Super Channel Settings

Sub Channel (A, B): Drag scenes, images or clips to the Sub Channel icon. Click Viz One to load a clip from your configured Viz One system, or load a local clip by clicking the Browse for a clip button.

Transition: Set the direction of the transition, from sub channel A to B, or from B to A. Disable Auto to select an existing Director to run the transition with, or None to disable the transition.

Start Mode: Select what will trigger the Super Channel transition:

• Manually: User manually switches from sub channel A to B, or vice versa, by selecting the sub channel in Viz Artist or through external commands.

• Assignment: Transition triggers when you assign a new asset to inactive sub channel.

• Assignment / Cleared: Transition triggers asset assignment, or when you clear the sub channel.

• Loaded: Transition triggers when an asset is loaded. This is useful for Super Channels that display images when image background loading is active in the Viz Engine configuration.

• Loaded / Cleared: Transition triggers when an asset is loaded, or when you clear the sub channel.

• Director finished: Transition triggers once a given director has finished execution.

• Sync Object: Drag a Super Channel to the Sync objects area. Sync objects provide a way to synchronize execution of Super Channel transitions between multiple Super Channels. Sync objects monitor all linked Super Channels until all their inactive sub channels have been loaded. The sync object then calls onAllChannelsArmed to trigger the transition for all Super Channels managed by the sync object. You can add as many Super Channels to a sync object as are required.

• Event: Allows you specify the Scene, the sender (Animation from Stage or from Super Channel) and the Event (on Started, on Stopped, onDirectorStarted, onDirectorStopped).

MAIN_SCENE*Super Channel*<CHANNEL_ID>*<A|B> SET IMAGE <UUID>

Super Channel Context menu

The channel context menu provides quick access to the properties of the scene, as well as to quick-select it in the database.

• Show in Server View: Selects and highlights the scene in the server menu and highlighted.

• Switch to properties of A/B: Provides direct access to the transformation of the selected Sub Channel.

Super Channel Transformation

This section is used to animate the whole Super Channel, including both sub channels. Super Channel animations are independent of the sub channel animations. This means that you can have a transition animation between multiple Super Channels, which is often required for content on Videowalls.

You can animate certain Super Channel properties, such as Position, Size, or Alpha, to define custom transitions between one or more Super Channels. A detailed description of the parameters can be found in the Media Asset Panel.

Sub Channels

A Super Channel is composed of two Sub Channels, A and B. Here, you can see the sub channels A and B of Super Channel 1:

You can animate certain Sub Channel properties, such as Position, Size, or Alpha, to define custom transitions between the two Sub Channels. A detailed description of the parameters can be found in the Media Asset Panel. Click the text label, for example, Sub Channel 1A, in the Sub Channels upper right corner to switch between all Super Channels and Sub Channels in your scene.

Sub Channel Settings

Here you can select how to trigger the Sub Channel animation. The Start Mode options are:

• Manually: The user manually switches from subchannel A to B or vice versa by clicking the corresponding subchannel in Artist or through external commands.

• Transition Start: Will trigger on transition start.

• Transition End: Will trigger on transition end.

• Loaded: Transition triggers once a newly assigned asset has been loaded. This is of special interest for Super Channels displaying images, with image background loading activated in the Viz Engine configuration.

• Event: Allows you specify the Scene, the sender (Animation from Stage or from Super Channel) and the Event (on Started, on Stopped, onDirectorStarted, onDirectorStopped). An event is fully defined by its event name, the identifier/name of the sender, and its arguments. A new internal event system was introduced in Viz Engine 3.9. This allows certain objects to fire and listen to internal events. Amongst those objects are:

• Super Channels or their sub channels

• Stage

• Scripts

• Force Key: Allows you to force a full-screen key of your loaded scene, even there is no key function applied to it.

• Image: Allows you to control the Zoom mode and the border color of an loaded Image.