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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 and make them available across all MEs.
Loading Stills or Animations
To Load a Media Item
Media items are loaded into a Media-Store channel from MediaManager

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 two basic types of video sources; external and internal.
- 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. 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 MEs. Up to 100 memory registers per ME can be stored and recalled on the switcher. Each of these memory registers can store as little as the information of one ME, or as much as the current state of the entire switcher, including all MEs, Aux Buses, and DVE settings.
- Audio Mixer
  The audio mixer node in DashBoard provides a graphical interface to all the audio sources and mixer layers. An audio channel must be routed to the switcher to be controllable by the audio mixer interface.
- 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. 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 and make them available across all MEs.
  - Working With Media-Store Animations
  - Working With Media-Store Audio
  - Media-Store File Specifications
  - Loading Stills or Animations
    - To Load a Media Item
      Media items are loaded into a Media-Store channel from MediaManager
  - Deleting a Media Item
  - 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
- 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.
- Sequencer
  The Sequencer allows you to create a playlist of custom control events.

To Load a Media Item

Media items are loaded into a Media-Store channel from MediaManager

Note: Media items must be created in the same color gamut and dynamic range that they are intended to be used in on the switcher. If a media item is created in one color space and the switcher is operating in another, the media item may not appear correctly.

Click Navigation Menu > Media > MediaManager

Tip: The MediaManager can also be accessed from Live Assist (Click Navigation Menu > Live Assist > Media > MediaManager). The Live Assist version follows Media-Store source selections on the panel.
Navigate to the folder containing the media item you want to load into a Media-Store channel.

Note: The first time you navigate to a folder it may take a few moments for the Media-Store to scan the files and build the database entries.

Tip: You can upload a media item from your computer to the selected folder on the storage device. In the Still Upload area click Browse and navigate to the media item you want to upload. Click Open and then Upload File.

All the media items in that folder are shown in the center area of the page.
Drag the media item onto the Media-Store channel you want to load it in.

Tip: The film-strip symbol () indicates that the media item is an animation, the key symbol () indicates that the media item has an alpha, and the speaker symbol () indicates that the media item has audio associated with it, or is audio only.

Tip: You can remove items from the Media-Store cache to free up space. Refer to Media-Store Cache Manager for more information.