Pinnacle Systems Motion Graphics - 2.5 User's Guide

Avid® Motion Graphics

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Avid Motion Graphics User’s Guide v2.5 • 9329-65242-00 Rev B • March 2013 • 3/27/13

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Accessing the Online Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 1 Avid Motion Graphics Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Product Suite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Key Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 2 Graphics Design Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Design Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Understanding the Design User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Assets Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Viewports Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Animation Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Model Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Saving Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Working with Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Panes and Areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Creating a Composition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Saving Projects and Compositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Chapter 3 Avid Motion Graphics Journalist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Avid Motion Graphics Journalist Client Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Starting the Journalist Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Avid Motion Graphics Journalist User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Template Area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Graphics Database Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Creating Graphics from Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Working with Database Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Filter Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Setting the Ready/Not Ready Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Locking Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Library Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Setting the Library Graphic Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Changing the Name of a Library Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using Avid Motion Graphics Journalist with iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Graphics Organization in Journalist for iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

General Library Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Library Graphics with a Specific User Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Personal Library Graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Page Numbers for Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Using Avid Motion Graphics Journalist with ENPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Chapter 4 Avid Motion Graphics Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Playout Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Template Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Motion Graphics Control User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Creating Keyboard Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Configuring Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter 5 Avid Motion Graphics News Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

News Control User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Control Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Rundown Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Message Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Basic News Control Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Changing a Cued Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Modifying the Position of a Graphic in a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Template Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Editing Graphics Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Adding a New Graphic to a Rundown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Special News Control Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Checking Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Ready and Not Ready Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Clearing Renders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Advanced News Control Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Pauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Searching for Rundown Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Using Page Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Playing Locked Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Channel Auto-Activation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Channel Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Chapter 6 Avid Motion Graphics Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Avid License Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

AMG Advanced Device Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

AMG Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Avid Motion Graphics Font Package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

AMG Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Using AMG Transcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Deko Translator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Before You Begin... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Creating an AMG Project with Deko Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Deko Chart Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Deko Player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Before You Begin... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Playing Deko Graphics in AMG Compositions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Playing Deko Graphics in AMG Control or AMG News Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Motions with Pauses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Cancelling a Previewed Graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Defining Replaceable Data Using AMG Control or AMG News Control. . . . . . . . . 124

Avid Motion Graphics Design UI Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Avid Motion Graphics Control Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Chapter 8 Avid Motion Graphics Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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Symbols and Conventions

Using This Guide

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This guide contains all the task-oriented instructions, conceptual information, and reference material you need to get started using your new graphics system. It is intended for use by those responsible for using Avid Motion Graphics in your facility.

Unless noted otherwise, the material in this document applies to the Windows 7 operating system.The screen shots in this document were captured on a Windows 7 system.

This document describes all the features available for the Avid Motion Graphics Server.

Depending on your particular configuration, your system might not contain certain features that are covered in this documentation.

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A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

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1 Avid Motion Graphics Overview

Avid Motion Graphics is a product suite geared for media producers in the media enterprise, professional video, and education market segments who produce graphics for several applications including news, sports, live events (concerts, houses of worship), post production, channel branding, game shows, reality TV, corporate video, and educational purposes.

Avid Motion Graphics solutions can integrate industry-leading broadcast graphics systems and live production servers with both the newsroom and broadcast production. The result is facility-wide access to branded visual templates and elements—from traffic to the promotions department to the journalists—and a more consistent and competitive channel identity in all news, sports and entertainment programming.

This document describes the key features, product suite applications and their descriptions. Depending on your configuration, your Avid Motion Graphics system might not contain certain applications or features covered in this document. Information that applies to a specific application is covered in that particular section.

The following main topics describe:

• Product Suite

• Key Features

Product Suite

The Avid Motion Graphics platform is built on a powerful rendering engine that lets everyone involved in graphics development make the most of their media. The product suite provides a foundation for a variety of applications, including news, sports, live events, post production, and channel branding. The following table describes the different Avid Motion Graphics applications.

