80.3.2 Short Event Reel Parameters

Aside the first two sections, the Short Event Reel tab allows to set the configuration parameters and resources needed by the homonym module to function; these parameters are divided across three areas and can be compiled as described below:

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Resources
Under the Main and Backup Device profiles (which are applied to the Main and Backup Automation modes respectively), the user is able to set the various devices intended to be used in each specific module, this by dragging & dropping the relative resources from the resource's tree:

•Video Server: Indicate the source Video Server where video files are stored.

•VTR: Set the Digital VTR to be used for recording video files into tapes.
XDCAM: Specify the XDCAM deck to be used in case it is intended to record short event reels on XDCAM discs. This option can be enabled by ticking the 'download onto XDCAM' option at the bottom of the main Short Event Reel window.

•Character Generator: Indicate which CG device should be used to overlap static/animated text into the video stream. See the chapter for supported models.

•Router: In case of using a video router to switch video signals, set it here.

NB: For information regarding supported devices models, please refer to the Etere supported Devices chapter.
 
General
Set here general options referred mainly to the VTR behaviour:

•Rewind tape after insertion: If checked off, the VTR will automatically rewind the tape to the beginning on each insertion.

•Rewind tape before eject: Tick off this option to automatically rewind the tape to the beginning once the recording has finished.

•Eject tape at the end of download: If enabled, the VTR will automatically eject the tape once the recording has finished.

•Interrupt the download if a video file is missing: Use this option to stop recording if any of the video files selected to be recorded is missing.

•Close the window at the end of download: The window listing the items to record and their progress will be automatically closed once recording is complete.
 
•CG Template file: Insert the Character Generator's template name for Spacer, Commercial and Commercials on-Live. These templates will be recalled and filled with the name of the reel and its scheduled time, use this option to facilitate the search function in the VTR.

•Log Path: Specify the path on which the report (.txt) of the recording process will be stored. The log will be saved with the filename: yyymmdd.txt (e.g.: '20100621.txt') and will detail all the cluster's contents.

•Time Slot: The delay from current time and selection duration parameters are used by the 'Actual Time Period' option (in Short Event Reel) to specify the starting time and preset duration of the period. For example, if you set these values to '07:00:00' and '00:30:00' respectively and the current time is '11:00:00', the 'Actual Time Period' option will display assets scheduled from '18:00:00' (11:00:00+07:00:00) to 18:30:00 (18:00:00+00:30:00).

•Launch the restore workflow for the missing clips: Allows to enable the use of the workflow (set in Etere Aligner) for restoring into the video server, all those clips needed for the reel creation.

Tape Contents
In this section is specified all data regarding the asset to be included in the tape, these parameters are:

•Tape Duration: Specify the length of the tape to be used amongst the values: 120, 180 and 240.

•Black Video Asset: Here you can specify the asset code of the 'black video' to be inserted between video clips, it serves to break up the videos rather than record them back to back. It is also possible to -optionally- specify its mark-In and mark-Out (if the SOM is not 00:00:00,00 it needs to be stated).

•Start Video Asset (bars): Specify the asset code of the 'color bars video' to be used at the head of the cluster. If necessary, indicate also its mark-In and mark-Out (if the SOM is not 00:00:00,00 it needs to be stated).

•Write a report during recording: Select to produce a report on the clusters that have been archive.

•Space to leave at recording start (in seconds): It is the empty space to leave at the beginning of the tape.

•Asset inside clusters: For all elements here, their duration needs to be specified and also a description tho be shown on the recording list.

- Initial bars: Asset to be included at the start.

- Spacer: This asset will be inserted at the start of a cluster but between the 'initial bars' (if enabled) and the 'start black' (if enabled).

- Start black: If checked off, it will be inserted just before the first video clip of each cluster.

- End black: If ticked off, this asset will be inserted at the end of each cluster (just after its last video clip).

In the figure below are illustrated all assets included within each single cluster contained in the videotape:

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