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Chapter 8
Using Scheduled Playout & Capture
You can resize a clip (up to 4 hours long) by dragging either the top or bottom and resizing it. When you
resize a clip, it snaps to preset time lengths (half hour, quarter hour, five minutes, one minute (for one
minute or less in Mac OS X), thirty seconds or ten seconds (Windows only)) depending on the
magnification of the schedule. You can zoom in to increase your view of the schedule with greater detail,
and smaller clip lengths. You can also edit down to the second by double-clicking on the clip event title to
display its property sheet.
If you adjust the time of a clip event which is currently associated with a file and execute the event in
playout mode, the file will play when the clip event is scheduled to start. It will end at the actual end of file
or at the end of the clip event, whichever is shorter.
Schedule Panel Keyboard Shortcuts
You can work with clips in your schedule using the following keyboard shortcuts:
Delete | Backspace.
Left Arrow | Page Up.
Shift+Left Arrow | Shift+Page Up.
Right Arrow | Page Down.
Shift+Right Arrow | Shift+Page Down.
Up Arrow.
Move the selected clip up the schedule by the current block size (half hour, quarter hour,
minute, thirty seconds, etc.), based on your current zoom increment.
Down Arrow.
Moves the selected clip event down by the current block size.
Home.
Scroll to the top of schedule.
End.
Scroll to the bottom of schedule.
Creating Clip Events
To add a clip event to a schedule, choose one of several actions:
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Move your cursor into the schedule panel and position it at the approximate start time. Now, click and
drag downward for a maximum of 4 hours or until the end of the clip event (you can adjust the time
accurately later) and release the button. (If you drag downward beyond 4 hours, Pipeline Control breaks
the clip into 4 hour segments.)
•
Open a folder on your computer or LAN server and drag and drop media files (those that can be opened
with QuickTime) onto the schedule panel, at any time position that doesn't overlay other clips already
on the schedule. Clip events that are attached to a file are titled with the file name.
•
Drag a clip from one schedule to another (if it has already been captured).
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Click the Add Clip icon (the plus sign icon) at the top of the schedule toolbar.
You can also select Edit > Add New Scheduled Item.
Once a clip has been placed on the schedule, you can drag it up and down the timeline (by clicking in the
body of the event – not the title) to change the start time. Or, you can open the property sheet (double-click
the title) and adjust the start and stop time. You can't create a single clip event lasting longer than 4 hours.
You typically create new clip events directly in the event panel, when you're creating a Capture schedule.
You typically create new events by dragging and dropping, when you're creating a playout schedule. When
Deletes the selected clip event
Select the previous clip event
Select the first clip event
Select the next clip event
Select the last clip event
March, 2009
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