Application Description

Avid Motion Graphics Avid Motion Graphics is one of three Avid Motion

Graphics design applications. It is geared towards the high-end broadcast graphics designer who needs to produce differentiated broadcast graphics with the highest production value. This application has a state-of-the-art feature set allowing for advanced, real-time 2D/3D graphics creation and playout, integrations with common workflows and infrastructure, turn-key or distributed hardware and control architecture. It also has support for Deko graphics.

Product Suite

Avid Motion Graphics Production Avid Motion Graphics Production is one of three

Avid Motion Graphics design applications. It is for broadcast graphics designers who need a cost-effective, easy to use, graphics solution with a w/ 2D/3D production capabilities. This application allows simplified real-time 2D/3D creation, and playout with basic effects, turn-key or distributed hardware and control architecture, and including support for Deko graphics.

Avid Motion Graphics Creation Avid Motion Graphics Creation is one of three Avid

Motion Graphics design applications. It is for graphics departments where graphics designers need separate graphics creation for later playout. They can import and edit third-party graphics objects using the full Avid Motion Graphics feature set for creation in a software only package, which can be installed on a laptop with a powerful graphics card and plenty of memory. This application includes the Clips and Stereoscopic options and has support for Deko graphics.

Application Description

Avid License Control Must be installed on any computer with a licensed

component. For instance, the servers pass licenses to Journalist clients and News Control Clients.

Installed on the Avid Motion Graphics computer, Avid Motion Graphics Journalist Server, Avid Motion Graphics Preview Renderer, and any Computers running 3DS, Photoshop, MAP or Avid Motion Graphics Control.

AMG Advanced Device Manager Used for the iNEWS Command workflow or

Automation and is installed on the Avid Motion Graphics Server.

Avid Motion Graphics Control Avid Motion Graphics Control is for non-newsroom

graphics and control room operators. For those who need to control sequenced or non-sequenced graphics, and need the ability to adjust graphics on-the-fly. This application provides full graphics control for playout flexibility. It is installed with Avid Motion Graphics or on a separate 3rd party system.

Product Suite

Avid Motion Graphics Font Package Allows use of graphics previously created in Deko

and users can create new graphics using fonts from this package in Avid Motion Graphics too.Installed on the Avid Motion Graphics Server.

AMG Transcode AMG Transcode is an application that allows you to

convert from multiple types of clips into a known usable format, which allows playback in real-time and has aligned audio.

Deko Translator The DekoTranslator is an application that allows

you to utilize your existing Deko Graphics assets and convert them into native AMG Compositions. DekoTranslator is a standalone application not requiring AMG or Deko to be installed to work correctly. However, to confirm that the all the assets required to process the Deko Graphics are available, you need some version of the Deko application. It is recommended that you use a single computer that has a version of both Deko and AMG installed.

Application Description

Deko Chart Designer Allows use of Deko graphics previously created

with Deko Chart Designer. Installed on the computer running Avid Motion Graphics with Deko Player or Deko Translator.

Deko Player Deko Player is a component of Avid Motion

Graphics that allows you to easily play your existing Deko graphics to air.

Avid Motion Graphics Journalist Avid Motion Graphics Journalist is for the

journalists who need template graphics for easy fulfillment of data.This application allows for use of the NRCS Integrated MOS plug-in along with flexibility in determining the level of functionality that journalists are exposed to for fulfillment of graphics data and adjustment of templates. Avid Motion Graphics News Control is also part of this installer.

Avid Motion Graphics News Control Avid Motion Graphics News Control is designed for

the news graphics operators who need graphics rundown automation with manual control. This application allows for automated graphics playout connected to the NRCS rundown, on-the-fly graphics adjustment, and third-party production automation integration. This application is part of the Avid Motion Graphics Journalist installer.

Product Suite

Key Features

The following table describes some of the key features of Avid Motion Graphics.

Feature Description

Real-time 2D/3D graphics processing and rendering Graphics creation from basic CG functions up to

Deko asset preservation Saves resources, time, and money by letting you use

Workflow integration Enables you to integrate graphics into the newsroom

Object-based environment Allows each object to contain its own parameters

Key Features

highly advanced real-time compositions using effects and shaders. Switch between 2D and 3D without complexity.

all the same raw file assets. Includes a translator to bring the basic components of your Deko files onto the new platform.

and edit suite while transitioning to the new platform. Empowers you to create powerful newsroom graphics from advanced templates.

and animation properties, and to be combined in an infinite variety of ways.

