Cinegy Air 14

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Document version: 6ae6f26 Table of Contents

Preface ...... 1

Cinegy Air ...... 2

1. User Manual ...... 3

1.1. Playout System...... 3

1.2. Cinegy Air Installation...... 4

1.3. Configuration...... 6

Cinegy Air Configurator ...... 6

General Settings ...... 7

Cinegy Air Playlist Editor...... 10

Configuring Cinegy Air ...... 12

Cinegy Air Configuration Models...... 19

Sequence Compatibility ...... 25

1.4. Integrated Browser ...... 26

Overview...... 26

Cinegy Browser...... 27

Cinegy Search...... 32

File Browser ...... 37

1.5. Integration with Cinegy Desktop...... 38

Overview...... 38

Playback While Ingesting ...... 40

Working with Placeholders ...... 41

1.6. Interface Customization ...... 42

Panels Docking ...... 42

Playlist Table Customization ...... 45

1.7. Preferences...... 49

Preferences ...... 49

Categories...... 51

1.8. Working with Playlists ...... 53

Programs...... 53

Blocks ...... 54

Program and Block Commands ...... 56

Inserting Playlists ...... 59

Playlist Navigation ...... 60

Printing a Playlist ...... 61

1.9. Handling Items ...... 62

Adding Items to Playlist ...... 62

Special Items ...... 67

Media Offline...... 69

Subtitles ...... 70

Cinegy Titler Items ...... 72

Managing Items ...... 72

Viewing and Editing Items...... 80

Programing Items ...... 86 Custom Categories ...... 90

Item Properties ...... 90

Secondary Events ...... 96

1.10. Playlist Editor Mode ...... 112

Interface ...... 112

Working in Playlist Editor Mode ...... 114

1.11. Working with Cinegy Air Control...... 117

Starting the Application...... 117

Interface ...... 118

Connecting to Playout Server ...... 125

Working with Items ...... 127

Navigation...... 133

Timeline ...... 135

Audio Controls...... 138

Time Controls ...... 140

Channel Preview ...... 142

1.12. Regional Variations ...... 142

Automatic Opt-Out ...... 142

Multichannel Variation ...... 144

1.13. Keyboard...... 145

1.14. Audio Profile Editor ...... 147

Audio Profile Editor ...... 147

1.15. Cinegy Air File Extensions...... 151

1.16. Shortcuts ...... 152

Cinegy Studio ...... 156

Cinegy Playout ...... 157

Cinegy CG ...... 158

2. User Manual ...... 159

2.1. Introduction...... 159

Installation...... 159

Interface ...... 161

Settings...... 161

2.2. Templates and Profiles ...... 164

Working with Templates ...... 164

Working with Profiles ...... 167

2.3. Shortcuts ...... 168

Cinegy Prompter ...... 170 Preface

Managing the growing complexity of playout, automation and file delivery is an increasing challenge to broadcasters. As the number of channels and platforms a broadcaster delivers rises, controlling that infrastructure is critical.

Software-based solutions, with technologies such as high-density virtualization and IP stream I/O, offer the possibility to consolidate complexity into bite-sized elements - particularly as more features can be added to collapse the length of the traditional broadcast chain.

Delivering a channel is complex – with many interconnected elements costing money, requiring management and needing maintenance. Cinegy Air simplifies these challenges by supporting multiple channels with multiple features in a single box. Deploying Cinegy Air on a server brings AC-3 encoding, Nielsen watermarking and Cinegy CG channel branding to one integrated software solution.

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Cinegy Air PRO is the logical next step in the evolution of broadcast automation and video servers. Gone are the monolithic black boxes, replaced by TCP/IP network-attached real-time software appliances. Cinegy Air PRO provides a broadcast automation front-end and a real-time video server for SD, HD, Ultra HD (4K), and/or 8K playout in an integrated software suite, offering unparalleled flexibility by playing compatible format and mixed resolution content as well as un-rendered edit sequences straight to air.

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1.1. Playout System

The Cinegy Air product is represented in two versions: PRO and SOLO.

Cinegy Air PRO is a versatile broadcast automation and playout solution.

Cinegy Air SOLO is an entry level version of the product for an easy start and simple operation; some of the features are not available in this version.

This documentation covers all features available in the Cinegy Air product. All descriptions and illustrations are provided for the PRO version of the application.

The features unavailable in SOLO version are marked with the corresponding notes. Cinegy Air application provides an interface for convenient creation of playlists, editing and broadcasting.

To perform direct playout, Cinegy Playout should be connected. This application is a software-based engine that sends playlists to air.

 Refer to the Cinegy Playout Manual for detailed description of configuring and operating of Cinegy Playout application.

The preparation of playlists is performed via Cinegy Air Playlist Editor.

Cinegy Air PRO application itself can be used for on-air playlist management.

 Refer to the Configuring Cinegy Air article for more details on the application setup.

Any PC connected to the network on which the Cinegy Air application has been installed can be used to prepare and edit playlists. A playlist can be composed of any clips in commonly supported file formats and/or with clips prepared in Cinegy Desktop. Using Cinegy Desktop is optional and is not required for work with Cinegy Air.

 Refer to the Cinegy Desktop Manual for more details concerning this product.

Once a playlist is ready for broadcast, it is loaded into Cinegy Air running in single channel or multi channel control mode and is sent to the playout server.

Cinegy Air provides the following features:

• media material instant playback: any clip or Sequence prepared in Cinegy Desktop and added to a playlist can be sent to air immediately in control mode; • video files instant playback: file of any Cinegy Air supported format (mpg, avi, dv, wmv, etc.) added to a playlist can be broadcast immediately in control mode; • a playlist composed in Cinegy Air can be played back on two Cinegy playout servers simultaneously for fail-safety reasons. In case of on-the-fly changes in the playlist, the playout servers merge the altered playlist with the one being played, providing a smooth and swift change of the playout; • reliable security system preventing unauthorized access to media material prepared for broadcasting; • simultaneous broadcasting of different playlists in various TV formats to multiple channels; • simultaneous broadcasting from one channel to multiple output devices;

Page 3 | Document version: 6ae6f26 • simultaneous broadcasting of the same playlist to several channels with different TV formats; • the playout software is implemented as an SQL-independent service to provide the most robust on-air playback; • horizontal timeline view provides a clear overview for easy operations; • secondary events for external device control; • local or remote control operation via LAN or WAN; • GPI events processing for automatic commercial insertion; • as-run log generation; • uninterrupted broadcasting even in case of server disconnection from the local network or from Cinegy Archive (if there are proxied items in the list). If the current item is not proxied, emergency footage is broadcast instead.

The proxy storage holds pre-fetched playlist items in a defined compressed format for the following reasons:

• so that even the most difficult playout session can be prepared easily; • to avoid rendering on-the-fly whenever possible.

Items are proxied in chunks. Once proxied, the item is stored in a proxy folder (defined in the Cinegy Playout configurator). In case of repeated usage it will not be proxied for the second time, but will be played back directly from the proxy folder.

Items are proxied in the order they are played back. Only the most recently inserted items can be played directly from the media server. The playout server takes material for playback according to the playlist from essence storage as shown below:

1.2. Cinegy Air Installation

This article guides you through the Cinegy Air PRO installation steps.

 The Cinegy Air SOLO installation process is the same.

 At least local administrator rights are required to install and configure Cinegy Air on your computer.

 The Desktop Experience feature should be installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 in order to ensure the correct functioning of Cinegy Air preview.

The control station is the computer where Cinegy Air PRO runs. To install this component, run the Setup.exe file from the "Cinegy Air PRO" directory of your Cinegy Air PRO installation package. The Cinegy Air PRO setup wizard will be launched:

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Press "Next" to proceed with the installation. The following dialog box appears:

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The "Air PRO" component installation is enabled by default. The Audio Profile Editor and Playlist Editor options are also enabled for installation by default. If you do not plan to use it, deselect the corresponding option.

Press the "Next" button to proceed with installation. On the next step press the "Install" button to begin the installation. A progress bar will show the progress of the installation process.

Press the "Finish" button to complete the installation and exit the setup wizard.

Please check if the custom sets of codecs and fonts are installed on both the Cinegy Air client and the playout server stations. If a required codec is not installed, the "Media Offline" message will appear in the  Air Control previews instead of showing the media material. On the Playout side either color bars or the "emergency footage" will be played back, depending on the playout station configuration. If a required Windows font is not installed, the default Arial font will be used in the titler.

1.3. Configuration

Cinegy Air Configurator

To configure Cinegy Air, run the Cinegy Air Configurator from your installation folder. The following configuration utility will be launched:

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• General

This tab is used to configure global parameters and the output parameters of the built-in clip viewer.

• Cinegy Air PRO

Here you can set up all necessary parameters and settings for Cinegy Air, such as application mode, video and audio properties, etc.

• Cinegy Air Editor

Cinegy Air Playlist Editor is designed for offline playlist preparation before sending the material to air in one of the control modes.

General Settings

Use this tab to define general settings and the output parameters of the built-in clip viewer.

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Specify the interface language using the "Language" drop-down list.

In the "User log folder" field, specify the folder location where the user log files will be stored. To do this, use the "…" button or enter the path via the keyboard.

The "Metadata editing" option defines whether a user is allowed to edit custom metadata in the Cinegy Air playlist. Choose between the following options:

The "Enabled" option allows user to edit the playlist item description and any custom metadata fields.

When the "Disable" option is selected, all custom metadata fields (internal and fields defined in Cinegy Archive), predefined fields (Name, Description, Traffic ID, Subtitle ID) can not be edited for the playlist item inserted from Cinegy Archive or file storage.

When the "Disable Archive fields" option is selected, for the playlist item inserted from Cinegy Archive the predefined fields and fields defined in Cinegy Archive can not be edited while internal custom metadata fields can be edited. If the item was inserted from the file storage, all its custom metadata fields and predefined fields can be edited.

 Item comment can be edited regardless of "Metadata editing" option state.

Desktop Player

Select the desired option from the "Desktop player" drop-down list:

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 It is recommended to select "DVS desktop player" or "Blackmagic Design desktop player" when only the corresponding board is physically present.

With "Standard desktop player", the deinterlacing is performed on your graphics card. The quality of deinterlacing depends on the card itself and its driver’s settings.

However, you can switch deinterlacing permanently on or off, or deinterlace only in pause:

• Deinterlace – use the drop-down list to select deinterlace type:

"Always" "Still" (paused) "Never"

• Show Start/End Hints – enable/disable the start and end hints in clip viewer.

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• Show Media Offline Hint – enable/disable the "Media offline" message for the items when its media is offline.

With output set to "DVS desktop player" or "Blackmagic Design desktop player", a drop-down list will appear allowing you to select the desired video format for the SDI output.

Cinegy Air Playlist Editor

Playlist editor is designed for offline playlist preparation before sending the material to air.

To be able to work with this application, the "Playlist Editor" option should be selected during Cinegy Air PRO installation.

Page 10 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Refer to the Cinegy Air installation article to get more details on installing Playlist Editor component.

Cinegy Air Playlist Editor can be launched as a standalone utility from Start > Cinegy > Cinegy Air Playlist Editor.

The following diagram represents the playlist editor mode setup:

Configuring Playlist Editor

The settings for Playlist Editor are available on the "Cinegy Air Editor" tab:

Select the "Don’t use Cinegy Browser" option if it is not required to use the built-in Cinegy Browser for browsing through the Cinegy Archive database.

Next select the required time zone by choosing between options presented in the "Time zone" drop-down list.

Page 11 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Checking the "Use fixed offset" option enables entering the required time offset in the time picker specifying hours, minutes and seconds. Using fixed offset enables defining time subtracted from or added to UTC.

If "Use fixed offset" option is not checked, the selected time zone will be used instead.

The "Default video system" and "Default aspect ratio" parameters are used for the default blank playlist creation.

Then define the aspect ratio values of the items inserted into a playlist.

Using the "Default original aspect" drop-down list, define the original aspect ratio value to be used by default for the source files inserted into a playlist. To define the aspect ratio value automatically, choose "Auto".

Use the "Default target aspect" drop-down list to choose the target aspect ratio to be applied to playlist items. Set this value to "Original" to keep the original aspect ratio of a playlist item. If the "Stretch" value is selected, the target video stream is stretched to fill the entire frame, no cropping is applied.

 Refer to the Aspect Ratio section for detailed information on playlist item display on the playout screen.

In the "CG Repository" field define the folder location where Cinegy Titler templates are stored.

The audio matrix presets storage location can be defined in the "Audio Matrix presets" field.

If the audio matrix XML file cannot be found, opened or successfully processed, a warning prompt will be  shown at the Cinegy Air startup. Cinegy Air control application will be loaded, but it will not be possible to change any audio matrices or audio encoding profiles. The valid audio matrix XML file should be specified in Cinegy Air configurator.

The "Legacy sequence audio" parameter defines how to process Sequences without master audio tracks prepared in Cinegy Desktop 9.1 and earlier. Choose the appropriate option from the drop-down list:

 Refer to the Sequence Compatibility article for more information on "Legacy sequence audio" handling.

Having configured all the necessary settings, press "OK" to save the changes.

Configuring Cinegy Air

Configuration of the Cinegy Air PRO application is performed on the "Cinegy Air PRO" tab:

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Global Settings

Select the "Connect automatically" checkbox to enable the Cinegy Air PRO to automatically connect to the playout server(s) on startup.

Select the "Swap control monitors" checkbox to swap the position of the control monitors on the playout control panel.

 Refer to the Playout Control Panel section for the description of Air control monitors.

Select the "Don’t use Cinegy Browser" option if it is not required to use the built-in Cinegy Browser for browsing through the

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Security

Security settings provide user with the possibility to define the startup protection parameters as well as manage user’s permissions for editing playlist in active mode or enabling broadcast control.

To activate the security protection for Cinegy Air Control, press the "Security" button; the following dialog box appears:

Here enable the password protection by ticking off the corresponding checkbox. Press the "Add" button to add a certain user or the whole group to the corresponding user group. The following dialog box appears:

Here define the user or the whole group to be searched for.

Then press the "OK" button to apply the changes. Having set up the security parameters, the Cinegy Air control application will be launched with the security protection activated.

 Refer to the Starting the Application article for more details about authorizing the Cinegy Air control application.

Press the "Remove" button to remove the selected member from the corresponding user security group.

Page 14 | Document version: 6ae6f26  All logon events are tracked by the Cinegy Air application and written to the user log file when the security protection is activated.

Channels Configuration

The list of channels to control can be configured under the "Channel" panel. Multi-channel configuration is achieved by adding and configuring more than one channel. Each channel must be configured individually.

Click the empty line underneath the list of channels to add a new channel for broadcasting.

 Once the channel is created, its name is written in red until you specify its playlist and engine parameters.

 In order to prevent the time differences between the control and playout stations, all Cinegy Air clients take the current time from the playout server.

 Controlling remote instances and defining the secondary (slave) engine in multi channel control mode is not supported in Cinegy Air SOLO.

Press this button to delete the selected channel.

Use these buttons to change the channels order.

The following diagram represents the multi channel control mode configuration:

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Time zone configuration is based on the DST shift. In order to ensure correct scheduled playback of playlist  items during Daylight Saving Changes it is possible to define a time zone or fixed time offset for each channel you are configuring.

Select the required time zone by choosing between options presented in the "Time zone" drop-down list. Selecting the Time Zone ensures the correct time offset for DST.

Checking the "Use fixed offset" option enables entering the required time offset in the time picker specifying hours, minutes and seconds. Using fixed offset defines the server’s own time regardless of the Time zone set.

If "Use fixed offset" option is not checked, the selected time zone will be used instead.

 Time zone settings are set separately for each channel you are configuring.

 After applying time zone changes it is required to restart the Cinegy Air Control application.

DST change affect playlists created using Cinegy Air v11 and converts them into a new format; once the Cinegy Air control application launches the following warming appears notifying about playlist format change:

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• Video system – TV system used for broadcasting. • Aspect ratio – aspect ratio for the video stream (4:3 or 16:9). • Audio level reference – the zero dB level for the VU meter. • Preserve original audio – the option for disabling the audio volume control on the playout control panel. • Engine 1, 2 – master and slave playout servers.

Select the "Local" checkbox if Cinegy Playout is installed and launched on the local computer. In the corresponding "#" field next to the server IP address, define what Engine instance will be used to process the specified playlist.

 Refer to the Multi-Instance Playout Service paragraph in the Cinegy Playout Manual to learn how to create additional Cinegy Playout instances.

 The remote control feature is unavailable in Cinegy Air SOLO, the "Local" checkbox is disabled.

• Active playlist – file with the *.MCRactive extension that contains the content of the active playlist.

You can browse for an existing file or simply enter the file name in the defined location for a new file. The playlist will be restored from this file when you launch the Cinegy Air application in one of the control modes. The playlist is automatically

Page 17 | Document version: 6ae6f26 updated after each applied change. When Cinegy Air application is closed, the currently used playlist is automatically saved to this file. If the *.MCRactive file is stored on the shared network drive and its location becomes unavailable, the applied changes will not be saved and the following error message will occur:

• Backup location – specify the backup playlist location for the MCRActive and .bak file creation in the event of access loss to the primary location. In case the location is unavailable or there is no sufficient rights to access it the corresponding error message will appear:

Select the "Auto Append Playlist" checkbox to enable the auto-append feature. Once selected, the "Auto append folder" field becomes editable.

