID number Clicking on the the Details field to the right contains information about each separate input In order to 5 see the specifications about a given input just select it from the list i i When you select a Live Input the right area of the PlayBox Live Editor wil
151. harp edges smoother thus avoiding possible aliasing effects on the output NOTE It is NOT possible to capture overlay video in this object SLIDE MANAGER In the past you could create your TitleBox projects in a single layout only If you had to open a new layout you had to load a new project It was like having a single sheet of paper per project With the Slide Manager your project turns into a sketchpad allowing you to organize your projects in a multi slide layout Each sheet of this pad is called a Slide In each Slide you can have numerous groups of objects called Layers Finally in each Layer you can have as many objects as your system can handle You can now control your slides layers objects manually or play the slides consecutively or simultaneously by using the Slide Controller The Slide Manager is locked to the right of the work area You can open and close it by using the Slide Manager __ button situated in the lower right corner of the TitleBox interface You can also drag the Slide Manager out of the main TitleBox window NOTE In TitleBox Lite you can have up to 4 slides per project Slide control buttons These buttons 5 4 3 gt are situated in the lower right corner of the TitleBox interface They provide simple slide control options The numbers in the middle represent information about the currently selected slide i e slide 2 of 3 in the screenshot above The main Slide Manager window consists of thre
152. he Advanced tab for more configuration options which differ depending on the selected Provider Finally you could view all settings for the current connection in the All tab Click OK and Close in all open windows until you return to the Data Source Manager In it double click on the newly created ODBC Data Provider instance A fine tune dialog will open for you to configure the data Query Press Execute Command to check if the connection is OK Cancel Help working correctly Press Apply and Close To assign the ODBC Data Provider instance to an object drag it from the list in the right to the relevant object in the left Close the Data Source Manager window Channel in a Box Lite XML Data Provider Choosing this plug in allows you to insert data into TitleBox object from an xml file Choose it from the list of available plug ins and press Add button The following window will open Into XML field enter the location of the xml file Into XSL field enter the location of the related xsl xslt file An XSL eXtensible Stylesheet Language file is needed for defining XML document transformation and presentation Since the XML eon ead not use predefined tags it is necessary to provide the application with information on how to interpret the XML In TitleBox the XSL file is needed to transform the XML file to coma separated text table NOTE Currently under Microsoft Windows 7 you can use only Msxml4 0 with update msxm
153. he number of mono channels included in this stream Presset Mono y NOTE If you have selected some preset from the Preset list then Stereo Surround a the number of the mono channels appears automatically and you a cannot change it Mono LE 3 front LFE If you select the Preset to be Unknown you can enter the Dolby ProLogic number of mono channels manually and you can define your own channel mapping into the Channel Mapping area 10 x m Audio Mapping Front Center w Front Center LFE Subwoofer Back Left Channel Mapping By default when you select some number of mono channels in the Channel Mapping field you will see the most popular mapping types for them Front Left of Center Front Right of Center Back Center Side Left NOTE There is an option in which the Channel Mapping could be disabled If you would like to disable these settings please contact our support team at support playbox tv If you select 2 mono channels the Mapping will contain a Front Left and a Front Right channel If you select 4 mono channels the Mapping will be Front Left Front Right Front Center and LFE Subwoofer You can delete one or more of these mono channels by pressing the Del button to the right of the Channel Mapping area Then you can add a new channel for audio mapping by pressing the Add button To change the channels order just select one of them and move it up or down in the list by pr
154. he object s Contrast Brightness and change its pal Color Balance You can choose to Blur the object and set the blur radius by using the slider X Cancel below The Anti flicker option is designed for smoothing the high contrast computer graphics when overlaying it over video Change the Vertical Value to prevent flickering of the graphics edges UL 83 Channel in a Box Lite 42 Text Object Properties The Text objects have three groups of settings options Text and Background Properties You can edit the common text attributes such as font selection size color blur shadow etc and background attributes from another object specific toolbar Eea A Aaa Aer AH This toolbar appears in the last row of the TitleBox toolbar when you double click on a Text template object Another way to invoke it is by pressing the Property button 15 in the second row of the toolbar while a Text object is selected single click Write the new texts directly in the object Pressing El invokes the FontDialogEx dialog which allows you to manage the font of the selected text Here you can find all the formatting options as known from other windows based editing applications x General Name Size A E Italic Charset Antialising I Underline Cyrilic gt High y I Strike Out AV Fill 4 Outline MV Shadow Color Color Outline Size Color Blur eet a SRR e Effect Effect Blur Offset E E a f 180
155. he same calendar day i e the daily playlist should not go beyond midnight Otherwise we cannot guarantee the proper operation of the fixed time logics and the daily playlist logics 3 16 42 PM Unnamed playlist 1 18 2012 3 18 43 PM Unnamed playlist WARNING We strongly DO NOT recommend using stop events and live streams without duration in daily playlists The reason is that in case of accidental shut down there is no way to calculate the duration of these items and thus to determine the insertion point So AirBox will not be able to catch up with the schedule You can still use them in daily playlists but at your own risk NO N9 23 Channel in a Box Lite Edit View Settings Tools Commands F a Print playlist ay sui Cut Ctrl x Sl cats Send To OneNote 2010 Arial y y SIJO y ee SS Paste Ctrl V Start time Duration Type Category Star r Add gt Unnamed playlist pest gt C Program Files PlayBox Technology Ltd AirBoxtest_playlists ttest1 ply Delete current from list Del Satine owraton ne ey ited cis alle aha ioe pocos fosron reo zpaas sors pm ae aie 2 CB_390_TS_DinW 3 18 24 05 10 04 10 00 22 MPEG 2 PALI 4 CB_330_TS_Dinw Clip Trimmer Alt Enter 4 22 34 06 07 00 03 50 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48 KAMELIA_KAK D ostias Ciento 5 22 37 57 04 00 00 30 21 MPEG 2 PAL 48 cat2 AYTO_PLANETA operie z 6 22 38 28 00 04 10 00 22 MPEG 2 PAL 48
156. he settings Press Close button to close the window without changes RSS Atom Data Provider II As mentioned before Data Provider II shows all lines of RSS source together into the linked object The different lines are separated by some delimiter Choose Data Provider II from the list of available plug ins and press Add button The following window will open Instance Configuration x RSS Atom Feed geile ne eect ee Iv Limit s E IV Use Channel Image or Delimiter gk Test Feed Apply Close In RSS Atom Feed field enter the URL of the RSS feed Check Limit check box if you want to limit the number of displayed lines and enter the number of lines into the next field By default Limit check box is checked and the number of lines is five Channel in a Box Lite Then enter the Delimiter sign If the source channel provides the Channel image you can select Use Channel Image check box If it is checked but there is no channel image than the AirBox channel image Y will be shown by default If you want to use your own picture as delimiter you can use bitmap or movie tags into the field Inserting of the bitmap or movie tags is the same like for text objects See here for description NOTE RSS data providers works with Internet Explorer only You need Internet Explorer v 8 0 or higher NOTE It is possible to see RSS data in TitleBox differently ordered than it is visible in the RSS source site It is becaus
157. hecked it will prevent you from editing the currently loaded playlist as well as from loading another playlist Use it to prevent accidental changes of the playlist during playout M Playlist Loop if checked when the playback of the last clip in the playlist is complete playback will continue from the beginning of the playlist again M Clip Loop if checked the currently playing clip will be repeated until unchecked When AirBox is in stop mode this check will loop the first clip to be played after resuming the playout i e the last played before pushing the Stop button Preview Counters Current playlist Playlists Log vier 4 gt Playlists C Program Files PlayBox Technology LtdAirBox E In this tab you can view all playlists that are found in the currently selected playlist folder __E z gt z gt displayed in the string To change the folder click on the Browse button to the right of Unnamed playlist 26 9 2011 11 13 C the string TIP 1 Double click on a playlist line to load the relevant playlist in AirBox Please note that this will interrupt the playback Log view This tab displays a list of all events that have occurred during AirBox operation Current playlist Playlists Log view ShotBox ShotBox hue This tab accommodates the live show clipboard Here you can view and operate with the 2 10 tos ston custom command buttons It duplicates the live show clipboard window that opens fro
158. her Data Provider 01 ODEC Data Provider 01 ESB XML Data Provider 01 TR HTML Table Data Provider 01 Emergency Alert System EAS Data Provider 01 JRSS Atom Data Provider 01 HTML Table Data Provider 02 rE Emergency Alert System EAS Data Provider 02 Text Weather Data Provider 02 WindCo 20 sec The left part of this dialog contains a list of all objects in the current project and already assigned to them data source instances Data Source Manager To add a new data source instance press the Add oF R Data Source Version xn Data Provider 1 0 2 7 TE Emergency Alert System EAS Data Pro 1 0 2 7 The list of currently available data provider plug ins will open In it you can choose the data source to be used as a new instance Select its line and press Config The configuration dialogs vary according to the selected plug in You can read more detailed description of each plug in definition further in that manual When you configure the plug in and press OK button into the main screen a new data provider appears in the list Refresh Select the needed data provider and drag amp drop it over the TitleBox object in the left O weather Data Provider A FileLink Data Provider 8 ODBC Data Provider EN RSS Atom Data Provider HTML Table Data Provider 1 0 2 7 1 0 2 7 1 0 2 7 1 0 2 7 1 0 2 7 Cancel Then a DataDistributor Properties window will open Here you have to define the way of d
159. hour after the beginning of the playlist set to 9 00 o clock through a wait event NOTE Playback recovery options will not be applied when AirBox is running in daily playlist mode In daily playlist mode AirBox will always try to catch up with the schedule according to the playlist start time and the current system time Reload playlist In this section you can adjust settings related to the way AirBox handles playlist reloading M Reload playlist on file change reloads the current playlist automatically if in the meantime it has been changed and saved by another user M Reload daily playlist without playing it in certain occasions playlists should not start playing when reloaded WARNING When this box is checked A rBox will not calculate the insertion point when reloading playlist on file change either MFill gap between playlists if there is a gap between the current playlist and the playlist after it AirBox will use the auto fill clip to compensate for this gap if this box is checked Pre cache new playlist HU minutes before start specify how many minutes before the playlist starts AirBox should cache it NOTE For long playlists we recommend entering higher pre cache time values Daily Playlist loading tolerance i second s specify the daily playlist loading tolerance in seconds Loading a playlist always takes a few moments depending on its length AirBox calculates the exact point to start playback afte
160. how frame values in playlist check it to view the number of frames at the end of the duration value in the Duration column MColor entire row by category fills the entire row in the playlist with the Category tield color of the relevant clip This option refers to categories in DataBox You can change the category color in DataBox gt Options gt Default values gt Colors to AirBox NOTE You will have to drag n drop entries from the DataBox grid into the AirBox grid to view their category color MShow external event s thumbnails in the hint by default you will be able to view thumbnails of all TitleBox templates used in the TitleBox Net Control events in the playlist If you do not need them just go to this check box and uncheck it M Disable misusable critical shortcuts replaces regular shortcuts of dangerous playback commands with alternative ones as in the table to the left MLarge status bar enlarges the status bar at the bottom of the AirBox window MUse Extended MPEG info tip enables showing detailed file information in the hint when sliding the mouse pointer over a clip in the playlist MHide hardware reset button checked by default uncheck this box to be able to see the Reset hardware button under the counters in the main AirBox interface MAlways show playing item on top of the grid scrolls the playlist grid so that the currently playing item is on top of it MShow progress bar in block timer
161. ic rules and set the conditions and action offset time Please check the Graphic rules section for details IMPORTANT Make sure not to use tab characters in the metadata fields Otherwise the saved metadata will not be interpreted correctly Lower part of the window The lower part of the Metadata window is used for entering specific metadata related to video parameters of the current clip The metadata is grouped in three main categories Video Mixing and Audio Video Metadata MRescale Type rescaling type for the video MRescale value if the rescale type is Custom then you can add a specific rescale value in this field MResample Type resampling of the video bitrate If the resample type is Custom then you can add a specific resample value from the next field MResample value if the resample type is Custom then you can add a specific resample value in this field MASCS Aspect Size conversion strategy this is a type of conversion of video files with a different aspect ratio than the one set for the global playout The values here are the same as those in the Output Video Setting dialog MField order input this is the field order of the input file If there is no info about the field order in the file or if it is wrong you can enter it here M tem input Aspect the aspect ratio of the current clip If there is no info about the aspect ratio of the file or if it is wrong you can enter the value here
162. ief the default auto fill clip is always there in case something goes wrong with the other filling content You can specify this file in the Settings menu gt Auto fill dialog Category from previous event sets the auto fill category of the last played fixed time event in the playlist if such an event exists Category from fixed time event uses the category from the current fixed time event this corresponds to the auto fill setting in the Clip Properties dialog of the fixed time item Custom category a sequence of clips created by you in the Auto fill options dialog which will be played back if a gap appears Default start tolerance In case you could accept some later or earlier start of your fixed time events specify the exact parameters here Thus if the time until the end of the previous clip is within the allowable ater start it will be played out without being truncated Again if it finishes earlier within the allowable earlier period the fixed time clip will start playing without the need to fill in a several seconds gap This is NOT a fixed offset Example Let us assume that there are two items in the playlist an ordinary clip followed by a fixed time clip The first one finishes at 11 00 20 and the second one must start at 11 00 00 This is a time conflict situation However if the fixed time has set a later start tolerance of 30 seconds for example AirBox will play the first item until its end and
163. ill be played back as fixed NOTE The playlist is protected against engendering conflicting situations when inserting fixed time events You will not be allowed to set a fixed start time for an item if there is an overlapping fixed time already inserted in the playlist If you try to enter a conflicting start time the Use fixed start time field will become red and pressing OK will invoke a warning dialog Conflicting situations could also be caused by applying offset values to these items Default behavior when overlapping preceding events When using fixed time events in the playlist one can always come across some conflicts with the ordinary content i e without fixed start times There can be two major conflict types 1 The content to be played until the fixed start time is more than the time allowed for example there are 15 minutes of clips and only 10 minutes until the fixed time so there is overlapping 2 There is not enough content to be shown until the fixed start time say there are 5 more minutes of clips in the playlist before the fixed time row and the fixed time itself will go on air after 15 minutes a gap is formed It is up to you to precise the rule for automatic settling of this conflict The default behavior when overlapping preceding events could be one of the following Skip playing event and do an auto fill all preceding clips that cannot be played as a whole i e from the beginning
164. ink Project gt Plugins gt File Link in this text file The chat note will be updated every time the relevant file is saved The object s properties are controlled in the same way as the other objects see the Text object properties section A Chat Note can be also treated as a Text object but when you enter a text in it the text is always shown as a new line coming from the bottom and the old text is rolling to the top The information entered is not saved into the project When you click on this object once an additional object specific toolbar will appear below the standard ones Specify the desired speed for changing the text lines in the chat note in seconds via the Speed spin box e p 3 When you double click on the object a wndow will appear The properties are the same as for the Text object s Text and Background properties IMPORTANT When the object is linked to txt file then the font formatting is taken from TitheBox font properties When the object is linked to an rtf file on the other hand then the font formatting is taken from the rtf file itself Channel in a Box Lite i Digital Clock Properties 1502419 The default Digital Clock object looks like the one to the right It displays the current system time You can change it by using the Time Offset spin box see the bottom of this page A text formatting toolbar appears upon double clicking on the digital clock object Ej Pl e Arial y s