Local or distributed controller Enables you to bring graphics to air with all

products within the Avid Motion Graphics platform. Includes full override capabilities and the fastest to air workflows.

Text editing and effects Gets you to air quickly with all the standard text

entry and editing functionality, as well as dozens of preset text effects and animations.

Primitives modeling and animation, environment lighting and atmosphere tools

Intuitive user interface with traditional 2D and multiple 3D views on demand

Enhanced materials with soft clipping planes, specular effects, bumpmapping, advanced materials, shaders and shadows

Available plug-ins provide export from industry standard tools, such as Photoshop and 3D Studio Max, letting you create 3D objects and animations natively or from imported geometry with open integrations.

Enables you to work more efficiently to create many types of graphic assets, from character generation to full 3D animations.

Provides a wide range of creative options to develop a differentiated look and feel for any application.

Key Features

Feature Description

Group effects Lets you animate entire groups of objects, such as

multi-line scoreboards with a variety of preset animations.

Clips and/or video input mapped to any object including text

Enables you to map graphics clips or input video to any object and play in combination with timeline animations.

Control via automation, external machines, or applications

Interfaces with automated graphics playout control systems to automatically trigger playout in a variety of workflows.

Data-driven graphics Lets you dynamically update graphics, such as

financial charts, sports scores, and election results via integration with ODBC sources, RSS feeds, XML files, and/or third-party data sources and applications.

Advanced GPU technology support Supports the latest advances in GPU and I/O

technology, as well as formats from NTSC up to 2K, including film resolutions and custom formats.

2 Graphics Design Products

The following describes the Avid Motion Graphics design products user interface created for those users who produce graphics and compositions, which are used for news, sports, live events (concerts, houses of worship), post production, channel branding, game shows, reality TV, corporate video, and educational purposes.

The following main topics describe:

• Design Products

• Understanding the Design User Interface

Design Products

You can use the Avid Motion Graphics design products to create graphics you want to present on-air, such as lower thirds, frames for text, clocks, leaderboards, full-screen bulleted lists, templates for interfaced data, and pops, for quickly popping partial graphics onto a master graphic. The graphics are saved as a composition. The composition contains all the objects and all the properties of those objects, including the animation.

All graphics are built in 3-dimensional space, even if they are 2-dimensional objects. multiple

objects can be grouped together to create a new object.

In the Avid Motion Graphics product suite, there are three main design applications with which graphics and compositions are created. With some feature differences, the user interface for each of these design products is the same.

For this topic, starting your Avid Motion Graphics application means whichever Avid Motion

Graphics design application you are using.

Design Products

The following table describes the different Avid Motion Graphics design applications.

Design Application Description

Avid Motion Graphics Avid Motion Graphics is one of three graphics

design applications. It is geared towards the high-end broadcast graphics designer who needs to produce differentiated broadcast graphics with the highest production value. This application has a state-of-the-art feature set allowing for advanced, real-time 2D/3D graphics creation and playout, integrations with common workflows and infrastructure, turn-key or distributed hardware and control architecture. It also has support for Deko graphics.

Avid Motion Graphics Production Avid Motion Graphics Production is one of three

graphics design applications. It is for broadcast graphics designers who need a cost-effective, easy to use, graphics solution with a w/ 2D/3D production capabilities. This application allows simplified real-time 2D/3D creation, and playout with basic effects, turn-key or distributed hardware and control architecture, and including support for Deko graphics.

Avid Motion Graphics Creation Avid Motion Graphics Creation is one of three

graphics design applications. It is for graphics departments where graphics designers need separate graphics creation for later playout. They can import and edit third-party graphics objects using the full Avid Motion Graphics feature set for creation in a software only package, which can be installed on a laptop with a powerful graphics card and plenty of memory. This application includes the Clips and Stereoscopic options and has support for Deko graphics.