• Auto append folder – the watch folder for the playlists to be automatically appended to the end of the current playlist. Once a playlist file is detected in this folder, validation of its TV format compatibility, as well as its start date and time is performed automatically. If the playlist is scheduled to start in the future (i.e. it will not start immediately) and has the compatible format, it will be appended to the current playlist and the original playlist file will be moved to the "Processed" subfolder. If the playlist is scheduled to start in the past or has an incompatible format, it will not be appended and will be moved to the "Declined" subfolder. In this case the corresponding error message will be logged to the specified user log folder. • Shared playlist – this option allows you to edit the playlist from several computers simultaneously. If the playlist is changed on one computer, the changes will automatically appear in the playlist of Cinegy Air Control application running on the second computer. Refer to the Two Cinegy Air Clients, One Shared Playlist and One Playout Server paragraph for more information about this configuration model.

 Please note that the proper system time synchronization between two machines running Cinegy Air control applications ensures the correct work of "Shared playlist" option.

• Remote CG – the server and the instance number of the separate dedicated playout instance that renders the Cinegy Titler templates. • CG Repository – the folder location where Cinegy Titler templates are stored.

 Cinegy Titler templates are applied to items as secondary events.

Page 18 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Refer to the Creating a New Titler Scene article within the Cinegy Titler Manual to learn how to create Cinegy Titler templates.

The audio matrix presets storage location can be defined in the "Audio Matrix presets" field.

If the audio matrix XML file cannot be found, opened or successfully processed, a warning prompt will be  shown at the Cinegy Air startup. Cinegy Air control application will be loaded, but it will not be possible to change any audio matrices or audio encoding profiles. The valid audio matrix XML file should be specified in Cinegy Air configurator.

The "Legacy sequence audio" parameter defines how to process Sequences without master audio tracks prepared in Cinegy Desktop 9.1 and earlier.

 Refer to the Sequence Compatibility article for more information on "Legacy sequence audio" handling.

Aspect Ratio

There are two parameters defining the aspect ratio values of the items inserted into a playlist.

Using the "Default original aspect" drop-down list, define the original aspect ratio value to be used by default for the source files inserted into a playlist. To define the aspect ratio value automatically, choose "Auto".

In the "Default target aspect" drop-down list, choose the target aspect ratio to be applied to playlist items. Set this value to "Original" to keep the original aspect ratio of a playlist item. If the "Stretch" value is selected, the target video stream is stretched to fill the entire frame, no cropping is applied.

 Refer to the Aspect Ratio section for detailed information on playlist item display on the playout screen.

Press "OK" to finish configuring the Cinegy Air control application.

Cinegy Air Configuration Models

In order to provide full fail-safe broadcasting, the following configuration models are available:

• Single Machine Configuration; • One Cinegy Air Client and One Playout Server; • One Cinegy Air Client and Two Playout Servers; • Two Cinegy Air Clients, One Shared Playlist and One Playout Server; • Two Cinegy Air Clients, One Shared Playlist and Two Playout Servers; • Two Cinegy Air Clients and Two Playout Servers.

Single Machine Configuration

This configuration model allows you to use a single machine to edit your playlists and perform the playout session.

The following diagram represents the single machine setup:

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Open the Cinegy Air Configurator. Select the "Local" checkbox.

One Cinegy Air Client and One Playout Server

The given configuration model is used in the workflow when Cinegy Playout instance and Cinegy Air client are installed on the different machines.

The following diagram represents this configuration:

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Open the Cinegy Air Configurator. In the configuration window that appears, browse for "Engine 1" to locate the playout server.

One Cinegy Air Client and Two Playout Servers

This is fail-safe playout mode used in the workflow with three separate machines: one with Cinegy Air client, and two servers – master and slave. Both playbacks are independently backed up. There is no single point of failure. If the master playout server is disconnected, broadcasting will automatically be switched over to the slave playout server.

The diagram below represents the given configuration model:

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Open the Cinegy Air Configurator and browse for the "Engine 1" location you would like to use as a master playout server. Mark the checkbox next to "Engine 2" and browse for the location of the slave server.

Two Cinegy Air Clients, One Shared Playlist and One Playout Server

The following diagram represents this configuration: two Cinegy Air clients, one shared playlist, and one playout server.

The scheme described above provides simultaneous work of two Cinegy Air clients with the same shared playlist, which is played back from a single-connected playout server.

Setup

To configure this mode, set the same playlist path for the master Cinegy Air client and slave Cinegy Air client, then browse

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The "Shared playlist" option should be enabled on both stations. Any changes made to a playlist on the active station will be visible on the other Cinegy Air client.

When the "Shared playlist" option is not enabled and a shared playlist is edited on either client station, the applied changes become visible on the other client station only after reconnection. If the playlist was edited on one of the client stations, the other clients station should be reconnected and the following dialog appears:

The options are to reload the updated playlist to the Cinegy Air playlist panel, leave the loaded playlist and establish connection, or cancel connecting to Cinegy playout.

Two Cinegy Air Clients, One Shared Playlist and Two Playout Servers

The following diagram represents this configuration: two Cinegy Air clients, one shared playlist and two playout servers.

In the scheme above, the "Change over device" functionality allows switching between the master and slave playout servers. This configuration is the most fail-safe mode. Both Cinegy Air clients and both playout servers are independently backed up.

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To configure this mode, set the same playlist path for both the master Cinegy Air client and the slave Cinegy Air client. Set the fields "Engine 1" and "Engine 2" to be the same for each of the Cinegy Air clients. The playout commutation master/slave is available in this mode.

The configuration for both master and slave Cinegy Air clients is as follows:

Two Cinegy Air Clients and Two Playout Servers

The following diagram represents this configuration: two Cinegy Air clients, two playlists and two playout servers.

This mode is fail-safe: both editing and playback are independently backed up. The change over device will quickly respond in case of the signal point failure. Each Cinegy Air client has its own playlist, which can be immediately started if needed (e.g. to replace one broadcasting scheme with another). The process of switching takes about two seconds.

Setup

To configure this mode, set different playlist paths for master Cinegy Air client and slave Cinegy Air client, but browse the same playout servers (master and slave) for each Cinegy Air client.

The configuration for each Cinegy Air client is as follows:

Master Cinegy Air client configuration

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Sequence Compatibility

In the "Legacy sequence audio" drop-down list choose one of the following options:

• Nothing – the individual master audio track is created for each audio track on Timeline:

• Mix-down into S1 – all Timeline audio tracks are mixed into one master audio track:

• Mix-down into S1 and S2 – the first two timeline audio tracks are mixed into the first master output track; all other

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1.4. Integrated Browser

Overview

Navigating through databases, searching for specific nodes and selecting clips in Rolls, Sequences or ClipBins in order to drag-and-drop them into the Cinegy Air playlist, browsing for locally stored clips and MCRitems – all these actions are available in the integrated browser window located by default in the left-hand part of the Cinegy Air window:

The following tabs are available for opening:

• Cinegy Browser – integrated browser. • Cinegy Search – plug-in to perform search operations. • File Browser – integrated file manager system.

The "Cinegy Browser" and the "Cinegy Search" tabs provide access to the Cinegy Archive database and are  only available with Cinegy Desktop installed on the machine running Cinegy Air. To work with integrated browser, a separate corresponding software license is required. For more details about purchasing licenses, please contact the Cinegy Sales Team.

Page 26 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The "Cinegy Browser" tab provides navigation through the Cinegy Archive database selected in Cinegy  Configurator. Refer to the Cinegy Configurator article within the Cinegy Desktop Manual for detailed information on how to configure connection to the Cinegy Archive database.

To show/hide the integrated browser tabs, select/deselect the corresponding option in the "View" main menu:

Cinegy Browser

Cinegy Browser mode is designed for efficient navigation through the Cinegy Archive database. In this mode you can browse content of the database in a tree-like structure on the left hand part of the panel.

The Cinegy Browser tab displays the content of each folder or bin selected in the database tree. As soon as you click a ClipBin or Roll, all clips will be displayed on the right-hand panel:

Page 27 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Clicking a DocumentBin will display its content as thumbnails:

Preview

Double-clicking a clip will open it in the viewer:

Page 28 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Refer to the Viewing and Editing Items article to learn about clip handling in the viewer.

If no media quality for a particular footage is available, the clip thumbnails will be displayed as follows:

The system displays the "Media Offline" text instead of showing the media material in the viewer. Such clips are not allowed to be added to the Cinegy Air playlist.

The audio-only clips are indicated with the waveform icon. The system performs the audio only playback in the viewer displaying the waveform of the audio. For stereo record, the left channel is displayed above the zero line and the right channel is displayed below the zero line:

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Each container can be expanded or collapsed by pressing the arrow buttons correspondingly. The content of any expanded folder can be sorted by name, type and name, creation date or type and creation date by selecting the corresponding option from the "Arrange by" context menu command:

The folders will be sorted only within the selected folder.

 The collapsed folders content cannot be sorted.

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There is a number of view options to display the content of the folder or container (Roll, ClipBin, DocumentBin, etc.). To change view, click the "Change your view" icon and select the corresponding option:

 The "Change your view" icon will look different depending on the view you have chosen.

You can use the slider to manually change the thumbnails scale between medium and extra large icon size.

Adding to Playlist

The clip, Sequence or document selected on the right-hand panel can be dragged-and-dropped directly to the Cinegy Air playlist.

When high quality is not available for the clip, the following dialog box appears when you try to drag-and-drop it to a playlist:

Page 31 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Press the "Restore" button to retrieve the clip’s unavailable files moved to the HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) from the Cinegy Archive database. Press the "Autodegradate" button to switch the clip to the next available quality. For example, if high quality is required, but not available and medium quality is available, the autodegradation will switch the clip to medium quality. Press the "Restore & autodegradate" button to retrieve unavailable files stored on the HSM and in the case of failure – switch the clip to the next available quality.

Cinegy Search

On the "Cinegy Search" tab, you can perform search operations in the Cinegy Archive database and view the search results.

Page 32 | Document version: 6ae6f26 All the nodes found according to the search request will be listed with their thumbnails.

To start searching, enter your request in the "Search" field via the keyboard and press the "Search" button or hit Enter.

Advanced Search

Press the button next to the search field to show/hide the advanced search options:

Page 33 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Enter your search request in the "Searching for the terms" field.

It is possible to narrow the search by the time of creation or modification by specifying time scale in the "Narrowed by items" field.

You can also define the search location in the "Searching within" field. Press the "…" button and define the search location using the "Searching within" dialog:

To narrow the search for specific node types, press the "…" button next to the "Consisting of these items" field and select the desired asset type(s):

Page 34 | Document version: 6ae6f26 You can make additional limitations to your search. This can be done by adding conditions to the metadata fields. To do this, add a row in the bottom part of the advanced parameters configuration group by pressing the button.

 Refer to the Advanced Search paragraph within the Cinegy Desktop Manual for detailed information about advanced search parameters configuration.

Search Request Syntax

It is possible to use multiple words for search. In this case, they are connected with the logical AND.

It is also possible to use AND, OR and NOT operators, as well as brackets. If you enter several words separated by a space, the operator AND is assumed.

The wildcard * is also allowed.

The words in search query that are less than 3 characters are not searchable. If such a word is a part of a disjunction, the whole phrase is not searchable too.

The following tables explain the search request syntax in detail.

Expressions

Expression Description Example

any word all the forms of that word man will find man and men "string" the exact string "man*" will find man* man* will find man, many, manuscript, manner and so * any string of zero or more characters on ? any single character ?ean will find Dean, Sean and so on any single character within the range [a-k] or [] [C-P]arsen will find Carsen, Larsen, Karsen and so on within the set [abcdef]

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any single character not within the range [^a-k] de[^l]* will find the words beginning with de where [^] or the set [^abcdef] the third letter is not l "%exact the exact word combination or phrase "%folder #1%" will find folder #1 phrase%"

 If the "?" symbol is placed at the beginning or the end of the word, it is processed as the "*" wildcard, i.e. "?" will be substituted by one or more characters.

When using the expression with a range of symbols (written in square brackets) and performing search within some text rather than searching for a single word, add the "*" symbol at the beginning and the end  of the search expression. For example, if you are searching within some text for the words starting with any symbol of the [b-t] range and the second part of which is "end", use the following search expression: *[b-t]end*.

 When using the "%exact phrase%" expression, please note that the search process may take a long time, especially in large databases.

 The natural-language search is language dependent. Your SQL server must have the search engine for the language you are using; otherwise, the search function will not work.

Operators

Operator Shortcut Description Example red monkey Joe & Willy AND & or space logical AND black AND white

Joe | Willy OR | logical OR purse OR life

Joe NOT Willy NOT ~ logical NOT ~fish&~meat

( ) logical grouping (~red monkey) | (John Smith) LIKE, NOT LIKE LK, NL matching a specified pattern LIKE *land

Search Results

The search results are displayed on the left-hand panel:

Page 36 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Use "Change your view" button to change the thumbnail size or switch to detailed list view of search results.

If the search comes up with more than one page of search results, use the pagination control at the bottom of the page to navigate the search results or enter the desired page number and hit Enter.

You can define the number of search results to be displayed per page by choosing the corresponding option from the "per page" pull-down list or entering the value from 10 to 2000 via the keyboard. The total number of search result items is indicated in the "Displayed" field.

 Refer to the Search Results article within the Cinegy Desktop Manual for detailed information about the found objects metadata display.

File Browser

File Browser provides access to the materials stored on your local computer or network share. It is used to compose playlists with MCRitems (clips from Sequences, Bins and Rolls that have been exported to the inventory folder) or media files.

Page 37 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Use "Change your view" button to change the thumbnail size or switch to detailed list view.

The file formats that are not supported by Cinegy Air will be filtered out and not displayed in right-hand panel of file browser.

In order to add an item, or items, from File Browser to a playlist, simply use drag-and-drop.

 The item(s) will be inserted with the aspect ratio, defined in the Cinegy Air Configurator. Refer to the Aspect Ratio paragraph for details.

1.5. Integration with Cinegy Desktop

Overview

The MCRitem is an XML file that defines a separate playback element in the playlist with the set of metadata that describes the given item. It can represent a simple clip or a comprehensive Sequence with titlers, effects, pictures and voice-overs inside. The MCRitem also includes descriptive metadata (name, description, comment) and the data, defining the processing and display of the given item.

This allows you to send a prepared Sequence directly to the playlist from your Cinegy Desktop without rendering the media file. The rendering will be performed on-the-fly.

To create an MCRitem, follow the steps:

1. Create a shared folder (e.g. Inventory) where the *.MCRitems will be stored. 2. Open the Cinegy Desktop application:

Page 38 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Refer to the Cinegy Desktop Manual to learn how to work with this product.

3. Select the desired Sequence or clip from the Roll/ClipBin and choose the "Send to inventory…" command from the context menu:

The common "Save as" dialog box appears:

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4. Press the "Save" button to create the ".MCRitem" file with the name you specified.

Use Windows File Explorer to add *.MCRitem(s) to a Cinegy Air playlist.

 Refer to the Adding Items to Playlist article to learn how to add *.MCRitems to Cinegy Air playlist.

Playback While Ingesting

Cinegy Air supports the playback of clips that are currently being ingested.

While the material is being captured, the clip remains locked in Cinegy Archive database. It is possible to add such clip in the Cinegy Air playlist. When you drag-and-drop the locked clip from Cinegy Browser to the playlist, the following dialog is open:

Page 40 | Document version: 6ae6f26 It shows the current duration of the clip and asks you to define the estimated duration. Press "OK" to add this clip to the playlist.

 The clip that is still being captured can be sent to playout.

 If the estimated clip duration appears to be longer than captured material duration, at the end of this clip playout the configured emergency footage will be displayed.

When added to playlist, the clip currently being ingested will also be proxied (if proxying is set up). If proxying reaches the end of the currently ingested material, it will switch to proxying another item.

 Refer to the Proxied Items section for more information on proxying.

It is also possible to add to the playlist MXF OP1a files, that are currently being written (e.g. via Cinegy Convert).

 Playback while ingesting within Cinegy Archive database into MOV container is not possible due to container limitations.

Working with Placeholders

Cinegy Desktop has the special type of items - placeholder MOGs - that are used as a temporary substitution for the material that has not been ingested yet. Such placeholders can be inserted in the Cinegy Air playlist.

Page 41 | Document version: 6ae6f26  For this workflow to work, Cinegy Desktop should be installed on the computer where Cinegy Air control application is running and the corresponding Cinegy Archive database should be selected.

The placeholder MOG can be dragged-and-dropped to the playlist via Cinegy Browser:

In the playlist, this item will be displayed in the red font. After the media is ingested in the placeholder MOG, it is updated in the playlist and becomes the regular item

 Refer to the Placeholder MOGs article for more information on working with placeholders within Cinegy Desktop.

