Working with Items

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.

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 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. The following dialog will be open:

Here define whether the clip duration should be updated by selecting "Yes" or "No" correspondingly. Select "Yes to all" to update the duration of all instances of the same item present in the playlist.

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.

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:

In order to use the item proxying during 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).

It is possible to fade in and fade out playlist items. 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 in 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:

In the dialog that appears, specify the number of the frame from which you want to start item transition 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".

MCRItems and MCRlists support a target channel name value that is assessed during their insertion in the active playlist. If the channel name value set in MCRitem or MCRlist does not match the name of the channel they are being inserted into, the following warning dialog is displayed indicating the mismatch:

Press "Yes" to add the item with the mismatching target channel name anyway. Otherwise press "No" to cancel insertion.

To prevent overwriting of the channel name value in MCRitems / MCRlists being inserted in the playlist, select the "No targeted channel override" option in the Cinegy Air Configurator. The following warning will appear during the insertion:

The block and program duration is recalculated after the item with manual end trigger is played back. Recalculation is also performed if the item is sent on air ahead of its scheduled time.