Adding and Creating Audio Clips (.pac)

When supported audio files are imported into the Audio folder of a project, a Prime Audio Clip (.pac) file will be generated.

Playing Prime Audio Clips

Prime Audio Clips are clips that are not part of individual scenes but clips that can play from the independent clip players created and configured in the “Playout Configuration”

When a clip player is added through the PRIME Playout Configuration, the player clip controller becomes accessible in the Runtime user interface menus.

.pac files can be loaded or played using the following scenarios

• load directly to a Preview channel
• play directly to a Program channel
• add to Prime Playlists
• load or play directly to Prime Clip Players

Checking a clip player to view will show the Clip Player and its controls:

Selecting the drop-down caret in the upper right corner allows users to select either show/hide Proxy Output or Playback controls.

Please Note - Proxy Output will not display when playing back audio files, this is reserved for .ppc clip playback only. Transitions can not be used with .pac files.

Clips played with this controller will play to their assigned channel and layer which is defined in the Controller setup not the clip itself.

Prime audio clips can be played back by automation under various protocols or manually by dragging clips from the current Projects audio folder.

Prime audio clips are stored in your Projects “Audio” sub folder

To edit your audio clip, right click on your audio clip and select Edit Audio

This will bring up the standard Edit Audio dialog:

Available fields:

• Source
  • Name
  • Path
  • Codec
• Metadata
  • Title
  • Keywords
  • Description
  • Message ID
• Playback
  • Muted
  • Volume
  • Delay
  • Length
  • Fade Out
  • Camio Channel
  • Channels 
• Timeline
  • Position (Current position of the clip playhead)
  • Loop
    • Indefinite
    • 2 - 5 (Loop up to 5 times)
  • Trim In and Out
  • Loop In and Out
  • 4-point looping is available using the clip timeline cursors
    

Generating a Sub Audio Clip

Right click on an audio clip and select the “Generate Sub Audio” menu item to bring up the clip editor.

Set new In and Out points to generate the new sub clip

Archiving Prime Audio Clips

Clip files consist of two files, 1.) The actual media file such as BreakingNewsOpen.wav and the associated side car file that contains all the metadata associated with the audio clip. Information stored there are settings like “Hold first Frame”, “Description”, Thumbnail etc.

Right click on an audio clip and choose Archive Selected

• Set the destination for the archive.
• Add a prefix or suffix to the clip file.
• Move the Media file. This option moves the actual clip file otherwise just the associated metadata file is moved to the archive folder.