1.6. Interface Customization

Panels Docking

It is possible to customize the panels position within Cinegy Air window to create layouts that work best for various tasks. The tabs and panels can be docked to a convenient location or float as separate windows, for example, to be displayed on different monitors. The customized layouts are retained so that next time the Cinegy Air control application is open, the panels are set according to your needs.

 The playlist panel is not dockable.

Initially, the default layout is applied and its editing is locked, which is indicated by the checked "Lock layout" option in the "View" main menu:

Page 42 | Document version: 6ae6f26 This mode does not allow docking panels but their display can be switched on/off.

To enable layout editing, uncheck the "Lock layout" option in the "View" main menu.

To undock the panel, click the leftmost bar on the panel and drag it to the desired location:

While you drag, visual hints appear:

Page 43 | Document version: 6ae6f26 When the mouse cursor hovers over one of these hints, the highlighted area will show where the panel will be docked if you release the mouse button there.

Panel tabs can be docked as separate panels. To do this, click the tab caption and drag-and-drop the panel to a desired position:

To make the panel or tab floating, release the mouse button on the desired place outside the hints.

For all the panels to become fixed in their positions once the layout is created, check the "Lock layout" option in the "View" main menu.

To reset to the default layout, use the "Reset layout" command in the "View" main menu.

 Resetting the default layout causes playlist row height reset.

 Application restart is required for this action to take effect.

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Column Management

Column headers of the playlist table include the corresponding field names. Numerous fields exist to control the playlist. If the column is out of view in the main window, it can be shown by horizontal scrolling of the playlist table. Each column can be resized by positioning the mouse pointer on the grid line between the field names, and dragging the sizing tool left or right to adjust the column size.

The playlist panel view can be configured using the "Show columns" dialog. To invoke the dialog, right-click the table header and click the "Customize…" command or use the "Customize columns" command from the "View" main menu:

The following dialog appears:

Use the "Move up" and "Move down" buttons to reorder the columns.

Press the "Reset" button to return to the default settings.

The column names in the list on the left show the columns that are not included into the current view. The list on the right shows the columns that are included in the current view. To add a column to the view, select the column name from the list on the left hand side and press the "Add –>" button. To remove a column, select it in the right hand side list and press the "<– Remove" button.

Cinegy Air provides the possibility to enter and edit custom metadata values directly in the playlist table.

To create a new playlist column for custom metadata, press the "Create…" button.

The following dialog appears allowing you to set the custom column name and its data type:

Page 45 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The data type in the column can be plain text or boolean value.

Having specified the column parameters, press "OK". The custom column will be added to the list, marked with an asterisk:

Use the "Delete" button to remove the custom metadata column from the playlist table. This button is active only for custom metadata columns selected in the list on the right.

Column Overview

The leftmost column displays a line numbering. The programs dates and blocks names are shown in a tree-like structure in the next column. Each program or block can be collapsed/expanded if necessary.

A quick overview of the columns available in the playlist panel view is given below.

Column Description

Cinegy Air uses the following start trigger types displayed in the "Start" column of the playlist panel: Start "Follow", "Clocked" and "Join-in-progress". In this column, the manually entered or automatically calculated start time of the Cinegy Air playlist item Start Time is shown. This column displays the "Manual end" trigger. Also the corresponding icons for the items included into End the loop playback are displayed in this column. Category This column displays the custom category of the item. Name This column displays the program and block names as well as the Cinegy Air playlist items names. Source The icon in the "S" column shows the item source. For example, a live item is indicated by a camera icon.

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Description This column contains the item description. Comment Here you can add your own comments. Duration In this column the duration is shown in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. This column displays any timecode inconsistencies regarding start time and duration of previous and next Variance items. Here the proxy status of the item is displayed in %. Proxy

This column displays each playlist item status. The status of items can be "live", "skipped", "ready for Status playout" etc. Commands This column is headed with an arrow icon. It displays the command number set up for the current item. In and Out The In and Out timecodes for each item are shown in these two columns. Orig Asp This column defines the original aspect ratio of a playlist item. Targ Asp This column defines the target aspect ratio of a playlist item. Aud This column displays the number of audio channels that a playlist item contains. Audio Mtx This column defines the audio matrix preset used for playlist items playback. Audio Enc This column defines the audio encoding profile containing AC-3 Encoder settings. Traffic ID This column defines the 3rd party Traffic ID of the item. Subtitle ID This column defines the subtitle ID value of playlist item. This column defines the EPG ID value. This value is editable only for programs; items inherit the value automatically, so that this field is read-only for them.

EPG ID  The EPG ID value is processed in event only with the EPG event properly configured via Cinegy Playout configurator.

Sub This column shows if any SRT/STL subtitles are attached to a playlist item.

Text Size

To change the font size of the currently open playlist, select the desired size in the "Text size" submenu of the "View" main menu:

Page 47 | Document version: 6ae6f26  This option affects the display of the playlist, timeline and monitor panel text size.

Collapse and Expand

These functions are available for both program and block contents. To collapse or expand all of the playlist components, use the corresponding command from the main menu ("View" > "Expand/Collapse"):

• Collapse all – collapse all playlist components up to the program items. • Expand all – expand all playlist components. • Expand to blocks – expand all playlist components up to the block items.

Selective Collapsing and Expanding

To collapse or expand a single program or block, click the corresponding sign, either "+" or "–" on the left of the program date or the block name:

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The playlist row height can be changed by positioning the mouse pointer to the first column with the rows numbering and dragging the sizing tool up or down to adjust the rows height. To reset the rows default height, use the "Reset rows height" command from the "View" main menu.

 Using "Reset layout" command from the "View" main menu also resets playlist row height.

1.7. Preferences

Preferences

Choose the "Preferences…" command from the "Edit" main menu; the "Preferences" opens.

General

On the "General" tab you can set the default duration for the newly created live, dummy and image items, set up the auto delete parameters, and define other settings.

 When specifying an item default duration, note that it cannot be less than 0.5 seconds.

 Live and dummy items are explained in detail in this article.

Page 49 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Select the "Auto-propagate metadata to a program" option to enable automatic substitution of the specified metadata to the program properties.

Select the "Use italic font for the editable fields" option to use the italic fonts in all editable fields of the playlist.

With the "Consider ‘Live’ as End of Automation" option enabled, the next live item start time is considered as a starting point for the "End of automation" countdown field. Otherwise, this countdown shows the time left until the end of automation.

The "Preview secondary events" option enables/disables the Cinegy Titler secondary events rendering within the built-in clip viewer.

Automatic Opt-Out and Multichannel Variation Blocks

Specify the background highlight color for the automatic opt-out and multichannel variation blocks in the playlist in the "Automatic Opt-out blocks color" and "Multichannel variation blocks color" fields respectively.

The "Limit per hour" field defines the maximum number of minutes per hour for advertising. While the amount of advertising time does not exceed this limit, the variance value highlighted in blue color is displayed in the playlist beneath the block duration. If advertising time exceeds this limit, its variance value becomes highlighted in red:

The out-of-network duration is calculated for each opt-out block starting from the end time of the current block and one hour earlier. The broadcasted items are also included in this calculation.

The following illustration shows the sample playlist, for which the "Limit per hour" parameter is set to 12 minutes for automatic opt-out blocks. For the "Commercial Block 1" the total opt-out blocks duration is 10 minutes of advertising time and 2 spare minutes are highlighted in blue. For the "Commercial Block 2" one hour of broadcast time contains 16 minutes of advertising time, and the variance value of 4 excess minutes is indicated in red.

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 The "Auto Delete" option does not affect the work in playlist editor mode.

The "Auto delete" preferences allow you to set the following parameters:

• The "Max expired" option defines how many expired items will still be present in the playlist before the expired items automatic deletion. • The "Delete number" option defines how many expired items will be automatically deleted from the playlist.

 Set the "Max expired" value to zero to disable the auto deleting process.

Categories

On the "Categories" tab it is possible to define custom categories for marking specific items in the playlist with custom colors.

To create a new category, press the "Add" button. It will be added to the list. You can specify a suitable name for this category.

Then you can define the custom color for the newly created category. For this click on the "Color" field, the standard color selection dialog will be open:

Page 51 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Here select the color and press "OK" to apply it. The color will be applied in the "Item Categories" list.

Thus you can create the list of custom categories. The items in this list can be renamed, deleted, or rearranged by using the corresponding "Rename", "Delete", "Move up", "Move down" buttons.

The name of the category can be displayed in the playlist on the defined color background. For this tick off the "Display Category name" option.

Press "OK" to save the created list of custom categories.

The “Import from playlist” command allows loading or updating of the categories according to categories used in the current playlist. If you have a playlist previously saved with defined custom categories and the categories have the same name but different color, you will be asked to define which color to keep with the following dialog:

Press "Yes" to load the category color from the current playlist and apply it to the category from the "Item Categories" list.

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 Refer to the Custom Categories article to learn how to ally custom categories to playlist items.

1.8. Working with Playlists

Programs

The playlist consists of three main components: programs, blocks and items. Each component is described further on in detail.

To create a new program, simply press the "+Prog" button on the selected item editor panel or select the "Create program…" command from the "Program" main menu:

Enter a new program name into the text field of the "Create a program" dialog:

Confirm creation of a new program by pressing the "OK" button.

 You can rename a program at any time by double-clicking the corresponding name field on the playlist panel.

Program Properties

The "Program properties" option allows you to set up the EPG parameters for the selected program.

 NDS EPG functionality is now end-of-life.

Select the desired program from the playlist and choose the "Program properties…" command from the "Program" main menu to launch the following dialog box:

Page 53 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The "Program properties" menu allows you to specify the following program properties:

• Name – the program name; • Description – the program description.

 The rest of parameters are NDS EPG related and they are disabled.

Blocks

Creating a new block is similar to creating a new program. Select the "Create block…" command from the "Block" main menu or simply press the "+Block" button on the selected item editor panel.

Enter a new block name into the text field of the "Create a block" dialog.

Confirm the creation of the new block by pressing the "OK" button. The newly created block contains an item, named by default. This item is displayed in red with zero duration.

 You can rename a block at any time by double-clicking the corresponding name field on the playlist panel.

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Select the block or any item within it and choose the "Block properties…" command from the "Block" main menu:

The following dialog is opened:

In this dialog the you can specify the main block properties: its name and type, as well as define whether this block is skipped or not.

Block Type

Three types of blocks can be set in a Cinegy Air playlist:

The normal block type is used for combining playlist items into structural blocks within programs.

The automatic opt-out and multichannel variation blocks are used in the workflows when the regional variations (e.g. local news or commercials) are broadcast to different regions of the coverage area.

 Refer to the Automatic Opt-Out and Multichannel Variation articles to learn how to configure regional variations.

The highlight colors of these block types in the playlist can be configured in Cinegy Air preferences ("Edit" main menu > "Preferences").

When the block type is changed to "Multichannel variation", the first item in the block receives the "clocked" trigger.

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The main commands associated with programs and blocks are described in this article.

Skipping

The complete program can be skipped from playing. To do this, use the "Skip program" command from the "Program" main menu. The program including all blocks will be skipped; the corresponding mark will be added to the program and blocks names and the corresponding icon will be shown in the status column.

To remove the "skipped" status for the selected program, uncheck the "Skip program" option in the "Program" main menu.

To skip only the defined block, select it and check the "Skip block" option in the "Block" main menu.

The "skipped" status for the block can be cancelled by removing the selection of the "Skip block" command in the "Block" main menu.

Metadata Propagating

The metadata of a playlist item (name, description, custom metadata from Cinegy Archive, etc.) can be propagated to a program name. For this select the required item in the playlist and use the "Propagate metadata from the clip" command from the "Program" main menu.

Please note, if the playlist item contains empty metadata field(s) and the program already has the metadata  fields filled in, in the result of the "Propagate metadata from the clip" command applying, the former program metadata will be lost.

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You can divide one program or block into two parts from the current position via the main menu "Split at the current position"command:

The second block/program will start from the item you selected before splitting:

 The current block automatically splits into two blocks when you place another block inside it. Splitting programs can be achieved the same way.

Combining

To combine several blocks or programs into one, use the main "Block" > "Combine selected" menu command. The same combining command for programs is available from the "Program" main menu. All items from these blocks will be united into one block.

 Only blocks that are located in the same program group are allowed to be combined.

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To copy a program or block use the "Copy" command from "Edit" main menu:

You can also use the Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut assigned for the copy action by default. Alternatively, select the corresponding program or block and use the "Copy" command available from the right-click menu.

The "Paste" command is available from the "Edit" main menu as shown above. The default keyboard shortcut for this action is Ctrl+V. The "Paste" command inserts an identical duplicate of the previously copied program or block.

 If the whole block is selected, it will be inserted before the currently selected item as a new block.

Deleting

To delete a program or block, use the corresponding "Delete" command from either the "Block" or the "Program" main menu:

Alternatively, select the corresponding program or block and use the "Delete" command from the right-click menu. To delete unnecessary program or block the default Delete keyboard shortcut for this operation can be also used.

Cutting

To cut the currently selected block or program, use the "Cut" command available from the "Edit" main menu or use the Ctrl +X keyboard shortcut assigned for this operation by default.

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Use simple drag-and-drop to move blocks and programs to another position in the playlist.

Inserting Playlists

The playlists can be added in the following ways: using "Insert the playlist after…" command, dragging-and-dropping of playlist and using auto-append feature. Each of them is described further in this article in detail.

"Insert the Playlist After…" command

To insert another playlist after a selected item, choose the "Insert the playlist after…" command from the context menu or "File" main menu. The standard "Open" dialog box appears. Browse for the desired file and press "Open" to add the playlist. It will be inserted after the selected item.

When a playlist is appended via the "Insert the playlist after…" command and it contains an item which will override the item being currently on-air, the following warning message will be shown:

A similar warning message appears in case if you are trying to load a new playlist via the Cinegy Air PRO Configurator, and the item being currently on-air is not present in it or has a different start time:

Page 59 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The playlist insertion is postponed until positive confirmation is received.

Dragging-and-Dropping of Playlist

The prepared in the Playlist Edіtor Mode MCRList playlist which can be inserted by simple drag-and-drop via integrated File Browser or from Windows Explorer.

Auto-Append Feature

The playlist can be added automatically to the *.MCRactive playlist using auto-append feature

Playlist Navigation

Playlist Line Numbering

The lines are numbered in a playlist table for your convenience:

Find

The "Find" command is used to search for specified material within the playlist. To launch the "Find" dialog, select the "Find… " command from the "Edit" main menu or press the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut assigned by default. The "Find" dialog appears:

Here specify the following parameters:

• Find what – enter the text you want to search for. • Look in – use the pull-down list to choose one of the following options: Block, Name, Description, Comment, or All Fields. • Match whole word only – check this option to search for the whole word only. • Match case – check this option to consider the text case when searching. • Direction – select the direction of the search by setting the "Up" or "Down" radio buttons.

Having defined the parameters for the search, press the "Find next" button to start searching. To cancel a search in progress,

Page 60 | Document version: 6ae6f26 press the "Cancel" button. The following window will appear, informing you when the search process is complete:

Find Source

To find the item source, select the desired item in the playlist and select the "Find source" command from the "Item" main menu. When the item source is found, the corresponding folder will be opened in the Windows Explorer, and the actual item will be highlighted.

If the item source cannot be found in the Windows Explorer, an error occurs:

 The "Find source" command is not available for the items added from the Cinegy Archive database.

Next and Previous Items

For easy navigation through the playlist, use the "Next" and "Prev" buttons or the keyboard ↑ and ↓ arrow keys. To quickly move the item selection from any position to the top or bottom of the playlist, use Ctrl+↑ or Ctrl+↓. You can toggle between columns with the Tab key.

Printing a Playlist

You can print a playlist by choosing the "Print…" command from the "File" main menu or pressing the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut assigned by default.

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Select a printer and set up printing properties.

1.9. Handling Items

Adding Items to Playlist

The following items can be added to a playlist: media files in Cinegy Air supported formats (mxf, mpg, mp4, avi, dv, wmv, bmp, jpg, gif, tif etc.), clips, Sequences, Cinegy Titler templates, special items like live, dummy and note items.

Use the "Insert" command from the "Item" main menu for adding items to the playlist:

Page 62 | Document version: 6ae6f26 To add a live item, a dummy item or insert a new comment to the playlist, select the corresponding command from the submenu.

Adding Items

The diagram below demonstrates different ways of adding items to a playlist:

There are various ways to add an item (e.g. Sequence, clip from a Roll or ClipBin) to the playlist:

• by dragging-and-dropping the corresponding MCRitems from the shared folder (inventory) via the Windows Explorer or File Browser; • by dragging-and-dropping clip or Sequence directly from Cinegy Browser or from Cinegy Search

 Archive Browser as well as the "Cinegy Browser" and the "Cinegy Search" tabs of the integrated browser window are not supported in Cinegy Air SOLO.

• using the "Insert" command from the "Item" main menu for adding previously created via Cinegy Desktop MCRItems

The ways of adding items to the playlist are described in detail further in this article.

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 Please note that during "drag and drop" operations the insert item position is separated by a bold black drop line.

