1 USER GUIDE Channel Studio Pro INDEX 1. Overview 2. Features 3. System requirements 4. Play your 1 st Schedule in 3 steps 5. Main modules in Channel Studio 6. How to create a playlist in Channel Studio 7. How to create a schedule 8. Titler 9. How to create a scroll advertisement 10. Spot ads 11. How to create news headline 12. How to create flash news 13. Live 14. Register
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USER GUIDE
Channel Studio Pro INDEX
1. Overview
2. Features
3. System requirements
4. Play your 1st Schedule in 3 steps
5. Main modules in Channel Studio
6. How to create a playlist in Channel Studio
7. How to create a schedule
8. Titler
9. How to create a scroll advertisement
10. Spot ads
11. How to create news headline
12. How to create flash news
13. Live
14. Register
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1. Overview
Channel Studio Pro is fully automated software from Phoenix Innovations designed to
schedule, organize and telecast video Channel thru PC. The main highlight of the
software is its flexibility and user friendly interface. Channel Studio comes with a
powerful player were you can play from pre scheduled programs from hard disk and an
external source simultaneously. The software works in dual screen mode that the output
goes to the TV and the desktop will be left free so that you can add or modify anything
online.
Fig1 Channel studio main window
2. Features
The new version of CS provide advanced features like REALTIMEREALTIMEREALTIMEREALTIME TITLER,VIDEO / AUDIO TITLER,VIDEO / AUDIO TITLER,VIDEO / AUDIO TITLER,VIDEO / AUDIO
MIXER,PICTURE IN PICTURE (PIP)MIXER,PICTURE IN PICTURE (PIP)MIXER,PICTURE IN PICTURE (PIP)MIXER,PICTURE IN PICTURE (PIP),,,,AUDIO GAINAUDIO GAINAUDIO GAINAUDIO GAIN,,,,ADVANCED ADVANCED ADVANCED ADVANCED DIGITAL PLAYOUT MODE DIGITAL PLAYOUT MODE DIGITAL PLAYOUT MODE DIGITAL PLAYOUT MODE and
many more.
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Using playlist maker you can create a playlist. Play list is simply a channel program
which is usually a collection of video clips including video clips, advertisements, etc.
In play list maker you can create, edit and design play lists. .You can also just drag and
drop the video files from folder, or insert them. Also you can edit the videos as you wish,
for that you just double click on the video want to be edit, a video cutter wizard open,
using that option you can edit the videos. If you want to cut, remove, or replace a video
from the playlist you just right click on that file.
Schedule maker option used to create a program schedule for specific days. In schedule
maker you can add playlist, set date and time and save them as a schedule. Here you can
also edit, cut, copy, replace and remove the videos just like in playlist maker
Using live option you can play video from external sources like tuner cards, capture
cards, fire wire camera etc. It is very easy to switch between scheduled program and live
program
Titler option is used to design the screen overlays. Using this option you can add images,
animation and text on screen and you can place each object in the time line and save them
as a template.
This option use to create, edit and organize scrolling and animated advertisements.
Here you can add files to the spot ads master. You can set starting date and expiry date.
When spot ads are playing scrolls will be stopped automatically. You will get detailed
report of the played advertisements.
News Maker is a tool to create and play news headlines on your news channel.
Flash News is a tool to create and play scrolling flash news on your channel.
Other Highlights:
- Smooth and seamless playback (without gap between videos)
- User friendly interfaces with drag and drop facility in Playlist and schedule.
- Dual screen mode play out.
- Integrated LIVE with smooth switching.
- Advanced tools to create News Headlines and Flash news scrolls as in
Mainstream News channels.
- Advertisement master entry and detailed client wise and Ad wise reports.
- Smooth scrolling
- Support all video formats.
- And lot more...
