Archimedia makes the Atlas professional media player for all professional and other formats. This slideshow gives a visual orientation to all the Atlas features, tools, windows and menus. If you have Atlas, follow along in your own Atlas to become familiar with it. If you're curious about Atlas, this slideshow illustrates the extraordinary powers of its tools and features.

1. Visual Orientation to:

2. ahead
faster
back
faster
Mark In
Mark
Out
step mode
back or
reverse
Open a file
If you have Atlas, open it and follow
along with this visual orientation.

3. Toggle time window:
- Timecode Track (read file values:
automatic drop frame 0;0 indicator
and *1/*2 field indicator)
- Control Track (frame rate x frame #)
- Play Time (HH:MM:SS:milliseconds)
- Frame number (counted, always
shown to the right of selection)
Toggle loop modes: All, Once, None.
Search by:
- Timecode Track
- Control Track
- Play Time
- Frame number
Slow motion: click << or >> to
reverse direction.
Double-click << or >> to speed up.
Volume and mute.
A closer look at the
Atlas transport controls.

4. Right-click to see all the Atlas
Tool Windows and features.
The following slides
illustrate all the
features in order.

5. Atlas > Open File… is different from drag-and-drop or double-click.
Click Add to browse and add external audio files.
Click Add to browse and add external subtitles.
Hover to see paths.

6. Recommendation: Check your viewing environment by
first opening a chart matching the video you plan to watch.

7. Open a DPX/TIFF/EXR
frame sequence folder.
Atlas plays subfolders, and
alerts to sequence errors.
Atlas also plays DCP
(including encrypted),
IMF & AS-02 packages,
and alerts to package
and checksum errors.
To adjust XYZ-RGB, right-click > Options.

8. Atlas can open multiple
captions & subtitles tracks.
This EIA-608 is embedded.
This ITT Chinese subtitles file
was loaded here.
Select here which track to
see in on-screen overlay.
Right-click > Options to set
a custom transparency etc.
Atlas extracts embedded
captions to a timed text file
in a subtitles cache folder.
This may take a little time.
Next time you open the
same video, captions load
instantly. You can also pre-
extract captions from
multiple files with a utility,
ask Archimedia for details.

9. File Aspect is normal.
Choose others if needed.

10. Zoom affects
desktop viewer only.
Examples of custom
keyboard shortcuts.

11. Full-screen mode is best on a second-screen TV and Windows Extended Desktop mode,
but you can use full-screen mode with a single screen.
You can’t click on the full-screen video so if you lose mouse or keyboard controls,
press the ESCAPE key to exit full-screen mode at any time.
Full-screen mode.
A computer monitor is not recommended for full-screen mode because
it may not have television or cinema frame rates, interlaced video modes,
surround sound licensed downmixing, speakers etc.
Desktop video is off because the graphics card is in full-screen mode to
the other screen and can’t make two kinds of video at once.

12. Another way to select a
time display mode.
Hover to see tool tips.

13. Overlays affect desktop
video and graphics outputs.
Overlays don’t affect SDI.
Video Properties –
IN: Video frame size and frame rate to graphics
and SDI outputs.
PC: Computer monitor size (not the video size).
Audio levels overlayAudio levels overlay

14. Video Scaling affects desktop video,
graphics outputs and SDI.
See how Video Properties size
is changed when video restarts:
Source video frame
size before applying
Video Scaling:
Video Scaling is separate from
Display Size > Zoom, which
affects only desktop video.

15. Video Controls
Audio Controls
Right-click > Options to set your own keyboard shortcuts.
To use transport controls keyboard shortcuts, Windows
(mouse) focus must be on Atlas transport controls window.
Atlas can also be controlled by
RS422 (emulates Sony VTR),
or a USB jog/shuttle wheel.

16. Open Atlas Tool Windows
Atlas remembers open
tool windows locations
upon closing.
If you change desktop
size (different monitor
for example), Atlas may
have to open tool
windows in a desktop
corner. Drag corners to
resize and locate in
your current desktop.

17. Right-click to Open
or Save a Playlist.
By default, Atlas
puts the current
video in the Playlist.
Playlist saves selections
made when the files open:
Audio
Captions/subtitles
Mark In/Out
Scaling
Volume
Add files and frame sequences.
Remove items.
Move items up and down in the
Playlist sequence.
Atlas auto-saves changes to a
saved Playlist.
Apply one item’s
settings to all items
Mix any formats in a Playlist.
Mix files and frame sequences.
Toggle loop mode: All, Once, None.
Loop All loops the Playlist.
Loop Once loops the current video.

18. Double-click Time In,
Time Out, or Text, to
seek to that frame.
Current-view captions or
subtitles format indicator.
Captions/Subtitles
Viewer/Navigator
Any language installed
on your computer.
Edit STL, save
to new STL.
Embedded captions can be saved for
faster loading next time you open a file.
Right-click > Options
to set cache folder.

19. Individual channel mutes.
Right-click to see menus.
Change audio meter settings
in Atlas > Options.
Compare any channel
pairs for audio phase.
Select colors.
Audio meters with peak holds.
Hover to see tips and levels
(average per video frame).

20. Audio Router redirects up to 64 input tracks to
16 output channels: graphics / SDI / analog / USB.
Surround sound tracks are discreet input channels.
Audio Router will redirect input channels to
Audio Waveforms channels, Audio Meter channels, graphics
card channels, SDI channels, Windows sound channels, and
on-screen audio levels overlay channels.
64 x 16 Channel Audio Router
Hover to preview crosspoint selection.

21. Zoom in as far as one frame.
Green line is frame start,
yellow line is frame end.
Double-click in audio waveform
to seek to that point.
Green line is
current position.
Drag position marker
or click progress bar to
scroll through audio
waveforms.
Try Home and End keys.
See the status bar at top for useful
information. Time Start, Time End
and Total Time refer to the time
visible at the current zoom level.

22. Audio waveforms can
show input or output
channels mapping.
16 output channels 64 input channels

23. See video levels and vectors
In Auto mode, resize window
to portrait or landscape shape
to change parade direction.
Waveform Monitor
automatically selects
RGB mode

24. This is one example of
a desktop with all the
Atlas Tool Windows
open at once.
Tool Windows locations and sizes are
automatically saved in an Atlas configuration
file and reopened next time you start Atlas.

25. Click to see all the basic
and advanced options in
Atlas.
Contact Archimedia if you
need help with advanced
options and settings. For example, set your
own keyboard shortcuts.
Export settings for
later recall.
You may want
configurations for
some file formats,
different screens,
different tasks,
a baseline to get
back to normal,
other users etc.

26. File Properties extracts a full
listing of all the available
metadata in your video file
including file paths, timestamp,
information about your
computer and much more.
When you have questions,
send these File Properties to
support@archimediatech.com.

27. See License Host ID,
expiration date, and
licensed features.
Software licenses can be activated
and deactivated (moved) in your
support account with License Host ID.

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