Use File Browser to navigate through local or removable media or folders (e.g. shared inventory folder) where *.MCRitem files are stored. Select an item and add it to the playlist via drag-and-drop. It is also possible to select multiple items and add them all to the playlist at the same time.

Drag-and-Drop via Cinegy Browser

Use Cinegy Browser mode to navigate to the desired item in the Cinegy Archive database; select the item and add it to the playlist via drag-and-drop.

Using the "Insert" Command

To add the desired MCRitems or item(s) in a Cinegy Air supported format, click the "Insert" > "Item(s)…" command. The "Open" dialog box appears:

Page 64 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Browse for the file storage folder. Select one or several items in *.MCRitem format or change the "Files of type" option to "All files" and select files in any Cinegy Air supported format. Press "Open" to add selected files to the playlist.

 The item(s) will be inserted with the aspect ratio, defined in the Cinegy Air Configurator. For more details, see the Aspect Ratio paragraph.

If selected media files are not supported by Cinegy Air, the following error message appears:

 Refer to the Integration with Desktop manual for more details on creating MCRitems.

 If you are using footage from a removable media, and the media becomes unavailable, the item will be shown as media offline in your playlist.

 Learn more about media offline in this article.

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When composing a playlist, single or multiple Cinegy Air playlist items can be dragged-and-dropped from the Microsoft Windows Explorer. Use the Windows Explorer to navigate through local or removable media (e.g. shared inventory folder), select the item or items and add these to the playlist via drag-and-drop.

If you inserting an item into a newly created empty playlist, the program metadata will be substituted by the item metadata. Any subsequent items inserted will not affect the program metadata.

 To disable this feature, remove the selection of the "Auto-propagate metadata to a program" option in the "Preferences" dialog.

Inserting Items to Empty Playlist

The "Insert items" window appears after you add a new playlist or when you add one or more items to the empty playlist table either in single channel or multi channel control mode:

Here you can set the exact time and date when the inserted item will go on-air.

Page 66 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The same window appears after you have added the follow item type to the end of the composed playlist after the last item had been broadcast in one of the control modes.

Source Error

Ensure that all the items being added to the playlist are of the compatible TV formats.

Otherwise, the following error message appears:

Special Items

Dummy Item

You can insert a dummy item into the playlist by pressing the "+Dummy" button or by selecting the "Insert" > "Dummy item" command from the context menu. Shift+D is the default keyboard shortcut.

It is possible to reassign the default shortcut used for a dummy item insertion and add a new  combination(s) via the keyboard customizer. Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

This item is a reserved "empty" item with a fixed duration. It is used to reserve a fixed amount of time in the schedule, to be filled later with item(s) of a corresponding duration.

A dummy item is not broadcast. Operator must fill it in with appropriate clip(s) before going on-air. If this item is not completely filled when the previous item in the playlist is on-air, the dummy item is not marked as cued and is automatically skipped; the next actual playlist item is marked as cued and is broadcast instead.

Until filled in appropriately, dummy items are shown in red.

By default, the dummy item duration is 15 minutes, but you can change the default duration in the "Preferences" dialog.

 The duration of an item cannot be less than 0.5 seconds.

To fill in the dummy item, select the actual item in integrated browser or the Windows Explorer, hold the Ctrl key down and drag-and-drop the item into the selected dummy item position; the dummy will be filled with media and metadata of this item.

Page 67 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The dummy item behavior depends on the duration of an item it is filled with. If the inserted item is shorter, the dummy item is cropped correspondingly and placed after it.

If the inserted item is longer, the following dialog appears:

Press "Yes" to keep the original dummy item duration; in this case the clip Out point will be shifted back to match the required duration.

Choose "No" to preserve the duration of the new item.

Abort the replacement by pressing "Cancel".

Live Item

Depending on your playback configuration, a live signal goes from the defined input device or from IP (if the "Use RTP/UDP input" option is enabled) to output.

 Refer to the Playback device settings section in the Cinegy Playout manual for details about setting up the input and output devices.

Press the "+Live" button on the item editor panel to add a live item after the selected item. This command is also available from the "Item" main menu: "Insert" > "Live item". The default keyboard shortcut is Shift+L.

Page 68 | Document version: 6ae6f26 It is possible to reassign the default shortcut used for a live item insertion and add a new combination(s)  via the keyboard customizer. Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

By default, the live item duration is 15 minutes, but you can change the default duration in the "Preferences" dialog.

 The duration of an item cannot be less than 0.5 seconds. For live items the In point is always set to 00:00:00:00.

To define the RTP/UDP source URL, select the "Item properties…" command from the live item context menu and switch to the "Parameters" tab. The description of "Live Source" parameters is given here.

Alternatively, you can simply drag-and-drop the RTP/UDP URL from the Cinegy Route Browser holding the Ctrl key down directly to the live item entry in the playlist.

Note Item

Press the "+Note" button or select the "Insert" > "Comment" command from the "Item" main menu to add a note to the playlist above the currently selected item. Adding a note does not affect your time scale. To edit a note, double-click it or press F2 and enter your new text. Hit Esc to cancel the operation.

Media Offline

If all media qualities for a particular footage are unavailable, the system displays the "Media Offline" text instead of showing the media material in Clip Viewer or in the preview window on the item editor panel. In this case, the emergency footage or color bars will be played back depending on the playout station configuration.

It is not possible to add a clip with unavailable footage to the playlist. In this case the error window appears:

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Cinegy Air provides a simple way to "burn-in" the subtitles to the playout items in the playout list, before they are broadcast on air. External subtitle files of the following formats are currently supported: SRT, STL.

 Subtitles are not applied for dummy and live items.

To apply a subtitle file to the specified playlist item, select the "Subtitles" > "Insert subtitle track…" command from its context menu and in the dialog that appears browse for the desired subtitle file:

Page 70 | Document version: 6ae6f26 In the appeared window select the "Use Titler as renderer" option to enable subtitle rendering using Titler.

In this dialog window you can also specify the font to customize the subtitles display. For this select the "Use Font" option and specify the font family, color and outline settings.

Use the "Place subtitles within safe area" option for the subtitles to be displayed inside the inner boundaries of the safe area, ensuring that all subtitles text will be visible.

The subtitles display settings and effects can be specified in one subtitle style template XML file. Thus the unified style can be used for all subtitles. For this remove the selection of the "Use Font" option and browse for the subtitle style template file:

 You can use a subtitle style template XML file which was generated via legacy Titler plugin (within Cinegy Desktop) using the "Save style as file" command.

To remove the subtitle track, select the corresponding command from the "Subtitles" submenu. Subtitles can be viewed in

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Cinegy Titler Items

Cinegy Titler templates previously created via Cinegy Titler Editor can be inserted into Cinegy Air playlist as a primary event.

 Refer to the Cinegy Titler manual to learn more about creating and working with Cinegy Titler templates.

You can use Cinegy Browser, File Browser or Windows Explorer to navigate to the Cinegy Titler template file(s). Drag-and- drop the template to the desired position in the playlist. The following dialog will be open:

Here you can preview the template and define the variables values if necessary.

 The template variables can only be edited at this stage. Having inserted the template into the playlist, the variables values cannot be changed.

Press "OK" to add the template to the playlist.

If Cinegy Titler template has infinite loop defined as its duration, the template will be inserted into the playlist with duration equal to the value defined in the “Default Still duration” parameter. After insertion into the playlist, the duration of such item can be increased up to 3 hours.

 Cinegy Titler templates can also be added as secondary events for playlist items. Refer to the this paragraph to learn about adding Cinegy Titler templates as secondary events.

Managing Items

Multiselect

It is easy to select more than one item at once. Hold the Shift key down while clicking the last item you wish to select. This will select all items in between the first and the last clicked item. To select all playlist items, use the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut assigned by default or choose the "Select all" command from the "Edit" main menu.

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The copy and paste commands are available from "Edit" main menu:

• Cut – cuts the currently selected item(s). This command is available from the "Edit" main menu. The default keyboard shortcut for this action is Shift+Delete. To cut the selected item(s), you can also use the Ctrl+X keyboard shortcut. • Copy – copies the currently selected item(s). This command is available from the right-click menu. The default keyboard shortcut for this action is Ctrl+C. • Paste – inserts an exact duplicate of the previously copied item. This is very useful if you want to copy an item(s) from one position in the playlist to another. This command is available from the "Edit" main menu as shown above. The default keyboard shortcut for this action is Ctrl+V. • Paste below – inserts the copied data below the selected playlist item.

You can also copy items by dragging-and-dropping them inside the list. Select an item and hold the Ctrl key down during the action.

Moving Items in Playlist

To move an item to another playlist position, simply drag-and-drop it.

 Only one item can be moved at one time.

Replacing Items in Playlist

To replace an existing Cinegy Air playlist item with another one, drag a new item from integrated browser or Windows Explorer over the item that you wish to replace and drop it while holding the Ctrl key down.

 Integration with Cinegy Archive is not supported in Cinegy Air SOLO.

The following dialog appears asking you to define the parameters of replacement:

Page 73 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Select the "Keep secondary events" option to preserve the defined secondary events of the item after its content replacement. You can define to keep the secondary events only if they fit into new item duration by selecting the corresponding option.

To keep the duration value of the item whose content is being replaced, select "Keep original duration" option.

You can also define to keep the In and Out points of the original item if they fit into the new media duration. For example, there is a clip with 02:00:00:00 start timecode and its duration is 90 minutes. This clip has In point set at 02:30:00:00 and Out point at 03:00:00:00. This means that the playlist item duration is 30 minutes. If the new clip timecode is within 02:00:00:00 - 03:30:00:00 range, the IN and Out points will be preserved after media replacement. Otherwise, the In point will be set equal to the new clip start timecode, the playlist item duration is preserved and equal 30 minutes.

If there is more than one instance of an initial item in the playlist, you can replace all of them by checking the "Replace all instances of this item" option. The number in brackets indicates how many instances of the same item is present in current playlist.

Refreshing Items

When an item is dragged-and-dropped on top of another playlist item with the Alt key down, only the media content of the item is replaced with the In/Out points, metadata and secondary events are preserved. This will be automatically applied to all instances of the item having the same Traffic ID value as defined for the playlist item on which the new material is being dragged-and-dropped. If Traffic ID value is not defined, the new material is applied to all the instances of the initial item in the playlist. The confirmation dialog appears if more than one item will be refreshed during this operation.

 If any of the instances refers to the timecode which is unavailable in the new item, the whole operation will be cancelled.

Updating Items

When item is added to the playlist, its modification date is internally saved. If the file-based item or a node from Cinegy Archive is modified after being inserted to the playlist, this playlist item will be displayed in blue in the playlist table and it can be updated. Use the commands described below to update playlist item(s).

 If only the item metadata are updated, such playlist item will not be highlighted blue in the playlist.

Update Selected

The *.MCRitems added to the playlist from the defined (e.g. Inventory) shared folder can be overwritten according to the latest changes applied via the Cinegy Desktop application. The modifications in file-based items and Cinegy Archive nodes are also monitored. Once the item is modified and saved into the same location, it can be automatically refreshed in Cinegy Air by using the "Update selected" command. To perform this action, select the item you wish to update and choose the "Update selected" command from the "File" main menu:

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Select the "Update all" command from the "File" main menu to update the content of all modified items in the playlist.

Once the updating has been completed, the report window will be displayed:

Removing an Item

You can remove an item from a playlist by pressing the "Remove" button or by selecting the "Delete" command from the "Edit" main menu. The default keyboard shortcut for this operation is Delete.

Adding a Comment

To make a comment on an item, simply double-click the "Comment" field of the item in your playlist and add or edit the text.

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Renaming Items

You can change the item name by double-clicking the selected item name field and entering a new name. It is also possible to rename the selected item in the item name field on the selected item editor panel by using the F2 keyboard shortcut. You can cancel the operation by hitting Esc.

Aspect Ratio

The "Orig Asp" column displays the original aspect ratio of the item. To set the source aspect ratio for files inserted into a playlist, select the required value from the "Orig Asp" pull-down list.

To change the target aspect ratio, choose the required format from the "Targ Asp" pull-down list. If the "Stretch" value is selected, the target video stream is stretched to fill the entire frame.

 Changing the target aspect ratio affects only the broadcasting video stream and does not modify the original item appearance.

Playout Conversion

Depending on the playlist item aspect ratio and considering the playout server aspect parameters, the appearance of the broadcast item on the playout screen can differ. The following tables display all possible combinations in detail:

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The 4:3 video is placed in the center of the 16:9 screen. Vertical black 4:3 bars (pillars) are added on each side of the frame.

The 4:3 video is placed in the center of the screen. The top and bottom of 14:9 the original frame are cropped to 14:9, and black bars are added on each side.

4:3

The top and bottom of the original frame are cropped to the 16:9 aspect 16:9 ratio.

Stretch The original frame is stretched horizontally to fill the entire frame resulting in distortion of image.

Original Target 4:3 Channel Aspect Aspect Aspect Description Ratio Ratio Ratio

The widescreen video is cropped on the left and on the right. Only the 4:3 main part of the image is shown.

The widescreen video is placed in the center of the screen. The sides of 14:9 the image are cropped to 14:9 and narrow black bars are added to the top and bottom.

16:9

The black bars are added above and below the image preserving the 16:9 entire 16:9 video.

Stretch The original frame is stretched vertically to fill the entire frame resulting in distortion of image.

Page 77 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Custom Metadata

Cinegy Desktop allows to add custom metadata to video materials that are stored in Cinegy Archive database.

 Refer to the Descriptors, Presets article within the Cinegy Enterprise Manager Manual for details on how to create metadata fields.

The custom metadata descriptors can have text or boolean values.

Video material along with defined custom metadata can be exported as MCRitem and then used in a Cinegy Air playlist. Custom metadata values can also be used in CG templates with corresponding macros for sending to playout.

 Refer to the Macros article in the Cinegy Titler Manual for detailed description of working with macros.

Having inserted an MCRitem into the playlist, select the "Custom Metadata…" command from the "Item" main menu:

Alternatively, use the "Custom metadata" command from the selected item context menu.

The "Custom metadata" dialog will appear listing all available descriptors and their values for the currently selected item. Check the corresponding descriptor, it will be displayed in the playlist table in the new column:

Page 78 | Document version: 6ae6f26 To show all available custom metadata, use the "Display all custom metadata" command from the "View" main menu:

It will analyze all playlist items and create a column for each available custom metadata descriptor with their values display.

The custom metadata values can be changed directly in the playlist table.

 To enable custom metadata editing, make sure the "Metadata" option is enabled in the Cinegy Air Configurator.

Editing Items Duration

If there is a need to manually correct In and Out timecodes, simply double-click the "In" or "Out" table column you wish to

Page 79 | Document version: 6ae6f26 change and enter a new timecode. You should keep in mind that the new duration value cannot be higher than the original or less than 0.5 seconds.

The following error messages appear if the In or Out points are not set correctly:

or

Viewing and Editing Items

Clip Viewer

Select the item you wish to play back and press the "View" button on the item editor panel or choose the "Preview" command from the right-click menu. This command is also available from the "Item" main menu. The Clip Viewer window appears. Then press the "Play" button to play the clip in Clip Viewer.

 All the clip editing controls are disabled in this mode.

VANC Data Display

Clip Viewer can be set up to display the embedded VANC data. To enable this feature, right-click anywhere within the Clip Viewer window and tick off the "Show VANC" option:

Page 80 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The additional panel will be displayed at the bottom of the window showing the available VANC data.

To hide the VANC data panel, deselect the "Show VANC" option in the context menu.

Closed Captions Display

It is possible to display embedded closed captions in Cinegy Clip Viewer. To do this, right-click anywhere within the Clip Viewer window and select the corresponding closed captions channel in the "Closed Caption" cascaded menu:

The video display will include the closed captions text:

Page 81 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The closed captions preview on the playout control panel can be enabled/disabled via the "Closed Caption" submenu from the "Playout" main menu:

The closed captions text will also be displayed on the monitor panel:

Page 82 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Cinegy Type and Cinegy Titler Secondary Events Display

When a playlist item is open in the built-in clip viewer and it has the configured secondary events of Cinegy Type or Cinegy Titler showing or hiding, these scenes will be rendered if they belong to the defined In-Out range. This is useful for fine-tuning or synchronizing CG scenes and video content.

This feature will work with the "Preview secondary events" option enabled in the Cinegy Air application preferences dialog.

 Please note that Cinegy Type engine is now considered in legacy support.

Audio Preview

The VU meter is shown on the right of Clip Viewer. It shows peak and integrated audio levels in the dB scale as the master output for all the enabled audio channels mixed together. There are two speaker buttons below the audio scale. The speaker buttons allow you to mute an individual left/right audio channel or both audio channels simultaneously.

 To learn how to use the VU meter, refer to the Audio Controls article.

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To edit an item, select it in the playlist and press the "Edit" button on the item editor panel or choose the "Edit in the clip viewer" context menu command. This command is also available from the "Item" main menu. The Clip Viewer window appears. You can also preview the clip before and after editing.

Use Clip Viewer to:

• cut the clip; • set the In and Out points; • delete the In and Out points; • navigate Edit points.