165. ird one from the left allows you to select the clock of which hardware device to be used Note that if you only have one hardware device configured it will be used by default If you set the clock clock of non hardware output to be used AirBox will simply use the system timer Be aware that in this case an additional timebase correction may be necessary In the example to the left the clock of the Decklink platform is selected Video Settings The Setup column allows you to invoke Fixed Resolution the setup dialog of each separate output Setar fe To do that simply double click on the 720x576 corresponding Setup row and a dialog will 720x480 appear depending on the type of output The next column fifth from the left invokes 19201080 a dialog like the one shown to the right 1280x720 Here you can set the resolution of the 1440x1080 output 2048x1556 Custom Resolution The sixth column from the left is used for a E refreshing the output and the last one NP Height 4800 7 AirBox Preview online Preview Preview DeltaCastHD MPEG Transport Streaming Decklink Preview If you select Decklink or DeltaCast HD a dialog as the one to the left will appear Here you can simply enter the name of your output and choose an existing Decklink Video Render Decklink platform from the list Once l Decklink Video Render 2 you are done press OK Select Address al lugin ID MPEG Transport Streaming
166. is is a system time clock It could be shown as a digital or analog clock Right click on it and select the desired appearance from the context menu You can also set whether the date to be visible or not 4 5 21 27 P 1 18 2012 Clip Timer This is a clip related timer lts accuracy depends on the MPEG2 decoder used Right clicking over it invokes a context menu in which you can choose the timer mode time elapsed remaining If you check the VW Count down item the timer will show exactly how much time remains until the end of the currently playing clip The background is black anda blue progress bar indicates what portion of the clip has already passed If you uncheck the Vv Count down row the Clip timer will start counting up showing the elapsed time from the beginning of the clip The colors of the progress bar and the digits will reverse TIP The color of the progress bar and that of the digits can be changed in Settings Colors gt Timers by clicking in the relevant fields there CountDown Block Timer End at Wait 60 sec Block Timer This is an event related countdown timer lt shows how much time remains until the selected playlist event or until the End of the playlist Choose the event type to display from the drop down list Stop Stop Cue Wait Wait Until etc If there are several uniform events in the playlist they are shown in a pop up list arranged by their playlist line numbers so you can
167. isting tasks If you don t want to have delayed task uncheck relative Enable check box Into OnLoop field enter the task which will be executed on every loop Move Picture 1 Into Loop Interval field enter the interval for repeating the task 5sec 5000ms Into Loops Count field enter how many times the task will be repeated 10 lf Loops Count is zero 0 the looping will be infinite until task is running Into OnStop field enter the task which will be executed at the end of the sequence Start timer1 This task will start when the looping is finished or when a Stop Sequence command is send When you are ready with definition of the sequence press the OK button to save it You will see two tasks in the task list created automatically Start sequence name and Stop sequence name The command Stop sequence name usually is used to stop a sequence when the Loopinterval is zero infinite Play Sound It is designed for creating sound tasks Pushing the icon will open the Play Sound dialog and all you have to do is to browse for the sound you need You can open all Direct Show compatible sound files wav mp3 etc You can preview all sound tasks in the Task Manager using the Play and Stop buttons HER Channel in a Box Lite Windows Named Event Task ees a This task is related to Windows Named Event Objects For more information about them you can E refer to Windows documentation Action M I
168. itch between the overlapping objects using the lt Alt gt click combination The name of the currently selected object will appear in the Name field and will be highlighted in the Object list window You can activate this window from within the Object menu The Name field contains the name of the object The default names are Type _ i e Crawl 1 Roll 3 etc You can change them at your will The names are most important when you use the Objects list window where only names and properties are displayed In order to change the object name just select the object and then enter a new name into the Name field In the Delay field you can specify a delay for each individual object A three second delay means that the object would start three seconds after you have pressed the Show object e button In the Duration field you can specify the duration for an object if needed The duration determines how long the object will be displayed after pressing the Show object Go button The Order buttons MM allow defining the objects order in case they overlap Overlapping dynamic objects is not desirable The Alignment buttons gt allow for aligning objects to each other These buttons work when more than one object is selected The Lock buttons are used for locking the horizontal or vertical or both sizes of the object The X and Y numeric fields stand for X and Y positions of the selected object in the 2D space The W and H
169. ject NOTE There is no possibility to insert images as background but you can still insert images and OLE objects in the Roll Crawl objects Pressing LAtinvokes the FontDialogEx dialog which allows you to manage the font of the selected text Here you can find all the formatting options as known from other windows based editing applications Use the Fill Effect button and its additional buttons to modify the colors for your text You tam can select None for color Gradient color or Texture Fill Te j Gradient col If you click on Gradient color trom the drop down list you can select from 255 levels of graded transparency and a vast variety of colors Texture Fil In the Gradient properties dialog fix the desired settings Choose a Style for the gradient from the drop down list x In the square field to the left drag the cursor to change the gradient positioning Ange jS In the rectangle field below define the gradient colors and their Style Radial y xe initial points Place the plus sign cursor in the desired position and click A black triangle will appear in that position to mark the currently selected Center x so 3 Open Center Y 50 Save Ph is point All other marks will become white Scale fo 3 Double click on the black triangle to invoke the Color setting dialog E a Modify the color for this color change point at your will and click OK
170. k When you set this option you should bear in mind that the default start time for all playlists in AirBox is 00 00 00 hours Therefore if you have started your playlist manually after a power failure AirBox will resume playback from that point in the playlist which corresponds to the initial time 00 00 00 plus the current system clock time For example you start your playlist manually at 9 00 N Channel in a Box Lite o clock and at 9 30 a power failure that persists till 10 00 occurs After the power supply is recovered at 10 00 o clock AirBox will resume playback from the point in the playlist that is 10 00 hours away from its beginning considering 00 00 00 as an initial start time In short AirBox will forward the playlist to the point of power supply recovery taking 00 00 00 as initial time In order to overcome this you should compile your playlists to start with wait events or fixed time items The wait events values should be set in hours from 00 00 00 to the desired start time of your playlist i e for the above example your playlist should start with a wait for 9 hours event or with a fixed start clip Thus in case of power failure A rBox will account for the initial time set by you and will resume playback from the point that corresponds to the power recovery time Let us consider the example above With this setting at 10 00 o clock AirBox will start from the point which corresponds to one
171. l Buttons 21 Playlist Drag n Drop 13 Playlist Grid 36 Playlist Grid 12 Playlist Right click 14 Playlists 11 Playout 10 Print Playlist 23 Remote control TitleBox Net Control 37 Return Event 20 Save config 55 Save Daily Playlist 22 Settings 32 ShotBox 11 28 Source Clip Properties 15 Startup options 44 Status Bar 20 Stop Event 19 StopCue Event 19 System Timer 27 Timecode Timer 28 Timecode Timer 28 Title Bar 10 Transition 17 26 Trimmer Server 22 User interface 10 User Interface 10 Menu Bar 10 Video Overlay Window 11 View Menu 27 Volume Control 30 Volume slider 21 Wait Event 19 Wait TC Event 19 CAPTUREBOX Capture tab 66 Capturing 67 Menu bar 68 MUSE 65 RS 422 68 TDIR 67 VTR control 68 CLIP TRIMMER Clip Shots 120 Clip Zones 120 External Output Configuration 121 Extra 121 Filters 121 Pages 119 Preview Screen 117 Status Bar 119 Trimmer Control 117 User Interface 117 Video Clip Info 119 Volume Control 119 LISTBOX Edit menu 63 Playback control 61 Playlist Control Buttons 61 Playlist grid 62 LIVE VIEWER 122 Installation 122 User Interface 122 OVERVIEW PlayBox Modules AirBox 8 CaptureBox 8 ListBox 8 TitleBox 8 TITLEBOX Analogue clock 88 Animation file 90 Animation properties 89 Banner 93 Browser object 97 Chat note 93 Creating objects 80 Dataproviders EAS 110 Dataproviders FileLink 105 Dataproviders HTML 110 Datapr
172. l show you its configuration properties Two different types of inputs can be configured CaptureDevice and UDP Note that you can change the type of each separate input by selecting the desired option from the corresponding Type drop down list Type UDP Name 4 Closed Captions None UDP Port 1 UDP Program ID 0 The CaptureDevice properties are shown to the right Set its ID number and Name from the corresponding field and MEnable ODisable the MAuto Start option which allows the input to be automatically initiated once it is set NOTE The AirBox Lite version does NOT support Closed Captions Further down the dialog select the video Device used for this input its Format Fields order and Aspect ratio The Audio field also allows you to select a Device and Format In the AirBox Lite version you can define only one stereo stream PlayBox Live Editor a r Properties Type CaptureDevice Name 1 v Live_1 Auto Start r Closed Captions None r Video Device AVerMedia BDA Analog Capture Format 320x240 29 97 fps 16 bits Interlaced Fields Upper Aspect 4 3 r Audio Device Microphone 2 High Definition Format PCM 2 ch 44100 Hz 16 bits Streams Details E Stream Language Chuvash Mono Channels 7 Front Left Front Right Front Center vr with up to two mono channels To define a stream press the Ad
173. l when checking MForce jump on time in bookmarks There are several possible scenarios when using bookmarks and DTMF GPI triggers combined When the bookmark Name is used as a reference i e the DTMF GPI command is Jump to bookmark If there is a Time range specified in the bookmark s properties and the trigger comes within this time range A rBox will jump to this bookmark If there is a Time range specified in the bookmark s properties and the trigger comes outside this time range A rBox will ignore the command If there is no Time range specified in the bookmark s properties A rBox will jump to that bookmark unconditionally upon receiving the trigger tone pulse When the Time zone is used as a reference i e the DTMF GPI command is Jump to bookmark in time range If the trigger comes within the time range AirBox will jump to this bookmark lf the trigger comes outside the time range AirBox will jump to the nearest following bookmark according to the system clock WARNING Please make sure to set the Time zones correctly since late arrival of the DTMF tone will cause AirBox to jump to the next bookmark thus possibly skipping some of the items that are situated between the two bookmarks as in the following example If a bookmark s Time zone is set From 15 36 32 To 16 36 32 and the DTMF tone does not arrive AirBox could jump to the following item in the playlist at 16 36 32 If the DTMF tone arrives at 17 00 00
174. l4 KB973685 There is no update from Microsoft Windows 7 for Msxml6 0 If you have a header line check the check box Treat first row as header Press More button to see the source xml file the related xls file and the result of the transformation In order to see the Result first press play E button Instance Configuration XML D DemolWeather xml XLS D Demo Weather xslt Treat first row as header Engine MSXML 6 0 O Use out of process transformation Day Conditions Sat SUNNY Sun PARTLY CLOUDY Mon FAIR Tues FAIR Wed PARTLY CLOUDY Conditions SUNNY PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY en NOTE If xml files used with XML data provider are web based files it is needed to download these files locally on your PC first For downloading you can use a dedicated application Downloader exe included in TitheBox installation You can find Downloader exe in TitleBox folder Start the application and the following window will open To add a new source for downloading right mouse click on the black area and the set up dialog will appear Here you have to enter the URL of the source and the location for saving the file If access to the source needs some Username and Password enter them in the relevant feelds 109 Channel in a Box Lite Add New Download E x URL Destination 5 ser RSS Data Providers Choosing this plug in allows you to connect to RSS feeds from the Internet RSS Real
175. last 2 seconds of Clip 1 NOTE The clips that precede clips with applied transition in the playlist are trimmed immediately after OK button of dialig applying transition is pressed Thus if you want to change any transition duration during playout you have to trim its preceding playlist item manually by modifying the duration settings in the General tab of the Clip Properties dialog NOTE Even if you have set the Type of transition to None the clip preceding the transition will still be trimmed if the source clip with the transition duration option is checked If you want to keep these settings for other transitions in the playlist press Set as default NOTE Transitions are supported only for the new mixed playout plug ins xi Metadata The Metadata tab provides room for additional information fields related to the currently sel selected clip Upper part of the window In the upper part of the window you can include additional metadata related to the content of the clip This information can be entered manually or by dragging from DataBox In all cases you need to specify some metadata categories that will accommodate the relevant metadata values Name E video a O Rescale Type Standard O Rescale Value Pure O Resample Type Standard O Resample Yalue 1 Poor DO ASCS Type Best Fit j Settings preset y O x URL FILE D Demo MPEG SONY mpg Previous Y DK X Cancel Next
176. ld project when loading a new one Mix Objects This command is a duplicate of the Mix Draw Mode button It will blend the overlapping objects in the project Channel in a Box Lite Driver Select In TitleBox Lite only one driver is supported y Mapped Memory Driver This driver is used when AirBox and TitleBox are PO being used in the same playout system lt allows keying the graphics over the video NA Aaa played in AirBox Preview Driver f E XK Cancel Driver Setup Press it to change the output settings The available options depend on the currently used driver Mapped Memory Driver settings xi Output Buffer Size select the output resolution from the drop down list If you select a Output Buffer Size eens Custom resolution then the next Width and Height fields will become available for enterenig 720 576 your resolution values Fields Type Field 1 First y X Cancel M Flip if you check this box the output graphics will be flipped at 90 degrees Fields type select the field order from the drop down list Press the OK button to save the changes Plug ins This item shows the list of available external plug ins File link Opens a list of all objects in the project and their links if any to external files Any changes in those files are applied in real time The file links apply to the text and picture objects only Task Manager Select this menu item to
177. lds and in the ato I Convert all 20 to spaces lower zone you can specify the properties of each metadata field Star ALL CAPS All Fist Caps Title Capitalize first only Advanced conversion a Y Include letters IV Include numbers For clarification please have a look at the following example SEPARATOR p g p Ey Append O at end Let us pick a sample filename like BGMusic Lime_Biscuit _ iS Fixed length F Variable length The_road_to_heaven live mpg Enter the latter name in the Filename field Totatengh 2 Mii 0S character You could also browse for existing files or choose from the drop down list of levee YT filenames after pushing the arrow button to the right of the Filename field The Separators O E haden drop down list contains all filenames of the currently loaded playlist el Crop at E Q end This is a possible way to name music files create a preset let us call it ii een Music Yoma Push the P US button situated to the right of the Active file parser preset field ae A dialog will prompt you to name the new preset You can rename it later on by pushing the Recycle 33 button or delete it by pushing the Minus Al button Once you have entered the preset name you can start explaining the naming rules Let us go back to the sample filename you can see that its structure contains in order of appearance an abbreviation BG a category name Music a separator a name of a perf
178. ll look like this Text1 text clip_start STAR_Madonna clip_title STAR_Madonna to show the stat time and title of the next clip in the playlist that has Madonna assigned as Star OR Text1 text clip_start STAR_Madonna 1 clip_title STAR_Madonna 1 to show the title of the second clip down the playlist that has Madonna assigned in the Star column IMPORTANT Again there should be no plus or minus signs in the Star name Besides Category and Star you could use a clips Metadata as an index modifier to display information about upcoming events In such cases the script should look like this Text1 text clip_start METADATA_Show clip_title METADATA_Show Thus AirBox will display information about the next clip in the playlist that has Metadata called Show in its properties in the first column of the Metadata tab OR Text1 text clip_start METADATA_Show 1 clip_title METADATA_Show 1 Thus you will display information about the second clip down the playlist that has Metadata Show in its properties Replacing 1 with 2 will display information about the third clip down the playlist that has Metadata Show in its properties and so on NOTE Even if there is no value for this metadata in the second column of the Metadata tab it will be considered valid and AirBox will display information about that clip Channel in a Box Lite IMPORTANT There should be no plus or minus signs in the Metada
