Banks

Banks within Prism provide a versatile space for managing media.

Banks can be reordered, be renamed, and imported or exported for use in another project.

Additionally, Banks can display thumbnails of the added elements via the grid view.

Pressing the + button will add a new Bank, the area will split into two sections:

• Left side - Bank Manager
• Right side - Selected Bank

Each Bank has its own Sub Menu:

Feature	Description
Rename	Renames the Bank
Remove	Deletes the Bank and its contents
Duplicate	Duplicates the Bank and its contents, including any Bank element property changes
Import	Replaces the Bank with the saved Bank. See Import & Export for more details.
Export	Saves the Bank to a file. See Import & Export for more details.

Bank

To add new media to a Bank, select the Bank you wish to add to, and simply drag and drop your files or press the + button.

The Bank can be displayed in two views: Table or Grid. Both views feature a header at the top, which includes options to duplicate or remove selected Bank elements, and a toggle button to switch between views. There is also a button for adding new media.

Bank Element

Bank elements can be rearranged by dragging them around in both table view and grid view.

Types

Image

Supports standard image types, such as PNG, JPG, GIF, etc.

Audio

Supports standard audio types, such as MP3, WAV, etc.

Video

Supports natively Avolites AiM, NotchLC, and HAP. Additionally, other standard video codecs such as H264, H265, ProRes, etc., are also supported.

To enhance playback performance, consider transcoding media into Avolites AiM codec. Media can be added to the encoder list by the Send To Encoder button.

NDI Input

Any active NDI sources on the network. Please see both Settings and Preview pages in order to setup and select NDI Sources.

Live Input

Any connected capture devices on the system. Please see both Settings and Preview pages in order to setup and select Webcam / Capture Devices.

Virtual Return

The virtual return element enables one layer in the project to receive the rendered output of another layer.

Table View

Table View gives more information about video / audio codecs, resolution, whether hardware acceleration is available on the media and much more.

Users can playback elements using the Play button and preview elements with the Preview button.

Actions

Play

A layer must be selected in order to play elements

Preview

When previewing an element, adjustments can be made to its properties, please see Preview for more details on how this works.

Sub Menu

Pressing the Sub Menu icon on individual elements allows access to the following actions:

• Remove - Deletes the element from the Bank
• Preview - Preview and adjust properties of the Bank element
• Duplicate - Add a new copy of the Bank element, including all settings
• Show In Folder - Open file explorer and navigate to the element's media file

Grid View

Grid View allows for easier triggering of clips due to the larger trigger area, thumbnails are shown here and are also stored on the Prism Media Cache.

Import/Export

Please see Import/Export for reference.

Note: It is also possible to import Banks by simply dragging and dropping them in the drag and drop area.