 The In point represents the beginning of the In frame, and the Out point represents the end of the Out frame (or the beginning of the next frame). The duration of the item cannot be less than 0.5 seconds.

Cutting an Item

The "Razor" command allows you to cut a clip at the current time slider position.

 It is not possible to set the In and Out points and split the clip simultaneously. You should first split the clip and then set new In and Out points.

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Press the "In" button or hit the I or E key to trim your clip from the left.

To delete the In point, press the "Delete In" button (inversed In).

Press the "Out" button or hit the O or R key to trim your clip from the right.

To delete the Out point, press the "Delete Out" button (inversed Out).

Moving to the Next or Previous Edit Point

You can use respective buttons to move from event to event. Events are: start, end of a clip, In and Out points.

Use the "Previous event" button to navigate to the previous edit events. You can also use the A key to jump to the previous clip event.

Use the "Next event" button to jump to the next event. You can also use the S key to jump to the next clip event.

Closing Clip Viewer

Press the "X" button or the Esc key to close Clip Viewer.

When closing Clip Viewer, the following error message appears if the In and Out points are not set correctly. You should keep in mind that the new duration value cannot be higher than the original or less than 0.5 seconds.

 All changes made during editing can be undone and redone with the "Undo" and "Redo" commands from the right-click menu.

Playback Quality Degradation

To improve the reliability of the system, the quality degradation feature has been introduced. If the required quality goes offline for some reason, the next lower quality will be played back on-air with the frame-to-frame correspondence, without interrupting playout. When no lower quality is found, the emergency footage or color bars will be played back depending on the playout station configuration. If the required quality eventually goes online, the playback quality will be restored.

Managing Interrupted Items

If the clip was interrupted by an urgent item during the broadcast (by using the "Start Cued" command), the operator can easily resume the playback of this clip. This feature is especially useful if it is a long clip, e.g. a movie.

The marker point is created at the time of broadcast interruption.

Page 85 | Document version: 6ae6f26 When the interrupted item is copied and pasted or dragged-and-dropped to the lower part of the playlist after the currently broadcast item, you can open it in Cinegy Clip Viewer in the editing mode (using the "Edit" button on the panel or the "Edit in the clip viewer" context menu command), easily find the interruption point and adjust Mark In accordingly.

 If several playlist items are copied, and one of them is the interrupted item, the marker point is not created for it.

Programing Items

Setting Trigger Types

The following trigger types are available for applying to a playlist item:

follow

manual end

clocked

join-in-progress

Select an item and press the respective button to specify its trigger type.

The corresponding icon is shown in the "Start" or "End" column of the item depending on the trigger type.

Page 86 | Document version: 6ae6f26 These trigger icons are also displayed on the timeline.

 Please note that whenever an item trigger type is displayed against faded gray triangle it means that fade in or fade out effects are applied to it.

Follow

The selected item will start automatically on completion of the previous item. The Shift+F keyboard shortcut, assigned by default, sets follow play mode.

Manual End

The selected item will end when initiated manually. The Shift+M keyboard shortcut, assigned by default, sets manual play mode.

 When a manual end item is copied, the trigger type remains unchanged.

The manual end trigger can be set to the currently played item but only if there are more than 0.5 seconds left until its end.

Clocked

The selected item will start at the specified time. The Shift+C keyboard shortcut, assigned by default, sets clocked play mode.

 When a clocked item is copied, the trigger type changes to follow.

When the clocked item trigger type and start time are set correctly, the following items will fill the corresponding blocks one after another with no holes.

 You can set the fixed start time for any item by changing its trigger type into the clocked type. The following items start time will be recalculated automatically according to the time defined.

Join-in-Progress

Page 87 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The selected item will shorten if the previous item is longer than expected (e.g. live item). The Shift+J keyboard shortcut, assigned by default, sets join-in-progress play mode.

 If the previous item overrun is longer than the duration of the "join-in-progress" item, it will be skipped.

It is possible to reassign the default shortcut used to set follow, manual end or clocked mode for the item  and to add new combinations via the keyboard customizer. Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

Loop

You can force the items to play in loop until you manually start the next item or until the next clocked item is automatically activated. To set the item as the first element of the loop, select the "Set loop start" command from the item context menu or use the "Loop" button on the item editor panel. To set the item as the last element of the loop, select the "Set loop end" command or use the "L. End" button on the item editor panel. The respective icons will be displayed in the "End" column.

To manually start the item outside the loop, cue it and then use the "Start Cued" button or the corresponding command from the "Playout" main menu.

If there is a clocked item outside the loop, it will be started on its defined start time and the loop will exit.

Start Time

To set the specific start time for the selected item, set its trigger type to clocked and enter the new start time on the start indicator on the item editor panel:

The start time can also be changed in the "Start Time" playlist column.

The start time for each non-clocked item is calculated automatically based on the previous clocked item start time and the duration of the preceding items.

If the start time is not properly set and there are gaps between timecodes of the items in the playlist, (for instance, when the item start time has been set manually), then the incorrect timecode and the previous item duration is displayed in red.

Page 88 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The time value in the "Variance" column indicates the schedule disruptions ("+" indicates a "gap" in the schedule, while "–" indicates the item overlaps with the next item).

If the gap between two items is more than 24 hours, it will be displayed as ">24" in the "Variance" column. The exact value of the time gap is specified in the item properties.

When the selected item start time is set, its countdown time starts. The countdown "Time to Start" timer is located on the item editor panel:

Start Time Auto-Calculation

Cinegy Air performs automatic start time recalculation if the start time or duration of one or more items is changed. This happens if an item is added, removed or skipped, or if the In and Out points are shifted. If you set a fixed start time for a clocked item and time gaps appear, you can change the trigger type to follow and the start time will automatically be recalculated.

Time Controls

There are fields on the item editor panel representing information about start time, duration and date of the selected item.

 Item duration can be changed directly from the item editor panel using double-click.

It is easy to control the time left until start, with the help of the countdown timer on the item editor panel.

Skip

To set or cancel the skip status for the selected Cinegy Air playlist items or the whole program, use the "Skip" button on the item editor panel.

To set or cancel the skip status for the selected block(s), use the "Skip block" command from the cascaded "Block" menu in the right-click menu. Alternatively, use the "Skip" button, but the block must be collapsed first.

The overall time and duration calculations are not affected by the skipped item duration and secondary events. The items in the skipped program or block are also excluded from calculations.

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The playlist items can be marked with categories of the specified color to visually differentiate types of content like commercial items, TV ratings, etc.

The category can be defined for each individual playlist item. For this click within the "Category" cell of the playlist item, the drop-down list with default categories will be shown:

Select the category you want to apply for this item.

To delete the applied custom category, select "No category" for this item.

The custom categories are created via the "Preferences" dialog.

 Refer to this paragraph to learn how to create custom categories.

Item Properties

Item Properties

This dialog allows you to specify the properties for the selected item. To view and edit, if needed, item properties, select the item and choose the "Properties" context menu command. The following "Item properties" dialog box appears:

Page 90 | Document version: 6ae6f26  The "Properties" option is not available for Comment items.

This dialog contains two tabs that are described below.

General Tab

On this tab, general item properties are defined.

• Name – assign the name of the selected item. • Trigger Type – redefine the trigger type (follow, clocked or join-in-progress) for the selected item. • Manual End – check this option to set the item trigger type to manual end. • Date Start – specify the start date for the clocked item (only available for clocked items). Uncheck the "Auto" option to specify the start date manually. Press the button and specify the start date for the following item:

Today’s date is marked with the blue frame, and the selected date is shown against the blue background. Navigate

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 It is not possible to set the start date in the past.

• Start – set the start time for the clocked item. To do this, simply enter a new time in the "Start" field via the keyboard in the hours:minutes:seconds:frames format.

If the specified date or start time for the selected item has already passed, you will be informed about it with the following error message:

If the start time for the current item is later than the start time of the next clocked item, all items up to the next clocked item will be interpreted as "past due" and will be skipped from playing.

• Duration – correct the duration of the selected live or dummy item.

 The default duration for live and/or dummy items can be changed via preferences

• In and Out – correct the In and Out timecodes manually. You should keep in mind that the new duration value cannot be higher than the original or less than 0.5 seconds.

 This option is locked for live and dummy items.

• Comment – edit a comment for the selected item. • Skipped – select the "Skip" checkbox to set the status for the selected item to "skipped". The current item will be skipped from playing in one of the control modes. • Original Aspect – define the original aspect ratio of the item. • Target Aspect – define the target aspect ratio for the video stream of the selected item. • Category – select the custom color category for the item.

Parameters Tab

On this tab, you can define the live source parameters as well as choose the audio matrix preset.

 Refer to the Audio Profile Editor article to learn more about audio matrix presets.

For live items only, check the "RTP/UDP Live Source" option to use IP signal as the live feed for a live item playout. The live

Page 92 | Document version: 6ae6f26 RTP/UDP/SRT input stream can be selected via the channel browser or via drag-and-drop of the RTP/UDP/SRT source URL from the Cinegy Route Browser into the "URL" field. You can also type in the RTP/UDP URL manually.

RTP/UDP/SRT Source Selection

 The Cinegy Route Browser x86 cannot be opened in Cinegy Air PRO x64 due to technical limitations.

Use this command to select the live RTP/UDP/SRT input stream for the selected live item. All the present streams can be registered on the Route Directory Server. This server can be installed on any dedicated PC and can be used by all playout stations.

When you press the "Browse" button, the channel browser appears:

Page 93 | Document version: 6ae6f26 In the top field enter the "localhost" if the Route Directory Server is installed on your PC locally; otherwise enter the Route Directory Server IP address or network name if it is being used remotely. Press "Browse".

Having connected to the Route Directory Server, you can browse the registered streams as shown below:

To analyze the availability of the registered streams, press the "Analyze" button; unavailable streams will be grayed out in the channel browser tree.

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Input Number

The input number defines a number of switchable inputs per channel within applicable video format.

 Several inputs in one channel can be configured through simulcast configuration.

Here specify the number of the input device. The input number values start from 0; specifying 1 means that the input device signal is the second in the list, 2 means that the input device signal is the third in the list and so on:

 Changing input number is not allowed during the broadcast.

 RTP/UDP/SRT live input defined in the "Item properties" has priority over another input (SDI, NDI etc).

Hide CG layers

The "Hide CG Layers" functionality enables automatic CG layers deactivation of a particular item when its broadcast has already finished. Selecting the required options automatically deactivates the corresponding CG layers once the item

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 This functionality is available only for Cinegy Titler graphics.

Secondary Events

The secondary events panel is located at the bottom of the application and has a table view with the following columns:

• Offset – defines the time offset from the item start/end (depending on the value defined in the "From" field);

 Specify the offset value to be able to edit the "Device" and "Command" fields.

• From – defines whether offset is calculated from the beginning or from the end of the current item; • Absolute – defines the time when the event will be sent to the device (is set automatically depending on the offset value and iten start time);

 The "Absolute" value is not editable.

• Name – defines the name of the secondary event; • Description – specifies the event description; • Device – defines the device that will receive the event; • Command – defines the command; • Option1…3 – defines the command options; • ID – defines the secondary event ID which is logged into the as-run log for every event raised.

Setting Offset

There are two ways to set the offset:

• You can enter it manually into the offset field (in hours:minutes:seconds:frames). The offset value can be positive or negative value. • It can be calculated automatically. To do this, select the "Find the event offset…" context menu command.

Page 96 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The "Cinegy clip viewer" window appears:

Find the desired frame and press the arrow button. The offset will be automatically calculated and recorded into the offset field of the secondary events table. To cancel the operation, hit the Esc key.

A secondary event with incorrectly specified offset time will not be fired. In this case, proper color indication is used for convenience. A secondary event will not be fired if positive offset time reaches the next playlist item. In this case, the "Absolute" field will be highlighted in red.

Please note, a secondary event may also fail to fire at the end of the item with zero offset; similar color  indication will be used in this case. It is recommended to fire the event at least several frames before the item end.

Page 97 | Document version: 6ae6f26 If a negative value is used for offset time and it is out of the previous item boundaries (for example, the timecode value is before the previous item Start), the time in the "Absolute" field will be displayed in red and the event will not be fired.

 In control mode, the "Offset" and "Absolute" values are read-only for the items being played back.

Favorites

An event can be added to "Favorites" list. This functionality allows to create the list of frequently used events (e.g. logotypes, branded CG templates, etc.) and apply them easily when necessary.

There are two Favorite events collections: “Common Favorites” and “Channel Favorites”. The "Common Favorites" are accessible in both playlist editor and multi-channel modes. Favorite events from “Channel Favorites” collection are accessible in their corresponding channel.

Common Favorites

To add an event to the "Common Favorites" list in the playlist editor mode, select it in the secondary events panel and use the "Add to the Favorites…" command the from the right-click menu. The following dialog appears:

Page 98 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Specify a more meaningful name of the Favorite event or leave the default one. You can add an event to the root of Favorites, or organize it into a separate group. To create a new group of events, press the "New Group" button:

Enter the name of your custom group and specify the group where it will be located.

Having specified the name and the location of your Favorite event, press "OK". The event with its parameters will be added to the list of "Common Favorites" events.

To edit and organize your saved Favorite events, use the "Edit Favorites…" context menu command. The following window will appear in the playlist editor mode:

In this editor, you can edit and delete events as well as add new groups and events.

To add a new group here, select the new group location folder, press the "New Group" button and enter the group name.

You can organize elements by selecting them and dragging-and-dropping them to the desired position or folder.

To add a new Favorite event, press the "New Item…" button and manually fill in all necessary fields for the secondary event in the following form:

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Having made all necessary changes, press "OK" to close the editor window and apply the changes.

 Favorite events created in the playlist editor mode will be available in multichannel mode.

Page 100 | Document version: 6ae6f26 To insert a stored Favorite event into the events table, simply select the event you need from the right-click menu "Insert from the Favorites". The event will be added to the events table.

 The "Insert All" command is available within a group of Favorite events to insert all group items at once.

Secondary events can be also applied via the "Add events from Favorites" command from playlist item right-click menu. This allows applying secondary events to multiple selected playlist items.

Several secondary events can be selected and applied to the item. To do this, choose the desired secondary events holding the Shift key and use the "Copy" context menu command. Navigate to the required playlist item and use the "Paste" command available from the context menu. This allows several secondary events to be applied for a single playlist item.

Channel Favorites

In the multi-channel mode the channel Favorites are accessible.

The events added to this collection will be available only for the channel where they were created.

 The events added to the common Favorites in multi-channel mode will be available for all channels.

The process of Favorite events managing is identical for playlist editor and multi-channel modes.

Page 101 | Document version: 6ae6f26 To add a stored Favorite event to the events table, select the event you need from the corresponding "Insert from common Favorites" or "Insert from channel Favorites" right-click menu. The event will be added to the events table.

Also you can add secondary event to the playlist item(s) via the corresponding "Add events from common Favorites" or "Add events from channel Favorites" command from the playlist item right-click menu:

Predefined Commands

The following group of context menu commands of the secondary events panel allows you to add and set up the secondary events parameters:

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Cinegy Air allows you to add a logotype to one or several channels simultaneously, i.e. HD and UHD playouts may have their own logos. It can be done via the "Cinegy Basic Overlay Editor" as it is described below.

Show

Use the "Basic Overlay" > "Show…" command to show a logotype on the screen over the top of the currently broadcast item content. When you select the "Show…" command, the "Cinegy Basic Overlay Editor" dialog appears:

This dialog consists of two parts: "Edit Basic Overlay", where you can define the logo settings, and "Preview", where you can preview the selected logotype.

The "TV Format" list contains all video formats supported by the Cinegy system.

 You can assign the different logos for each TV format separately.

Page 103 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Use the "Align" pull-down list to specify the logo location on the screen.

If you need to use video instead of a static image as your logotype, you can define whether it will be played back in loop or not. To do it, click the cell of the corresponding TV format in the "Loop" column and tick off or remove the selection of the checkbox.

 By default, the loop playback is enabled.

To specify the fade-in time of the logotype on the screen, set the time value in the "Fade" column by pressing the up/down arrow button or entering the desired value via the keyboard. The fade must be between 0.0 and 10.0 sec.

Click the cell of the corresponding TV format in the "File" column and press the "…" button to browse the folder where graphic files (with any of the following extensions: *.tga; *.bmp; *.tif; *.jpg; *.png; *.gif; *.psd) or video files (in any media file format supported by Cinegy) are stored.

Having selected the file for the logo and specified its parameters, press the "OK" button to apply the settings. The "Show" command will be added to the command table.

To change the parameters for the selected channel logotype, you can also use the "Properties…" command from the right- click menu.

An example with the Cinegy logo imprinted in the upper right corner is shown below.

Hide

To hide the logo, use the "Basic Overlay" > "Hide" command from the context menu. The corresponding command will be added to the secondary events panel.

Cinegy Titler

Cinegy Titler is a new software option for channel branding and live graphics. It is hardware independent and can run even in any virtual environment with no physical video board.

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Use this command to add the CG templates, previously created via the Cinegy Titler application.

 Refer to the Creating a New Titler Scene article within the Cinegy Titler Manual for detailed information on how to create CG templates.

