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12: Production License

Overview

This lesson introduces Chyron Weather’s Production License.

Prerequisite: Lesson 03

What Is the Production License?

The Production License enables a presenter to:

  • Render a Playlist from interface (and command line)
  • Record a Playlist with audio while presenting live
  • Share images or videos from the playlist to social media

Image description: Production License

Rendering Playlists

The Render function allows a user to generate a video from a playlist, in full or only part of it. To do so:

  1. Open the Application button menu (top-left)
  2. Go to “Render with profile” submenu
  3. Choose the profile you wish to export with
  4. A “Save under” window will appear, letting you: rename your video file and choose its destination
  5. Press “Save”
  6. Wait for rendering to take place

The video file will be available at your chosen destination.

By default, the name of the playlist will be used. The name can also be template based (in the playlist properties) including current date and time and segment headers.

Image description: Playlist rendering from interface

Default profiles:

  • AVC 1080p25
  • AVC 1080p50
  • AVC 720p25
  • AVC 720p50
  • MXF 1080p25
  • MXF 720p50
  • MXF DVCPROHD 1080i50
  • MXF DVCPROHD 1080i60
You can render one or more segments or the entire playlist. If you wish to render only a part of the playlist, simply select the segments of your choice before following the above procedure.

To render playlists from command line, use the following syntax:

Daviz3DDirector.exe [PlaylistName.dpl] -CurrentDesignModel [DesignModel] -render [outputFileAndLocation] -renderingProfile [NameOfProfie] -unattended

Make sure you have the permission to change the DesignModel!

Table description: Command-line render parameters

Parameter

Function

-unattended

suppress modal message boxes

-renderingProfile <profileName>

Specifies a profile other than the default for automated playlist rendering

-render <outputFilePath>

Renders a playlist as XDCAM (MPEG-2) MXF or H.264 (MPEG-4) MP4 movie file

-CurrentDesignModel

Specifies the DesignModel to be used
 
Almost all settings are now also available as command line arguments (-key "value")

Recording Playlists

The Live Record function allows a user to generate a live video from a playlist, in full or only part of it. Audio input is supported. The timing can be triggered by the user, interactions can be used.

If no segment is selected, the recording will start from the beginning by default. If you wish to start from another segment: select it and press the “Record” button.

Chyron Weather will then ask you if you wish to “Start from the beginning” or “Start from selected segment”.

  1. For audio: set preferences – audio recording
  2. To start the live recording, click on the “Record” button at the top right of the interface
  3. Trigger the playlist as you normally do (by default: Space bar to next segment)
  4. Use your microphone for voice over (if applicable)
  5. When you are done, exit the playlist (by default: F11)
  6. A “Save under” window will appear, letting you rename your video file (by default: the name of the playlist) and choose its destination.
  7. Press “Save”.

The video file will be available at your chosen destination.

Pressing 2 x ESC key during recording will cancel the recording and reset the playlist to its beginning. A new recording will start on the next triggering.

Image description: The record button

Record_button.png

Sharing Playlists via Social Media

It is possible to record a share a Segment or an entire Playlist via Social Media.

Available Social Media channels are:

  • Twitter
  • YouTube

To do this, create a Social Media account.

  1. Click on the Application button, select Settings and select the Social Media option.
  2. Click on the Social Media channel you wish to share your content.
  3. Options are currently: Twitter and YouTube

Image description: Social media settings

Twitter

For example, to add a Twitter account

  1. Click on the Add Twitter Accounts button.
  2. Enter the Account credentials (Username, Password):
  3. The credentials will be authenticated, and the account added to Chyron Weather.

Image description: Registering a Twitter account

Image description: Twitter Account added

It is now possible to share content via Twitter from Chyron Weather.

Up to 4 segments can be shared in one tweet. Select up to 4 segments that you wish to share. The frame halfway through the segment will be shared.

To share content from Chyron Weather on Twitter:

  1. Click the Share button
  2. Select the desired output (Twitter, YouTube, File System)

Image description: The Share button

Image description: Sharing via Twitter

It is also possible to share content via the File System.

Chyron Weather will render the content in preparation for sharing and the Share on Twitter dialog will appear.

Click the Confirm image box to verify the content:

Image description: Confirm image, share on Twitter dialog

Add meta data (text and geographical position) if desired and click the Tweet button to share via Twitter. The geographical position will be stored for the next use. Geolocation of a tweet can be used to filter steams of tweets (like hash tags). The titles of the shared segments will be used as default hash tags.

Image description: Share on Twitter dialog

Image description: Twitter upload

YouTube

The same principle applies to sharing content via YouTube.

To add a YouTube account:

  1. Click on the Add YouTube Accounts button.
  2. Enter the Account credentials (Email, Password).

Image description: Google Sign-in

Allow Chyron Weather to share content via the account:

Image description: Allowing WeatherSuite access to a Google account

A confirmation message displays in a browser window informing you that a verification code has been received.

To share content first select any number of segments, then click the Share on YouTube button.

Image description: Share on YouTube button

Enter an optional title and description and preview the video:

Image description: Upload to YouTube, Description field

Click the Upload to YouTube button to upload the content to the YouTube channel.

Depending on the length of your video this will take some time.

Image description: Content uploaded to YouTube

Sharing via the File System

To share images or videos via the File System, click the share Image or share Video button:

Image description: Sharing via the File System

A Save As dialog will appear. Give the file a name and click the Save button.

The file will be rendered and saved to the specified location.

Define the format of the image or video exported via the Media Export settings which are accessible via the Chyron Weather Settings menu.

Image description: Media Export settings

Lesson 12.19 illustrates the Media Export settings.

In this example, the default image format is PNG and the default video format is MP4.

Share produced video

It is also possible to share an already produced video on Facebook or YouTube from the filesystem by right-click in the video tab of the content browser. (Edit is only possible for files produced from WeatherSuite.)

Image description: Share videos from content browser


Lesson Activities

Quiz

Questions

Question 1: Which action cancels the recording and resets the playlist to its beginning?

A. 3 x Esc

B. 2 x Esc

C. 1 x Esc

 

Question 2: How do you produce a video with the content of just the first and the third segment of a playlist?

A. Select the segments and export video

B. Select the segments and share video

C. Select the segments record video
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Question 3: What’s the difference(s) between sharing and recording the whole playlist?

A. Recording allows audio and not recorded interactions

B. The length of the recording can depend on the trigger action

C. The recorded video cannot be shared on YouTube or Facebook

 

Answers

1. The correct answer is B.

2. The correct answers are A & B.

3. The correct answers are A & B.

 

Task

  • Open a playlist or create a new one, containing at least three segments
  • Render, record and share the playlist as a video
  • Compare the three videos
  • Share the recorded video on a preferred social media platform