No matter which of the design applications you are using to create your graphics, many aspects of the workflow are the same. You can import or create assets or movies in a project. Those assets are then used to create layers and assembled in a composition. The properties of those layers can be modified by adding effects, textures, fonts or even animation. You can preview the rendered composition and export it for playout.

Understanding the Design User Interface

The Avid Motion Graphics design user interface consists of a layout, which is a set of areas containing panes and tools that are installed with the product. The size and location of the areas and panes are set by default in each of the different basic layouts. Not all of the available panes are displayed in each layout, but users can customize which panes are displayed, their sizes, and where they are located in the window. You can name and save a customized layout so that it appears in the layout menu, and can be selected for use again. The following illustration shows the default layout for the graphics design user interface.

Your user interface may look slightly different from that in the following illustration based upon

your options and configuration. You are able to rearrange your personal user interface by dragging a tab, with a left-mouse click, to a different area, and releasing the tab when the area in which you want to place the tab is highlighted in white. You are also able to tear tabs off completely and have those individual tabs open in separate windows. A placeholder with the tab name will be held in the user interface, but no information will be held there until the external window is closed.

In addition to the areas and panes, the application layouts feature menu bars and tools in the panes that offer additional information and functionality. The following table describes the areas and panes displayed when using the default layout.

Understanding the Design User Interface

Area Description

1 - Assets The Assets area displays different types of asset panes. The asset

panes are tabbed libraries of graphic objects, materials, and effects, which can all be used in composition creation. This area also contains the Browser and StormLogic panes to help locate and navigate different assets used in compositions, and the In Use panes, which contains all of the assets that are in use in the current composition. For more information, see “Assets Area” on page 21.

2 - Viewports The Viewport area contains the Tools, Playout, and Preview panes

and can contain more than one Viewport. This is the area where you layout your design and create your compositions. For more information, see “Viewports Area” on page 31.

3 - Animation The Animation area allows you to add timing or motion to a

composition. For more information, see “Animation Area” on

page 35.

4 - Model The Model area displays panes for used for modifying a selected

object. It allows you to change object and effect values for the assets used in a composition. The object values are the sizes and shapes of assets used in compositions. The effect values are the colors, textures, reflectiveness, and so forth, on the surfaces of the assets in compositions. For more information, see “Model Area” on

page 37.

By default, panes are grouped into different areas in the user interface for basic ease of access. All panes can be moved to different areas, thereby creating custom layouts, depending on the user’s preferences.

Assets Area

The Assets area contains the following panes by default:

• Library Pane

• Effects Pane

• Browser Pane

• StormLogic Pane

• In Use Pane

Understanding the Design User Interface

Library Pane

The Library pane is comprised of preset library categories that contain different objects, shapes, graphic images, materials, textures, and so on, which are the fundamental building blocks of your compositions. You can also create custom images and add them to these different libraries.

Each library category is represented by a different icon displayed at the top of the Library pane. You can select an icon to display objects in that particular library. For instance, in the following illustration the Object library icon is selected and a list of object categories is displayed.

To view the contents of a library category, click the disclosure arrow to the left of the category name in the list. In the following illustration, the clicking the disclosure arrow next to the Basic category in the Materials library displays the available basic materials.

Understanding the Design User Interface

You can make these Icons larger by placing the pointer over the divider line between the disclosure arrow and the name of the category. This works for any divider line in the user interface.

The pointer becomes a cross hair, which allows you to drag the divider line to the right, enlarging the items, and making them easier to identify.

Understanding the Design User Interface

The following table lists the icons for the different libraries and their descriptions.

Library Icon Description

Object library - this is a library of different predefined objects that can be used in compositions. The objects categories, such as Curves, Primitives, Text and others are listed here.

Material library - this is a library contains shader presets used to define the basic surface properties, such as glass, metal, plastic They determine how the light in a composition reacts on an object’s surface.Materials that can be applied to objects or text, which are used in compositions.