179. lor for the safe area border M SnapToGid fx 15 lt fY 15 Y M View Grid Grid color check the box to see the grid and select its color The grid Max Undo Count 10 E is very useful when you resize your objects Bo Stier er M Snap to Grid check this box to align the objects in the project to the grid Use the O A E X and Y spin boxes to define the distance between two neighboring points in E E the grid On Startup e New File C Last Used C Open File Default X Cancel Max Undo Count specify the number of latest actions to be saved in the undo history Please note that the higher number here means higher memory usage NOTE You cannot undo removing objects M Show Objects Icons check this box to enable showing the objects icons in the upper left corner of each object in the work area Process Priority this slider will affect all other programs running on the system Please do not change the default setting unless advised so M Create backup on save project check this box to if you want TitleBox to create a backup file of your project every time you save it The backup file will be saved in the same folder in which your current project is saved and it will be with extention backup On Startup here you can select the start mode of TitleBox etwork Opti ons General Network Dutput WatchD og ae options are used for interaction between TitleBox and AirBox Channel ID NetControl
180. lready a fact The first time you enter this menu item you will have to go to the Change password row Clicking on it will open a dialog box containing three cells Old password New password and Confirm password As this is the first time you enter this menu item leave the first cell empty then write your password twice in the second and in the third cells your password can contain up to 256 symbols Click OK WARNING Make sure not to forget the password Now you are already logged on In order to restrict the access of all other users to the Settings menu you just have to log off Almost all menu items will become inaccessible at any attempt to enter a password will be required The only exceptions are Colors as they will not affect the playback Enable SubtitleBox but not Configure and Mirror mode Full mode Idle mode Change dongles also without configuration options access If you decide not to use password protection any more just go to Change password and enter the old password in the relevant field Leave the New password and Confirm password fields empty and click OK Save Load Settings If you need to configure several playout servers in the same way you can use these two options to copy settings and apply them to other machines Thus you will avoid configuring all your machines one by one You can export the settings of all AirBox channels on the machine or you can only copy those of the currently open c
181. lt BITMAP gt D logo jpg lt BIT MAP gt OC S al U 4 1 J Channel in a Box Lite Thus your text file will be Hello this is a test project lt BITMAP gt D logo jpg lt BITMAP gt It could also be Hello this lt BITMAP gt D Vogo jpg lt BITMAP gt is a test project Hello this is a lt BITMAP gt D logo jpg lt BITMAP gt test project Every time you edit the text and save the changes the text on the output will be refreshed If you want to change the picture change the file name and location part in the script here it is D logo jpg If you want to insert an animated gif file in the text write lt MOVIE gt instead of lt BITMAP gt For example Hello this is a test project lt MOVIE gt D smilie gif lt MOVIE gt NOTE There is no spell checker implemented in the TitleBox text objects roll crawl and text template You can use some external application for spell checking and then just copy and paste the text into the TitleBox object Channel in a Box Lite Dynamic Speed Properties Pushing the Property tools button E while a Roll Crawl object is selected will open the Dynamic properties dialog box This property dialog box allows you to specify different speeds of the Roll s and Crawl s movement The movement is represented graphically and you can define the speed of each point of the graphics The horizontal axis of the graphics represents the position of the Crawl Roll on the screen The vertical axis re
182. ly Simple Syndication is an XML based format for sharing and distributing Web content such as news headlines for example Currently many web sites provide RSS feeds There are 2 types of RSS dataproviders in TitleBox The main difference between them is that Data Provider I shows RSS feed line by line into the linked object while Data Provider II shows all lines of RSS source together into the linked object RSS Atom Data Provider Choose it from the list of available plug ins and press Add button The following window will open Instance Configuration R55 tom Feed http newsrss bbc co ukrssfnewsonline_uk_edition front_page rss xml Advanced w IF the Feed is unreachable show last Fetched data iw TF there is no data Fetched show instead of empty data show no data In RSS Atom Feed field enter the URL of the needed RSS feed To check the connection press Test Feed button You will receive a message if the connection is successful There are two advanced options available for choosing the proper behavior if the RSS feed is not reachable or if there is no data Check the first check box into Advanced area if the RSS feed is not reachable but you want to see the old data in the relative TitleBox object Check the second check box if there is no any data in RSS feed but you want to have some text into related TitleBox object like No data available or please excuse us etc Press Apply button to accept t
183. m AirBox Menu Settings gt Modules Remote Control and configure it Then you can put it as an event in the AirBox playlist Here is a list of available modules TitleBox Net Control output z This function allows managing the TitleBox objects from AirBox This is done by inserting Port EME Default Channels external events TitleBox NetControl Output events in the playlist 7 Broadcast 2 o TB Server 255 255 255 255 Be RBZ WA 28 Press the Configure button to configure further the TitleBox control You can set the A ss i connection port for this UDP communication it is set to 8012 by default If there is more than one ai TitleBox controlled through AirBox in your network set the TitleBox channel to which AirBox roe commands should refer ne If you check Broadcast the commands will be sent throughout the entire network If unchecked L vax X coea the commands will be sent only to the specified TitleBox Server For a detailed step by step guide on how to integrate TitleBox with AirBox see APPENDIX 2 Integration of AirBox with TitleBox Channel in a Box Lite Logo This option allows displaying a logo over the clips played in AirBox You dica Duna Remote comal Looe TC z may select a logo source from the list and assign it to the appropriate AirBox Available modules sox channel Tally Logo Tally pbx X Cancel Configure By Payback Module This is an internal logo generator that keys
184. m ston ston ston ston the View menu Please check the ShotBox section for details 9 Show lo 10 Show l 11 Show l 12 Show l AirBox Playlist 13 Showl 14 Show l 15 Show 16 Show l 11 AirBox works with play playlists play order Channel in a Box Lite Durston eategoy LO fe ae 7 11 00 03 35 Mike s New Car MPEG2 48 kHz Mike s New Car E mpe 12 26 47 00 00 00 Logo Off Event 12 26 47 00 3 SONY APEG2 ESO 12 27 17 00 00 00 ow 1 ETR loc 03 35 0 52 00 3 1 03 3 2 27 00 07 0 001 MPEG2 48 kHz 12 34 21 00 07 07 movie_001c MPEG2 48 kHz 41 26 10 00 0 or the Bird Missing 12 41 28 00 03 50 Viktoria Moliaga MPEG 2 48 kHz 12 45 19 00 00 00 Logo Off Event 124519 00 00 30 SONY MPEG2 48 kHz 12 45 49 00 00 00 Show Logo F Event 12 45 49 00 07 07 movie_001c MPEG2 48 kHz 12 52 57 00 03 50 Viktoria_MoliaSe MPEG2 48 kHz 12 56 47 00 00 Counter IBP 8Mbit_ MPEG2 48 kHz iy For the Bid You can easily create a playlist manually just by drag n dropping files into A rBox grid or in ListBox lt is also possible to create a playlist with any third party application software It is necessary that this application can create playlists in a format compatible with AirBox The AirBox playlist format is described in details in AirBox SDK For obtaining AirBox SDK please
185. mbols for the Star Channel in a Box Lite field the Metadata fields list should contain Star NONE SEPARATOR instead of Star SEPARATOR You can change the positions of the metadata fields by drag n dropping them Append at end field gives an opportunity to add characters to the end of a metadata field Some fields like Title Category etc are displayed directly in the AirBox grid Others like Tape ID for example may provide information to SubTitle Plus or SubtitleBox see below for proper display of the corresponding subtitles When you use the filename parser to display subtitles you have to create a preset with naming structure Tape ID and SEPARATOR and the fields length should be set to Variable In the clip s properties dialog fill in the same Tape ID as that in the subtitle file NOTE In order to use the features of the Filename parser module you must set it first and then add files to the playlist THE MODULE CANNOT PARSE AN ALREADY LOADED PLAYLIST since it already contains all the metadata for the relevant clips included in it WARNING If in the newly loaded playlist there is any information in the fields that is also used by the Filename Parser preset this information will be overwritten Access control This menu item aims at improving the security of AirBox The idea for password protection of some settings that might be crucial to playback performance is a
186. module version WIBU Box number mode registration etc The name of the currently selected platform is displayed at the bottom Channel in a Box Lite ListBox USER INTERFACE The interface of ListBox is identical with the AirBox interface It is designed like that for the user s convenience There are some differences which are described in this section Playlist Control Buttons BIARAB ESO l a227 02 F 2 9 These buttons provide access to the most commonly used playlist functions All commands from the Toolbar can also be found in the Menu Bar Some particular buttons on the Toolbar will appear enabled or disabled depending on the selection made The functions of each button are explained in detail in the corresponding section in A rBox Playback control and counters The Master Counter shows the elapsed time of the current playout session Pressing the Stop button resets the counter The Clip counter is situated below the master counter It can operate in two modes count up and count down mode Just double click on it to switch between them gt a lAo amp The playback control buttons are situated below the Clip counter Play P _ starts the playback Stop terminates the playback Pause Resume temporary interruption and resuming of the playback The playback resumes from the same point on Next Pi _ will stop the currently playing clip immediately and will switch to the next clip in playlist This hap
187. mpa 00 07 07 14 Yes E mpeg2 Discreet_2002_SMbit Discreet200 00 04 02 11 No E mpeg2 Discreet_2002_9Mbit kamelia_Rec 00 03 23 08 No On the top of this window you can see the Default auto fill clip string Browse for it by pressing the folder a button to the right The Auto fill categories field is situated below The drop down list contains all previously prepared categories hence it will be empty when you open it for the first time To create a new category press the white sheet B button to the right and enter the name of the new Category Click OK You can rename your X Cancel categories later by pressing the gear wheel e button The linked image cannot be displayed The file may have been moved renamed or deleted Verify that the link points to the correct file and Now you have to add clips to your category Press the tape button to open a browse dialog to locate the clip Let us have a look at the clips description below The first three columns need no explanation but the last one is very important The Truncate column contains info on whether the respective clip can be truncated or not you can change YES NO by double clicking in the relevant cell This is important because if you have a 2 minutes gap for example and all of the clips in the auto fill category are longer than 2 minutes and cannot be truncated there will be a conflict As a result none of the clips will be played out and
188. mple the line Title text clip_title contains the name of the TitleBox object Title and a description of the text that it should contain l e in this case we will extract information from the Title column of the relevant playlist entry Use this line to show the text from the corresponding title field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding location field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding categofy field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding notes field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding star field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding start time field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding duration field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding start date field in the AirBox playlist Use this line to show the text from the corresponding metadata designated by its name Use this line to display information about the title of an upcoming clip in the playlist where n is the off setter Use this line if you want to use a bookmark for presenting information about an item in the playlist Here Test1 is the Bookmark name and n is the off setter Shows the start time and the title of an up coming clip Here Next is the name of the text object in Title
189. n any Object stop I Start Objects on any Object play Start Objects on automatic update Channel in a Box Lite TIP If you want at every object start to show the first line from the data source leave Cursor scroll to be Manual and check Start cursor scroll on any Object Play In Cursor control area there are the following settings Scroll by X rows where X is a number of rows to scroll the cursor If X 1 the cursor will scroll each row If X 2 the cursor will scroll each second row i e the cursor will skip one row etc Reset cursor on dataset change check this if you want to move the cursor to the initial position when the data in Master column of data provider is changed Reset cursor on field change check this if you want to move the cursor to the initial position if any field into data provider changes Start cursor scroll on any Object Play check this to start the cursor scrolling from the first position in data source any time when the object is started In Objects control area there are the next settings Stop Objects on bottom cursor check it if you want to stop the object s connected to the data provider when the cursor is at the end of the data in data source Stop Next Slide on bottom cursor check it if you want to stop the object and go to the next Slide when the cursor is at the end of the data in data source Stop Objects on any Object stop check this to stop all o
190. n from Out values It is possible to type a value only in the In field and define Duration The value of Out field will be calculated automatically The following buttons are situated to the right of the In Out and Duration Pressing the black arrow pointing left will insert the current timecode from the VTR in the corresponding field Pressing the Fed arrow pointing down will rewind the tape exactly to the timecode written in the corresponding field Pressing the Clear button clears all values in the In Out and Duration fields Inthe Comment field you can enter a description or a comment concerning the particular scene sequence Your comment will be displayed in the relevant Grid column Title represents the name of the clip If left empty the field will be automatically filled in with the corresponding File name Lock button le is used for locking the Title to the File name i e any changes in the clip name will affect the file name and vice versa File Name stands for the name under which the captured clip will be saved If left empty the field will be automatically filled in with the Title 66 Channel in a Box Lite For your convenience the filename is automatically increased by pressing the Plus button or Add to List button If the last clip name was Capture00 1 the next filename would be Capture002 and so on If the filename does not end with a number but with a letter the letter will change in alph
191. n the clip properties Each metadata has a name and value where the name represents a category and the value represents the information about this category Please check the Metadata description above The playlist checker uses the metadata names as reference and checks the presence of the corresponding metadata values MFrom category Category name here you have to specify the category of the clips you want to check like clips that belong to category Music The list of metadata fields to be checked is situated to the left below You can pick them from the list of presets to the right Just select the Metadata name you need and press the Es button to add it 59 Channel in a Box Lite If the Metadata name is not available in the list of presets create a custom name in the string above it and press the Es button to add it to the left To remove a metadata name from the check list select it from the list to the left and press the l button To clear the whole check list press gt lt the Check playlist button finds an inconsistence the relevant criterion turns red The arrow to the right of it becomes active Press it do view the list of inconsistencies sorted by their position in the playlist Commands Tools an P Media folders x E Change file path Media Folders SubttieBox gt Mirror mode gt Playlist checker Media Folders END E mpeg2 E mpeg2 NTSc E HDI This tool was developed to allow fo
192. nal source Such a source can be WSS present in the incoming video for example The Objects list button E shows a window with a list of all objects available in the current TitleBox project The Properties buttons MM are object related They allow for viewing or changing the properties of the currently selected object There are two types of properties Standard Properties that provide the standard object options and Property Tools which provide an additional set of properties The Property Tools are active only for texts rolls and crawls IMPORTANT The properties can be interactively changed at any moment even when the object is running on air The Play Pause Stop and Toggle Play Stop buttons gt control the play status of any particular object They correspond to the relevant commands in the Object Menu The Group and Ungroup buttons pas are intended for grouping and ungrouping a selection of objects N Channel in a Box Lite The Lock and Visible buttons define the object status It could be locked for moving and resizing or not It could also be visible in the preview area or not The Show Events List button gt will open a list of all events assigned to the currently selected object See also the Task Manager description The Mix Draw Mode button defines the draw mode of the object If the button is pushed two or more overlapping objects will be blended TIP When in Mix object mode you can sw
