EVS XEDIO Browse User Manual Version 3.1
User’s Manual
Version 3.1 - January 2011
Xedio Browse
From Xedio Suite
Xedio Suite Version 3.1 – User’s Manual - Xedio Browse
EVS Broadcast Equipment – January 2011
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Table of content
TABLE OF CONTENT ...................................................................................................... III
WHAT’S NEW? ................................................................................................................ IV
1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................... 1
1.1 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 USER INTERFACE ...................................................................................................................... 1
1.2.1 Opening Xedio Browse ........................................................................................................... 1
1.2.2 Overview of the Xedio Browse Window .................................................................................. 2
1.3 PROCESS OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................... 3
2. PLAYER .................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 OVERVIEW OF THE PLAYER PANE .......................................................................................... 4
2.2 VIDEO DISPLAY OF THE PLAYER ............................................................................................. 5
2.3 PLAYER CONTROLS .................................................................................................................. 6
2.3.1 Player Transport Controls ....................................................................................................... 6
2.3.2 Timecode Value Fields ............................................................................................................ 8
2.3.3 Video and Audio Monitoring Tools .......................................................................................... 8
2.3.4 Media and Jog Bars .............................................................................................................. 10
2.3.5 Loading Media on the Player Window ................................................................................... 12
2.3.6 Play Media in the Additional Player ....................................................................................... 13
3. TABS PANE ........................................................................................................... 14
3.1 THE MEDIA TAB ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.1.1 Overview of the Media Tab ................................................................................................... 14
3.1.2 Media List Area ..................................................................................................................... 15
3.1.3 Using Filters to Search the Database .................................................................................... 16
3.2 THE VIRTUAL MEDIA PROPERTIES TAB ................................................................................ 26
3.2.1 Overview of the Virtual Media Properties Tab ....................................................................... 26
3.2.2 Creating a Virtual Media ........................................................................................................ 27
3.2.3 Auto Clipping Modes ............................................................................................................. 28
4. VIRTUAL MEDIA PANE ......................................................................................... 29
4.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 29
4.2 VIRTUAL MEDIA LIST DISPLAY ............................................................................................... 29
4.2.1 Displayed Columns ............................................................................................................... 29
4.2.2 Show Thumbnails.................................................................................................................. 30
4.2.3 Glossary of Column Headings .............................................................................................. 30
4.3 VIRTUAL MEDIA LIST CONTEXTUAL MENU ........................................................................... 31
5. MENU BAR ............................................................................................................. 32
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What’s New?
The following table describes the sections updated to reflect the new and modified
features on Xedio Browse from Xedio Suite 3.1 (compared to Xedio Suite 3.0).
In the user manual, the icon has been added on left margin to highlight
information on new and updated features.
Click the section number (or the description) in the table to jump directly to the
corresponding section.
Section Description
3.1.1, 3.1.3 Revised area for the database search and filter.
3.1.2 New options available from the Media List contextual
menu.
2.3.3 Support of 16 audio channels.
Audio vumeters for the loaded media are displayed next
to the Video Display.
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1.1 PURPOSE
The Xedio Browse application allows a user to browse and preview media within a
Xedio Suite environment.
The supported media can be either data already imported into the Xedio Suite or
files currently being ingested into the system as a ‘live feed’.
With Xedio Browse, the media can be segmented into several ‘virtual media’. This
can be useful, for example, to break down a single news feed including multiple
stories into several sections each containing an individual story. In the case of a
football match, virtual media can be produced with the goals or highlights directly
from the incoming feed.
Multiple virtual media can be created from the same source.
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The virtual media does not require any splitting of the original file as it is only
made of markers placed on the original media file. There is no new media file
created.
Specific metadata can be assigned to each virtual media.
1.2 USER INTERFACE
1.2.1 OPENING XEDIO BROWSE
To start the Xedio Browse application, click on the Xedio Browse
icon on the desktop.
This will display a login screen where you need to enter your
username and password.
