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Contents

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Accessing the Online Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter 1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Why Use DekoCast?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

DekoCast Products and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

DekoCast Workflow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Controlling DekoCast On-Air Video Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Starting and Closing DekoCast Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Switching Between Video Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Configuring Your DekoCast System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Basic Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

DekoCast Main Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Scene Tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Object Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Actions and the Timeline Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Performance Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Parameters Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Log Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Adjusting the DekoCast Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Online Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Understanding Files and File Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Setting Up Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Scene Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Supported File Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Copying Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Viewing Information About Your DekoCast System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Quick Start: Fading a Graphic On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Creating a Scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adding Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Adding Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Playing the Scene in DekoCast Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using the Sample Scenes and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 2 Working with Scenes and Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Scenes Pane and Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Creating a New Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Renaming and Saving a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Opening an Existing Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Working with Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adding Objects to the Scene Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Objects Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Renaming Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Working with the Scene Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Expanding or Collapsing a Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Deleting Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Inserting a Scene within a Scene Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

How Objects Are Composited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Understanding Grouped Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Rearranging Objects in the Scene Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Understanding Parent-Child Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Selecting Scenes for Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Multiple Scenes and Stacking Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Chapter 3 Editing Objects in the Scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using an Object Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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Editing Video Out Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Setting Background Color and Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Selecting a Custom Background Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Editing Video In Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Selecting a Video Input Port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing the Opacity of a Video Input Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the Target and Position Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Arranging Objects for Video Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Using Screen Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Using Thumbwheel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Using the Target Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Defining a Target Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Scaling an Object in Relation to Its Target Rectangle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Using The Position Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Changing an Object’s Position and Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Cropping an Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Designing Your Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Guidelines for Using Target Rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Suggestions for Preparing Your Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Transferring a Layout to a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Example: Defining a Target Rectangle for Video In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Using the Levels and Mixer Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using the Levels Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Using the Mixer Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Understanding Color Coding in the Levels and Mixing Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Working with Deko Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Adding a Deko Object to a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Example: Deko Object with Ten Text Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Guidelines for Adding Deko Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Editing and Updating Deko Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Naming Layers in PostDeko Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Positioning and Sizing a Deko Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Adjusting Opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Using the Text Override Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Using the Contents Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Text Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Displaying Crawls and Rolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Transition Options for Deko Object Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Looping Options for Deko Object Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Managing Text Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Using Embedded Tags with Deko Object Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Displaying Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Displaying a Time-of-Day Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Displaying a Count-Up or Count-Down Timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Deko Object Clock Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Displaying Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Playing Back Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Capturing Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Playing Back Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Understanding Clip Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Managing Clip Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Clip Playback File and Compression Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Adding and Defining a Clip Playback Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Clip Playback Object Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Playing and Looping Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Transcoding SD Clips to MPEG-2 MXF I-Frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Suggested Workflow for Transcoding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Transcoding Clips Through the Transcode Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Transcoding By Dragging Clips to the Transcode Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Transcoding Clips By Using a Watch Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Transcoding Through a Default Watch Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Transcoding Through a Custom Watch Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Transcoding Clips When a Scene Opens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Capturing Clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Setting Up Clip Capture (Corsica Systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

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Setting Up Clip Capture (TARGA Systems). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Capturing a Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Creating Cel Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Rules for Creating Cel Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Defining the Source File for a Cel Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Controlling Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Controlling Playback Behavior Within the Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Controlling Cel Animation Playback Through Commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Controlling Cel Animation Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Displaying Individual Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using Group Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Adding a Group Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Setting the Opacity and Softness for a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Setting the Compositing Style for a Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Capturing Video Images (Frame Grab). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Working with VBI Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

How VBI Objects Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Data Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Field Identifier Strings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Creating Crawls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Creating Crawl Text Using the Crawl Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Creating a Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Controlling the Crawl Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Changing Crawl Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Using a Text File for a Crawl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Controlling the Crawl Text Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Changing the Appearance of Crawl Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Setting the Crawl Object Rectangle and Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Adding Non-Text Objects to Crawl Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Adding Non-Text Objects as Linked Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Controlling the Position of Non-Text Objects in a Crawl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Deleting and Replacing Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Example: Inserting Objects into a Crawl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

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Example: Applying a Parameter Value to an Inserted Object . . . . . . . . . 212

Using an Inserted Object to Trigger an Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Inserting Objects by Using Crawl Object Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Adding Non-Text Objects as Custom Typefaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Adding Plug-in Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Working with Charts and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Accessing the Chart Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Basic Procedure for Creating Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Creating a Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Configuring Chart Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

