Working with Widgets

Adding Widgets

While we have worked with widgets in the layout mode, all the widgets that we had access to were already present in the layouts. Since we are aiming to create a new custom layout that would better fit our needs, we need to look at all the available widgets and them pick/customize them.

There are two ways of accessing the widget list:

• Alt + Right Click inside any widget (with Layout Edit mode off)

• Settings → Widget Settings

• Left Click on the Layout Name in the top menu bar.

• This will open the widget selection and setting for the current Layout. By default it will open on the AI Tools widget tab.

• The left side contains a scrollable list of all the widgets that are available in Stellar.

• The right side contains the settings for each of the widgets in the left column.

• Widgets that have a yellow name - are already active in your project.

Configuring Widgets

Each instance of a widgets comes with its list of setting which are show in each Widget tab.

Some widgets do not have an extensive set of settings that can be altered. AI Tools is one good example of that type of widget.

Other widgets, such as the Audio Recorder widget, come with an extensive list of settings that can be adjusted by the user. As it can be seen in the image, there are two categories of settings that can be changed by the user:

• Position Settings - alter the position/size of the widget in the layout
• Widget Settings - alter the functionally based on the available setting for each widget.

Once the you have entered your desired values, you can press save to update the widget settings. If you do not want to save the changes that you made, just press cancel and your edits will be reverted to the original values.

Widget List

Widget	Location	Details	Nebula Process	Important	Position Settings
AI Tools	Tools Menu	Provides an interface to a range of external ASR (Speech to Text) services	ASR Plugin Process		n/a
Audio Recorder	Layout	Provides mixing, gap detection and AD Delivery options Provides multi-user operation for AD and Dubbing Recording in conjunction with the Task Manager Widget	No requirements	Needs Media Controller Widget to be present.	yes
Audio Tools Plugin	Tools Menu	Provides mixing, gap detection and AD Delivery options	Audio Tools Process		n/a
Collaboration Widget	Layout	Provides multi-user operation for AD and Dubbing Recording in conjunction with the Task Manager Widget.	Task List Plugin + Access to Nebula Collaboration and Task servers		yes
External Widget Container	Layout	Add non-standard (external) widgets to the current Layout. Advanced Feature.	No requirements		yes
File Status	Layout	Adds File Status window in its widget form. This is of great help when doing QC, for example.	No requirements		yes
Fonts Manager	Settings	Fonts are used in subtitling to simulate the output the viewer will see.	No requirements		n/a
Logs	Layout	Add support for non-standard log viewer Widget to the current Layout. Advanced Feature.	No requirements		yes
Media Controller	Layout	Provides a full set of play, step and seek controls.	No requirements		yes
Profiles Manager	Settings Menu	Provides management control of Templates.	No requirements		n/a
Project Loader	Menu Bar	Add the Files menu to the top bar in the Current Layout	No requirements		n/a
Script Import		Add an import menu to allow the import of CSV scripts.	No requirements		n/a
Script Overlay	Layout	Add Dubbing and AD video overlay to the current Layout	No requirements		n/a
Subtitle Tools Plugin	Tools	Provides a subtitle rendering function.	Subtitle Render Process		n/a
Synthetic Voice Plugin	Tools/Audio Tools	Add the Synthetic Voice Render option to the Tools/Audio Tools submenu.	Synthetic Voices Plugin		n/a
Task Manager	Layout	Provides a display for task management.	Task List Plugin + Access to a Nebula Task server		n/a
Time Display	Layout	Provides a large timecode display.	No requirements		yes
Timed Text Editor	Layout	Provides all the functions to create and edit all forms time timed text including subtitles, captions, AD scripts etc.	No requirements		yes
Timeline	Layout	Provides a detailed timeline display and control.	No requirements		yes
Timing Tools	Tools Menu	Provides a set of tools for manipulating timing of subtitles.	No requirements		n/a
Translate Plugin	Layout	Provides the interface and display to use external machine Translation services to translate single subtitles or whole subtitle files.	Stellar Translation Plugin		yes
Video Display	Layout	Provides a video display of the current media file loaded and a range of text overlays.	No requirements		yes
Volume Manager	Layout	Provides a display for all volumes.	No requirements		yes
Web Search			No requirements		n/a