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By default, the passed through live signal or black is on air or black, depending on the preset made by your system adminadministrator. While playing a movie Video or graphics Graphics element, this element will be added to the default output. Once the end of the element has been reached, the default output will be on air again. Define a finished action for an element, in In case you would like to execute another action automatically at the end of the play out playout of an element .

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you need to define a Finished Action.

Finished Actions in the Timeline

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This is an

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element with a

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Finished Action

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. You can set the

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Finished Action

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of an element in the

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Inspector under the

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Control

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section.

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All finished actions available

Finished Actions of just:live

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  • None: Output switches back to live (or black).
  • Play Next: Automatically plays the next scheduled element.
  • Cue Next: Cues the first frame of the next element.
  • Hold Last: Holds the last frame.
  • Reload: Reloads the clip, output switches to live input (not available when

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  • Loop

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  • is activated).
  • Recue: Recues the clip and waits at the first frame (not available when

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  • Loop

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  • is activated).
  • Hold and Cue Next: Holds the last frame and cues the first frame of the next element after the predefined time (default: 1 second)
  • Hold and Play Next: Holds the last frame and plays the next element after the predefined time (default: 1 second)

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Loop

The Loop Option

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In addition to the

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Finished Action

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you can define that a

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Video should play in a loop. Doing so the

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Video will be

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On Air until you disable the loop attribute

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. The Video will play until its end and will then execute the

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Finished Action – unless you click on the

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Play

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button

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which will skip the remaining frames of the clip and executes the

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Finished Action

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immediately

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Clicking on the "Play " button while a:movie is playing, the "Finished Action" is playing a…
  • Video: the Finished Action is executed immediately.
  • graphic element is playing, the "Graphic element: the Finished Action" is executed immediately.
  • graphic element Graphic element is waiting on a stopframe, releases the for a stop frame: the stop frame will be released so the graphics Graphic element continues to play until the next stopframe stop frame is reached - or unit it reaches its end.


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  • Pressing the play button while playing a movieVideo, the finished actions Hold Last, Hold and Cue Next as well as Hold and Play Next can not be executed, therefore the None action will be used instead.
  • While playing a graphics element, only the finished actions None, Play Next and Reload are available.