User manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Getting Started
- Setting Up CountDown
- Managing Media Events
- Managing Playlists
- Understanding Playlists
- Building a Playlist
- Opening an Existing Playlist
- Optimizing the Positions of CountDown Windows
- Modifying Events in the Playlist
- Playing a List to Air
- Previewing a Playlist
- Importing a Playlist
- Exporting a Playlist
- Printing a Playlist
- Deleting a Playlist
- Previewing a Transition
- Breaking Out of Referenced Playlist Loops
- Working with the MOS Protocol
- Using Shotboxes
- Index
Building a Shotbox
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Building a Shotbox
To build a shotbox, ensure that shotbox editing is enabled. See “Configuring
Playlist/Shotbox Preferences” on page 33. You do not need to enable editing
to create a new shotbox.
Creating a New Shotbox
To build a shotbox, you first need to create a new, empty shotbox.
To create a new shotbox, do one of the following:
t Press Alt and click the New icon on the General toolbar.
t Press Ctrl-Alt-N.
CountDown opens a new shotbox called Untitled Shotbox n, where n is the
number of new shotboxes that have been created during this CountDown
session.
Assigning Media to Buttons
Each button in the shotbox represents a media event. Media events must be
assigned to buttons before playing events to air.
To assign a media event to a button:
1. Select the desired event from the media list, from another shotbox, or
from a playlist.
2. Do one of the following:
t Drag the selection to the desired button.
t Use the Copy and Paste commands.
Every button does not need to have an event assigned to it. Buttons that do not
have media events assigned to them are inactive.
Using Placeholders
As with playlists, placeholders enable creation of events in a shotbox for
media events that are not yet present on the AirSpeed server.