Select the layer for the CG scene. The "Logo" layer is a topmost layer; all other layers are displayed in a numerical order.

The "CG Browser" dialog will appear:

Page 105 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Refer to the Cinegy Air Configurator article to learn how to select the corresponding playout mode and set up the Cinegy Titler repository directory.

In the "Information" group, the basic CG template data, such as its name, duration and TV format are displayed. The number of missing media files (if any) is displayed in the "Missing Media" string.

The "Override CG Root with CG Repository folder" option is used for previewing templates with embedded media items that were moved between locations.

 For detailed information about CG repository, refer to the Cinegy CG Root Folder paragraph in the Cinegy Playout Manual.

In the "Repository" field, you will see the list of available CG templates of the corresponding TV format. Choose the CG template you want to add; its preview will be displayed in the "Preview" window. You can view any frame of the template by dragging the time slider or using the playback buttons.

The "arrow" buttons jump to the first and last frame respectively.

Page 106 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The "Play/Pause" button toggles playback mode.

The "Template parameters" table shows the CG template variables. You can edit the value of each variable by double-clicking in the "Value" field.

If you want to save a template with new parameters as a separate template, press the "Save as new template" button and specify the location for the new template.

Having set up all the necessary parameters, press "OK".

Exit Loop

The "Exit Loop" command is used to trigger the CG scene to leave the loop and play to its end.

Hide

Use this command to stop the specified CG scene layer display.

Page 107 | Document version: 6ae6f26 When adding an item or loading a playlist that contains a Cinegy Titler template missing in its configured repository, the following notification will be displayed:

Press the "Ignore All" button to disable error messages about missing Cinegy Titler templates during the current insertion operation.

Cinegy Type

The Cinegy Type secondary events configuration procedure is similar to that of Cinegy Titler.

 Please note that Cinegy Type engine is now considered in legacy support.

Cinegy Capture

The Cinegy Capture secondary event is used to control recording tasks.

 Please note that for recording tasks to be carried out, Cinegy Capture Engine service should be configured and started. Also Engine templates should be created for this Cinegy Capture Engine.

 Refer to the Cinegy Capture documentation for detailed description of setup and work with Cinegy Capture modules.

The Cinegy Capture secondary event can be used to record the broadcast. For this, Cinegy Air output should be set up and Cinegy Capture service should be configured to receive this as an incoming stream. Then, using the secondary commands described below, you can control the recording session.

Start Recording

This command is used to start the recording session. Having selected this command, you will see the following dialog:

Page 108 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Here define the server name where the Cinegy Capture Engine is launched, and specify the Engine service number that will be used for stream recording. After that press the "Validate and get templates" button:

If connection with Cinegy Capture Engine is successfully validated (status changes to "Ready"), the list of templates becomes available. Select the corresponding template and press "Ok" to finish the secondary event creation.

Stop Recording

To stop the Cinegy Capture recording job, use the "Stop Recording…" command. The following dialog appears:

Page 109 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Specify the server name and Cinegy Capture Engine service number, then press the "Validate" button to establish connection. When connection is successfully validated, press "Ok" button to finish creating the secondary event.

Split Clip

The "Split Clip…" command is used to force a new clip creation during the recording session at a time defined as a secondary event start.

Having selected this command, you will see the following dialog:

Specify the server name and Cinegy Capture Engine service number, then press the "Validate" button to establish connection. When connection is successfully validated, press "Ok" button to finish creating the secondary event.

Audio Ducking

Use this command to enable/disable audio ducking (playback of audio file with defined volume level reduction of all other audio channels) as a secondary event.

First you need to specify the audio matrix source file that defines the ducking matrix to apply. This can be done via the Cinegy Air Configurator.

The "Audio Ducking" option is available only if a valid path for audio matrix presets is defined in Cinegy Air  Configurator. Please, refer to the Cinegy Air Configurator article to learn how to define the audio matrix presets location.

Page 110 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The ducking matrices can be configured by editing the source XML file according to your needs.

 Refer to the Audio Profile Editor to get more information on creating and editing audio profiles.

After specifying the audio matrix file the "Ducking" command will be available for adding as a secondary event. Select the "Audio Ducking" > "Start Time…" context menu command:

A common "Open" dialog appears:

Here select a secondary audio file to be used for ducking, a required ducking preset from the corresponding pull-down list and press the "Open" button.

Page 111 | Document version: 6ae6f26  The automatic half a second fade in and fade out of the main program audio are added before and after the ducking event correspondingly.

The corresponding SHOW command will be added for the *AUDIO device on the secondary events panel.

To turn ducking off, use the "Audio Ducking" > "Stop" context menu command.

Event Service

The secondary events syntax is described in detail in the Secondary Events Syntax article within the Cinegy Event Manager Manual.

HTTP Calls

Cinegy Air can natively generate HTTP calls to control other Cinegy Air instances, or any 3rd party devices supporting REST protocol.

 Please note: sending HTTP command is supported by Cinegy Playout and does not require Cinegy Event Service.

The syntax is as follows:

Device: *HTTP

Command: request method (GET/POST)

Op1: URL

Op2: request body (for POST)

Op3: optional HTTP headers, separated by /r/n. The last header should not have /r/n.

 Refer to the HTTP API documentation of the Cinegy products for details.

1.10. Playlist Editor Mode

Interface

The main window is divided into three parts:

• the playlist panel (at the top); • the selected items editor panel (in the middle); • the secondary events panel (at the bottom).

Page 112 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The main window may also contain the "Cinegy Browser", "Cinegy Search" and "File Browser" tabs (on the left) if they are enabled via "View" main menu command.

Playlist Caption

The caption of the Cinegy Air window in playlist editor mode displays the Cinegy Air version and the name of the currently open playlist. The following illustration displays the Cinegy Air PRO version:

 If a playlist contains any unsaved changes, its name in the caption will be marked with an asterisk.

Playlist Panel

The playlist panel is always available. Playlists are represented in the form of a table. Each row contains detailed information about each Cinegy Air playlist item. The playlist panel view can be adjusted to show only the columns that you wish to see.

 Refer to the Playlist Table Customization article for more information on working with playlist table.

Item Editor Panel

The buttons located on this panel allow you to view and edit the selected Cinegy Air playlist items, add blocks and items (LIVE, DUMMY, NOTE, etc.), easily navigate through the list, remove or skip items, control start time and duration, and set the

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This panel can be toggled using the "Item Editor" command from the "View" main menu:

Secondary Events

The "Secondary Events" command shows/hides the secondary events grid. The secondary events table provides an interface for managing events from external devices for the selected item.

Working in Playlist Editor Mode

Playlist Editor mode allows to create playlists to be further used in active modes.

A playlist is a kind of vertical cascaded timeline divided into separate programs. Each program contains from one to several blocks which are logical groupings of Cinegy Air playlist items.

When you launch Cinegy Air in playlist editor mode, a new program containing an empty block appears in the playlist by default:

Every program displays the broadcasting date information depending on the start time and duration values of all the previous items.

Creating a New Playlist

Select the "New…" command from the "File" main menu to create a new playlist or press the Ctrl+N keyboard shortcut assigned by default:

Page 114 | Document version: 6ae6f26 You will be prompted to save the current playlist (if there are any unsaved changes) before creating a playlist.

The following dialog box appears, allowing you to define the new playlist parameters:

Select the appropriate settings for the video system and the aspect ratio and then press "OK". The newly created playlist appears as a program that consists only of one block containing an item named by default. This item is displayed in red and has zero duration:

Saving Playlist

To save the current playlist, choose the "Save" command from the "File" main menu or press the Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut assigned by default:

The common "Save as…" dialog box appears. Navigate to the desired location and enter a playlist name. The file will be saved as an "MCRlist" file.

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To save the playlist with a different name or in a different location, use the "Save as…" command.

Export Opt-Out Playlist

The playlist containing opt-out blocks can be exported for opt-out servers. For this use the "Export opt-out playlist…" command from the "File" main menu:

The common "Save as" dialog will appear where you can specify the opt-out playlist name.

In the exported playlist, opt-out blocks are cleared and marked as empty. All items outside opt-out blocks are replaced with live items (one per block), preserving their duration.

Opening Playlist

To open an existing playlist, use the "Open…" command from the "File" main menu or press the Ctrl+O keyboard shortcut assigned by default:

Navigate to the playlist file location. Select the "*.MCRlist" file and press "Open". All items saved on the playlist will appear in the playlist panel.

 You will be prompted to save the current playlist before opening a new one.

Opening Recent

To open a recently used playlist, use the "Open recent" command from the "File" main menu:

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Starting the Application

Security Protection

Before working with Cinegy Air, you can define the startup protection parameters and assign the users with the privileges to log in to the application.

 Refer to the Security paragraph to learn how to activate the security protection.

When launching Cinegy Air with the security protection activated, the interface will be locked, all the controls will be inactive. To activate the interface, choose the "Unlock Cinegy Air…" command from the "Playout" main menu. You will be asked to authorize the application:

Here enter the user name and password and press "OK".

In the case when the entered user name and/or password is invalid, the login fails and the following error message appears:

The interface can be deactivated by selecting the "Lock air control…" command from the "Playout" main menu.

Page 117 | Document version: 6ae6f26 If for some reason the specified via channel configuration *.MCRActive playlist becomes invalid, the given playlist will be restored from backup when launching Cinegy Air Control application. The corresponding error message occurs:

 The backup file will not contain the last change applied to the playlist.

Multiple Clients Connectivity

Having launched Cinegy Air with multiple channels configured, select the channels you wish to control by checking the corresponding options:

Only the selected channels are loaded to the control application. Selecting the channels enables running multiple Cinegy Air PRO applications on a single machine simultaneously, thus allowing one operator to work with multiple channels and playlists independently with no need to switch between them. Choose "Select all" option to load all the configured channels.

Interface

The control mode interface is made up of six panels:

• on-air control panel; • playout control panel; • channels control panel; • playlist; • timeline; • item editor panel;

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The Control Mode Interface Sample

It is also possible to enable Cinegy Browser, Cinegy Search and/or File Browser plug-ins for the convenient playlist preparation and searching required media files. Enable the necessary plug-in via the "View" main menu.

The panels can be shown or hidden according to your needs. Select or deselect the corresponding panel in the "View" main menu.

Page 119 | Document version: 6ae6f26 For example, if only on-air control and playlist panels are needed, the window will look as follows:

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The Cinegy Air window caption displays the version number, the currently open playlist name, and the playout server.

Main Menu

The main application menu provides access to the commands for working with a playlist and its items. In control mode it looks as follows:

 The "Playout" menu is not available in playlist editor mode.

On-Air Control Panel

Here you will find the countdown and clock displays of the current on-air item, as well as the system time and buttons that control playback.

Playout Control Panel

The playout control panel is only available in control mode. There are two control monitors. The first monitor (on the left) shows the item that is currently being broadcast. The second monitor (on the right) shows the first frame of the next cued item that will be broadcast next.

It is possible to swap the position of the control monitors. To do this, open the Cinegy Air configurator and select the "Swap control monitors" checkbox:

To show or hide (toggle) the playout control panel, use the default Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut or use the "View" main menu > "Playout control panel".

Page 121 | Document version: 6ae6f26 It is possible to reassign the default shortcut used to show/hide the playout control panel and to add a new  combination(s) via the keyboard customizer. Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

Channels Control Panel

Each channel is represented by a separate tab on the playlist panel. When the tab is activated, the corresponding channel playlist will be displayed:

Switching Between the Channels

To navigate between different channels, click the desired channel tab in the playlist panel or select a channel from the list on the timeline. Selecting any playlist item from the channel automatically switches to the corresponding channel tab and highlights the selected item in the channel palylist. The broadcasting control is switched over to the selected channel.

Channels Preview

Cinegy Air PRO has the optional panel for the multi channel playout preview displaying the outputs from all the configured channels. To open it, select the "Monitor Panel" option in the "View" main menu.

Page 122 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The monitor panel shows the following information about each channel:

• channel name with the channel status indication; • video preview; • audio indicators; • VANC data; • on-air item name.

The active channel preview window is highlighted with the red border. To quickly switch between channels, simply click the desired channel preview window. The broadcasting control will be switched over to the corresponding channel.

VANC Data Display

 If a media file contains VANC (Vertical Ancillary Data Space) data, it will be displayed on the playout control panel on the corresponding control monitor.

The following VANC information is available in Cinegy Air:

• CC (Closed Captions) – indicates if closed captions are present in the current media file. • AFD (Active Format Description) – displays the active picture aspect ratio. • PR (Parental Rating) – displays the TV parental guidelines rating of the current media content.

AFD Data

The following table shows the AFD codes for different aspect ratios of the active image:

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4:3 1001

16:9 output 14:9 1011 16:9 1000 otherwise 1000 4:3 1000

4:3 output 14:9 1011 16:9 1010 otherwise 1000

Playlist Panel

The playlist in control mode is similar to the playlist in playlist editor mode. All columns are available to you and can be managed using the "Customize" column management tool. All items in the playlist have a background color that changes depending on the item status.

 Refer to the Playlist Table Customization article for full details on all available columns and their management.

 Refer to the Item Status, Coloring and Font paragraph for details about playlist coloring.

Timeline

The timeline panel represents an interactive list of all the available channels. The playlist for each channel is shown as a horizontal timeline. The current playout position is marked with a red triangle

 Refer to the Timeline article for more details.

Item Editor Panel

Page 124 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The item editor panel is used to edit individual items, add items, new blocks and new programs to the playlist and navigate through the playlist. The preview window is located on the left of this panel. It shows the first frame of the selected item.

To show or hide (toggle) the item editor panel, use the Ctrl+E keyboard shortcut set by default or use the main menu "View" > "Item Editor" command.

It is possible to reassign the default shortcut used to show/hide the item editor panel and to add a new  combination(s) via the keyboard customizer. Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

Secondary Events Panel

This panel provides an interface to manage secondary events from external devices for the selected item.

The secondary events panel can be hidden using the main menu "View" > "Item editing panel" > "Secondary events" command.

Connecting to Playout Server

Make sure that your playout server is correctly configured and the dongle (hardware or software) is installed. If Cinegy License Service or the dongle is not installed, your broadcasting session will not start.

 The dongle driver is installed automatically during the Cinegy License Service installation.

Start the Cinegy Air application in control mode. You need to establish connection to the playout server. To do this, activate the ON/OFF bar and press the "Connect" button.

If the connection is successful, all Cinegy Air functions are activated.

 Selecting the "Connect automatically" checkbox in the Cinegy Air configurator enables application to automatically connect to the playout server(s) on startup.

If the connection is successful, all Cinegy Air PRO control functions for the current channel are activated.

Releasing connection can also be performed individually for each channel.

If you wish to release the connection, simply press the "Connect" button one more time. The playlist coloring will be removed and all management buttons will be disabled.

When you try to establish connection with a Cinegy Playout instance that someone else has already been connected to, you will receive a notification:

Page 125 | Document version: 6ae6f26 In this window the information about current connection is provided. Press the "Yes" button to break the current connection and connect to the configured Cinegy Playout instance. Choose "No" to cancel your connection and reconfigure the engine.

 In order to prevent the time differences between the control and playout stations, all the Air clients take the current time from the playout server.

Loss of Server Connection

If Cinegy Air loses the connection to any connected playout server, the corresponding channel tab will blink with red color and the following informational window will be open:

Press the "OK" button to reconnect automatically once connection can be established or "Cancel" to manually connect using the "CONN" button.

Server Controls

If you are using master and slave servers, your playlist will be playing into two playout servers at the same time. Change the server priority (master/slave) from the "ON/OFF" menu.

The current servers statuses are shown on top of the playout control panel. The possible combinations of control monitors are shown below:

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In control mode you can do nearly all operations that you can do in playlist editor mode with the following difference: the item will be copied in case you wish to move passed, on-air or cued items.

 Refer to the articles from the Handling Items section for detailed descriptions of working with items.

The playlist items are played back one by one from the first clocked item on the schedule in accordance to the following item start time. If there is a gap between successive items, the last frame of the previous played item will be broadcast until the new item goes on-air.

The on-air item can be edited. Once the item currently being broadcast is opened in the Clip Viewer, it is possible to define the Out point or split this item at the selected position, with a 3-second safety margin. When the item is split, the remaining part is placed as a separate item in the playlist right beneath the on-air item and automatically cued.

Item Status, Coloring and Font

All items in the playlist have a background color. The color changes according to the item status. The coloring and styles of the playlist entry can also be changed according to playlist programming.

Status

The column displays the possible status values of an item. In playlist editor mode they are:

the item is ready for playout

the item is skipped

live item

dummy item

the item is empty

the In-Out range of the clip is greater than the In-Out range of the source file

In control mode possible status values of an item are as follows:

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the item is on-air

the item is ready for playout

the item is skipped

live item

the item is cued

dummy item

the item is empty

the In-Out range of the item is greater than the In-Out range of the source file; the item media is unavailable

Coloring

 To disable the use of italic fonts in the playlist‘s editable fields, deselect the "Use italic font for the editable fields" option in the "Preferences" window. Refer to the Preferences article for details.