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3. System Requirements
Supported OS:
♦ Microsoft Windows Vista
♦ Microsoft Windows Vista x64
♦ Microsoft Windows XP Professional
♦ Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Hardware Requirements:
♦ Intel Core 2 Duo/Intel Quad Core
♦ Min 1GB RAM
♦ Min 80GB HDD
♦ AGP/PCI Express (Preferably ATI Radeon)
4. Play your 1st Schedule in 3 steps
1 Create a playlist in Playlist Maker
2 Create a schedule in Schedule Maker
3 Load a schedule in player from Open Schedule tab in the main window
Start Running the Channel
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5. Main modules in Channel Studio
♦♦♦♦ Schedule Player
♦♦♦♦ Live Player
♦♦♦♦ Playlist Maker
♦♦♦♦ Schedule Maker
♦♦♦♦ Titler
♦♦♦♦ Scroll Ads
♦♦♦♦ Spot Ads
♦♦♦♦ News Headlines
♦♦♦♦ Flash News
6. How to create a playlist in Channel Studio?
Playlist maker is used to create a playlist. Play list is simply a channel program which is
usually a collection of video clips including video clips, advertisements, etc. In play list
maker you can create, edit and design play lists.
Fig2: Play list Maker main window
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Using Playlist Maker you can create a playlist .In Playlist Maker you can just drag and
drop the video files from folder, or insert them. Also you can edit the videos as you wish,
for that you just double click on the video to be edited, a video cutter wizard open, using
that option you can edit the videos. If you want to cut, remove, or replace a video from
the playlist you just right click on that file.
Schedule maker option used to create a program schedule for specific days. In schedule
maker you can add playlist, set date and time and save them as a schedule. Here you can
also edit, cut, copy, replace and remove the videos just like in playlist maker
Now we create a playlist
Click on the tab Play list Maker, and then the playlist maker window will be open. There
you can create a play list.
First up all you want to select the videos, for that click on tab video clip tab .In video clip
window you can see the desktop ,my computer, drives, and my documents ,from there
select the folder , and double click on that ,then video files will list in files window. From
you can just drag and drop the files to the play list window or select the file and click on
the insert button. Now the selected files will appear in playlist grid you can also view the
preview of videos in the preview window.
From play list window you can cut the video files as you wish; click on the file that
needs to be cut. Then video cutter wizards will open.
Fig3: Video Cutter main window
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In video cutter window can see the preview of the selected file. Firstly click on the play
button to play the file, when the video is playing you can mark the video using Mark In
tab. Place the cursor from where you want start the cutting and then click on Mark in
tab ( [ ) . To give ending place the cursor in that position and click on Mark out tab ( ] )
.Then click on Add button ,then click update after that you can close the video cutter
wizard. This way you can cut a video files in several parts as you wish.
In play list grid you can remove, cut, paste and replace video files, just right click on it.
In playlist maker you can add spot ads to the play list. For that click on Ads tab Select
advertisement files from there and click insert (First insert advertisement through spot ads
option in Main window. Only then files will appear in Ads Tab in Playlist Maker.
Another simple way to add spot ads is by just adding the video file directly from file
browser. Other wise you just add advertisement files when creating playlist. For that you
select file like video file selecting for playing. But in this option you can’t get detailed
report of advertisement.) You can also just drag and drop the advertisement file to play
list grid window.
You can add number of video files to play list using Folder option in Playlist Maker.
Firstly you select the folder then select the files and click insert tab. Here you can set
duration time for playlist and save as a playlist. Using this option you can create a playlist
for continuous playing. You can set duration time here and the program will play only for
the set duration.
Playlist is another option in Playlist Maker. From play list you can add number of play
list to play list grid and save them as another playlist. Firstly click on the Playlist tab
,when you click on it you can see there already created playlists, just double click on the
playlist or just drag and drop to playlist grid or select the playlist and click on insert tab,
you can also set duration time for playlist and save as new playlist.
In Play list Maker you can see some another option; Playlist name , Duration of Play list ,