Texture library - this is a library of different predefined textures that can be applied to objects, fonts, and materials, which are used in compositions

MediaIn library - This is a library of different predefined media-type file objects

.wav, . mov

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Font library - this is a library of different predefined fonts objects that can be used in compositions.

Timer library - this library contains different predefined timers that can be used with objects in compositions.

, and clips) that can be used in compositions.

Map library - this is a library of different predefined map objects that can be used in compositions.

Font Fix library - this is a library of different predefined font fix objects that can be used in compositions.

Pivot library - this is a library of different predefined pivot objects that can be used in compositions.

Sound library - this is a library of different predefined sound objects to which a particular sound can be assigned in compositions.

Light library - this is a library of different predefined light effect objects, such as that can be applied to compositions.

Understanding the Design User Interface

Effects Pane

The Effects pane is a collection of different preset effects that can be used in compositions. You can also create custom effects and add them to these different collections. The different effects are represented by a different icon displayed at the top of the Effects pane.

You can display the contents of each of the different effects collections by clicking on its icon. The following table lists the icons for the different preset effects and their descriptions.

Effects Icon Description

Object Effects - this is a library of different predefined object effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions.

Material Effects - this is a library of different predefined material effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions.

Texture Effects - this is a library of different predefined texture effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions.

Font Effects - this is a library of different predefined font effects, which can be applied to fonts and can be used in compositions.

MediaIn Effects - this is a library of different predefined media effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions.

Understanding the Design User Interface

Effects Icon Description

Timer Effects - this is a library of different predefined timer effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions

Bind Effects - this is a library of different predefined bind effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions

Pipe Effects - this is a library of different predefined pipe effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions

Modes Effects - this is a Library of the system modes.

Light Effects - this is a library of different predefined light effects, which can be applied to objects and can be used in compositions

Browser Pane

The Browser pane displays a collection of different preset file locations and their respective folder lists, containing assets, which can be used in compositions. You can navigate to different locations using the convenient navigation tools at the top of the pane.

Navigation Tool Icon Description

Move up one drive

Select a Disk Drive

Select a Drive path

Understanding the Design User Interface

You can also use the quick navigational presets to display the list of folders in each predefined location. Each predefined location is represented by a different icon, displayed at the top of the Browser pane just under the navigation tools.

The following table lists the icons for the different default locations and their descriptions. Currently all paths are

C:\Windows\Fonts

Browser Pane Icon Description

C:\users\<username>\Documents

\dbs - database path

\obs - object path

\imas - imas path

sounds path

except for the fonts path which is

Browser Pane Icon Description

\plg - plug-in path

fonts path

\python path

\sets path

\ipf path

\desktop path

Open Operative System Browser

Understanding the Design User Interface

StormLogic Pane

The StormLogic pane displays all of the compositions in a project. A project can contain any number of different compositions, which you might want to keep in the same locations for convenience. For instance, It might be a good practice to keep all of the graphics used for a particular program in the same project location.The StormLogic pane displays, in a tree-like structure, the way a composition interacts with other compositions. It shows how objects act as part of a composition. The logic is built as you create a composition. The StormLogic pane allows you to quickly navigate to and open a composition so you can review it or make a change.

When you select a composition in the StormLogic pane, it opens and displays in the Viewport area.

You can change the default name assigned to a composition on the StormLogic pane.

Double-click the name of the composition, type the new, more meaningful name, and press the enter key on the keyboard. When naming projects, objects or compositions use only alphanumeric characters and underscores (_). Do not use any special characters, such as asterisks (*), at sign (@), dollar sign ($), percent (%) back slash (\)or forward slash (/) marks.

Understanding the Design User Interface

In Use Pane

The In Use area contains the In Use pane, which ia a tree-like structure that displays the assets that are being used in a particular composition.

In the previous example, the Materials in use icon is selected and displayed are all of the material assets in use in this particular composition. Depending on the assets used in a composition, different icons appear on this tab. Clicking on the icon displays a list of those particular types of assets in use in your composition.

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1 Avid Motion Graphics Overview

Product Suite

Key Features

2 Graphics Design Products

Design Products

Understanding the Design User Interface

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