SHOW

Throughout this User's Guide you see the word "show" many times. When you see it you can think of it as the end result and data carrier of what you create in Producer.

When you save your work in Producer you will create a Watchout Show (.watch) file that contains information about all the timelines, cues, effects, displays etc that you have defined for your show. One thing that is not saved as part of this file is the actual assets, since this would make the show files huge. Instead Producer stores unique IDs for the assets, used in the show, which allows WATCHOUT to retrieve the asset data from the Asset Manager. This means that you need to keep track of two things to be able to load a show that you previously created:

• The show file.
• The Asset Manager data that is referred to by the show file.