LSM-VIA Viewer

Overview

At startup, the LSM-VIA Viewer screen shows the Clip grid (3). It features the areas highlighted on the screenshot below.

The Playlist pane (4) can be displayed on the right of the screen.

The Playlist grid or the Search window used for searching and filtering purposes can be accessed and displayed on the LSM-VIA Viewer.

This area is always displayed.

The Notification button gives access to the Notification pane.

The Notification pane displays all notifications generated in the current session since the last purge, with a color code.

When at least one notification has been generated, a color circle is displayed next to the Notification icon. The circle has the color of the most urgent notification.

See section "Viewing and Managing Notifications".

The Help button gives access to a menu with the following options:

• About: displays a window with the LSM-VIA version number, support phone numbers.
• Extract Logs: extracts the logs to a dedicated folder.

See section Extracting Logs.

• User Manual: opens the LSM-VIA user manual in the web browser.

The Settings button gives access to the LSM-VIA configuration window in the default browser.

See section Configuring LSM-VIA.

This area is always displayed.

This field specifies on which server the displayed clips are stored on.

• (default): features the local server
• : when a remote server has been selected.

The server netnumber and netname are provided and the purple background highlights the remote state.

See section Connecting to a Network Server.

In this field, select the Remote Panel (of the local server) the LSM-VIA Viewer has to be synchronized to.

By default, the LSM-VIA Viewer is not synchronized to a Remote Panel, and the value is None.

When the LSM-VIA Viewer is synchronized to a Remote Panel, the page/bank navigation on the Remote Panel is automatically applied to the Viewer and vice-versa.

See section How to Synchronize the Navigation.

This area displays the Clip grid, or the Playlist grid, depending on the selected bank.

It can also display the Search window for the purpose of searching for media.

The area width can be reduced if the Playlist pane (4) is expanded on the right of the screen.

The Clip grid and its various areas are meant to display information specific to clips.

See section The Clip Grid on LSM-VIA Viewer for more information.

The Playlist grid and its various areas are meant to display information specific to playlists.

See section The Playlist Grid on the LSM-VIA Viewer for more information.

The Search window lists all the clip angles from the entire XNet network. It provides searching and filtering tools to restrict the list of elements and more easily find the one(s) you need.

See section The Search Window on the LSM-VIA Viewer for more information.

The Playlist pane can be opened on the right-side of the screen. It displays the active playlist.

See section The Playlist Pane on the Viewer for more information.

To move the focus from the Clip grid/Playlist grid/Search window to the Playlist pane, or vice versa,

• press +

A blue line appears at the top of the pane which has the focus.