(Optional) Assigning Interactivity for the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Assigning Data to a Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Working with Advanced Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Using Series Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Setting the Series Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Setting the Series Data Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

Setting the Series Data Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Setting the Series Legend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Setting the Series Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Modifying the Series List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Using Axes Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Setting the Axes Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Setting the Axes ConstLines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Setting the Axes Gridlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Setting the Axes Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

Setting the Axes Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Setting the Axes Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Setting the Axes Stripes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

Setting the Axes Ticks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Setting the Axes Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Using Background Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Setting the Background Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Setting the Basic Frame Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

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Setting the Image Frame Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Using Labels Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Setting the Label Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Setting the Label Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Setting the Label Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Creating the Label List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Using Legend Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Setting the Legend Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Setting the Legend Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Setting the Legend Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Setting the Legend Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Setting the Legend Titles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Using Walls Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Setting the Wall Appearance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Setting the Wall Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Using Watermarks Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Setting the Watermark Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Setting the Basic Frame Watermarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Setting the Watermark Position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Creating the Watermark List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Using Lighting Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Setting the Lighting Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Setting the Lighting Attenuation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Setting the Lighting Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Setting the Lighting Direction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Setting the Lighting Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Creating the Lighting Source List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Using View Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Setting the Global Setup View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

Setting the View Margins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Setting the View Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Setting the View Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Setting the Text Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

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Template Configuration Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Configuring Your Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

Chapter 5 Adding Actions to a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Understanding Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

Using the Timeline Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

Creating Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Adding an Action to the Action List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Working in Animate Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

Adding Action Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Adding Parameters from the Parameters Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Understanding Keyframes and the Timeline Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Adjusting Timing in the Timeline Bar Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

Creating Trigger Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Creating Actions Over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Creating Actions with Defined Beginning and Ending Parameters. . . . . . 312

Creating Time Capture Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

Adding a Capture Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Preserving Passive Parameters for Scenes with Multiple Actions . . . . . . . . . 316

Reordering Parameters in the List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Playing Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Editing Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Copying and Pasting Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Copying and Pasting Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Detaching and Attaching Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Replacing One Parameter with Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Editing Curves and Keyframes in the Timeline Graph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Editing the Motion Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Selecting a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Adding or Deleting a Keyframe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Adjusting the Timing or Value of a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Editing the Value of a Keyframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Creating Actions Check List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Creating Sample Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

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Example 1: Squeeze and Tease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Example 2: Unsqueeze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Example 3: Crossfade (Dissolve). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

Example 4: Lower-Third Reveal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Chapter 6 Working with Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Using the Parameters Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

Searching for a Parameter Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Editing a Parameter Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Creating User Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Creating an Action that Triggers Another Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Replacing a Parameter with Results of a Database Query. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Chapter 7 Using DekoCast Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Understanding DekoCast Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Working with DekoCast Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Configuring DekoCast Central for Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Configuring Data Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Configuring GPIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

Configuring Local GPIs (Local RS-232 COM Port) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

Configuring External GPIs (RS-232 GPI Box). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Logging DekoCast Central Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Automation Control Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

Viewing DekoCast Central Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Using the Asset Viewer Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Viewing Automation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Ports for Automation Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363

Triple i Command Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

The M Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

The W Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364

The Y Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Using Command Queues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Defining House IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

Playing Multiple Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

House ID Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

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Overriding Object Parameter Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

Working with the Playback Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Playing Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377

Copying Today’s Playlist to Tomorrow’s List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Working with the Graphical User Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378

Setting the Size of Action Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

Setting Up Scenes in the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Working with Actions in the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381

Prestarting, Starting, and Exiting Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Changing a Deko Object’s Text Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

DekoCast Central Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Using the Sequencer Control Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Using the Deko Page Recall Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Using the Temperature Probe Interface Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Configuring the DGH Temperature Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Configuring the Sensatronics Temperature Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Using the Aut File Sequencer Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Using the Emergency Alert System Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Creating an EAS Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Starting and Configuring the EAS Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

Chapter 8 Using Sequence to Play Back Actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Starting Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

Creating a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

Editing Sequence Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Editing a Sequence List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Deleting and Replacing Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

Copying and Pasting Sequence Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Changing an Action’s Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408

Controlling Playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Editing Action Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Using the Sequence Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Appendix A Configuring DekoCast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

Opening the Preferences Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415

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Video Hardware Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416

