86.2 Playout Function

In Studio Player > Playout, there are mainly 4 areas where you can manage the playout.

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Saved Playlists panel
All the available playlists for the logged in user are displayed in Saved Playlists panel.  The playlists are dedicated to workstation and sorted by its validity date, you can select the Type of playlist and double-click on any playlist to open the playlist in the Playlist panel. 

If there is changes made to the playlists, the last-saved Type of playlists would be reloaded when the player is relaunched.

You can click the Refresh icon to update the display.

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Alternatively, by selecting the “Nunzio Rundowns” option you can select any available playlists from Rundown in Nunzio and load the selected playlist.
By enabling the option “Load only current Story into playlist” (by default) you can expedite the process by loading only story belongs to current rundown into the playlist.

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You can also add image type asset to the playlist.  The image asset would be displayed as still video in Preview panel with a default duration of 1 hour.  The image duration can be modified to suit your needs. 

Playlist panel
Use the icon you can determine if the playlist properties would be displayed or hidden.
When playlist properties are displayed, the description of each column are listed below.
Playlist Column - Thumbnail
Description : It display the thumbnail of the asset.
Playlist Column - Asset
Description : It display asset code and asset description.
Playlist Column - Duration
Description : It display the duration of the asset.  The duration are displayed in frames, it is the same duration when the asset is loaded in Media Library.
Playlist Column - In
Description : It indicate the starting point where the asset playlist would be played.
Playlist Column - Out
Description : It indicate the ending point the asset playlist would be stopped.
Playlist Column -  Valid 
Description : This icon indicate a valid file in the asset.
Playlist Column - No valid
Description : This icon indicate there is no valid file in asset.
NB: The sorting of playlist in alphabetically order is not intended for during the playout.
Preview panel
The Preview panel allows you to preview playlist during playout.
The available control functions includes:
Preview Features - Audio track and channels volume
Description : In the audio mater, it display the audio track and channels volume:
•You can enable/disable the audio track using the top checkbox.
•You can enable/disable the audio channel using the bottom checkbox.
•You can set the audio gain for each channel by moving the cursor.
NB: The number of available channels are defined in the playlist.  When more channels are available, only 2 channels would be automatically displayed.  You can manually select more channels to be shown during playout.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Video Preview
Description : Enable/Disable the video preview on workstation.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Audio Preview
Description : Enable/Disable audio preview on workstation.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Play
Description : Play the playlist.
Shortcut key : <Enter>
Preview Features - Pause
Description : Pause the playlist
Shortcut key : Spacebar
Preview Features - Previous Frame
Description : Back to previous frame
Shortcut key : “<” arrow key
Preview Features - Next Frame
Description : Go to next frame
Shortcut key : “>” arrow key
Preview Features - Previous File
Description : Go to previous item in the playlist
Shortcut key : Ctrl + “<”
Preview Features - Next File
Description : Go to next item in the playlist
Shortcut key : Ctrl + “>”
Preview Features - Single File
Description : Switch on/off to play a single file in the playlist.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Loop
Description : Set on/off the looping of playlist.  The looping is done by appending the same clip in the playlist.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Item position
Description : It display the current timecode of the item in play.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Item countdown
Description : It display the countdown of the current playing item in the playlist
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Playlist position
Description : The timecode of the current playing item in the playlist.
Shortcut key : 
Preview Features - Playlist duration
Description : The total duration of all items in the playlist.
Shortcut key : 
Playout panel
In the Playout panel, you can select the one or more Renderer to be used when playout the playlist.

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 The available Renderer listed are depending on the renderer software and devices installed on the workstation.
If NDI Renderer is installed, you can select between NDI Channel configured for the Etere IP Router in Video Router configuration.  Alternatively, you can input a NDI renderer name to set the NDI output signal. 

If the selected Renderer in locked by other application, error message "Unable to open XXX: it could be in use by another application" would be written in the log file.

At the bottom of the Playout panel, you can set the valid video format and audio format for the playlist in playout

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NB: The video and audio format settings would affect the preview of the playout.
Hide Playout Panel
In Playout panel, you can hide the renderer settings once the renderer is configured by click on the collapse button.

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The Playout panel would be hidden.

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If necessary, you can unhide the Playout panel by click on the expand button, as indicated above.
When the Player is closed and re-opened, the last saved renderer settings would be present.

Save GUI settings
If you had change the GUI window size and position, the changes would be saved when you exist from Studio Player.  The saved GUI layout would be present when Studio Player is relaunched.