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1.2.2 OVERVIEW OF THE XEDIO BROWSE WINDOW
The Xedio Browse graphical interface contains three main areas highglighted in
the screenshot below:
THE PLAYER PANE (1)
This is used to play media loaded from the Tabs pane or virtual media loaded from
the Virtual Media pane. The Player pane is used together with the Tabs pane to
create virtual media.
THE TABS PANE (2)
The Tabs pane contains two tabs.
The Media tab displays the list of media available in the Xedio database.
This is used to select the media to load in the Player pane. It has the same
powerful filtering and search attributes as other parts of the Xedio Suite of
applications allowing to easily find the required material.
The Virtual Media Properties tab displays the properties and metadata of the
media, or virtual media, loaded on the Player pane.
This is also used to create virtual media within the original file and assign it
specific metadata.
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THE VIRTUAL MEDIA PANE (3)
The Virtual Media pane gives the list of the virtual media created from the original
file selected in the Media tab.
1.3 PROCESS OVERVIEW
The use of Xedio Browse can be summarized as follows:
Step See …
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1. Select a media from the Media Tab of the
Tabs Pane.
2. Load it on the Player Pane Section 2.3.5 on page 12
3. Create a virtual media from the loaded media Section 3.2.2 on page 27
4. View the list of virtual media associated to a
media
Section 3.1 on page 14
Section 4 on page 29
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2. Player
The Player is used to load and play media or virtual media and to create virtual
media.
2.1 OVERVIEW OF THE PLAYER PANE
The Player pane provides a video display, a media bar and a jog bar to navigate
within the element, video and audio selection and monitoring buttons, transport
buttons and timecode fields. It slightly differs according to the element loaded.
When a media is loaded from the Tabs pane, it looks as follows:
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When a virtual media is loaded from the Virtual Media pane, the Player pane looks
like the following screenshot:
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2.2 VIDEO DISPLAY OF THE PLAYER
When you right-click on the Video Display area of the Player pane, a contextual
menu appears. This gives display options for the video:
Option Description
Show Timecode This option offers four choices to display timecode on the
Player window:
None does not display any timecode
Intra TC displays the original timecode of
the media
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Option Description
Start TC displays a counter starting with 0
at the first frame of the media
Both (Intra TC
– Start TC)
displays both the counter and the
original timecode
Aspect Ratio This option offers a choice of aspect ratios for the
display:
Auto uses the aspect ratio (AR)
information stored in the database
4:3 sets the display AR to 4:3 without
replacing database information
16:9 sets the aspect ratio to 16:9 without
replacing database information
Show SafeAreas This option displays a safe area cage on the window to
determine which areas of the picture will be seen. This
allows to check the size of graphics within the media for a
safe display.
[Playback Quality] It is also possible to choose the display playback quality
used by the window: Best Quality, Maximize or Stretch.
2.3 PLAYER CONTROLS
2.3.1 PLAYER TRANSPORT CONTROLS
Please refer to the Xedio Manager user manual for a comprehensive list of the
shortcuts.
CONTROLS COMMON TO MEDIA PLAYER AND VIRTUAL MEDIA PLAYER
Operation User Interface
Button
Play and Pause
↔
Play Near Live a
media while ingesting
(digitizing)
+
Shortcut
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Operation User Interface
Shortcut
Button
Go to Start of Media
Go to End of Media
CONTROLS SPECIFIC TO THE MEDIA PLAYER
Operation User Interface
Button
Fast Forward
Fast Rewind
Shortcut
+
+
Goto Next Frame
Goto Previous Frame
CONTROLS SPECIFIC TO THE VIRTUAL MEDIA PLAYER
When a virtual media is loaded on the Player, the four lower transport buttons
become trim buttons for the IN and OUT points of the virtual media:
Note
If the loaded virtual media is declared as published or the original media
is declared as treated, you will not be able to use those four buttons.
Operation User Interface
Button
Remove 1 frame from
Mark IN point
(grey)
Add 1 frame to Mark
IN point
(grey)
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