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The media included into the playlist is automatically processed by the Air control application to verify its availability as well as indicate any modifications that have been applied to it.

If the media of a particular playlist item is unavailable or cannot be located, the corresponding item is displayed in red coloring:

As soon as the media becomes available the item coloring changes to default.

 The playlist item inserted from the Cinegy Archive database and having multiple levels of quality is analyzed only to detect the availability of the highest quality.

The item modification is checked within two different scenarios.

In the first scenario the media of the item added to the playlist directly from the local storage is analyzed. Once any update has been applied to the media since its adding to the playlist and its modification date is newer, the playlist item will be displayed in blue coloring:

To update the item use the "Update selected" command form the selected item menu.

 Please note that in the described above case the original playlist item duration is not updated.

The second scenario is related to the items inserted from the Cinegy Archive database. These items can be updated using the "Update selected" command from the selected item menu; MCRItems duration is updated as well.

 Multiple items can be updated at one time.

 Only the modified MCRItems can be updated. Refer to the Integration with Cinegy Desktop section to get more information on MCRitems.

 If any proxying has been generated for the modified item it will rerun automatically.

Proxied Items

 Items proxying is not supported in Cinegy Air SOLO.

With the item proxying feature configured in Cinegy Playout, every item will be proxied in the background process. The items proxy status is shown in % in the "Proxy" playlist column:

Page 129 | Document version: 6ae6f26  The proxy value for the on-air item only shows a rate of proxying for the material yet to be played back without regard to the part that has already been played back.

In order to use the item proxying during the ingest, the duration for the item being ingested should be set precisely. If the number of frames is unknown, 0 frames should be defined (e.g. 01:40:35:00).

For the items to be successfully proxied, the ingest progress for the current item should be at least 3%; for  short items this value should be not less than 1.5%. Then the proxying of the item inserted into the playlist should reach 10% rate and then it will be ready to be sent on-air.

Coloring

Different proxying stages are shown with different colors:

The proxy status of the item currently being proxied is shown in blue.

The proxy status of the item not being proxied at the moment is shown in black.

The proxy status of the item currently being uploaded from the proxy server is shown in grey.

The red background of the proxy status indicates the item source unavailability or failure when reading the item. When this occurs with the on-air item, the progress of proxying is counted backwards and proxied media is played back directly from the proxy folder. The yellow background indicates that the whole item or some part of the item was proxied with autodegradation (in lower quality).

 Quality degradation should be enabled on the "Proxy" tab of the Cinegy Playout Configurator. Refer to the Proxy article in the Cinegy Playout Manual for detailed description of proxy setup.

The proxy creation progress of each item is also shown on the timeline in the form of a light blue progress bar:

Drop Proxy

The "Drop proxy" option allows to rerun proxying of the defined item in the playlist. This command is available from the item context menu or via the "Drop proxy" command from the "Item" main menu:

Page 130 | Document version: 6ae6f26 This function can be used for items proxied with autodegradation while the high quality proxy files are needed; or when a problem during item proxying has occurred. All created proxy chunks are deleted and new item proxying starts.

Items Fade IN/Out

It is possible to fade in and fade out the playlist items. The fade in and fade out behavior is adjusted by defining the corresponding number of frames for the image transition to or from black. Fading is also applied for audio within the item. To configure the fade in/out effect, select the required item and choose the "Item fades…" command available from the item context menu or via the "Fades.." command from the "Item" main menu:

Page 131 | Document version: 6ae6f26 In the opened dialog specify the frame number you want to item transition start by selecting the "Fade in" option and entering the desired number of frames in the corresponding field:

Select the "Fade out" option and enter the frame number for the item to fade out from black.

The fade in and fade out effects are visualized as a shaded gray triangles in the "Start" and "End" columns of the playlist panel:

For Clip3 only fade in effect is applied

To disable the effect choose the corresponding item and deselect the "Fade in" and "Fade out" options and then click "Ok".

Playlist Control

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You can delete as many expired items as needed by using the "Delete to top" option from the right-click menu or "Edit" main menu. All the items, from the selected expired item through to the top of the list, will be deleted.

Using the "Preferences…" option from the context menu or "Edit" main menu you can set the number of expired items, which will be represented in the playlist before automatic deletion of any expired item.

Delete to Bottom of List

To delete all non-expired items from the selected one (inclusively) to the bottom of the playlist, use the "Delete to bottom " command from the context menu or "Edit" main menu.

Navigation

Find On-Air

Pressing this button brings the on-air item to the middle of the visible playlist window. This is especially useful when you are editing a far point in the list and want to quickly go back to the active on-air item. Pressing this button highlights the item in the playlist and its current playback marker is automatically focused in the center of the timeline. The "ON AIR" button caption is displayed in red.

 This function does not affect playout; it simply navigates through the playlist and the timeline.

The "Find on-air" command is also available from the "Edit" main menu.

Find Cued

Pressing this button highlights the cued item in the playlist and moves the cursor into its position. This function does not affect playout; it simply navigates through the playlist.

The "Find cued" command is also available from the "Edit" main menu.

Find Selected

Pressing this button highlights the selected item in the playlist and moves the cursor into its position.

 This function does not affect playout; it simply navigates through the playlist.

End of Automation

This menu allows the operator to find the next manual triggered item in the playlist and jump into its position (this command does not affect skipped items). It shows the time left before the end of the automation and the event type (if there are any manual end items left in the current playlist).

Page 133 | Document version: 6ae6f26 If there are no more manual triggered items, it shows just the time left to the first gap (if any) or playlist end. In this case, the event shows the empty status icon.

Next Command

This menu allows the operator to find the next item with set-point secondary events and jump into its position. It shows the time left until the secondary event will be sent to the device. You can cancel the specified event transmission by pressing the "Skip" button.

The "Next command" operation does not affect skipped items. If there are no items in the playlist with set secondary event(s), this menu is not available and is not highlighted.

On-Air Play Management Buttons

CG Off

All graphics used in the current playlist, can be switched off with a single button. As a result, they will not be shown on playout. To turn off all graphics, use the "CG Off" button. To enable showing graphics on playout, press this button one more time.

Bypass

The "Bypass" button immediately switches the defined input device to the pass-through mode. The video signal goes from the input device to the output device without any affect on Cinegy Air. At the same time, Cinegy Air continues its work as before: the items keep proxying, the countdown timer goes on counting the time to start, the secondary events are sent normally and the playlist keeps playing in accordance with the current time. To leave this mode, just press the "Bypass" button once more and Cinegy Air will broadcast from the playlist according to the time-schedule.

 Refer to the Configuration section for details about the playout device configuration.

Black

The playout server displays a black screen in this mode. The playlist will be moved on automatically in accordance with the current time and secondary events will continue to be sent. Press the "Black" button once more and Cinegy Air will broadcast from the playlist according to the time-schedule.

Go On

Page 134 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Stops the current manual end item playback. This button becomes active when the scheduled time of manual end item playback is over. This item continues its playback until the "Go on" button is pressed.

Cue Management Buttons

Start Cued

This command immediately starts playing the cued item even if the previous on-air item has not finished playing yet. The keyboard shortcut set by default is Ctrl+S. This command is also available from the "Playout" main menu.

Cue Next

Pressing this button skips the currently cued item and cues the next one.

Cue Selection

The "CUE SEL" button marks the selected item in the playlist as cued. This command is also available from the "Playout" main menu. To cue the selected item, use the Ctrl+Q keyboard shortcut set by default.

It is possible to reassign the default shortcut for the "Start cued" and "Cue selected" operations and add  new combinations via the keyboard customizer. Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

Timeline

The timeline is located under the playlist panel.

Background coloring of items on the timeline is identical to the items’ coloring in the playlist.

 Refer to the Item Status, Coloring and Font paragraph to learn more about status coloring.

A light lilac progress bar shows the proxying progress for each item in real-time on the timeline.

The current playback position is marked with a vertical red arrow.

The manual end, clocked and join-in-progress triggers icons are displayed on the timeline according to the specified item play modes in the playlist. The follow items are shown without an icon:

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The status indicator next to the channel name on the timeline changes its color depending on the channel status.

When connected, the channel is marked with a green indicator.

When disconnected, the channel is marked with a dark green indicator.

If there are problems with proxying, the channel is marked with a red indicator. A red blinking indicator warns the operator when problems with the connected channel occur (for example, lost connection). A yellow blinking indicator warns the operator when playlist has an item with manual end trigger and the playback progress of such item approaches the scheduled manual item end. Also if there is an empty placeholder in the nearest 6 hours, the yellow indicator will blink.

Timeline Options

To enable the display of clip thumbnails, select the "Timeline options" > "Show thumbnails" option in the "View" main menu. To hide clip thumbnails, deselect this option.

Select the "Show Events" option in the same menu to enable/disable the display of secondary events available in the current program.

You can change the detail level to program, block or item from the context menu:

Page 136 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The names of the playlist components (program, block or item) and their duration is displayed in the timeline according to the selected detail level:

Timeline Scale

The timeline slider is shown with a vertical red arrow, located on the time scale. It displays the current playout position and moves synchronously with broadcasting.

Secondary Events Markers

Secondary events configured for the playlist items are indicated with the red marker on the timeline. Hovering the mouse pointer over the secondary event marker displays a tooltip with its name:

Negative Variance Markers

Items with negative variance are highlighted with a red stripe on the right side of the item rectangle:

Failed Item Proxying Marker

When the item has failed to proxy, it is displayed with red stripes overlay on the timeline:

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Selecting the "Item" option from the Timeline options "Detail level" context menu indicates the live playlist items. The live items are displayed with a camera icon added to the item start and followed by the item thumbnail:

Navigation

You can navigate within the playlist directly from the timeline. Clicking the item on the timeline highlights it in the playlist and moves the cursor into its position. Clicking the item in the playlist automatically highlights it in the middle of the timeline:

 When the the "Program" or "Block" options are selected from the "Detail level" context menu, the navigation within the playlist and the timeline is enabled on the corresponding playlist component level.

Pressing the "On-air" button brings the on-air playlist item to the middle of the timeline. The timeline scrolls automatically so that the on-air playlist item’s playback marker is always placed in the timeline center.

All actions involving items performed in the playlist (such as jump, start cued, start manual end item) are also displayed on the timeline simultaneously.

Audio Controls

Audio VU Meters

There are four pairs of stereo audio indicators displayed between control monitors on the playout control panel. VU meters are intended to help program producers maintain consistent volume levels across all the items in the playlist. Each indicator controls a definite audio channel.

The scales have the following areas for the instant level display (the values here are in the user scale):

• Green (below 0 dB) • Yellow (0 to 4 dB)

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At the top of the scale is an additional color indicator. It shows the integrated status of the signal (during approximately the last 1.5 seconds). The following states are indicated (note, the value here is absolute, in dBFS, or dB Full Scale):

• Black digital silence (below -120 dBFS) • Green signal (below -6 dBFS) • Red signal (above -6 dBFS)

The zero level of the VU meter is adjustable to the requirements of your organization.

 Use Ctrl+M shortcut to mute audio preview when viewing material in Cinegy Air. This will not affect audio on air.

Adjusting the Zero dB Level

Use the Cinegy Air Configurator to set up the zero dB level for the VU meter. Open it and set up audio VU meter zero (dB) parameter:

The value indicates the distance in dB between the maximum digital level and the zero of the VU meter. Note that the zero level value should be set up within the bounds of -20 and 0; otherwise you will not be able to apply your settings as the "OK" button in Cinegy Air Configurator will be grayed out.

Volume Control

The volume control slider is located to the right of the audio VU meter. It allows you to change the volume level for the on-air item by moving the slider with the mouse. This control can be disabled by selecting the "Preserve original audio" option in Cinegy Air PRO configurator. The volume can also be adjusted via the corresponding commands in the "Playout" main menu. It is possible to assign the custom shortcuts for these commands to make volume adjustment faster.

 To mute, move the volume control slider to the bottom.

 Refer to the Keyboard article for more information about the keyboard customization.

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The on-air item can contain up to four stereo audio pairs. To select what audio channel will be played in the channel preview, select the desired channel from the "Audio preview" drop-down menu in the "Playout" main menu:

To switch off the audio preview, select the "Mute" command or use the Ctrl+M keyboard shortcut.

 This command mutes audio only in preview and does not affect audio on the playout.

Time Controls

The on-air control panel has a variety of countdown and clock displays:

Countdown

This panel displays the countdown for an on-air item.

When the item is completely played, it displays the time of pause in gray until the next item starts. In disconnected state it still displays the projected countdown.

On-Air Item Time

This is the count-up field which shows how long the item has been broadcast on-air. The on-air progress bar is at the bottom.

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To switch the "On Air Item Time" field to display the current timecode of the item being broadcast on-air, use the "On Air" counter command from the "View" main menu:

Once the "Timecode" option is selected, the count-up field will show the timecode of the on-air item:

Cued Item Start

This panel displays the actual start time of the cued item.

System Clock

The system clock is displayed in the right upper corner of the time control panel. The present date and current time in a 24- hour format are represented on the system clock indicator.

Page 141 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Please note that the clock is set to display time defined via channels configuration

Channel Preview

Cinegy Air has the optional panel for the multi channel playout preview displaying the outputs from all the configured channels. To open it, select the "Monitor Panel" option in the "View" main menu.

In single channel control mode this panel will display only one channel.

 Refer to the Channels Preview paragraph for detailed information about the multi channel playout preview panel.

1.12. Regional Variations

Automatic Opt-Out

Cinegy Air Control application allows to broadcast regional variations apart from the main programming channel, thus providing programming specific for a particular region. A common example of using regional variations is local news or advertisements.

Regional variations broadcast can be achieved using the automatic opt-out and multichannel variation.

Automatic Opt-Out

Configuration of this workflow should be done on both main and regional channels sides.

Main Channel Configuration

To configure the opt-out workflow on the main channel side, follow the steps:

Page 142 | Document version: 6ae6f26 1. Create a playlist; add content to be broadcast as an RTP or UDP stream to the regional channel. 2. Set the "Automatic opt-out" block type for that content and define its "Avail Id":

3. The playlist containing opt-out blocks can be exported for further use in regional channels. To do this, use the "Export opt-out playlist…" command from the "File" main menu.

 In the exported playlist, opt-out blocks are cleared and marked as empty; "Avail Id" is preserved. All items outside opt-out blocks are replaced with live items (one per block), preserving their duration.

4. Configure the RTP/UDP output for Cinegy Playout instance to be used for playlist broadcasting from the main channel. In the "RTP/UDP output transport settings" dialog, make sure to select the "SCTE35 cueing messages stream PID" option and define the PID value to enable SCTE35 messaging:

Automatic opt-out workflow can be also built using SDI signal. SCTE104 messages are embedded in VANC at line 11 in the SDI output signal. The line number parameter is hidden in the configuration and can be changed directly in the instance configuration file. Insertion of SCTE104 can be disabled by setting the line number parameter to 0. Decoding of the SCTE104 messages is not currently supported.

 SCTE104 message embedding is not supported for UHD/8K formats.

Regional Channel Configuration

To configure the workflow on the regional channel side, follow the steps below:

1. Create a playlist that will use content from the main channel, set the same "Avail Id" for automatic opt-out blocks.

Page 143 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Alternatively, you can use the playlist template generated on the main channel as it described in point 3. Fill in the opt-out blocks with regional content.

2. For the Cinegy Playout instance that will receive the RTP stream from the main channel, define the settings of RTP input and listening for the SCTE35 cueing stream:

The "Enable RTP/UDP input" option activates automatic use of IP signal as the live feed for an RTP/UDP live item playout of content received from the main channel. The source URL defined here will be used as default RTP/UDP input for Live items in the playlist if "RTP/UDP Live Source" is not configured in the Live item parameters in Cinegy Air.

The "Listen for SCTE35 cueing stream" option should be selected to enable listening for SCTE 35 packets; the RTP/UDP URL should be specified in the "Source url" field.

 Refer to the RTP Input article in the Cinegy Playout Manual for detailed information on RTP input setup.

Multichannel Variation

Multichannel Variation

Multichannel variation blocks are used in the workflow when several channels are configured to follow the same playlist, but each channel should have its own window when it plays region-specific content like local news or commercials.

To configure this workflow, follow the steps:

Page 144 | Document version: 6ae6f26 1. In the Cinegy Air Configurator in multi channel control mode, define the same playlist for all channels. The "Shared playlist" option will become disabled for these channels.

2. In a Cinegy Air playlist, set the "Multichannel variation" type for the block that will have regional variation in content. Then fill the block with the corresponding items.

 When the block type is changed to "Multichannel variation", the first item in the block receives the "clocked" trigger.

1.13. Keyboard

For convenience in work with Cinegy Air according to your requirements, assign the shortcut keys using the "Keyboard…"

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The "Customize Keyboard" dialog appears:

Select the required command by navigating in the "Categories" and "Commands" fields. The selected command description is displayed in the "Description" field.

The categories list of the "Customize Keyboard" dialog differs depending on the application mode: the  categories supported in playlist editor mode only are not available in single/multi channel control mode and vice versa.

The "Current keys" field displays all the assigned shortcuts for the selected command, if any.