193. name this number may vary from 1 to 365 366 in leap years Insert date inserts the capturing date in the filename If you choose this the Date position choose position before or after the file nae and Date format fields will become active Same name Overwrite Thus each time CaptureBox starts schedule capturing it will write the data to the same file Below you can specify the date format and position NOTE File name incrementing is valid only for Schedule mode for more than one capturing session daily or weekly repetition Preferences pu V Increment file name on manual capture X Cancel The AutoSave page allows enabling automatic storing of capture lists In it you can also define a the auto save period in minutes by checking the M Enable List AutoSave box and entering the period in minutes Jf OK X Cancel The Cyclic Capture page allows the user to define a number of cyclic files which will be Genera Schedde Auoavo Tye opte used for capturing Thus if you check the MEnable Cyclic FileName Capture box and T Etab Eyele Tiama Tortie enter for example 20 in the Cyclic Files Count spin box CaptureBox will only use 20 file to Cyclic Files Count 20 store the captured video When it reaches the 20 file it will go back to the first and start overwriting data Jf OK X Cancel RS 422 Config This command invokes the RS 422 Config dialog which is described in detail in the RS
194. nd down as well as reverse their order When you select a picture from the gallery to the right it is displayed in the preview window to the left The buttons above it are relevant for the currently selected picture The 2117 button allows you to choose a background color for it Specify how long it will be displayed in seconds the transition pattern and duration as well as the picture s layout from the drop down list in the upper right corner If you would like to set the same parameters for all pictures included in the banner simply press the Set As Default button Thus the settings you have already made will affect all newly inserted images in this object When you check the M Watch Directory option a browser dialog will open for you to specify a folder watch folder that contains picture files Opening the folder will activate a kind of slideshow in the banner and the images from the watch folder will be shown in the banner object in a random order NOTE Keep in mind that all files used in the banner objects are kept into the project In this way the size of the project is increased and it is possible to overload it To avoid such overloading we recommend using the Watch Directory option Chat note objects Another object from the object palette is the Chat note object_c This kind of object can be used together with some third party applications like SMS chat etc It creates a text file You can insert a file l
195. ndow will split according to the number of streams up to 32 Use the blue arrows to move streams up and down the list Extra External Output Congiuration Info Zones Shots Filters Stream eo Ma scene 3 ie 1 00 00 12 16 Extra External Output Congiuration Info Zones Shots Filters Stream vv it y VW Stream 0 Video Audio i Stream 1 Audio Stream 2 Audio Channel in a Box Lite Extra p This extra will help you in managing multiple monitor video wall Q Trim Window AirBox 1 M an systems of up to 16 monitors The files that are usually used for Info Zones Shots Fitters seam video walls end in c mpg or c avi for example c1 mpg or Extra External Output Congiuration le c3 avi Just load the first file in the playlist AirBox will detect the others automatically gt Oo Lin jout t 4 Position 00 00 34 00 Duration 00 01 42 00 The trim bar and the buttons above the list of files are designed for Genel A control of the entire bunch The trim bar and the buttons under the CL ESDV 4Channels T3_trailer ct avi preview window are used for control of the currently selected C E DV 4Channels T3_trailer c2 avi i i i C E DV 4Channels T3_trailer c4 avi This feature will help you in synchronizing the video wall and will allow you to control each monitor separately You can also rearrange the display positions of
196. ng If for some reason the VTR reports lost servo lock CaptureBox will stop capturing and will send a Stop command to the VTR Thus you will be able to see the exact position of the bad tape NEW M Preroll time in seconds f checked this box allows you to set a custom preroll time via the spin box below NEW 4 Overwrite file if already exists if you check this box if a file with the same name as the currently captured file exists it will be automatically overwritten General Schedule AutoSave Cyclic Capture Naming type Zero Based Settings In the Schedule page you can define Naming Type for the captured files They are Pee Nae ez pea Mmeo pi AUTOMATICALLY formed using the original filename entered in the File Name field while in C InsertDate ps i i Doga a f C Same Name Overwrite Schedule mode plus some kind of index to distinguish them from one another I Increment name Zero Based the consequent file names will be formed by adding a caia increasing numbers to the original file name The number in the original file name is always Same as Regional Settings e After name zero therefore this naming type is called Zero based In the Zero Based Settings field you can specify the number of digits to be displayed Increment name Calendar Based the names of consequent files will be formed by adding the subsequent calendar number of the capturing day to the original file
197. ng in the current project Press OK and you will see your task in the task C Toggle Play Stop Penn E naa l C Move Object Ue vox X Cancel If you select the Move Object control an additional window will open where to enter the moving options Aion Select Move and enter X and Y values to move the object to a position with exactly laica co 3 fy 0 3 these X and Y coordinates C Increment Position Select lncrement and enter X and Y values to increase the existing coordinates of the object with these values Channel in a Box Lite Repeat the procedure till you have all necessary tasks related to objects y ey DataProvider Control DataProvider EE DataProvider Control Here you can create tasks related to data providers 2 Casar Sel filmes 3 ursor Top C Cursor Bottom At the first field in the window you have to select a data provider from a list of all existing Mis dataproviders Then you can choose an activity for this data provider like O Stop O Start C Stop Update data provider X Cancel If there are more than one row in the data provider source like in RSS data provider or in ODBC data provider than you can select also Cursor scroll move cursor to next row Cursor top move cursor to the first row and Cursor bottom move cursor to the last row lf Cursor scroll is selected an additional field is visible There you can enter the number o
198. nit o l naia The Event Name task was developed to synchronize the external applications to TitleBox Thus ee E E Ra Seras a if there is a third party application that can accept certain event names TitleBox can trigger events z E gt in these applications Lv ax X caca Each system event should have a Name You can type it in the Event Name string Below you have to choose the Action and the type of Initialization y Create Windows Task Ewe E File D Program Files PlayBos Technology Ltd 4irBox AirB ox exe Ry This task is related to executing of the external applications Into field File enter the executable file name including the full file s path X Cancel You can start exe bat or cmd files Into Params field you can enter some parameters for starting the application For example if in the File is entered AirBox into Parameter you can enter the name of the playlist which you want to start or the AirBox instance number If there is a file association existing you can enter into the File field only the file name of the document to start the associated application For example if you have a file association for Windows Media Player into field File you can enter only the location and name of the mp3 file Auto executed Scripts TitleBox provides an additional way to assign scripts to certain events lf you want a certain script created either via the Command Script Task or by the
199. nt where the stands for the sequential number of the point The Align buttons allow for aligning the selected point toward the previous the next or the first point in the graphics The Default speed field shows the default speed as it is defined in the main TitleBox window see the Toolbar section above In the Point Properties area the following properties of the selected point are shown Speed Position and Time for zero speed points only The Point list shows the list of all speed change points in the object The Add button Ladas a new speed change point in the object graphics The Delete button deletes the selected speed change point in the object graphics ioj x Analog Clock Properties nes Background Hour Minute Second Preview The Analog Clock properties dialog box looks like the one to the E Load Image rig ht Iv Enabled X Cancel Key Color The New button opens an empty clock property object IE Fuchsa El A The Open button loads a previously created clock object clc e sd The Save button saves the current clock image into a file clc Transparency There are different pages for each clock layer background clock 255 plate hours minutes and second hands as well as a preview page of the overall clock layout All pages have an identical structure a settings area and a preview area Settings Load Image loads the rele
200. nt gt press this button to start printing the playlist Page Orientation L L buttons you can choose between Portrait and Landscape Selection button push it to print only the rows that have been previously selected in the grid The Name of the printer it may be a local or a network connected printer First page Last page buttons respectively go to the first and the last page of the content to be printed Goto previous page Go to next page buttons respectively visit the previous and the next page of the content to be printed Refresh Table button press it to update the view Auto size Columns button press it to automatically fit the columns width to their content Export playlist as XLS Use this option to export your playlists to comma separated value CSV x s files Export Logs in XLS files If you need to convert the tab delimited log files to XLS format click on this menu item A browse dialog will open for you to select which log to export just select it and click Open The resulting x s file will be saved to the same directory Reload graphic Rules The graphic rules are saved in a dat file in the AirBox program directory The graphic rules of the first AirBox instance channel are saved in the GraphRules1 dat file The rules for the second AirBox instance are saved in a GraphRules2 dat file and so on This dat file is loaded upon AirBox startup If you want
201. numeric fields stand for Width and Height of the selected object NOTE You cannot change some objects size during their running on air The Tag Tao 3 spin box is used for additional object control By default an object s tag is set to 0 However you can enter another value here The idea of the tag is that you can simultaneously operate with many objects that share the same tag number This could be done via the script task and the program script task The 3D Offset spin box allows you to set an offset to the selected object in terms of depth If you set a positive number the object will appear deeper in the screen and vice versa The transitions toolbar will help you in setting your objects n and Out transition effects In Fly From Left 1 00 sec zj S 0 Normal j Out Wipe To Top 1 00 sec E S 0 Normal First select the transition effect from the n and Out drop down list The available types are Cut None Cross Fade Fly and Wipe They are not active for Analog clock objects In the spin boxes next to the n Out fields set the duration of this transition by default it is 1 00 second NOTE Increasing the figures in these fields will decrease the speed of the transition Finally define the type of motion during the transition ascending descending or constant By default the motion type is set to O Normal This means that the transition will proceed at constant speed For example if yo
202. o the same object WARNING Do NOT minimize TitleBox while using browser objects This will make the objects disappear off the screen WARNING Do NOT close the preview window as it might freeze the source web site El Screen Capture object This object will allow you show some parts of your desktop on the screen The window to the right will appear as soon as you create the screen capture object Its size is the same as of the rectangle you drew in the work area Drag it to the area you would like to show on the screen In the upper right corner there is a two sided arrow button Use it to minimize maximize the main Ti tleBox window but leave the Screen Capture window ON Please note that if you use the minimize maximize buttons in the main TitleBox window the screen capture dialog will be affected as well In the lower left corner you can find two other buttons that control the mouse pointer The first one is for showing hiding it from the screen The second button will invert the cursor color Thus if the background of your desktop is light you can turn the cursor black so it will be easier seen on the screen When a screen capture object is selected in the work area the object specific tool bar will appear under the regular toolbars LEA amott ad The first two buttons in it duplicate the ones for cursor control in the lower left corner of the Screen Capture window To the right is the MAntialiasing check box Use it to make the s
203. ogo from the screen NOTE The picture format depends on the decoder The 32 bit RGBA files are most preferable but TGA JPG and PSD files are widely supported too IMPORTANT You will not have fade transition when displaying Logo and Subtitles simultaneously on the DeckLink platforms Please refer to the SubtitleBox section for more details on the subtitling options in AirBox StartUp x AirBox startup Here you can find useful options for setting the behavior of AirBox on module start up I Launch AirBox on Windows start delay E sec StartUp Playlist various Playback recovery options how playlists will be reloaded T Start minimized and two system options StartUp playlist C New AirBox startup rBox startu Last used Auto start playback after playlist loading At the top of the StartUp window you can choose between two system options Open dialog C Daily playlist folder MLaunch AirBox on Windows start delay F sec you might need some Playback recovery options delay as the system might take some time to initialize the installed decoder If AirBox i gt Tal ia ias Pa fia pata starts before that it will not be able to perform normally as the decoder will be 7 Last played item from the last playlist missing Increase the delay to ensure that A rBox will not start before hardware 17 Last played position in the last played Kem initialization T Catch up wi
204. ogy Ltd UDP Switcher The Live Viewer icon will appear in the Toolbar E USER INTERFACE The main purpose of the Live Viewer is to preview the video which is defined as live event in AirBox UY LrveViewer 10 a x Fie Streams Configuraton Help fides Ses In order to see preview of the video source first you have to set some video sources in AirBox from the AirBox menu gt Settings gt Live Inputs tab xi IMPORTANT You have to restart A rBox after e E Live setting up the video sources Live l Decklink Video Capture Live2 Width 720 Height 576 Now you are ready to open Live Viewer Go to the FrameRate 25 00 BitsPerPixel 16 Streams menu gt Add Remove stream and E iA 7 z Upper notice that a Preview List with already defined dd live video sources can be found there It looks like Channes 1 i Sample Freq 48000 the image to the right mS at a In the Device Name field check the respective source names of the sources you would like to preview in the Live Viewer and press OK button i Cancel 122 123 Channel in a Box Lite To remove a video source from a list just un check the device name from the list ixi Mie Smem Coipo fee Into the left part of the main screen you will see small preview windows of all checked sources By clicking on some of the small windows you will see the preview of the respective source into the big screen to the righ
205. okes the Clip Trimmer A detailed description of the Clip Trimmer can be found further in the manual in its corresponding chapter Double clicking over a missing clip invokes its properties dialog If you want to view the properties of an existing clip right click in its row and select Clip properties from the context menu Right clicking in the grid opens a context menu It contains commands from the Edit menu and the Playlist menu that are described further in the manual Columns description Start Time shows the start time of each clip Duration shows the actual duration of each clip If a clip has been trimmed its new actual duration is displayed in this column Type shows the type of the clip MPEG or AVI DV Category contains category information fed by DataBox The background is colored with the predefined category color File Name contains information about the file paths and names If you need to change the path of a certain file in List Box just press lt F8 gt to open the Browse dialog If a file is missing after the playlist is loaded in A rBox its line will be skipped and the playout will continue with the next available clip Title ClipID Star contain data fed by DataBox describing the clip name clip ID and the performing artists You can edit these fields manually in ListBox in the clip properties dialog Notes displays trimming notification and data from the fields defined in DataBox gt
206. ore just uncheck the Active row When you create a new link Active is checked automatically Pressing Set File Link will open a new browse dialog for selecting a text file for the link AutoPlay On file Change is used for starting the object automatically if there is a change in the linked text file Change File Path allows for changing the file path to the linked file It is used in case the linked file is moved to another location TIP When a Roll Crawl or Text object is linked to a text file txt or rtf you can insert a still picture in the text the image will be displayed among the characters according to the position of its script in the text Write the following command in the text file lt BITMAP gt f file path of the image file lt BITMAP gt Make sure that BITMAP is written in capital letters Here is an example Channel in a Box Lite Example 1 Inserting a Still Picture in a Text File 1 Save your image Let us assume the file name is logo bmp located on DA 2 Enter the text in a file for example Hello this is a test project 3 Continue writing the following lt BITMAP gt D logo jpg lt BIT MAP gt Thus your text file will be Hello this is a test project lt BITMAP gt D logo jpg lt BITMAP gt It could also be Hello this lt BITMAP gt D Mogo jpg lt BITMAP gt is a test project or Hello this is a lt BITMAP gt D logo jpg lt BITMAP gt test project Every time you edit the text and
