Player [ML 21.3 UG]

The player offers a variety of functions to control the playback and the creation of new events.

Create events and adjust IN/OUT points

To create a new event, navigate to the right position in the video or audio file and press the [+] - Button (alternatively hotkey “A”). MediaLogger will automatically create a new event at the current playhead position. The OUT point is automatically set to a default value but can be changed like this:

• Select the event for which you want to change the OUT and go to edit mode e.g. by selecting the pencil icon or double click on the OUT-value.

• Move the timecode position to the TC that should be the new out point

• Press the OUT point control. This will update the TC for the OUT for the selected event

The buttons next to the IN/OUT point provide a fast way to position the playhead directly at the IN or OUT point.

TC Navigation

If users want to accurately specify the insertion of an IO point to a particular frame, they can determine the position of the playhead via time-based navigation. To navigate to a specific TC, one has to double click on the timecode display. Once the desired TC has been put in, pressing enter will move the playhead to the desired position.

In case an incorrect timecode (e.g. that does not exist in the asset) is entered, the timecode is shown in red and pressing enter will reset the timecode to the old timecode

Switch to Original Timecode

For videos from camera cards, Vidispine also stores the original timecode of the camera card child elements. In that way the original timecode is preserved and users can switch between showing the standard continuous or the original timecode when they play back the video. The player component shows a dropdown option in case there is an original timecode available.

Play, Pause and Skip

Apart from the typical player functions, such as play and pause, users are able to skip on a frame by frame basis. This is particularly helpful when accurately specifying the insertion of IN / OUT points. Naturally, frame skipping and the change in TC is indicated on the timecode area next to the timeline.

Playback Speed Factor

When using the player to view content, users can choose to increase or decrease the speed factor by selecting the factor option in the player's menu.

Audio Channel Selection

Users can select which audio channels should be played back in the player. Next to the speaker symbol the audio tracks are shown that are currently selected and besides that the so called peak meter shows the audio level of the selected tracks.

In the default setup of the MediaLogger users can select pairs of audio that they want to listen to from the audio channel selection, that is opened with a click on the speaker symbol.

Depending on the system configuration, it might be possible to not only select pairs, but also individual audio channels that should be played back. As this setting leads to higher hardware consumption it is normally deactivated and can only be activated as a system setting from the administrator or project engineer.

Full Screen Mode

Whenever viewing material on either of the players, Source Preview and Timeline Preview players, users are able to switch to a full screen mode.

When using the full screen mode, hovering over the bottom edge of the screen will prompt the player's menu options. Clicking on the "X" button will revert the player to its normal mode and return to the standard MediaLogger UI.

Subtitle Preview

If video or audio files have subtitles, users can choose to show them as overlay in the player. If there are subtitles available one notice from the subtitle selection control. If there are no subtitles available the subtitle area is greyed out.

If there are subtitles available, the subtitle name is shown and the user can select “ON” next to the subtitle selection to activate the preview of the subtitles.

In case there are multiple languages / different subtitle files, the subtitle can be changed from the dropdown menu that shows the names of the existing subtitles. In the screenshot above it is called “Subtitle” only. More likely you will see names like “Subtitle English” and a “Subtitle French”.

Subtitle preview only serves for editorial reasons to check the text. Currently the subtitle preview in the player does not regard any formatting if there is any stored in the orginal subtitle file.