Page 146 | Document version: 6ae6f26 To delete an existing shortcut, select it from the list and press the "Remove" button.

To assign a new shortcut for the selected command, press the desired keys combination in the "Press new shortcut key" field and press the "Assign" button. If the specified shortcut is already enabled to any other command, the corresponding command name will appear in the "Currently assigned" field. Pressing the "Assign" button in this case enables the entered shortcut for the selected command anyway.

To reset all the changes, press the "Reset All…" button.

Press the "Close" button to confirm the changes and close the dialog box.

1.14. Audio Profile Editor

Audio Profile Editor is a separate application within the Cinegy Air installation that provides an easy, convenient and intuitive interface for creating and editing audio profiles. Audio mapping profiles, audio ducking profiles and AC-3 encoder profiles can be managed here.

Audio Profile Editor

The Audio Profile Editor window consists of two panels:

The left panel contains three groups of profiles:

• audio mapping profiles; • audio ducking profiles;

When expanding each group, the list of the corresponding profiles is displayed.

The right panel displays the details and commands for working with the selected profile.

To load a previously created profile in the XML format, press the "Load" button and browse for the required file using the common "Open" dialog.

Having finished working with the profiles, press the "Save" button to save the audio matrix presets in a separate XML file. The common "Save As" dialog will open asking you to specify the name and location of the XML file.

Page 147 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Press "OK" to save the changes and close the Audio Profile Editor window. If no changes should be applied, press the "Cancel" button.

In order for the custom profiles to be available during the Cinegy Air playlist composing, the saved audio matrix presets XML file should be specified in the Cinegy Air configurator.

 Refer to the Configuration section for more information about specifying audio matrix presets in the Cinegy Air configurator.

Audio Mapping Profiles

The profiles for mapping audio inputs to audio outputs are managed in the "Audio Mapping Profiles" paragraph of Audio Profile Editor.

Sample Profile

The sample audio mapping profile is included to give the starting point for creating a custom profile.

Choose the "Sample" subcategory in "Audio Mapping Profiles"; the right panel will display the details and default description of the selected profile:

To get familiar with the audio matrices, use the "Edit profile…" link. The "Matrix Editor" will open. It is described later in this article.

Creating a New Profile

To create a new audio mapping profile, select the title of the corresponding section and use the "Create new profile" link:

Page 148 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The default details of the newly created profile will be displayed on the right panel of the window:

You can specify the profile description entering the desired text in the "Description" field.

Audio Matrix Editor

Proceed with specifying the profile parameters and use the "Edit profile…" link. The following window will open:

Page 149 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The Matrix Editor provides a graphic interface for routing and mixing different input channels to different outputs. Each input can be routed to any combination of outputs. Several input channels can be connected to one output channel at the same time. In this case, the signals are mixed together.

To change the default profile name, enter a new one in the "Name" field.

Select the "Default" checkbox to make the profile being edited a default profile used for new items added to the Cinegy Air playlist. The default profile is displayed in bold in the corresponding profiles drop-down list in Audio Profile Editor.

The "Dimension" drop-down list allows you to choose the audio matrix grid size, i.e. a number of input and output channels.

By default each output channel is set to receive only the signal from the corresponding input channel.

To create a mix, use the corresponding adjustment controls. While keeping the left mouse button pressed over the control, move the mouse left or right; the current value is shown as a decimal below the adjustment knob. The minimum, maximum and middle values can be set simply by clicking on the desired value displayed around the adjustment knob. The exact value can also be entered in the field below.

The zero value means that the input channel is routed to the output channel without any additional mixes. The "-100" value disables the input channel from mixing and deactivates the control.

Having specified the necessary input-to-output relations, press "OK" to finish the profile creation.

To delete a profile, select it in the "Audio Mapping Profiles" list on the left panel and use the "Remove profile" link.

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The audio ducking profiles are necessary for using the audio ducking feature.

 Refer to the Audio Ducking paragraph for detailed information on audio ducking.

The process of creating and editing audio ducking profiles is similar to that for audio mapping profiles described in the previous paragraph.

The Matrix Editor for audio ducking profile is as follows:

The "Main Level" slider defines the audio attenuation level of the main signal (all channels) before merging it with the ducking signal.

The matrix specifies the mixing pattern of the ducking signal.

1.15. Cinegy Air File Extensions

Cinegy Air uses the following file extensions:

• *.MCRitem – an item file created from a Sequence or clip from a ClipBin, Cinegy Titler template from DocBin in Cinegy Desktop, or Roll via the "Send to inventory…" command. • *.MCRlist – a playlist file. This file is created when you are saving your playlist in playlist editor mode. • *.MCRActive – an active playlist file. The "*.MCRactive" file is a unique file. Once you add an item to the current on-air playlist in one of the control modes of the Cinegy Air control application, it will be automatically saved with the *.MCRActive extension in the folder specified via the Cinegy Air Configurator. When you launch Cinegy Air in one of the

Page 151 | Document version: 6ae6f26 control modes, the active playlist will be restored from the "*.MCRActive" file. • *.bak – automatically created backup of an active playlist file.

 The backup file does not contain the last change applied to the playlist.

1.16. Shortcuts

Playlist Navigation

Ctrl+A Select all playlist items Select multiple items in the playlist between the last selected item and the Shift+ click clicked one Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+↑ Move the item selection to the top of the playlist Ctrl+End or Ctrl+↓ Move the item selection to the bottom of the playlist Page Up Scroll the playlist one page up Page Down Scroll the playlist one page down Ctrl+P Show / Hide the playout control panel Ctrl+E Show / Hide the item editor panel Bring the on-air item to the middle of the visible playlist window (in control Ctrl+N mode) Tab or ↑ and ↓ Toggle between columns

Playlist Managing

Ctrl+N Create a new playlist (in playlist editor mode) Ctrl+O Open an existing playlist (in playlist editor mode) Ctrl+S Save the current playlist (in playlist editor mode) Ctrl+P Print the playlist (in playlist editor mode) Ctrl+C Copy the currently selected item(s) Ctrl+V Paste the copied item(s) Ctrl+X Cut the selected item(s) Delete Remove the currently selected item(s) Alt+BackSpace or Ctrl+Z Undo Ctrl+Y Redo Ctrl+F Find F3 Repeat the last find operation Shift+F Set the follow play mode to the selected item(s) Shift+M Set the manual play mode to the selected item(s) Shift+C Set the clocked play mode to the selected item(s) Shift+J Set the join-in-progress play mode to the selected item(s) Shift+L Add a live item

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Shift+D Add a dummy item ESC Cancel a current operation Ctrl+Q Cue the selected item Ctrl+S Start playing the cued item (in control mode) F2 Rename the currently selected item or note Alt+F4 Close the Cinegy Air application

Inventory Browser

Up Move the selection to the upper item in the explorer tree Down Move the selection to the lower item in the explorer tree BackSpace Navigate one level up from the currently selected item in the explorer tree Left or – Collapse the selected container item in the explorer tree Right or + Expand the selected container item in the explorer tree * Expand the explorer branch for the currently selected node Move the selection to the nearby clip on the left (when focused on the right Left hand window panel) Move the selection to the nearby clip on the right (when focused on the right Right hand window panel) Move the selection to the nearby clip above (when focused on the right hand Up window panel) Move the selection to the nearby clip below (when focused on the right hand Down window panel) Opens the player window with the current clip (when focused on the right hand Enter window panel)

Clip Viewer

Esc Close Clip Viewer / Return to normal view from the full-screen Space Start / Stop playing F12 Full-screen playback I or E Set up the In point O or R Set up the Out point D Delete the In point F Delete the Out point G Delete both In and Out points 6 Loop play from In to Out Ctrl+6 Playback from In to Out Shift+A Play first 5 seconds from In point Shift+S Play last 5 seconds before Out point

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Loop playback from the one second before to one second after the current 5 position Q Jump to the In point or to the start position of the clip A Jump to the previous clip event S Jump to the next clip event ~ To playback the video back and forth L Move forward through the clip at normal speed J Move backward at normal speed K Pause the shuttling Press J or L to play at speed 2 times 2x normal speed 3 times 3x normal speed 4 times 5x normal speed 5 times 8x normal speed 6 times 12x normal speed 7 times 16x normal speed K+L Slow forward J+K Slow backward Home Takes you to the beginning of a clip End Takes you to the end of a clip ← Moves one frame backward Alt+← Moves 10 frames backward → Moves one frame forward Alt+→ Moves 10 frames forward Ctrl+Alt+Q Play forward 12.5% speed Ctrl+Alt+W Play forward 25% speed Ctrl+Alt+E Play forward 50% speed Ctrl+Alt+R Play forward 100% speed Ctrl+Alt+T Play forward 200% speed Ctrl+Alt+Y Play forward 400% speed Ctrl+Alt+U Play forward 1600% speed Ctrl+Alt+I Play forward 6400% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Q Play backward 12.5% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+W Play backward 25% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E Play backward 50% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R Play backward 100% speed

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Shift+Ctrl+Alt+T Play backward 200% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Y Play backward 400% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+U Play backward 1600% speed Shift+Ctrl+Alt+I Play backward 6400% speed Tab Play video without loop from the current position to the end of the clip

Clip Editor

P Split the clip at the current position

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The Cinegy Studio product is a part of the Cinegy Air package used to form a fully integrated end-to-end news production and real-time playout system. Cinegy Playout is responsible for sending the content prepared in the playout control application to air.

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Cinegy Playout, which is a part of the Cinegy Air installation package, is designed as a universal tool that performs final direct playout without rendering or export. This is a software-based system for SD and/or HD (4K, 8K) playout using standard PC server hardware.

Cinegy Playout is a unified component that allows to control different applications – Cinegy Air PRO and Cinegy Studio PRO – without any need to restart or reconfigure. It eliminates the need to switch between different Playout modes.

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Cinegy CG is a simple yet powerful live CG and channel branding tool giving you the powers to control your graphics in real time on one or multiple Cinegy Playout engines at once. If a loaded graphics template has variables, Cinegy CG will let operator change the values and even update them on-the-fly on one of the ten available layers.

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2.1. Introduction

Installation

Cinegy CG is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that provides users with the ability to choose the graphics template, assign it to one of the available layers and manually start or stop it whenever needed. If a graphics template has variables, the Cinegy CG operator can update the values on-the-fly on any number of Cinegy Playout engines he is connected to.

Please navigate to the Cinegy CG folder in your Cinegy Air PRO Bundle package and run Setup.exe file; the setup wizard will be started:

Press "Next" to proceed with the installation or "Cancel" to abort and exit the setup wizard.

Read and accept the license agreement:

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Press "Next" to proceed. Press the "Install" button in the dialog that appears to begin the installation. A progress bar will show the progress of the installation process.

On the final step, press the "Finish" button to complete the installation and exit the setup wizard.

Page 160 | Document version: 6ae6f26 The Cinegy CG installer creates the program icon on the Windows desktop for all the users of the PC. Double- click it to launch the application.

Interface

The Cinegy CG application interface looks as follows:

Settings

Press this button on the main toolbar; the following "Settings" dialog box appears:

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• Mode – select the corresponding radio button to choose whether Cinegy CG will control Cinegy Type or Cinegy Titler templates.

 Please note that Cinegy Type engine is now considered in legacy support.

Select the "Enable variables update" option to allow the operator update variables in real time. With the "Enable variables update" option deselected, the variables panel becomes unavailable and variables update is disabled.

• Servers – servers running Cinegy Playout engine. Only one server is enabled by default, you can add more servers by pressing the button.

If several Cinegy Playout engine instances are started on the same server, define what Engine instance will be used to process the specified playlist in the corresponding "#" field next to the server IP address. To remove a server, press the button.

• Repository – the folder location where the Cinegy Type / Cinegy Titler templates are stored. Press the button to choose the desired location in the "Browse For Folder" dialog. • Settings repository – the folder location where user profiles (all the Cinegy Type / Cinegy Titler template settings and its variables) in XML file format are stored. Press the button and change the default location in the "Browse For Folder" dialog.

Page 162 | Document version: 6ae6f26 In the "Layers" configuration group, define if the logo should be added to your CG scene by selecting the corresponding checkbox. Here also specify the layer(s) to be added to the given CG scene by checking the necessary checkbox(es).

Press "OK" to apply the settings and exit the dialog.

Server Connection Indication

The number of indicators on the left from the CG layer name corresponds to the number of currently configured servers. When connection to the defined playout server(s) is properly established, a green indicator is displayed. The connected server name on the main info panel is displayed in green. When connection to the playout server is lost, the green indicator changes to red; the server name is displayed in red as well.

If two or more playout servers are defined in the Cinegy CG "Settings" dialog and all of them are properly connected, broadcasting is carried out on all of them. When connection to either of playout servers is lost, broadcasting proceeds on the connected server(s):

Press the "Reconnect" button on the main toolbar to re-establish connection.

Re-established connection to the main server does not automatically resume the CG template broadcasting on all layers. To restart the template, press the "Play" button for the corresponding layers.

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Working with Templates

To load an existing CG template, press this button; the "Load Template" dialog appears:

The "Templates" panel contains a list of CG templates of the corresponding TV format available for loading. Choose the CG template you want to add; its preview will be displayed in the "Preview" window. You can view any frame of the template by dragging the time slider or using the playback buttons.

The arrow buttons jump to the first and last frame respectively.

The "Play/Pause" button toggles the playback mode.

Select the "Override CG Root with Repository folder" option to substitute the Cinegy CG root path with the Cinegy CG repository location for scenes preview.

 For more information on Cinegy CG repositories, refer to the Cinegy CG Root Folder paragraph of the Cinegy Playout Manual.

Above the "Preview" window there is the "Information" panel, where the basic CG template data, such as its name, duration

Page 164 | Document version: 6ae6f26 and TV format are displayed.

The "Template parameters" table contains the variables of the CG template. You can edit the value of each variable by clicking in the "Value" field and entering the desired data.

 Please note that Cinegy Type engine is now considered in legacy support.

Having set up all the necessary parameters, press "OK" to save them and return to the main "Cinegy CG" window.

Editing CG Templates

It is possible to edit CG template parameters on-the-fly, when this template is on-air. To do this, expand the variables panel inside the corresponding layer control panel in the main "Cinegy CG" window:

 Updating CG template parameters on-the-fly is possible with the "Enable variables update" option selected in the Cinegy CG settings dialog box.

To apply the changes and display them in the "Preview" window, press the "Update" button.

Leaving Loop Scene

For the template to leave loop select the "Leave LoopTrigger" option and press the "Update" button; the scene will continue playing to its end.

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For each layer a CG template status is displayed on the left of the corresponding layer control panel. Possible statuses are as follows:

The CG template is on air.

The CG template is ready for playout or stopped.

The CG template is not loaded or not connected on the current layer.

Operating the Template Layers

You can start any CG template layer pressing the "Play" button on the right of the given layer. Alternatively, use F1…F6 keyboard shortcuts.

Press the "Exit loop" button for the template to leave the loop, if any.

To stop a CG template layer, press the "Stop" button next to the "Play" button on the given layer. Alternatively, use Shift+F1…F6 keyboard shortcuts.

To remove a template from CG layer, press the "Clear" button. To load another template, use the "Load" button.

During the templates preview, it is possible to mute the audio coming from playout engines by pressing the "Mute" button.

Page 166 | Document version: 6ae6f26 When pressed, the button is changed to indicate that the mute is on.

Impacting an item with secondary events through Cinegy CG on the same CG layer may lead to the failure  of secondary events automation at this level, and you must continue to control this element manually until the next item starts.

Working with Profiles

Cinegy CG allows you to save the CG template settings and its variables in XML file format and use these user profiles for other templates.

To save the current user profile, press the "Save profile" button on the main toolbar; the following dialog appears:

Here enter the name for your profile and press "Save".

In this dialog you can also delete the existing profile selecting the desired one in the list of available profiles and pressing the "Delete profile" button.

To load an existing user profile, press the "Load profile" button on the main toolbar; the list of all previously saved profiles appears:

Select the desired one, and all the settings as well as variables of the given CG template will be loaded into the main "Cinegy CG" window.

Page 167 | Document version: 6ae6f26 2.3. Shortcuts

Press the "Shortcuts setup" button to set up the shortcuts for a convenient and fast work with layers.

To change the shortcut defined by default, select it in the list. It will be displayed in the "Shortcut for selected command" field. To delete this shortcut, press the "Remove" button. To assign a different shortcut, hit the corresponding key or key combination; it will appear in the "New shortcut" field. Press the "Assign" button to save the new shortcut. If this new shortcut is already used by another command, it will be displayed in the "Shortcut is currently used by" field:

Page 168 | Document version: 6ae6f26  Assigning shortcuts is available only for graphics layers enabled via the Cinegy CG "Settings" dialog.

Page 169 | Document version: 6ae6f26 Cinegy Prompter

Cinegy Prompter is a powerful prompting utility integrated to the Cinegy Studio workflow. No special graphics card is required as the prompter uses the standard video card supplied with your PC. All Windows True Type fonts installed on your PC including the Arabic and Chinese fonts are supported and can be scaled giving large easy-to-read characters. The text can be smoothly scrolled via the keyboard, mouse or jog-shuttle.

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