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Terms and concepts used in AppCenter

Assignable buttons – Some buttons are assignable, meaning you can change the order that buttons appear in some button groups to better suit your workflow. Holding down the left mouse button on an assignable button causes a pop-menu to appear that lists the alternative button choices for that button.

Bin – A bin is a container used to organize assets like clips and lists in the same way as directories or folders are used on a typical computer system. Bins can be nested inside other bins. A bin is associated with a single disk volume. The bins display in alphabetical order.

Channel application – Channels in AppCenter are always in one application or another. Each application has its own set of buttons, lists, controls, and other characteristics, relative to the operations performed in that application. The name of the application for the channel is displayed in the channel’s monitor pane, which is also where you can change the application for the channel.

Clip thumbnail – Used for visual identification of a clip. By default, the thumbnail is generated from the 16th frame of video. You can select a new thumbnail using Player. If no thumbnail is available, an icon is displayed showing there is no thumbnail.

Current Bin – The current bin functions as the target bin when recording clips or creating playlists. It is also the source bin used to load clips and lists.

Selected channel – There is always one channel that is selected. When a channel is selected, the channel is displayed with a blue outline around the channel pane. The monitor pane has a red outline if recording and a green outline if playing a clip or playlist; if selected while the channel is inactive, the monitor pane is also outlined in blue. The keyboard is delegated to controlling the selected channel. To select the channel either select a channel in the monitor pane or press a keyboard shortcut. Changing the channel selection does not disrupt other channels, they continue to operate in the background.

Storage – The term “Storage” is used to refer to external, shared storage. Storage that is used with a stand-alone K2 Summit/Solo system will be specifically designated as “internal storage” or as “direct connect” storage, which is storage directly attached to the stand-alone.

Timecode – Timecode is displayed in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. However, the timecode syntax differs based on whether the video is drop frame or non-drop frame.
First Field Second Field
Non-drop frame . (period) : (colon)
Drop frame , (comma) ; (semicolon)

For example, in drop frame timecode, a clip could start on 01:15:00,04 and end on 01:15:00;09.

Volume – The set of media drives that functions as a single physical disk.


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