Overview
This lesson introduces Chyron Weather’s Virtual Studio feature. How to add a Virtual Studio to a Playlist and select a camera position will be discussed.
| Prerequisites: Lessons 01, 02, and 03 |
Adding a Virtual Studio to a Playlist
To add a Virtual Studio:
- Navigate to: Properties > Virtual Set
- Click the folder browse button to browse for a virtual set.
- Select a set from the available options.
- The set is added to the Playlist.
Image description: Step 1. Virtual Set tab
Image description: Steps 2, 3. Virtual set configuration file
Lesson 13.2 shows a set named Virtual Set.
Lesson 13.3 shows additional information about the Virtual Set. Note this information is not editable.
The configuration name, available cameras and resources used (if any) are shown.
Image description: Virtual Set configuration added
To switch from the Content view (Chyron Weather’s default view) to the Virtual Studio view, click the Virtual Studio button.
Image description: Accessing the Virtual Studio view
Image description: Content view selected
Image description: Virtual Studio view selected
Lesson 13.7 shows the Content Segment containing the map projected onto a screen within the Virtual Studio.
Virtual Sets are predefined and are stored within the DesignModel.
Selecting Cameras
To select a camera, click the drop-down arrow to the right of the Content Segment‘s Thumbnail Preview window:
Image description: Selecting a camera
Select a camera from the available options. The scene updates to reflect the camera chosen.
Lesson 13.8 illustrates a wide-angle view of the Virtual Studio.
Image description: Virtual Studio cameras
Just as with the Content, it is possible to define Segment transitions in the Virtual view. This defines the transition of the camera. Available options are: use previous, hard cut and interpolate.
Note that the first transition type will set the camera to the same position as the previous Segment.
Image description: Virtual Layer transition options
Cameras are objects within a Virtual Studio and cannot be edited from within Chyron Weather.
Adjusting transitions
Click on the transition icon on the top left-hand corner of the segment preview to choose between the different transition types. The blank transition will set the same camera position as set on the previous segment. You can set a duration for the camera movement.
Image description: Adjusting camera transitions
Editing support
Editing an overlay enables an operator to make last minute changes to titles and other objects within Chyron Weather itself.
| This feature was released in WeatherSuite R12.1. |
In the editing mode click the Virtual Overlay button to enable visibility of the virtual overlay.
Image description: Virtual Overlay button enabled
Select and edit as you would a normal layer in Chyron Weather
Image description: Edit Object
Lesson Activities
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Question 1: How do you activate the Virtual Studio in a new playlist? A. Click on Properties > Virtual Set > Configuration B. Click on Virtual studio button next to the UTC button C. Virtual Studio is always activated Question 2: How do you change the camera position? A. Click on Properties – Virtual Set – Cameras B. Drop down button on the right side of the preview thumbnail C. The camera position once set is not adjustable Question 3: How many camera positions are available in one virtual set? A. Just one B. Depends on the set C. Three
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Answers |
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1. The correct answer is A. 2. The correct answer is B. 3. The correct answer is B. |
Task
- Open an existing playlist or create a new one with at least two segments
- Enable a virtual studio and set two different camera positions for the segments
- Set a smooth transition with a duration of 1 second