Publishing the Broadcast Screen

This lesson deals with publishing the screen – we publish because we want the player to get the latest media item(s) added to the playlist.
When you are on the broadcast screen you will see box like the one below.

Broadcast Screen Overview

1. Publish – this is used for publishing the content
2. View attached players – all players that are attached to this screen, you can see them when you click this tab.
3. New Content List – this is for making a new list (We do not use this feature because we create content list from the broadcast calendar)
4. Broadcast Calendar – this is used for creating playlist and viewing the day schedule.

NB: Do not click inside the screen!

When you click on publish, there are two options available- see below.

Publish Overview

1. Manual Publish – see below for more info
2. Publish History – this is where you can view previous publishes.

Manual Publishing

1.Publish process: Select ITV-Standard-Publish.
2. Publish mode: Select Publish Updates.
3. Click on “Publish Now” to publish

Click on Cancel or “X” if you don’t want to publish.

Playlist Schedulling using Broadcast Calendar

In this lesson we learn about how to create content lists / playlist using the broadcast calendar.

Broadcast Calendar

Looking at the calendar above we see days with day numbers 90, 91…you will only see these numbers if there is a playlist created for that day. If we click on e.g. day 90 – the playlist appears behind the calendar box, see below.

Viewing the playlist

We can see all the content scheduled in the playlist and the duration of the media items and if you look at the bottom of the playlist, you will see the duration for the whole playlist.
To make a new playlist for the day, click on the day in calendar that you want to make playlist for and a box like one below pops up.

Create New Playlist

Click “yes” to create a new playlist – Click “No” or close the box at the top right if you don’t want to create a playlist.
When you have clicked on Yes – you will notice that the day number appears for the day that you had clicked and that there’s a new blank box behind the calendar that you can use to create playlist.
Close the Broadcast Calendar and start creating the list.

Creating and Editing the Playlist

The easiest way of scheduling a playlist is by dragging the media item you are going to use to the clipboard ( search for an item then drag it to clipboard and close your search results box)

Create the playlist by dragging media items from the clipboard onto the content box.

Once you have dragged media items / files to the content box, you can move the items up and down according to your preference, as well as delete item or set duration for the item.

You can select multiple items by clicking control button and items that you to edit or delete.
The last media item placed does not have to be looped – leave it on play next item.

When you create playlist – other media items will have duration automatically but you might find others that don’t show content duration, so if there’s no duration on the content – you will have to put it in manually…this is how you do it.

Selecting Content Duration

1. Right click on the content with no duration (make sure it is the correct item that you have click on)
2. On the drop-down list, click on “Time”
3. Click on Content Duration and the box below will appear.

Adding time to content

Edit only in the “out box” in the media duration and then click save.
Now that the playlist is done, you may publish the screen.

Day Schedule

This lesson shows how to check the playlist schedule times and durations.
This is where you see the actual time that the content has started playing and when is the next one going to start, as well as playing times for the previous ones.

Opening Broadcast Calendar

Click on “Broadcast Calendar” to open it.

Selecting Day Schedule

1. Click on the day you want to view.
The page with media items scheduled for the day appears.

To see the exact times an item has to start playing and end times; click on ” Day Schedule”

Day Schedule Box

1. This show meta ID of each content in the playlist
2. This shows the title or name the content
3. The duration of content ( this is only shown in seconds)
4. This shows the content that has triggers set on it.
5. This shows the times the content played and the times the next one is supposed to start playing.

Adding Layer To Broadcast Screen

This lesson shows how to add a layer to the screen.

A new screen with one layer called "Fullscreen"

To add another layer, right click on the screen and box like below appears

Adding Layer

Move mouse over Layout and select “New Layer”

You will notice that there is a layer under the fullscreen layer (New layer)
To make the layer visible, move the new layer to be on top of the fullscreen layer, you do this by dragging new layer up on top.
See below.

New layer visible

To edit the new layer:

1. Right click on it, move mouse over Layer
2. Click on Layer Properties

See below

Editing the layer

Here you edit layer : change the name, colour, size e.t.c; click done when finished.

Broadcast Calendar Overview

This lesson shows an overview of the broadcast calendar, where you find it and its features.
From Screen works, double click the bouquet and then open the screen you want or you can drag the screen to the clipboard so that you will find it easier next time you want to use it.
Below is an example of the Broadcast Schedule Test Screen, note where the broadcast calendar is – circled with the red marker.

Accessing Broadcast Calendar

When you click on it, the broadcast calendar box looking like the one below pops up.

Broadcast Calendar Features

1. This displays the players available, if you click on the drop down you will find other players attached to this screen.
2. This displays the publishing format of the screen.
3. This displays the layers on the screen.
4. This is where you see all the days and schedules as well as where you make the schedules; you can schedule playlist for the whole month or week or daily , the numbers on the calendar shows the actual day number as per 365 days of the year.
5. The Day Scheduler displays the content play times, i.e. the time a media item is supposed to play, the time it started playing and the times the previous media items have been playing. It also displays the durations of media items only in seconds.
6. Closes the Broadcast Calendar

Today’s day is always highlighted.

Calendar Control