Video Format Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Video Standard and Aspect Ratio Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Dolby-E Passthrough Option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Encode/Decode Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Hardware Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Video Output Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Audio Output Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

VBI Source and Extra Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Horizontal Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Video Input Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423

Audio Source Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424

Shape Input and Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

XML Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Application Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Output Frame Coordinates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429

Transcode and Scene Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

Appendix B DekoCast Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

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Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of the Avid

®

DekoCast

™

application. Avid DekoCast

provides broadcasters with a wide range of on-air edge applications including channel

branding, in-program promotions and advertising, sophisticated credit sequences, and

weather and other data-driven alerts. The Avid DekoCast family consists of the Avid

DekoCast and Avid DekoCast Authoring Station systems, which are available as either

standard definition (SD), high definition (HD), or hybrid (SD/HD) models.The following

applications are included with all DekoCast and DekoCast Authoring systems: Avid

DekoCast, Avid PostDeko Lite, Avid Sequence, and Avid DekoCast Central.

This guide provides task-oriented instructions, conceptual information, and reference

material for using the features of the DekoCast family of products. This guide is intended for

all DekoCast users who develop, manage, and control edge applications in a broadcast

environment. The audience includes artists who create edge graphics, operators who control

video output, and video engineers who configure the DekoCast system.

The DekoCast products are installed and run on the Microsoft

®

Windows

®

XP operation

system. This guide assumes that you have a basic working knowledge of Windows XP.

n

This documentation describes the features and hardware of all models. Therefore, your

system might not contain certain features and hardware covered in the documentation.

n

If you are reading a black-and-white hardcopy printout of this document, you will find it

useful to view the color images in the online PDF version of this document, which is

available in the Online Library for your application.

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Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

n

A note provides important related information,

reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

c

A caution means that a specific action you take could

cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and

subcommands) in the order you select them. For

example, File > Import means to open the File menu

and then select the Import command.

t

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure.

Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one

of the actions listed.

Italic font Italic font is used to emphasize certain words and to

indicate variables.

Courier Bold font

Courier Bold font identifies text that you type.

Ctrl+key or mouse action Press and hold the first key while you press the last

key or perform the mouse action, for example,

Ctrl+drag.

If You Need Help

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If You Need Help

If you are having trouble using Avid DekoCast:

1. Retry the action, carefully following the instructions given for that task in this guide. It

is especially important to check each step of your workflow.

2. Check for the latest information that might have become available after the

documentation was published.

- A ReadMe file is supplied on your Avid application CD as a PDF document

(ReadMe.pdf).

- The latest version is available online on the Avid Knowledge Base. To view the

online version, select ReadMe from the Help menu or visit the Knowledge Base at

www.avid.com/readme

c

You should always check online for the most up-to-date release notes or ReadMe

because the online version is updated whenever new information becomes available.

3. Check the documentation that came with your Avid application or your hardware for

maintenance or hardware-related issues.

4. Visit the online Knowledge Base at www.avid.com/onlinesupport. Online services are

available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Search this online Knowledge Base to find

answers, to view error messages, to access troubleshooting tips, to download updates,

and to read or join online message-board discussions.

Accessing the Online Library

The Avid DekoCast Online Library CD-ROM contains all the product documentation in

PDF format.

n

You need Adobe

®

Reader

®

to view the documentation online. You can download the latest

version from the Adobe web site www.adobe.com.

To access the online library from the Online Library CD-ROM:

1. Insert the Online Library CD-ROM into the drive.

2. If the opening screen of the library does not open automatically, double-click the

appropriate CD drive letter. If necessary, double-click the Mainmenu file.

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How to Order Documentation

To order additional copies of this documentation from within the United States, call Avid

Sales at 800-949-AVID (800-949-2843). If you are placing an order from outside the United

States, contact your local Avid representative.

Avid Training Services

Avid makes lifelong learning, career advancement, and personal development easy and

convenient. Avid understands that the knowledge you need to differentiate yourself is always

changing, and Avid continually updates course content and offers new training delivery

methods that accommodate your pressured and competitive work environment.

To learn about Avid's new online learning environment, Avid Learning Excellerator

™

(ALEX), visit http://learn.avid.com.

For information on courses/schedules, training centers, certifications, courseware, and

books, please visit www.avid.com/training or call Avid Sales at 800-949-AVID

(800-949-2843).

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