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How to perform transitions, using keys and key modifiers, memories and custom controls, as well as Media-Store operation.
Media-Store
The MediaManager interface to the Media-Store allows you to load stills, animations, or audio files from the USB drive and make them available across all MEs. Two channels of Media-Store with alpha, or four channels without alpha, are provided.
Media-Store Attributes

Operation
How to perform transitions, using keys and key modifiers, memories and custom controls, as well as Media-Store operation.
- Audio and Video Processing
  Video and audio signals are processed and passed through the switcher in different ways, depending on how the switcher is being used or is set up. A better understanding of how the switcher is processing these signals help you to achieve the production you want.
- Video Sources
  The switcher has access to three basic types of video sources, external, internal, and follows.
- Video Layering
  How video is layered in the output of the switcher depends on how an ME is re-entered onto the other, and what keyers are on-air for the ME.
- Video Preview
  Video preview allows you to use an additional monitor to preview what the next shot is going to be.
- Matte Source
  Matte color backgrounds (BG) are color signals that can be applied to backgrounds and keys. Color selection is done either by picking a preset color, or by adjusted hue, saturation, and luminance to create a custom color.
- Copying
  You can copy the content of an ME or keyer to another ME or keyer.
- Transitions
  Transitions are used to change the background video and take keys on and off-air. A transition can include any combinations of background and keyers for an ME, MiniME™, or MultiScreen. The background and each keyer can be transitioned independently.
- Keying
  Keying is the term used to describe when you insert (or electronically cut) portions of one scene into another, or place titles over background images. Keys are made up of two basic components, an alpha, that cuts the hole in the background video, and a fill, that fills the hole with different video.
- Memory Functions
  A memory register is a snapshot of the current state of the switcher that can include one or multiple ME, MiniME™, MultiScreen, or chroma key outputs.
- Switcher Sets
  The switcher stores configuration and operation data in a number of registers that contain the individual entries for items such as memories or personality settings. These registers can be stored as a single archive file, or as a register set that contains all the individual register of that type; all memories for example. These files are stored into Sets on USB drive. Different Sets can be created for different shows or applications, allowing you to quickly locate and recall the switcher configurations.
- Media-Store
  The MediaManager interface to the Media-Store allows you to load stills, animations, or audio files from the USB drive and make them available across all MEs. Two channels of Media-Store with alpha, or four channels without alpha, are provided.
  - Working With Media-Store Animations
  - Working With Media-Store Audio
  - Media-Store File Specifications
  - Loading Stills or Animations
  - MediaManager Channel Control
    Once a media item is loaded into a channel you can control the playout for the media item from MediaManager.
  - Media-Store Attributes
  - Media-Store Capture
- Custom Controls
  Once programmed, a custom control (CC) can be played back by pressing a button. The custom control can be as simple as triggering an output GPI pulse, or as complex as recalling a specific memory register on an ME, performing a switcher transition, and selecting a group of keys.

Media-Store Attributes

Attributes are applied to the media item in the database and in each Media-Store channel. Where the attributes are being applied is shown in the upper left corner of the area. If you adjust the attributes of the media item in one channel, these settings are not applied back to the database or to other channel if the same media item is loaded into more than one channel.

Tip: At the top of the Item Details frame the title indicates if the information shown applies to the media item loaded into the media channel (MX), or is from the media item in the database (Database).

Buttons:

Autoplay — play the animation automatically when the Media-Store channel is taken on-air.
Reverse — set the animation to play in the forward or reverse direction.
Mute — mute the audio associated with the media item.
Looping — set the animation to start playing again from the beginning when it reaches the last frame.
Shaped — set the alpha to be shaped, or unshaped when not selected.

Fields:

Name — the name of the media item as taken from the file name.
Width — the width of the media item raster.
Height — the height of the media item raster.
Alpha — shows whether there is an associated alpha with the media item.
Number of Frames — the number of frames in the animation.
Audio Channels — the number of audio channels in the associated audio.
Media Number — the media number of the media item.
X-Position — set the horizontal position of the media item.
Y-Position — set the vertical position of the media item.
Cut Frame — set the frame of the animation when used as part of a MediaWipe.
Thumb Frame — set the frame of the animation that is used for the thumbnail.
Play Speed — set the playout speed for the animation.
GPO — set the GPI output that you want to trigger by a media transition.
GPO Time — set the time, in frames, from the start of the media transition that the GPI output is triggered.