To configure the file monitor, click ‘Add’ to choose the location for the monitored folder(s). Specify which file format(s) to monitor by ticking the appropriate boxes. The actual monitoring process can be enabled by either clicking the ‘Monitor’ button on this dialogue,
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This function is very useful in conjunction with remote processes that are rendering images to create clips. The images that are created can be loaded into the XR unit as they appear, and compiled into a moving sequence, or checked out using the various waveform monitoring functions that are part of XR.
Generator Playlists
An OmniTek XR system has the ability to create and manage playlists. A playlist is, in effect a scheduled playout system that can run through a predetermined list of video images and clips, with each item in the list potentially having different audio settings, and with certain different video engineering settings, and each can be displayed for a different duration.
The playlist can be opened and closed by clicking the ‘PL’ toolbar button, or the ‘Playlist Window’ menu entry found under the ‘View’ menu. You can think of the playlist Window as a
The playlist is just like a sequence pattern, it can be played forward or backward, it can be stepped through, and you can go direct to a specific frame. The playlist ‘pattern’ in the Generator Window must be selected like you would any other pattern, at which point you can traverse the playlist using the run toolbar as you would a normal sequence. This playlist ‘pattern’ is the blank thumbnail in the Generator window with the word ‘Playlist’ written across it. It is visible at all times and is always the first ‘pattern’ in the configuration. Please remember that the playlist is software driven, so there will be some latency when switching patterns within the playlist, or, for example, when a playlist is stopped mid item, the software makes an estimate of the frame you have stopped at using a number of internal factors.
The actual playlist is created by dragging a pattern from the Gen window into the playlist window. An item from the Generator window can be dragged into the playlist as many times as required. It is not possible to drag and drop using multiple selections. Since drag and drop does not work with all PC configurations, it is also possible to
The playlist Window shows items as a row entry in a list. Each entry has a thumbnail preview of the source pattern, the path and type of that pattern, and the duration in frames/seconds of that item. A ‘selected’ item in the playlist for editing, is highlighted in black. The currently ‘showing’ item is highlighted in red/pink, so it is the red/pink colour that indicates what item is currently being generated.
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