User`s guide

64 Chapter 7: Configuration
To configure remote still preview
Still Preview allows you to use the program output to get a still preview, typically
on a reference monitor. To achieve this the Media Sequencer creates a copy of the
scene being read and sends commands to your program output renderer asking
for a snapshot of the scene while the current scene on air is being rendered.
1. Create two channels, one for program and one for preview
2. Configure the same render engine twice as seen in how To add a Viz Engine
3. For the second render engine set Port to 50010 and the Mode to Still Preview
4. Click Ok
5. Add the program renderer to the program channel and the still preview
renderer to the preview channel
WARNING! This setup requires sufficient ring buffer on the program renderer in
order for the rendered still preview not to cause the scene on air to drop frames;
hence, this setting is deprecated.
To enable remote snapshot preview
Note: This operation is only needed if you already installed Viz Content Pilot client’s
preview plugin for local preview.
1. Start Add or Remove Programs.
2. Select Vizrt Viz Content Pilot and click the Change/Remove button
3. In the appearing dialog box click No to uninstall the installation to start the
Custom installation process
4. Select Viz Content Pilot Newsroom Component
5. Deselect Viz Engine Preview plug-in
6. Click Next to restart the installation process
To configure remote snapshot preview
1. Start the Viz Content Pilot client
2. Select Preferences from the Options menu
3. Select the Remote Preview option in the Preferences window
4. Enable the Use this server option to override the database settings
• Host: <hostname>
• Port: 50008