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Creating a brick of type VTR

Brick components

A VTR is a pre-produced feature to be used as part of a show.

From a technical perspective, a VTR usually consists of at least one clip that plays full screen and an optional overlay graphic. Accordingly, a VTR brick created with Fusion could consist of the following directives, for example:

No. Type Title Priority Playback location Default playback location Mosart command
1 Clip Clip MUST Full screen Yes VTR
2 Graphic Insert CAN Insert - -

The first directive defines that a multimedia object of type Clip must be used in every story that uses this brick. Because of the used MUST priority, a clip is always required in the corresponding story. The clip is a default clip that is replaced later in the NRCS by a story-specific clip. Since the Default playback location option is enabled, the selected playback location Fullscreen is selected by default when the brick is assigned to a story in the NRCS. The used Mosart command VTR contains all the templates required to play out the clip via the studio automation on the corresponding studio device. The templates were previously imported from the studio automation and can be edited by the user if necessary.

The second directive defines that an additional insert graphic can optionally (due to the used priority CAN) be used in any story that uses this brick. In this example, the selected story location Insert allows the graphic to be displayed as an insert, e.g. not as full screen graphic, but as lower third. This means that the graphic is later played out by the connected graphics system and displayed as an overlay over the clip.

Notice

No Mosart command is required for graphics because the used graphics system (e.g. Viz Pilot) usually only needs the name of the graphic to identify it and play it out correctly.

Notice

Graphics are not managed by Fusion, but by the connected NRCS. Fusion can be used to add directives, but not to add graphics to a rundown.

Notice

If a brick that contains a multimedia object of type Graphic is assigned to a story in the NRCS, from the user's point of view special attention should be paid to the category of the graphic. If a user selects a graphic of a different category in the NRCS than the one defined in the brick, it is considered invalid by Fusion and set to ignore. As a result the studio automation ignores the graphic and does not play it.

Tip

If a brick contains a multimedia object of type Graphic with priority CAN, a user can add additional graphics in the NRCS. Fusion evaluates these as valid and returns them.

If this brick is used in a story in the connected NRCS, the used templates are passed to the studio automation. Due to the defined directives, the following two variants for the brick contents are possible here:

  1. a clip without additional graphics
  2. a clip with an additional graphic

Creating the brick

Tip

The general creation of a brick is described in chapter Managing bricks.

To create the previously described example brick for a VTR, proceed as follows:

  1. Open Fusion Designer.
  2. Make sure that the multimedia object types, playback locations and templates to be used in the brick already exist in Fusion. If this is not the case, create the required elements as described in the chapters Managing multimedia objects, Managing playback locations, Importing an automation template and Managing automation templates.
  3. Select the main Bricks area on the left side.
  4. Click New brick (Neuer Brick).
  5. Enter a title and select the brick details. Fill in all mandatory fields marked with an asterisk.

  6. In the list of multimedia objects on the right, select the type Clip and click New directive (Neue Direktive).

    The selected element is added as a directive.

  7. To set the playback location as the default playback location, check Default in the added directive.

  8. To add a Mosart command to the directive, select the directive, then select the package to be added (e.g. VTR) on the right, and add it either by double-clicking it or by clicking Add to directive (Zur Direktive).

  9. Select the type Graphics (Grafik) in the list of multimedia objects on the right and click New directive (neue Direktive).

    The selected element is added as a directive.

  10. Click Save brick (Brick speichern).

The brick is saved, is available in the connected NRCS and can be assigned to a story.