User`s guide

46 Chapter 6: Getting Started

6 Getting Started

Viz Content Pilot consists of multiple applications, but you can divide the main

areas of use into three; control room, newsroom and template design.

In addition you have the Viz Object Store (image database), the Viz Thumbnail

Generator, the update script service and more; however, you can think of these as

service providers to the main areas of use.

The Viz Content Pilot (VCP) client depends on several systems to be able to

function in a control room. Most important are the Media Sequencer and the VCP

database. Without these two the VCP client will not start.

The basic setup therefore consists of a connection to the Media Sequencer and

the VCP database. For actual playout you will further need a Viz Engine with a

connection to a Viz Graphics Hub for content creation and graphics playout.

A common setup is also to run the VCP client with a newsroom system

connection. A newsroom connection allows VCP to fetch playlists made available

by the newsroom system. This effectively means that the VCP client operator will

only monitor and control the playout of the playlist elements, and not create

them.

Additionally, for playout of video clips a connection to Viz One for search and

transfer of video clips to Viz Engine can be used.

Note: The Media Sequencer is, amongst other things, used to configure connections

to External Interfaces. The Media Sequencer may be installed locally or on a separate

server (see Startup Options).

To start Viz Content Pilot client

1. Start the Media Sequencer.

2. Configure the VCP client’s Database parameters in the local initialization file

to connect to the VCP database.

3. Double-click the icon on the desktop, or

4. Select the program from the Start menu (All Programs > Vizrt > Viz Content

Pilot > Viz Content Pilot 5.x)

Note: Default intallation path: C:\Program Files\vizrt\viz content pilot 5.x.