207. ormer star Lime_Biscuit another separator a title The_road_to_heaven one more separator and a note live followed of course by the file format This is what you have to tell AirBox Here is how In the Metadata options area use the Plus En and Minus H buttons to add remove parser fields You can choose from the available types of fields In our example you have to enter one by one Note it will stand for the abbreviation BG Category SEPARATOR Star SEPARATOR Title SEPARATOR and Note If you want to skip some information in the filename select NONE in the relevant position Do not forget to set which symbols are regarded to as separators check the relevant boxes in the lower left corner Here exclude the lower dash from the separators list as it represents the space within the separate fields To the right of the Metadata fields list you can see a number of checkboxes that provide some conversion options M Convert all underscores to spaces in our case Lime_Biscuit will become Lime Biscuit M Convert all 20 to spaces is not applicable in our case but otherwise you can use it for downloaded files their names often happen to contain 20 instead of spaces M ALL CAPS will turn all letters in the filename to upper case E All first caps capitalizes the first letter of each word in the relevant metadata field M Capitalize first only capitalizes only the first letter of the relevant metadat
208. our desired number of frames in the Extra frames spin box You can also write a negative number here if you want to remove frames from the input The M Preview check box allows you to turn preview on and off If you check M Flip fields the fields of the captured material will be flipped You cannot configure the Video Audio and Multiplexer settings in CaptureBox Lite Closed Captions are NOT supported in CaptureBox Lite Input Capture Format Closed Captions Live Input Name TestLivelnput X Cancel AA a Input Capture Format Closed Captions Video Encoder MPEG 2 Video Encoder y Wideo Encoder Settings Audio Encoder Audio Encoder Settings Multiplexer Settings Layer ll Audio Encoder y Extra frames o IV Preview USER INTERFACE E CaptureBox 1 1 unknown Not For R For Resale EX File View Capture Help Capture Schedule Comment Folder S Free disk space Not available Tape ID eae Duration Clear Comment Title a File Name E all eel e o Se ta ooe em oe _ veis ceo Compensation Setup ae ee m Manual Capture MUSE 1 Version 1 0 7 build 36 Video Standard Unkn MPEG 0 0 VBR Channel in a Box Lite In the CaptureBox Lite version only the Capture Page is available This is the module s record mode In this mode you can record every single scene manually from a
209. oviders ODBC 107 Dataproviders RSS 109 Dataproviders Weather 105 Channel in a Box Lite Dataproviders XML 108 DataSource Manager 103 Deleting objects 81 Digital clock 94 Direct Show media 91 Dynamic speed 88 Editing objects 80 Flash objects 94 General options 79 Menu bar 76 Network control 76 Object palette 75 Objects List 81 Power Point objects 96 Primary Shapes 96 Roll amp crawl properties 85 Screen capture 97 Set File link 81 Slide controller 102 Slide Manager 97 Still picture properties 82 System bar 75 Task Manager 112 Task Manager Events 115 Task Manager Tasks 112 Text field properties 83 Toolbar 72 User interface 71
210. pecified periods in seconds The different texts are shown as a list of texts separate lines in the Text Template window press the 2 button to view it or right mouse click over the object and select Property Tools You can prepare texts in advance or create them online Use the buttons in this dialog to do the following New button open a new text template Open button You can open a previously prepared text file by using the Open button Each paragraph in the text appears as a separate line in the Text Template window Save button saves the entered text as a file Stop 4 button stops displaying the text lines in the preview output window Play gt button starts displaying the text lines in the preview output window Global Time spin box defines the frequency of changing the text lines This is actually a duration applied for each new line added in the text template lf you need to specify a different duration for a particular line use the spin box in the text input dialog Edit item button opens a dialog box for editing the selected text line 1 TIP You can change the text by right clicking on a text string as well Add item button adds a text line A dialog box opens for typing the text in it Insert tem button inserts a text line A dialog box opens for typing the text in it Delete item button deletes the selected text line Moving up moves the sel
211. pens by a smooth cut without any sound or visual artifacts Return o is active only after a Jump has been executed Use this button to return to the position before the last Jump 7 Jump E terminates the currently playing clip immediately and starts playing the selected one regardless of its position in the grid Cue ah _ This button will interrupt the playback and will pause at the first frame of the selected clip You can also activate it by holding down the lt Ctrl gt key and pressing the Jump button at the same time Use this to prepare a clip for playback while showing its first frame on the output Since this is a machine and decoder dependent function you might have to increase the Cue Delay time in the Settings dialog box Settings General gt General gt Cue delay Fix overlapping press it to fix the overlapping issues in the playlist The fixed time flags will be removed and the duration of the overlapping files will be truncated Fixed playlist start mode press it to see the start time of the clips in the playlist in relation to the start time of the playlist which is defined in the Current playlist tab Press the button again to see the start times of the clips in the playlist in relation the current system time Channel in a Box Lite You can control the columns to appear and their order in the grid from Settings menu gt General gt Grid Type Category Tite Sta Notes location 13 28 51 00 01
212. point Open button will load a clip in the Trimmer window kd Export button all opens a dialog box for exporting the trimmed clip as a file If you have divided the clip into several sections they will appear in the Export list as different parts Select which of them to export by checking the checkboxes in front the relevant section Besides you can change their order using the up and down arrows If you choose to export several parts at a time you have to specify the way they should be exported as separate files Export selection s as multiple files or as a single file Export selections as a single file Pressing the Export button in this dialog opens another dialog box for you to specify the file name and store location and to begin the export To delete a clip section select it and press lt Ctrl gt lt D gt pa E Channel in a Box Lite To reset the original clip length press lt Ctrl gt lt BkSp gt The Throttle has three levels Low Normal and High Each of them tells the CPU what priority to give to the export process The higher the priority the slower the other simultaneously running processes on the machine and the quicker the export made IMPORTANT Export works only for MPEG2 files NOTE Export is not frame accurate It is GOP accurate IN points can be positioned only on I frames while OUT points can be positioned on l or P frames Depending on the stream s GOP size this may lead to
213. presents the speed multiplier 0 1 2 etc of the default speed which is set in the main screen see the Toolbar section above The zero value means 0 x default speed i e the object does not move one means 7 x default speed e the object moves with the default speed two means 2 x default speed e the object moves twice as fast as the default speed etc On the top of the graphics you can see the object s Roll Crawl text By moving the mouse pointer over the grid the blue lines or by using the arrow keys you can select the position in the text where you would like to change the speed The text section which will be displayed at the selected speed change point is enclosed in a frame By default the first point is situated at the beginning of the graphics A new point is added by pressing the Add button or by double clicking in the yellow squared area When you select a position to change its speed a green point will appear in the grid and its properties Speed and Position will be displayed in the Point Properties area to the right The position s coordinates are also displayed in the status bar If you set a speed of 0 for any position then you will have to define a delay period This is the period in seconds during which the object will remain stopped The wait time appears in a red square under the zero point All points are shown in the Point list to the right of the graphics Their names are Poi
214. previous clip The clip cannot be moved trimmed or deleted anymore Just for comparison competitive playout solutions tend to permanently lock the clip after the currently playing one which reduces on air flexibility and your last minute decision freedom Blue row indicates the currently selected clip all actions i e Jump Move Up Down will be applied to it Red row highlights those files in the playlist that are missing invalid not supported from the currently installed hardware The playback skips such files and plays the next available clip Ifthe file is missing you can set the time interval for automatic check for missing files Settings gt General gt Missing Files gt Check Missing files every sec Light cyan row outlines the playlist events when selected NOTE You can change these colors to fit your personal preferences in Settings Colors gt Playlist tab Drag n Drop One of the main features of the grid is the drag n drop functionality It allows dragging clips within the playlist and from one grid to another from DataBox ListBox to AirBox or from any folder to AirBox If lt Ctrl gt is being held while dragging a clip in the playlist the executed operation will be Copy By default each internal in the grid dragging means Move and dragging between two Channel in a Box Lite windows similar to Windows Explorer is Copy Clips that have already been played back are grey and cannot be moved but can
215. r manager opens the list of available drivers so you could choose the one to use for outputting the graphics or a driver to preview it Preview this is the button for controling the selected preview driver While the preview driver is playing the bar under the work area will turn blue A text message in it will notify you that the Preview driver is running Lps nase comers apiye Thee may have ben move renamed or dete veri The preview mode allows you to make changes in your project and view them in a preview window without actually applying them on the output When the preview driver is stopped all changes you make in the project will be applied in real time to the output Channel in a Box Lite Pressing the arrow to the right of the Preview button opens a drop down menu lt contains the same items as the ones of the program driver NOTE In preview mode you cannot create a Flash object You can just edit already existing objects NOTE Some objects might not appear properly in the simple preview window Update While in preview mode press this button to apply the changes to the program output Overlay It is not in use for the current TitleBox version Status Bar The status bar displays information about the currently selected driver and the X Y position of the pointer in the work area MENU BAR File Menu This menu contains commands related to the project s file New allows creating a new project Open open
216. r specifying watch folders that might contain media files Thus if there are missing files in a playlist these folders will be automatically searched upon playlist loading NOTE Media folders do not operate in run time You need to reload the playlist in order to check the watch directories To add a new watch directory click on the plus sign and browse for it EM A As soon as it is inserted in the list you can adjust its settings Double click in the Active column to enable watching the folder described in the line to the right If you want AirBox to parse the sub directories of a selected watch folder double click on the Subfolders column to turn the closed sign into a green tick mark Auto replace this function will update the file paths of the missing files upon saving the playlist If not enabled the new location of files will not be saved in the playlist Commands Play Space Logo presets gt Stop Esc C om ma nds Men u Jump to Ct Shift 4 Pause Next Ctri Space Jump Alt S5pace This menu contains commands related to playback and logo presets The available Return BkSp commands are Playback commands This menu duplicates the playback control buttons situated under the master counter Play Stop Pause Next Jump Return The commands are executed just by clicking on the appropriate field For the user s convenience a relevant shortcut is written to the right of each a command Commands Help Playb
217. r the playlist is loaded Thus if there is an event in the beginning of the playlist it might be skipped as the event s duration is zero its time could be considered to have passed after playlist loading Therefore you should set some loading tolerance to ensure the correct execution of the first event in the playlist if any Usually one second should be enough but it depends on the playlist length If you work in Daily playlist mode it is important to clarify what will happen in the case f there is no current daily playlist AirBox offers the following possibilities M Try to load last daily playlist for same weekday AirBox will search the daily playlist folder for old playlists for the same day of the week i e Fridays and will load the most recent one M Try to load past daily playlist from last pb 3 days AirBox will search the daily playlist folder for old playlists in accordance to your settings and will play the most recent one i e yesterday s if available NOTE If there are three playlists from the previous day i e 10 00 12 00 and 18 00 AfrBox will load the latest one i e 18 00 regardless of the current time i e even if now it is 9 00 o clock M Reload last daily playlist on and of the current daily playlist AirBox will load the currently playing daily playlist again as soon as it ends If you have checked MReload playlist on file change it is important to define when the reloading will h
218. r_tes 4 F i Video MainConcept ImageScaler This page shows important system stream information extracted from the file It contains rm iasa Source Ideo streams E Filename Video standart 1920x1080 25 00 fj Duration 00 00 05 10 Video compression type Video stream information number of streams image width and height in pixels video frame rate video bitrate Audio stream information number of streams audio compression type audio sampling rate audio channels audio bitrate Type of MPEG packages Type of PES packetized elementary stream Mux rate the multiplexing rate in bps Duration of the clip in HH MM SS ms hours minutes seconds miliseconds Channel in a Box Lite Clip Zones This page is used for registering a set of timecodes points in the clip Thus you can mark an initial or final timecode of an important zone in the clip For example in each movie there are predefined commercial break points that might be used later for automated commercial slot insertion Those breakpoints can be defined in Clip Trimmer as single split points or zones blank stills that will be skipped and a commercial slot will be inserted instead To add a Zone set the cursor at the appropriate point and press the Add Zone button in the page or in the main window A yellow point appears in the trim bar showing the beginning of the zone You can define different zone types pressing the black arrow of the Ad
219. rce Manager dialog will open The left part of it contains a list of all objects in the current project To add a new Weather Data Provider instance press the ADD button A list of all currently available data source plug ins will open Select the Weather Data Provider and after that press the ADD button A dialog will appear for specifying a station To find the Station code for your desired city use one of the following links http edg3 co uk snippets weather location codes http www mywebs biz Gadgets W eather Location ID php instance gt Weather Service nee en After pressing OK a Weather Data provider instance will appear in the list to Rename the right part of the Data Source Manager dialog For displaying information Object _ Data Souce_ Field _ Update using this instance select no Weather Data Provider tine and drag it to the object desired Weather Data Provider 01 When you release the mouse button a fine tune dialog will open so you can select what kind of information will be shown in the object as Temperature Postal Code Current city humidity etc This plug in will display the weather information according to the settings you have made For example if you intend to display information about Sofia town and you have chosen Temperature C from the Field drop down list the Weather Data Provider will show the current temperature within the object have a look at the example to the right
220. rdware dependent See also Using the TDIR option in the Capture Mode section below Live stream A live event could be either a UDP stream or a Live video stream as selected in the Type field of the Source tab The live video stream comes from a video source defined in Live Input from Settings menu gt 0utput gt Live Inputs tab Channel in a Box Lite IMPORTANT The name is case sensitive If you are going to use some transition in the beginning of the event select the Transition Type and Transition Duration in the relevant fields in the Transition tab The URL field the command for AirBox is generated automatically as you type in the above fields for UDP or for Live stream You could also enter a command directly in the URL field If you use streams UDP or Live that come from the same sources you could create some presets via the Preset field at the bottom of the dialog window Thus the next time you need the stream you can just insert the relevant preset instead of setting up the whole information again Read more about the preset option in the Clip properties section above You can also configure the Fixed time Transition and Metadata settings of the above events For detailed information about these options please read the relevant sections above Live Viewer is a tool which shows a preview of the defined streams in AirBox First you have to define streams in AirBox then after starting LiveViewer you can select your desired
221. re is only one ByPass Relay card installed select it from the Device Select field and press the OK button for the setting to take effect CREATING OBJECTS Step By Step All objects are created in a similar way 1 Select the appropriate object button from the Object Palette 2 Draw a rectangle in the Preview Area where you wish to place it 3 A Properties dialog box allowing fine tuning of non text objects Still picture Analog clock Animation Digital Clock DirectShow media Banner etc will appear 4 Pressing OK inserts the created object in the project You can edit the properties of text containing objects either by using the special toolbars that appear when double clicking on the relevant object or when clicking on the Properties buttons The unique properties of all types of objects in T tleBox are described in detail in their relevant sections in the Object Properties below Editing Objects You can edit objects either by invoking the object properties dialog box for non text objects or by using the special toolbars for text objects Do this by double clicking on the object or by clicking on the Properties buttons Animations and Clocks CANNOT be resized in TitleBox whereas Pictures and Text templates with graphics background can Crawls Rolls and Text Templates without graphics background can be resized even on air You can resize all dimensions of Text objects Crawl s width and text size and Roll s hei
