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ASTRA Modules AVECO Americas Incorporated 468 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 tel: (303) 588.5528 www.aveco.com QNX Photon Graphic user interface QNX Photon is used to generate a graphical user interface. ASTRA's interface has been designed to provide operators intuitive access to the strong control capabilities of ASTRA. QNX Photon provides reliable and seamless integration to the real-time core of the ASTRA system. Here is a screen shot of the ASTRA user interface showing the "windows" for: videoserver record, Time Code (TC) calculation, Block editing, and thumbnail viewing of videoserver content. 6
ASTRA SOFTWARE ASTRA Modules AVECO Americas Incorporated 468 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02115 tel: (303) 588.5528 www.aveco.com This section describes ASTRA Automation’s software building blocks. The software modules that make up the core of ASTRA are defined under the Standard ASTRA Software Modules title below. Additional modules that expand ASTRA’s core functionality are described under Optional ASTRA Software Modules. With built-in network transparency, ASTRA Automation modules can be added and interconnected easily to expand the capabilities of the ASTRA Automation system. Since each software module runs on its own memory protected address space and ASTRA allows hot-swapping of software modules, any on-air ASTRA Automation system can be adjusted and expanded without interrupting the broadcast. Standard ASTRA Software Modules: The following functionality is provided with all ASTRA systems: One On-Air Playlist ASTRA's standard package includes one playlist that directs the automation of one on-air channel. The on-air playlist, or daily schedule, lists the events that will be broadcast. The events are related to their source, such as videoserver clips, tapes or live sources, the time of day when the event will be aired and the status of each event's readiness to go on-air. Much more information for each event can be shown on the playlist. Each user can define several views with different information of the playlist and toggle between views. The playlist shows the technological status of the particular event, allows for manual parking and starting of events and supports direct control of devices. The playlist supports multi-user access, where many users can work on the schedule simultaneously. This allows a group of operators to share the work required to develop and broadcast the playlist. For example, one operator can define transitions while another edits the schedule and another previews defined event sequences. Event Types The ASTRA playlist supports several types of events in addition to a Main Event: • Sub events: define layered sequences related to the Main Event. Any number of subevents, such as independent audio sources, keyers and CGs, can be grouped under a main event and broadcast: o simultaneously o with any required offset and duration o in series to each other 7
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