Graphics
Graphics departments used to be concerned with static images, but that is no longer the case. However, one of the most common devices you will come across is a stills store.
Stacks
A programme that requires a lot of graphics will usually have them prepared beforehand and built into a stack – i.e. a list of the graphics in the order they need to appear on screen is programmed into the stills store.
Most stills stores give you two outputs (or ‘channels’), which function according to the type of stack you have prepared. Both channels usually appear on the vision mixer, although some small studios only use one.
Programme/preview
Here you use one of the output channels for cutting the pictures to air (i.e. the ‘programme’ channel) while ...
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