Chapter 4Players

Eight players across the top of the desk play your clips. They go straight into the show's mix.

Load a clip

Click a file in the clip browser. It goes into the next free player.
Drag a file from the clip browser onto a player.
Right-click the name of a player to load any file from your computer.

Click a file that is already in a player, and that player flashes. It is not loaded twice. When all players are full, the player that has not been used for the longest time is used again, but never one that plays.

The buttons

A player playing — A player that plays: PLAY reads PAUSE and is green.

PLAY / PAUSE	Plays the clip from its IN point. Press again to pause, and again to go on.
STOP	Stops and goes back to the IN point. The clip stays loaded.
DUMP	Empties the player.
PFL	Takes the player off the air: only you hear it, so you can check a clip before it goes out.

A player on PFL — PFL on: the player is yellow. It plays only to you.

Click the player's name to turn PFL on or off too.

Time, volume and the end of a clip

The time shows what is left. Click it to show the time played; it turns yellow.
The last ten seconds of a clip flash, so you see the end coming.
The fader at the right is the volume. The mouse wheel anywhere on the player changes it too, in steps.

Elapsed time — The time played (yellow), after a click on the time.

IN and OUT points

Play only part of a clip: set an IN point where it starts and an OUT point where it stops.

Double-click the waveform to set the IN point there.
Right-click the waveform: Set IN here, Set OUT here, or Reset IN and OUT.
Click the waveform to jump to that place.

IN and OUT points — IN (white line, left) and OUT (red line, right).

Zoom in

Hold Ctrl (or ⌘ on a Mac) and turn the mouse wheel over the waveform to zoom in. Drag the waveform left or right to slide it. This lets you set an OUT point to the tenth of a second, even at the very end of a clip.

Zoomed in four times, near the end of the clip.

If the app crashes

The players are put back as they were: the same clips, levels and IN and OUT points. Nothing starts playing by itself.