User`s guide

136 Chapter 8: Main Menu

• Bounding Box: Shows the boundaries of the scene’s objects.

• Safe Area: Shows the boundaries of the defined safe area (purple rectangle).

• Show Commands: Opens a console window that shows the Viz commands. The

console window can be enabled by default by adding the ShowConsole registry

setting.

• Restart: Restarts the local Viz Engine.

Context Menu

• Keep aspect: Sets and keeps the correct aspect ratio according to the Viz

output format settings when the window is resized.

• Show console: Shows the Viz console, showing all commands sent to and

processed by Viz.

• Always on top: Floats the preview window on top of all other application

windows.

To see a local preview

1. Set a local Viz Engine (i.e. localhost) as the preview renderer in the Profile

Configuration

2. Select Local Viz Engine Preview from the Viz Engine menu to open the Local

Viz Engine Preview window.

3. Open a playlist.

4. Right-click the playlist and from the appearing context menu check the Auto

preview option.

5. Left-click a data element to see a preview.