222. ream has more than one channel M Source check this box if the source broadcasts more than one stream to be able to enter the Source Address of your desired stream SONY Properties x Source General Fixed time Transition Metadata itle SONY y General a E E E A y H A IN 00 00 02 17 Duration 00 00 25 23 The first line in the General tab contains the Title of the selected playlist item se 7 Houseld y TapelD y The IN OUT and Duration strings contain the IN point OUT point and clip duration data You can q JE si Notes y change these values in order to make your clips shorter The Duration is calculated automatically TA from the IN and OUT values Furthermore if you change the Duration the OUT point will adjust eae I Estimated duration 00 00 00 00 accordingly Live delayed file fn Set aut point of live iter l If there is information about the time codes of the first and last frame in the clip you can check the MTC Value check box and then into the IN and OUT strings you will see these time codes Settings preset y o kil x URL FILE D Demo MPEG SONY mpg The TC field is necessary when there are subtitles to be displayed together with the clip as the E 20 E PE E ES time code is the reference for displaying them If you change the TC value it will be saved in the playlist for future use Previous Jf OK X Cancel gt Next
223. rformed ce al USER INTERFACE Fites Steam Exa Eno a Zones Shots Info of 3mbit sec IBP mpg It combines a VGA preview screen and tools for editing the n and Out points of MPEG clips Type MPEG2 Video streams 1 Video stream found 720x576 25 00 fps VideoBitRate 3000000 bps Audio streams 1 Audio stream found Clips are loaded into the Trim Window by double clicking on them in ListBox DataBox or AirBox modules Layer 2 48000 Hz stereo 224 kbps Total streams 2 Type of packs MPEG2 Type of PES MPEG2 Mux rate 410250 Duration 00 00 30 05 Start TC 00 00 00 000 The trimmer window has a number of keyboard shortcuts that are listed in the shortcuts leaflet in the PlayBox customer s package i Duration a Out 00 00 30 05 00 00 30 05 ais Details Total Duration ES 0000 30 05 e The Preview screen occupies the largest part of the Trim Window It A Balance Preview Screen shows the video clip which is being trimmed laj je ea 00m 8 9 a X Close Position 00 00 09 00 Zoom 1 24 01 M 1 0 0 32 D _test Files MPEG2 Various types captured From Stradis 3mbit sec IBP Pressing the right mouse button over the Preview screen invokes a context menu with the most frequently used commands in Trimmer See the screenshot to the left Trimmer Control Once a clip is loaded you can navigate and edit it using the Clip Trimmer controls The following boxes ar
224. rt displaying all following slides in a row via the Slide Controller X Cancel To clear the shortcut press the X button to the right of it All assigned shortcuts will appear in the slide s thumbnail The assigned shortcuts will be active only when the Shortcut mode button is pushed NOTE In shortcut mode the newly assigned shortcuts have higher priority than the default ones Thus while in shortcut mode the default shortcuts in TitleBox will operate normally unless duplicated with newly assigned shortcuts For example the default command for lt Ctrl H gt is Add to schedule but if you assign lt Ctrl gt lt H gt to be Toggle Play Stop of a slide the shortcut will act as Toggle Play Stop Channel in a Box Lite Properties In this tab you can see the detailed properties of the line that is currently selected in the Details tab Slide Controler i xj Slide Controller The slide controller will play your slides consecutively with duration at your will If you want to rearrange the order of showing the slides you will have to drag n drop them in the Details tab If you want to skip a slide just disable it by un checking the M Enable checkbox in its row The Slide Controller window contains four rows and eight buttons The Controller counter is situated in the top row It counts the time since the slide controller was started Below you can see the name of the currently playing slide Further down
225. rt time conflicts resolving Let us assume that there are two fixed time events already inserted in the playlist but the one that is programmed for later playback hereafter called the second has an earlier start time than the preceding fixed time item hereafter called the first In other words the first has a later start time than the second This dialog provides four possible actions if there is such a case in the playlist Both start times are removed if you check this option the start times of the first and the second fixed time events will be removed and they will be played back as ordered in the playlist without executing the defined start times O Both start times are swapped check this and the items start times will be exchanged As a result the first item will be played back first at the start time set for the second item The second item will be played back after that starting at the time set for the first item The first conflicting event will have its start time removed this will remove the fixed start time of the first item and it will be played back in its turn as an ordinary clip in the playlist The second item will be played after the first one and will preserve its fixed start time The second conflicting event will have its start time removed this will remove the start time of the second item and it will be played back in its turn as an ordinary clip in the playlist after the first item The first item w
226. s each time you insert this complex item in the playlist the settings dialog of this event i e a switcher configuration dialog will open for you to make the final touches These changes will not be saved in the original complex event they will be valid only for the current insertion 1 TIP If you want to change the events order select an event from the list and press the red Up Down arrows to move it NOTE If you have set the Default duration of the complex event its execution will result in holding the AirBox playback during the event as in a wait event Besides the offsets of the included external events will be calculated in relation to the complex event s start and stop points Please refer to the following example Let us assume that we have created a complex event with duration of 15 seconds It includes 2 beginning events Event A with 3 seconds earlier offset and Event B with 2 seconds later offset As well as an Ending event C with 5 seconds earlier offset The Complex event described above will be executed as follows AirBox plays the clip situated before the complex event in the playlist 3 seconds before its end Event A will be executed 3 seconds later this clip will end and a 15 seconds hold of the playback will start the complex event duration has started 2 seconds later Event B will be executed Event C will be executed after 8 seconds 5 seconds before the end of the complex event The next clip
227. s will NOT be transferred back to the original database M Program ID is checked when the stream is MPTS it could be a live MPEG2 stream coming from the network or a file Type the Program ID for example 12060 not the number of the program i e not 1 2 or 3 If you are going to playback a clip while it is being captured check the MLive delayed file check box If necessary specify the M Estimated duration of this live playback and then check the M Set out point of live item box Most of the properties in this window will be displayed in the playlist grid If you save the playlist these values will be saved as well NOTE Clicking Previous OK or Next will apply all changes you have made to the current clip properties If you want to discard them please click Cancel Fixed time The Fixed time tab allows setting an exact start time for the particular clip x Source General Fisedlime Transition Metadata IMPORTANT If you do not choose any of the Custom settings for the fixed time event the N Default settings will apply A detailed description of the default settings is available in the Fixed F Use fired starttime 000000 Dyote 0 3 Time event Settings section further in the manual P ROS WARNING When using fixed time events the playlist should start and end within the same E Sal e A E ae calendar day i e the playlist should not go beyond midnight Otherwise we cannot guarantee the proper oper
228. s above for details View Name click in this line to change the slide name at your will fa Layer Line is selected you will see Enabled shows the status of the M Enable check box of the currently selected layer Lock reflects the padlock status in the layer s row Visible shows the status of the Visible Invisible button When an object is selected you will see below all its properties that can be adjusted in the main TitleBox interface These properties are different for the different objects and have already been described in the Object Properties section 100 101 Channel in a Box Lite ails Preview Properties Preview In this tab you can see thumbnails of all Slides in the current project Add Slide Add Layer Ctrlt Ins f Double clicking in a slide s thumbnail will load it in the work area for editing If you select an object in the work area its properties will be displayed in the Details area below Delete Del E Play Control Play Mode Visible Shifty J Y Enabled shirt e FE Locked Shift L Right clicking in a slide will open a context menu lt contains basic slide controls The Play Mode represents the way of showing the slide on the screen in relation to the previously Global Layer Links gt played slide Please check the project properties section above for further details e Assign Shortcut Stop Playing Prop Mornings 10 10 30 Y JumpTo
229. s an existing project tba Reopen shows a list of the ten recently open projects NOTE If you reopen a file while working on another project the latter will be closed without preserving any unsaved changes Merge merges the current project with another one NOTE Global layer links might not operate properly because the Master container of the second project will appear as a simple slide in the merged project You will have to drag its layers to the merged Master Container and set the layer links again Save saves the current project to the open file tba Save as saves the current project to a specified file tba Edit Menu The Edit menu contains object related commands Undo use it to undo Move Size and Create Please note that there is no undo for deleting objects Cut removes the selected object s and keeps them in the buffer memory Copy saves a copy of the selected object in the buffer memory Paste pastes the buffer content in the project Delete deletes the selected object Select All selects all objects in the Preview area Network Menu This menu concerns the connection between A rBox and TitleBox NOTE This feature is available for the TitleBox full version only It is not available in the TitleBox light version For detailed step by step guide on how to integrate TitleBox with AirBox look up in APPENDIX 2 Integration of AirBox with TitleBox Export Project as Template
230. s exact timecodes in HH MM SS FF format a o Offset value shows the interval between the current marker and the first one Duration shows the time difference between two consecutive zone markers Clip Shots Use this page to extract shots from the video clip To create a shot stop the play head at the desired frame and press the Ada il button The shot as a thumbnail and its time code are displayed in the tab You can change the shot s name Scene No by default manually To delete a shot select it and press the Delete Al button To extract a shot to a file select it and press the Export A button A browse window appears to select the file name type jpg or bmp and location To set a shot as thumbnail of a file press the Thumbnail MM button Clip Streams This feature is applicable in case the file contains more than one video and or audio stream Here you can choose which of them to view listen during playback The check boxes M in front the relevant streams show their playback status The checked streams will be loaded in the playlist after clicking Y and will be played in their turn The green ticks Mserve for previewing the desired streams if you click on the single tick you will preview only the selected stream If you click on the double tick you will preview all the streams simultaneously If you preview several audio streams they will be mixed up If the streams are video the preview wi
231. s in the Clip Properties section Other Edit Commands Undo Use it to cancel up to five recent actions Cut Removes the selected object s and keeps it them in the buffer memory Copy Saves a copy of the selected object s Paste Pastes the buffer content Randomize This command randomizes the order of all selected clips highlighted in the playlist It is quite useful for music video channels Apply Transition This command is used to apply a default transition to a select item items You can set a transition to be a default one from the Clip Properties gt Transition tab Playlist loop This command duplicates the checkbox that loops the playlist for continuous playback Channel in a Box Lite Clip loop This button will loop the currently selected clip when A rBox reaches it This functionality is not the same as the Loop checkbox in the main AirBox window see the Playlist and Clip Buttons section above Select all Selects the whole playlist Deselect Deselects the whole playlist Invert selection Inverts the selection in the playlist Find Replace This is a searching replacing function of the playlist a SEES System Timer Ctrl B Clip Timer Ctrl T Vi ew Men u Block Timer Ctrl K Timecode Timer Ctrl R Daily playlist viewer Ctrl F2 ShotBox Ctrl G Time Events v Log Ctrl L Plugin windows gt External video window Show external video window Arrange windows System Timer Th
232. save the changes the text on the output will be refreshed If you want to change the picture change the file name and location part in the script here D logo jpg If you want to insert an animated GIF file in the text write lt MOVIE gt instead of lt BITMAP gt For example Hello this is a test project lt MOVIE gt D smilie gif lt MOVIE gt NOTE There is no spell checker implemented in T tleBox text objects roll crawl and text template You can use some external application for spell checking and then just copy amp paste the text into TitleBox object Still Picture Properties uN 2 we Ems e Normal y The Picture Properties dialog box looks like the one to the left M Antiflicker z Vertical Value 7 27 Resa o sl The Toolbar allows you to Open and Save the image Load and Invert the mask the alpha channel and Flip the image horizontally and or vertically If your picture does not have Horizontal Value 4 72 Badius 0 Riese an alpha channel you can import one separately by using the Open mask button _ __ FT Contrast Brightness Contrast 0 Reset The Draw Alpha Only button provides a new interesting option Push this button to Brightness 0 r create a Picture object over other objects in the project Thus you will overlay its alpha over all underlying objects Try to make effects this way corintio o at At the right part of the window you can adjust t
233. scription of the PlayBox Doctor features in the Basic PlayBox manual About Clicking on this menu item displays the About box of the ListBox module It contains useful information about the module version WIBU Box number license type registration etc 65 Channel in a Box Lite CaptureBox CAPTURE SETTINGS MUSE The MUSE capture plugin stands for Media Universal Source Engine and it provides an additional layer between the capture and the video source thus allowing the use of the same video source by many clients For example the same LIVE IN video source can be used simultaneously by CaptureBox and AirBox The number of applications which can use the same live input is limited by the machine resources You can make the preferred capture settings for MUSE input in this dialog ecto xj The Input tab allows you to select an Name festive SOSOSCS S already preset Live input from the drop des down menu or add a new input Pressing BEER Dsckink Video Capture E the Edit button invokes the Live Inputs Format ntsc 486 Geb F Editor which is the same as the one in l AirBox and is described in the relevant Fields Lower Field section above Audio Device Decklink Audio Capture Format ay 2 ch 48000 Hz 16 bits Cancel In the Capture Format tab you can select your Video and Audio Encoders from the corresponding drop down menus Also if you need additional frames enter y
234. sitioning IMPORTANT The PlayBox modules DO NOT support the Deck Control connector supplied on the DeckLink breakout cable File View C New Ctrl N MENU BAR ae Save Ctrl S Kramer Config GPI Config DTMF Config Preferences m k File Menu penal Exit New This command opens a new Capture list cap Preferences The preferences dialog box consists of three pages Inthe General page you can check the current video standard which depends on the selected plug in Channel in a Box Lite The video standard can be changed in the specific set up form of the plug in if the relevant plug in Supports this functionality The current video standard is also displayed in the bottom of the main CaptureBox window If you want CaptureBox to start minimized check MStart in system tray NEW TCI files are automatically generated during capturing They contain information about the tape ID In and Out time code on the tape as well as clip duration and notes on the captured files Most of this information can be imported in DataBox for automated creation of new records in the database Please check the TCI Import section in DataBox gt Options description The time codes in tci files can be read by the Clip trimmer for subtitling purposes If you do not need them uncheck M Create TCI files which is checked by default NEW M Stop Capture on VTR ServoLock Lost this option is designed to prevent bad video capturi
235. skip all clips that cannot be played out as a whole Let us assume that the time remaining till the fixed start is 2 minutes and all the clips before it are longer AirBox will skip them and the 2 minutes gap will be filled with the M Custom auto fill category see below Truncate currently running event AirBox will playout as many clips before the fixed time event as possible The currently playing clip will be truncated when the fixed time comes Channel in a Box Lite In the second situation when there is a gap in the playlist either because the content is not enough or you have selected to skip the currently running events you will need a W Custom auto fill category This drop down list contains all auto fill categories previously prepared by you and a Default Clip entry Check the Auto fill settings section to learn how to create these categories In case you can accept some deviation of the fixed time check the relevant MCustom tolerances box and describe it In this way you can ease the complex operations when it comes to a few seconds differences M Everyday fixed time is needed in case you loop your playlists If you leave this check box empty the fixed time will be executed only during the first loop NOTE Please note that you cannot use simultaneously Day offsets and Everyday fixed time WARNING DO NOT use fixed time events within a bookmark s time range Transition The Transition tab accommodates settings relat
