Metus MAM has a skillful viewer application in itself. When you double click on an asset, it opens with the viewer
Top Panel 1- Viewer Menus , 2 - Mini Browser
3- Right Panel
4- Bottom Panel
Left Panel 5- Playback Speed 6- Metadata (and/or storyboard) window
Please see Viewer Menus - 4.0.0.0 for detailed information about the File Menu in the Viewer.
Top Panel
- You can see Mini-Browser where you can toggle between your recent viewed assets easily,
- You can see the info box at right, where some basic info about the asset is summarized. (you can click on the box to change the info display)
Right Panel
- In right panel, we have Use Proxy button. You can change between proxy (if there is one available for the particular asset) and hi-res version easily with this button. (Shortcut: Ctrl + Space)
- You can change the thumbnail for the asset with Create Thumbnail from current frame. You can also add frames to the storyboard of the asset with Add SB button. This button will be inactive if the asset has no storyboard.
- You can change the aspect ratio for the image or add a letter box from the drop-down menu
- You can enable/disable the censors to turn on/off the censoring in Viewer preivew. Please see Censoring - 4.0.0.0 for more information
- You can zoom in and out the image in the viewer screen from the drop-down menu
- With the lock button - bottom of the right panel, you can lock the Viewer against changes
- You see the audio controls at right-bottom corner, where you can change audio volume, mute and set left-right balance for the asset
Lock and Discard changes buttons
Bottom Panel
At bottom, you can see the Timers information for Master In - Out points and Master duration , Mark In - Out points and Mark duration, Marker point, Cursor point and total Duration of the asset
Below that, there are vintage VTR playback controls; go to start position, play/pause, stop, previous frame, next frame and go to end position.
Bottom Left
There are Previous Clip and Next Clip buttons stationed left of the VTR controls. These buttons opens the next asset or the previous one (according to the line of mini-browser / your recently viewed assets)
Bottom Right
You will see Add Video Censor and Add Audio Censor button at right, please see Censoring - 4.0.0.0 in Metus MAM for more information about audio and video censoring
You can Zoom in and Out focusing the timeline Life saver with populated (tens of markers, custom areas, descriptions...) timelines!
You can play only the part between Mark In and Out and you can set the Viewer in Loop mode to repeat playing the active asset.