Monthly Archive for: "September, 2018"

This feature allows you to turn Auto Play function on for a chosen tray: Media1, Media2, Still1, Still2 Text1 or Text2. When you enable Media: Auto Play feature, a file from the tray will start playing from the beginning when going on the air (i.e. to the Program screen), regardless of whether it is to be displayed full screen or on a virtual screen in the scenography. If a Mark in tag has been set for the file, the file will start playing from that point. If this is a Play list, it will start from the beginning of the first file or from the Mark in tag in the first file.

This feature allows you to insert a pause between other functions. The duration of such pause is set in seconds or in frames in the field: Transition.

As the certain set of functions is repeated frequently when programming the Triggers for DSK, in order to facilitate your work, Fetch Properties panel has been placed at the bottom of the window. This allows you to load a sequence of the most commonly used functions for DSK by pressing a button for a given
DSK.

When you press the second of the two DSK buttons, a subsequent set of functions will be loaded. You have to pay attention which function has been highlighted last, as a beginning of an inserted new sequence will be in that place.

Just like the previous one, this function allows you to move content (logo, subtitles, etc.) from the Preview screen to Program, but via Fade transition. You can set the speed, that is duration, of this transition in seconds or in frames. This function also allows you to remove the content from the air (Program) back to the Preview screen.

With this feature, you can move content (logo, subtitles, etc.) from the Preview screen to Program via Cut transition, that is, immediately, without delay. This function also allows you to remove the content from the air (Program) back to the Preview screen.

Caption: ‘This command does not have any arguments’ means that there is no need to enter any values for this function.

This feature allows you to set a source, i.e. which media or images tray should be assigned to which DSK. A live image source from CAM1 – CAM4 can also be used here.

First, choose DSK1 or DSK2 in the DSK Unit field and then, from the drop-down list, select a tray for the chosen DSK. You can choose from among: Text1, Text2, Media1, Media2, Still1, Still2, CAM1 – CAM4.

Enabling this feature allows you to enlarge a logo or a text loaded into DSK.

First, in the DSK Unit field, select to which DSK this enlargement is to be applied, and then, in the Scale field, enter an enlargement value in %.

You can determine the enlargement value in % by trial and error. Enable DSK, press Placement button and set the desired enlargement with a center scroll wheel. Read the value in the field below.

Enabling this feature allows you to rotate by a chosen angle a logo, a text, etc. assigned to DSK.

First, in the DSK Unit field, select to which DSK this rotation is to be applied, and then, in the Rotation field, enter an angle of rotation in degrees.

Enabling this feature allows you to make DSK visible on Preview. You have to choose which DSK you want to enable by indicating it in the box: Set visibility of DSK units on Preview. You can turn both DSKs on at the same time, you just have to tick both Enabled checkboxes. When you press a key with this function, DSK content will be displayed on the Preview screen and DSK buttons will lit up green.

Example: the following task is to be accomplished: after pressing F1 function key, a logo from Text1 tray is to be assigned to DSK1, then enabled and positioned on the Preview screen at X=55, Y=01 coordinates. At the same time, a text from Text2 tray assigned to DSK2 is to be shown on the screen at X=65, Y=60.

Then, after spending 5 seconds on the Preview screen, the text and the logo should appear on the Program screen via MIX transition with 3 seconds transition time. They are to be displayed for 10 seconds on the air. Then, after these 10 seconds, the text and the logo should be removed from the air via MIX transition with 3 seconds transition time.

A description of the whole procedure will be as follows:

• Select one of the KeyF keys in the Triggers window, e.g. Key F1. Select Advanced mode in the upper right corner of the window.
• From the Select command type drop-down list add DSK: Set Preview function using Add button and then, tick both Enabled checkboxes, enabling this function for DSK1 and DSK2 on Preview.
• Then, add DSK: Set Source function from the drop-down list, set DSK1 in DSK Unit feld and Text1 in DSK Stream feld.
• Next, once again select and add DSK: Set Source function setting DSK2 in DSK Unit feld and Text2 in DSK Stream feld.
• Afterwards, select and add DSK: Set Position function from the drop-down list. In the Unit feld, select DSK1 and set the logo’s desired position on the screen. That is, X=55, Y=01.
• Add DSK: Set Position function once again. In the Unit feld, select DSK2 and set a position the text is to have on the screen, i.e. X=65, Y=60
• Then, add General Delay function and set a delay of 5 seconds. It will be a time in which the logo and the text will be displayed the Preview screen.
• Now, add DSK: Transition MIX function with Transition time of 3 seconds, which will allow the logo and the text to enter the Program screen.
• Add General Delay function again with a delay of 10 seconds, which will be the time the logo and text remain on the Program screen.
• After that, add DSK: Transition MIX function with Transition time of 3 seconds, which will allow the logo and the text to go off the air to the Preview screen.
• At the end, add DSK: Set Preview function – and leave the two Enabled checkboxes unchecked, i.e. turn DSK1 and DSK2 off.

The whole sequence triggered by pressing F1 function key will look like this: DSK1 and DSK2 buttons are being turned on. In the application, both DSK buttons light up green. Simultaneously, a source for DSK1 and for DSK2 is selected. At the same time, positions of the logo and the text are set. The logo and the text remain on the Preview screen for 5 seconds. They go on the air on the Program screen via MIX transition that lasts 3 seconds. They remain on the air for 10 seconds. They go off the air to the Preview screen via MIX transition lasting 3 seconds. Both DSKs are being turned off.

Note: Additional interesting use: The situation where you have more than one file in the tray from which you will be importing a source for DSK (as in the example above, Text1 and Text2 trays). Then, you can add Media: Select function (described later in the text) before using DSK: Set Source function. This will allow you to select a precise tab in the tray and then select a file that you want to assign to DSK.

This function allows you to adjust the screen position of a content currently loaded to DSK, from a chosen tray, or from a camera image. This way, you can position, e.g. a station logo on DSK1 and, let’s say, a movie title on DSK2.

When you enable this function, you have to select from the drop-down list in DSK Unit field to which DSK this function will refer to, DSK1 or DSK2. Then, set the logo’s X and Y coordinates on the screen in the Position field.

Point X = 0, Y = 0 is located in the middle of a field with an output resolution for which a pixel is a unit. Values increase moving to the right for X and upwards for Y.

If you made an earlier attempt to set a position of a logo or a text on the screen with Placement for DSK function, you can read X and Y coordinates’ values from the opened window. You can enter these values in the Position field.

Enabling DSK: Set Position sets the parameters for DSK on the screen (e.g. logo’s position), but does not enable DSK itself. To be able to see the effects of this function, DSK should have been made visible earlier on the PREVIEW screen (DSK buttons backlit in green).

In order to enable DSK on the screen, you have to use DSK: Set Preview function.