236. spin boxes Use the blue arrows to the right to enter the number of the currently selected file in the relevant field If you are loading an interlaced animation specify the first field OA Field First or OB Field First Click Open The sequence will be displayed in the animation property window The currently selected file from the sequence will be shown in the preview area to the right The Export j button saves the current sequence as a file seq The Ada Hoon adds a new file to the sequence The Delete L button deletes a selected file from the sequence The Insert a button inserts a file into the sequence The Invert alpha is button inverts the alpha channel of the selected file The Move Up Down The Reverse 1 button reverses the files order LJ The View buttons are used for changing the sequence files view to list or thumbnail mode buttons move the selected file up down the list If the animation files do NOT have an alpha channel you can select a key color by using the Key color tool jw Kev Color E ee E The Range and the MLoop related spin boxes are situated below the key color setting kit Select the Fon 2 stat 02 Range of frames that will be used in the sequence enter the values you wish in the From and To o As fields The names of the frames that are out of this range will become red and their background grey The background of the working range will remain white If you want to loop b
237. st is less than and the end time is earlier than displayed You can choose whether the duration of missing files should be included or excluded from the total length by checking the relevant box in Settings gt General gt Missing Files gt Show duration of missing files IMPORTANT In case there is a question mark in the Total Length and End At fields the displayed total duration and end time are NOT the real ones since the missing files will be skipped during the playback If there is an exclamation mark after Total Duration and End At this means that there are missing files in the playlist and their duration is not calculated in the total duration i e the duration of the missing files is considered to be zero in the playlist TIP You can set AirBox to notify for the existence of missing files in the playlist by blinking the Total Duration and End at cells in red Besides an audio alarm can be set off through the PC sound card See Settings menu description gt General section for details on how to enable these notifications for Missing files The Selection field displays the cumulated duration of the currently selected items in the playlist The fourth field of the Status Bar shows the hardware module that is currently used for playout If it displays None please check whether the appropriate module is selected in Settings menu Modules gt Output tab Playback Control and Counters 00 00 08 17 E Master counter sho
238. t as shown in the screenshot below Configuration Help The position of the view list of video streams could be changed by selecting the desired View orientation e Align Left Ctri 1 position from Streams menu gt View orientation AE ee ee Y Audio Enabled Ctrl M Align Top Ctrl 3 Video Renderer Align Bottom Ctrl 4 T Enable Disable audio streams via the Audio Enabled command in the Streams menu Select the desired Video Renderer preset from the list of available View orientation renderers Add Remove Stream Y Audio Enabled Ctrl M Video Renderer Video Renderer Video Renderer Default Video Mixing Renderer Y Video Mixing Renderer 9 Enhanced Video Renderer Pressing Configurations menu Customize shortcuts invokes the dialog shown to the right x l Available commands Current keys Here you can set a list of user s shortcuts for some main commands like Add Remove streams Alignment Audio Enabling etc Add Remowe Live Stream Ctrl L To the left you will see the list of Available commands and to the Audio Enabled right the relevant shortcut will appear in the Current keys tield If you Customize shortcuts f f j Press new shortcut key want to change the key combination for a certain command select it Eyll r from the Available commands list go to the Press new shortcut key field press the desired keyboard combination and notice that it appe
239. t least 5 seconds between the capture start and the start of the incomplete file s playback Here is an example of setting this function In it a clip that is still being captured will be played back in AirBox for 20 seconds 1 Open AirBox In the Settings menu gt Settings dialog set Check Missing every 3 seconds and click OK Load a playlist right click and select Insert Incomplete clip In the Clip Properties dialog type in the title and the filename Use lt Ctrl C gt to copy the file name you will need it later Browse for the location to which the clip will be captured Then set the Duration to 20 seconds In the bottom of the Clip Properties dialog check M Live delayed file and clip and set duration Push Play The incomplete file is marked Missing as it still does not exist Open CaptureBox and specify the Folder you will capture to the clip name and the filename Use Ctrl V to paste from AirBox Start manual capturing A few seconds later the incomplete clip will become available but it will still be marked as missing as it was inserted before it was Created 12 It will be played for 20 seconds as specified in its properties 13 When AirBox starts playing the next clip you can go to CaptureBox and stop capturing if needed 901 eS 22003 a O WARNING You must have SCSI or very fast SATA storage for the TDIR option Otherwise capturing will most likely fail Channel in a Box Lite RS 422 Controller
240. ta name Special actions in the Graphic Rules can control events different from graphics events Thus you can control the logo insertion for example The commands can be assigned as separate actions or as lines in other graphic rules actions The beginning of such an Action script is marked with an exclamation mark The script must end with an exclamation mark toof Inside the script there can be three types of commands LOGO_ OFF to stop showing the logo LOGO_ON to show the last used logo o SHOW_LOGO PRESET_1 16 to show one of the 16 logo presets as specified in Settings menu gt Logo Here is an example of a command to stop the logo LOGO_OFF IMPORTANT The logo script is case sensitive i e it must be typed in capital locks Another couple of actions can switch the incoming triggers ON and OFF Thus the received GPI In pulses DTMF tones or Time Code will be ignored and the commands assigned to them will not be executed during a certain clip These actions are called AUTOMATION actions The possible commands are LAUTOMATION_OFF to disable the incoming GPI DTMF triggers AUTOMATION_ ON to enable the incoming triggers WARNING Do not use automation rules simultaneously with skip zones Settings menu General gt Skip zones to avoid conflicting logics TIP If you need to switch the AUTOMATION ON OFF manually use the AUtomation button in the main AirBox window If you need to switch OFF the
241. th schedule according to system clock M Start minimized if you place a check in this box the AirBox will be automatically Save lest postion interval 10 5 seconds minimized on startup Reload playlist options Reload playlist on file change StartU la list Reload daily playlist without playing it In this section you can choose a playlist to be loaded upon A rBox startup Fill gap between playlists Precache new playlist 30 minutes before start a N ew loads a blank playlist Daily playlist loading tolerance 0 Es second s Select the Last used option and the next time you start AirBox it will load Mif there is no current daily playlist the last played list In addition you can check MAuto start playback after loading f Try to load last daily playlist for same weekday the last used pl aylist Y Try to load past daily playlist from las f S day s Open dialog invokes a query to choose a playlist from the last used ee ee eee playlist location mhen reload playlist ODaily playlist folder gives an opportunity for some simple scheduling of C Reload playlist immediately playlists Select a folder in which you will place the daily playlists by filling in its path or e a Re just browse for it with the browse button There you will save the playlists you want to H schedule They require a specific naming structure in order to be played on the desired date and time An example name is 2003_11_20_
242. the already played files from the old f F Auto update clip s duration playlist when appending a new one 7 Restart playback after Cue delay fo lt 3 Audio streams fi j Broadcast timecode over network gt If this one is checked AirBox will broadcast the Default offset 0 Preroll event timef0 playlist time code the current clip timecode and the relative timecode from the beginning of C CC the playout session over the network via UDP j j anne a mMAuto save playlist saves the playlist automatically at predefined intervals aci zi Channel in a Box Lite MAuto update duration of marked files check it to enable automatic updating of clips duration in case of file change If not checked AirBox will remember the duration of the original file and if you change this file with a longer one it will be truncated After you have checked this box go to the playlist and highlight the files you would like to update you can use multi selection Right click and choose Auto update Thus all auto update files will be checked in accordance to the set interval and their durations will be updated accordingly Restart playback after resets the hardware counter which is displayed at the Master green counter This option is necessary due to various platform and format limitations NOTE Decoder restarting may cause a few black frames in playback 7 Cue delay this option concerns the Cue fun
243. the fixed time will start at 11 00 20 To recapitulate later tolerances allow playback of the previous item to the end and earlier tolerances allow avoiding short gaps if possible Start delay compensation It allows for setting offsets to a fixed time event to compensate the time needed for reaction of the hardware The offsets may be During play or pause mode tries to compensate for the time in milliseconds necessary for executing commands like Jump Next and Resume During stop mode tries to compensate for the time necessary for executing the Play command NOTE These settings are hardware specific so their exact values have to be determined experimentally WARNING When using fixed time events the playlist should start and end within the same calendar day i e the playlist should not go beyond midnight Otherwise we cannot guarantee the proper operation of the fixed time logic and that of the daily playlist logic Complex Items Two main ideas stand behind the complex events Complex event presets editor lO x Complex items Properties 7 sis i ulasa Default duration 1200000 1 Avoiding insertion of numerous rows in the playlist when there are several To Beginning events external events that have to be executed at the same time or one after another ge 115314 65 4 4 dd 5 VTR 1 Time offset 0 qe Kramer Matrix Switcher Command Time offset 0 For example when you need
244. the original location and then fill in the New folder field with the new location You may browse for path with the qi button There are two view options If you check MShow only files that exist in new folder only the files that are available in the New folder will be displayed in the list below MShow only missing files displays only the files from the playlist which are Missing The Selection modes are self explanatory and give opportunity for fast selecting deselecting of all items inverse and missing only selection When the Change button is pressed the file paths are relocated and this is reflected in the playlist immediately Fi Playlist checker x Playlist Checker Check criterias This tool checks the playlist for inconsistencies Enable the criteria you need by V ees En checking the box in front of them EPR Overlapped clips Below you will find description of some of the checking criteria Y Missing Logo Off events between Logo On events gt V Missing Logo On events between Logo Off events gt MMissing clips E checks for missing clips in the playlist M Non sequential bookmarks with time zones gt l or idles clips checks for clips with an unsupported format in the 7 Files or live steams shorter than 0 seconds gt Playlls Playlist duration shorter than o Si hours MOverlapped clips this check is related to fixed start time clips that overlap OGRE E previous clips in
245. the playlist For example if the output aspect is set to 4 3 but the clips in the playlist are with a ratio of 16 9 The following settings are available Best fit will keep the real size of the image Two horizontal black bars will be added above and under the video to fill up the remaining part of the screen The horizontal size of the video is preserved Balanced Letterbox the horizontal black bars will be smaller Small parts at the two sides of the video will be left out of the screen Full screen Zoom the vertical size of the video will be preserved Video will be cut equally to the left and to the right Stretch using this setting there will be no black bars on the screen but a little change in the form of the shapes Custom it is used for custom settings When you select it the drop down box at the right side of the Aspect Size will become active as well as the Conversion Strategy box The latter allows you to adjust what portion of the image and what portion of the black bars will be visible in percentage For example if you select 50 the result would be like the Best Fit Aspect Size ratio At 100 the result will be like Full screen Zoom and at 0 like Letterbox Rescaling In case the source file has a different resolution than the output resolution there might be some Rescaling of the video ONO Rescaling if selected there will not be any rescaling Crop if the source file has a higher resol
246. the playlist de See ee ES P P lv M TapelD info f btitl f cl Cat MMissing Logo Off events between Logo On events checks if there is a df Oa ee z E Logo Off event between the Logo On events ee n e MMissing Logo On events between Logo Off events checks if there is a r Logo On event between the Logo Off events e Teststas MNon sequential bookmarks with time zones hee pea TapelD Bookmarks with time zones should be situated in sequential order i e following ce the normal time flow This means that bookmarks with earlier time zones should be situated up in the playlist while bookmarks with later time zones should be placed down the playlist This will ensure their correct execution MGaps larger than when using fixed start times and there is not enough content to be played before them gaps are formed in the playlist MMissing TapelD info for subtitling of clips in Category name Subtitles are shown based on the TapelD of the clip and the currently running time code If a Tape IDis missing frin a clip s properties no subtitles will be displayed over it Therefore it is important to make sure that all TapelDs are in place Just specify the category of clips that require subtitling and check if all of them have TapelDs in their properties MMissing Metadata in Clips this field contains settings for verifying the availability of all metadata usually needed for Graphic rules Metadata is described i
247. tion allows you to start multiple AirBox applications on different hardware decoders at the same workstation Assigned modules W Set mo iBox 1 current i i P f A 5 we Bl ck M i Mixed Playback PLBlackM agicMixed pbx NOTE Depending on the active module AirBox may recognize some files PPO ih a as invalid if these files are not supported by the respective hardware used 8 ah e AiBox 5 e AiBox 6 If there is no hardware platform installed there are still several options A Gee a MPO Mixed Playback This plug in allows for playout of different tyoes of media SD HD 25fps 30 fps etc and different outputs SDI Analogue IP Streaming etc to run at the same time from a single AirBox playout server Basically with the Multi Parallel Outputs MPO AirBox allows broadcasters to provide parallel outputs in any combination needed to deliver content For more detailed information on how to use the MPO Mixed Playback please check the relevant section below If you still have any questions related to the configuration of this AirBox module contact our support team at support playbox tv Remote Control All of the available modules for remote control in A rBox are listed in the remote control tab like GPI General Purpose Interface DTMF video matrices and video switchers TitleBox NetControl resizing etc These modules correspond to events in the AirBox playlist First you have to enable the module fro
248. tion in the Project Menu description TIP 1 If you want to change the driver before its initialization hold down lt Ctrl Shift gt during TitleBox startup to open the Driver select dialog afo 3 The Zoom spin box allows resizing the work area so you could see the whole project at a glance It is very useful for viewing HD projects Y This button opens the Data Source Manager window It contains all supported data providing plug ins You can use them to translate different types of data and display the information they contain in some of the TitleBox objects Please check the Data Source Manager section further below B This button opens the Task Manager window Please check the Task Manager description in the related_section further below When the 3 zl Output aspect ratio is changed TitleBox will automatically change the size of the objects according to the selected aspect All of the aspect changes concerning one particular project are listed as presets in the Display resolutions dialog To open it press the display resolution EE button The dialog to the right will appear It xj provides possibilities for fast switching between the different presets Pressing the 2 button or double clicking one of the rows will initiate an aspect change To delete a preset use the button The External aspect control button is pressed by default It is intended for automated switching of the aspect ratio according to an exter
249. tly as they appear in the TitleBox template project including the name of the template itself In the example in the screenshot above we have set four actions to be executed when the Category is Music Clip Start_Show to show the clip title and performer when 5 of the clip duration has passed Clip Start_Hide to hide the title and the performer when 20 of the clip have passed Clip End_Show same commands as in Clip _Start_Show but with 80 Action time offset to show the title and the performer at the end of the clip Clip End_Hide same commands as in Clip_Start_Hide but with 95 Action time offset to hide the graphics when 95 percent of the clip has passed You can add more variables from the Metadata tab in the clip s properties dialog The preset value format for the metadata is Yometadata_MetadataName where MetadataName is the same as in the Metadata tab of the clip properties dialog in the first column Thus if the metadata name is Producer the preset value script will be Yometadata_Producer Now you can create an Action script that will send this information to TitleBox for example Producer txt metadata_Producer Metadata categories can also be used for changing the file links in picture and sound objects in TitleBox Thus you could control which picture s sound s should appear over each video clip Let us assume that in one of the rows in the Metadata tab we have typed new picture E Pictures pic
