Rundown

The rundown module allows item-by-item scheduling of the daily playlist. Items can be created by dragging supported assets from the browser area to the rundown.

Run modes

Both events and items in a rundown can have different run modes set. The default value is auto, which means events and items play sequentially one by one. This behavior can be changed by setting run mode of the row using the context menu.

Event run modes

• Auto: Playback of the block starts right after the last clip of the previous block is finished.
• Manual: The previous block plays in a loop until an item from this block is manually cued.
• Soft: The previous block plays in a loop until the start time of this block is reached. After that, the first item of the block is cued, and starts when the currently playing clip is finished.
• Hard: Similar to the soft mode, but when the event start time is reached, hard cut is used instead waiting for the current clip to be finished.

Item run modes

• Auto: Playback starts automatically right after the last clip is finished.
• Manual: The previous item stops at its last frame until take or abort button is pressed to advance to the next item.
• Skip: The item won’t be played and its duration is not accounted to the rundown computed time. This mode is useful for scheduling “backup” clips for the case live event ends earlier than expected.
• Loop: The item plays in a loop until the Take button is used to advance to the next item

Special items

Icons from the middle group of the toolbar can be dragged to the rundown to create the following special items:

Placeholders

Placeholders can be automatically replaced by items using “solve” command from the context menu. This functionality depends on the site configuration and may not be available.

Live events

When playback reaches the live event, the playout server is switched to its configured live source (for example the feed from the studio).

Lead in/out

Special markers to be used in looped blocks. Lead-in marks the point, where the playback continues after reaching the end of the loop, lead-out marks the end of the looped part.

Example

When the run mode of the next block is set to soft, the part before lead-in marker is played, then the part between both markers plays in the loop and when the start time of the next block is reached, the current clip finishes, then the part after the lead-out marker is played and finally, the next block starts.