Prime Application Security Warning
After installation Prime, if not available on your desktop, the Prime application can be found at:
- C:\Program Files\Chyron\Prime 5.0.0\Chyron.Prime.Application.exe
Run PRIME with admin privileges
Chyron PRIME's full functionality requires running the software with full administrative privileges.
To permanently run PRIME with administrative privileges:
- Windows 10:
- Right click on the Prime executable shortcut
- Go to Properties
- Windows 11
- Right click on the Prime executable shortcut
- Select Show more options.
- Select Properties.
- Navigate to the Compatibility tab.
- Under Settings, turn on Run this program as an administrator.
- On the bottom right, select Apply and then OK to exit.
If Prime is not launched with administrative privileges, the following functionality will not work as a result:
- Out-of-process JScript/VBScript execution will not have access to the Prime API and may fail.
- Advanced Keyboard will not receive key presses for LED Keys.
Non-NVIDIA Warning
Chyron Prime only supports NVIDIA-based graphics cards and is required to run as intended.
On Startup, Prime will automatically detect if a NVIDIA Graphic Card is running Prime.
If it detects this is not the case, PRIME will display a warning message similar to this along with the following three options.
- Abort - Exits the Chyron Prime Application
- Retry - Forces Prime to run on NVIDIA GPU by applying program settings within the NVIDIA Control Panel.
- If Retry fails to apply the settings, the following message will display: Failed to apply NVIDIA settings. Please check that NVIDIA GPU and drivers are installed. The application will now close.
- Ignore - Runs Prime on the currently detected non-NVIDIA based graphics card.
This is not recommended and could cause Prime to run incorrectly.
Settings
Migrate settings
PRIME 5.0 has a new default settings folder location. Due to this, If previous Prime 3 or 4 settings are detected, Prime will ask if the user would like to migrate those settings.
Prime settings new default location can be found in: I:\Prime\Settings
If a user does not have an I: drive present on the system, Prime will default back to C:\Prime\Settings
I:\Prime\Settings includes the following:
- Playout Configurations
- Layouts
- Shortcuts
- Settings Files
- ApplicationSettings
- EditorSettings
- PluginSettings
If you choose Do Not Migrate, the previous settings from Prime 3 or 4 will not be used and the software will ask you to create a new Prime Root Folder and Project Name.
- Prime Root Folder - User defined Root Folder location in which Prime will save and attempt to open all New and Existing Projects from
- Create New Project - Name of the New Project you would like to create
Default Prime 5.0 Folder Locations unless redefined by the user:
- Root Settings Folder - I:\Prime\Settings
- Root Projects Folder - I:\Prime\Projects
- Common Folder - I:\Prime\Projects\Common
Select a language
To change your language selection:
- Launch PRIME.
- Navigate to: Playout Mode > Config > Settings > Language
- Select a language.
- Click OK.
| See the Language section for more details. |
Startup Configuration
PRIME offers a selection of pre configured playout configurations.
The default is set to 8 predefined buttons that will always exist on the startup page.
This page uses the configuration directory sub folder that exists in the users “Config > Settings > Root Settings Directory”.
Customize your configuration
Users can define their own configurations which will be added to the list.
To add your own configuration button to the startup page
- Modify the Playout Configuration
- Save it.
- It will auto populate the Startup Selection screen.
To delete a configuration button
- Right click on a button
- Or remove the configuration file from the directory.