250. to change the graphic rules without stopping the program overwrite the relevant Graphrules dat file first Then go to File menu gt Reload graphic rules Rescan file duration Use this command to rescan the durations of all files in the playlist Edit Menu This menu contains all playlist and clip editing commands available in A rBox You can find the most important of them also in the drop down menu that appears upon right clicking in the playlist grid Channel in a Box Lite Add Insert A E nie Both commands provide the same action list The difference is in the insertion point in the playlist While an Dummy clip Ft Ctrl Wy oe do sey Add command will add the selected event at the end of the playlist the Insert command will insert the Y Livestream Shith selected event above the currently selected line 2 Note Shift Ctrl N Wi Transition Shift Gtrl 1 Event d Media Files Adds Inserts existing clip s in the playlist Browse in the dialog opened to point which clip s you would like to append or insert Dummy Clip The Dummy Clip invokes a special dialog box for adding or inserting virtual clips in the 5 playlist You can use this option when you want to build your playlist prior to receiving a clip O CECU whose properties are already known AirBox will mark it as Missing but when it becomes e available it could be used right away ar enn a Houseld a TapelD fuub2 y Use the Sour
251. to run a program off tape you will have to insert a VTR event plus two switcher events one for cutting from AirBox video to VIR Ending events output and the second one for performing the opposite All of these can be part L Logo event of a complex event so basically you have a single complex event named VTR1 for example which would take care of sending signals to the matrix and to the VIR when necessary Elpro Switcher Output Leitch Matrix Switcher Output TitleBoxMetCtrl Output VideoResizeCtrl Output Vikinx Matrix Switcher Output 2 Enabling creation of such complex events presets so the user will not have to insert the same external events one by one each time he needs them Instead he could pick up one of the available presets from the list he has created For example if you have a matrix switcher which needs to route IN5 to OUT2 in order to get AirBox on air and it needs to route IN2 to OUT2 in order to get live feed pass through you could predefine 2 complex events with custom names such as To AirBox and To Live These complex events will contain the matrix switcher event with its IN OUT configuration as defined Then you just need to insert the complex event by name So basically a complex event represents a set of external events with their adjustments and offsets The Complex event presets editor window is divided in two sections Channel in a Box
252. u have set a Fly From Left effect and duration of 2 seconds your object will move at a constant speed from left to right till it reaches the desired position within two seconds If you set the motion type to 1 to 5 Ascending the object will start in a slower motion and its speed will accelerate during the 2 seconds of transition In descending mode the speed of the transition will decelerate Channel in a Box Lite The Full screen transition buttons are situated next to the transition duration spin boxes You might need this functionality in case there are several grouped objects on the screen and these objects have the same transition effect and duration If you trigger or stop such objects simultaneously they will move in relation to each other because they have to cover different distances on the screen for the same period Using this button will make objects move together but not in relation to each other during the transitions The transition of all grouped objects will look as if the entire screen is moving not the separate objects The lowest toolbar contains object specific settings that change depending on the currently selected object If no object is selected this toolbar allows for changing the work area and the grid 1 Work Space O Cream Back o Red View Grid J Snap To Grid C Documents Sunset jpg gt Push the Token button if you need to be more precise while drawing the objects in the work area You
253. u to set the Color Position and Text of the number values I Auto Update Ok Cancel Apply Channel in a Box Lite SM ix General Scales Numeric Scale Title Indicators maxPeak Use the Title Indicators tab to configure the position and appearance of the Titles and Indicators in the Volume Meter window You can set the Alignment Justification Font and Color of the Titles For the indicators you can change their position in the dialog Color 959 0 F visble and Alignment a Se C Left E bu gt xj Right Bottom Right Mm Pec C Bottom V Outline oO white y General Scales Numeric Scale Title Indicators MaxPeak C center Center as EE Shape Triangle gt Visible E zi j Left B E Width fio E cJustif p e B ioe a j Top fe E eight jo ES E Finally in the MaxPeak tab configure the Shape Aion C Bottom Right io Pia Rea gt ri C Top Back KM cst do E Re position and colors of the max peak indicator Pies Y Outine FJ velos Both F Outline O white Ci Bottom Center IV Auto Update Ok Cancel Apply V Auto Update Ok Cancel Apply External video window Check it to move the video window outside the main AirBox window You can resize the video window by pulling its edges with the mouse pointer or by right clicking on it a drop down menu will suggest several zooming options Show external video window
254. until the end before the beginning of the fixed time clip will be skipped A gap will appear in the playlist as a result of this skipping This gap will be filled in accordance with the auto fill rules set by you see the Default gap filling category below Let us assume that there are five minutes remaining until the fixed time and you have two clips to go before the fixed time both of which are 3 minutes long In this case A rBox will not be able to play the whole second clip so this clip will be skipped and an auto fill event category or default clip will be played back instead Truncate playing event AirBox will playout as much of the preceding clip as possible and when the time comes it will cut to the fixed time event see also default start tolerance below Default gap filling category Default gap filling category is the third section of the Fixed time event options dialog and it contains several options for automatic filling of gaps in the playlist Channel in a Box Lite Default clip The default auto fill clip must be an MPEG2 if you are using an MPEG2 plug in or DV if you are using a DV plug in file Most often it is a program logo animation etc The default auto fill clip will be played back each time there is a gap in your playlist and you have not specified anything else to be done in order to fill it you have not set any auto fill category the clips from this category are missing for some reason etc In br
255. ution than the output resolution only the middle part of the video will be visible If the input video has a lower resolution the remaining part of the output picture 1s filled with a black color Standard this setting corresponds to the Low one from the Custom list Channel in a Box Lite Custom if pressed the user has to choose the type of quality from the drop down list near the relevant radio button NOTE Working with higher video quality requires more CPU power Resampling In case the source video has a different frame rate than the output one the following Resampling options are provided No Resampling there will be no resampling Repeat Skip for example if the output video standard is set to NTSC but you have to play a file which belongs to the PAL standard some frames will be repeated in order to fill up the frame number to 30 By analogy some frames could be skipped Standard corresponds to the 9 Very High quality from the Custom list Custom if selected you have to select an item by your choice from the drop down list near this radio button Audio General Tab xj Here you can define some settings for the audio output Video Audio General Audio Channels Logo Alo DTM F tti xj Mono Channels Count DTMF settings DTMF Settings E 7 DTMF Settings Here you can define an output DTMF signal Output Settings p DTMF Settings
256. vant image for the background hour minute or second hands W O Enable enables prohibits displaying the relevant element W O Key Color key color for the image If the image does not have a mask you can select the key color CO UO 89 Channel in a Box Lite W O Lock position locks the X Y position of the image Transparency sets the image transparency Preview area It is used for previewing the corresponding clock element TIP To achieve a satisfactory result use a picture editing application to create four square images with equal dimensions Save them in separate files one for each element of the clock background hour hand minute hand and second hand Be sure to place the hands ends on the exact centers of the relevant images Keep in mind that the clock object will have the same size as the image in the file It cannot be resized Animation Properties The Sequence Property dialog has the following functions The New button allows for creating a new sequence The Open button loads a file seg or a sequence of files tga for an animated logo Look in a Sports 4 ex E 100x80 a gy History is football_new0032 tga es football_new0043 tga Te golf0004 taa E gt Football_new0033 tga EN football_new0044 tga E golF0005 tga E gt Football_new0034 tga Es football_new0045 tga E golF0006 tga ES golFo E gt Football_new0035 tga EN football_new0046 tg
257. ve a full PowerPoint version installed on the TitheBox PC in order to run these objects Only PowerPoint 2003 is supported Primary Shapes You can create your own mattes for the text objects directly in the TitheBox work area They are true color with 256 level transparency Press the Create Shape button in the object palette and draw a rectangle in the work area By default an oval shape will appear in it and the object specific toolbar will appear under the standard ones Elipse AR A Radus 78 Outline E 3 Ange o SE The toolbar provides a wide variety of editing options The drop down list of available shapes is situated to the far left The color palette next to it is designated for the background color You can select it from the available ones or create it on your own Further to the right there is another palette for the fill effects You can choose between None Gradient color or Texture Fill The fill and outline effects are the same as in text objects Check the Roll Crawl properties section above NOTE The background color serves as an alpha channel to the fill effect The background color and transparency will be mixed with the fill color and its transparency Use the Radius spin box to enlarge your objects or to make them smaller The next spin box determines the Outline width The color palettes next to it are for the background color of the outline and its fill effects respectively Similar to the sh
258. w will stop the playback A warning dialog box will appear each time you try to do so Append playlist This item appends another playlist to the end of the currently loaded playlist Insert playlist This menu item inserts another playlist in the currently loaded playlist above the currently selected row Save playlist This command saves the current playlist file The saved file contains the names of all clips arranged by their running numbers in the grid as well as some additional attributes like playlist name loop status etc Save as This command saves the current playlist to a file Except for our generic playlist format ply now you can save your playlists to XML files as well NOTE The XML playlist has a generic PlayBox format Therefore you cannot load any XML file as a playlist x a y KEN Januar y 2012 February 2012 y Save daily playlist Bs Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue wed Ms a j A a F 2 i ti 4 T i 4 a k 7 ii This menu item saves the current playlist in compliance with the naming requirements for ajs meaa Ble aA BA aa daily playlists This saving option will not be active if you have not specified a Daily EREN i playlist folder see Settings menu gt Start Up gt Start Up playlist State Ezzzru Pisistiomat op z Existing playlists Date Time Pistas WARNING When using fixed time events in daily playlists the playlist should start and end within t
259. will be shown in your sequence These numbers will be displayed in the status bar of the sequence s properties dialog box Count stands for the total number of frames in the list Used stands for the number of frames in the working Range and Loop stands for the number of frames that will be looped IMPORTANT You must have enough uninterrupted free RAM to load a TGA sequence in TitleBox The minimum free RAM needed for loading a TGA animation is calculated with the following formula Animation Width multiplied by Animation _Height multiplied by 4 multiplied by the Animation_Frame_Count Example 2 Minimum Free RAM for Animation Sequence To save or open a project which contains such an animation you will have to multiply the needed RAM by 2 Thus the minimum free uninterrupted RAM for saving opening a 100 frame animation with 300x200 frame size will be 300 200 4 100 2 48 000 000 bytes 45 77 MB TIP In order to reduce these requirements you could export your longer animations to sequence files by using the Create Animation File object see the section below NOTE Fielded animations are NOT supported Use frame based animations with each field in a separate file Then use speed 2 for proper speed and field interpretation NOTE The Animation Sequence is limited to 32 bit TGA Sequence File Creator Loader 03 Create Animation File EA P Range l Loop o This object was created to avoid the re
260. ws is the Master volume slider This Volume slider also is visible in the main AirBox interface between the multi purpose zone and the playback control buttons If you move the slider from the Volume Control window it is moved in the main interface too iw Show Master m Show All Channels er ee Aita The Show Master and Show All Channels commands allow you to hide unhide the master and the channel bars respectively Right mouse clicking on the Volume Meter area opens a context menu like the one shown below Channel Orientation Horizontal Reset v Vertical In the Stream and Channel Orientation menus you can select the direction of the stream Skin Grid and the peak bars respectively a The Reset command nullifies the peak values and the Skin option allows you to select a skin color for your peak bars 30 31 Channel in a Box Lite The Edit debug command invokes a dialog which allows you to configure the overall appearance of your Volume Control window named the Designer window This window contains five tabs xj EN Load Save The General tab allows you to Load and Save custom skins for your Volume Meter Y Backgrounc E Custe ou Here you can also set your Background and Outline colors Note that when you configure your desired settings you need to press the Apply button in order to change the appearance of the Volume Meter window Furthermore you can dynamically view how the appear
261. ws the elapsed time of the current playout session Pressing the Stop button resets the counter The title of the currently playing clip is displayed below the running time code This is quite useful in case the row played is out of the visible grid range TIP To view the currently playing clip in the beginning of the grid just click on the Master counter This will shift the playlist items by placing the currently playing clip at the top of the list If you want to view the clips before it use the arrow keys on your keyboard The Clip counter is situated under the master counter It can operate in two modes count up and count down mode Just double click on it to switch between cI them The playback control buttons are situated below the Clip counter gt Bil gt O Q op Sa Play P starts the playback Stop terminates the playback Pause Resume temporary interruption resuming of the playback The playback resumes from the same point on Next immediately stops the currently playing clip and switches to the next clip in the playlist This happens with a smooth cut without any sound or visual artifacts Return Y this button is active only after a Jump has been executed Use this button to return to the position before the last Jump Jump EH immediately terminates the currently playing clip and starts playing the one that is selected regardless of its position in the grid Channel in a Box Lite Cu
262. x is checked If not pushed the counter will count up After selecting the counter type and entering the Initial and Stop times as well as a Mask you are ready to run your Counter Run your project and show your object by using the well known Play p button Then Prepare ai your counter and Start After pressing the Prepare button your counter sets to Initialtime and waits for a Start command Stop the counter with the FF button Pushing the Intermediate button will freeze the counter During freeze the counter will be running in the background but you will see a still frame displaying the time of the counter from the moment when the Intermediate button has been pressed When you push the Intermediate button once more the Counter will start showing the current time again Two buttons are active for both the clock and counter modes Properties El and Visible c Pressing Properties opens the font formatting dialog The Visible button determines if the Clock Counter will be visible on the monitor or not It does not stop the clock counter but it just hides shows it Time Offset This spin box allows for creating digital clocks for different time zones In Date mode the object will display the system date instead of the system time There are two date formats Long Date and Short Date Their appearance depends on the regional settings of your TitleBox server You can change them in Windows Control Panel gt Regional and
263. you to specify the Connection Alias and view the Connection String New Connection gt Connection properties Connection Alias lt New Connection gt Connection String Press Build to configure the connection The window below will open The ODBC configuration dialog contains four tabs x Provider Connection Advanced Al In the Provider tab select the data base type you want to connect to Select the data you want to connect to OLE DB Provider s MediaCatalogDB OLE DB Provider MediaCatalogMergedDB OLE DB Provider MediaCatalogWebDB OLE DB Provider Microsoft Jet 4 0 OLE DB Provider Microsoft OLE DB Provider For Data Mining Services Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Indexing Service Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers Microsoft OLE DB Provider for OLAF Services 8 0 Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Microsoft OLE DB Simple Provider MSDataShape OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Directory Services Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere OLE DB Provider 9 0 When you click Next the Connection tab opens so you could configure the connection to the selected database The Connection tab looks differently depending on the Provider you have chosen When you are done entering the connection details presses Test Connection to check if it works correctly After configuring the connection you can open t

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