Grass Valley SSP-3801 User Guide v.1.3 - Manual (Page 25)

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SSP-3801
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The Playlist page also includes various toolbars you can use to make changes in the playlist:
• Playlist Controls: located on the bottom left of the timeline, it contains controls such as
Hold Next and Take Next, for example. The controls allow you to manually change
when events are placed on-air.
• Live Controls: located on the bottom right of the timeline, it contains controls such as
Breakaway-A, for example. The controls allow you to manually interrupt the playlist to
broadcast a live event.
• Manual Controls: located under the Playlist Controls and Live Controls toolbars, it
contains controls that allow you to enable or disable secondary events in the playout.
• Playlist Editing Controls toolbar: located under the Manual Controls toolbar, it contains
controls that allow you to manually append events to the playlist or sync with GV
STRATUS Playout. This toolbar is hidden by default.
Between the Cued and On-air threshold markers is a 15-second period referred to as the
pre-roll window in which the event is prepared to go on air. During the pre-roll, you can
edit, insert, replace, drop, undrop, and delete events, but events cannot be uncued using
the Uncue Last button. All properties of the event can be edited, except the event’s Time
mode and Date/Time. Be prudent when making changes at this stage. When an event is
changed in the pre-roll window, it must go through the process of being prepared to go on
air again so this action should not be performed too close to the On-air threshold or
unwanted consequences may occur.
At the very bottom of the Playlist page is the channel grid. It provides details about the
events in the playlist and displays the status of the events as they move through the
timeline:
Status color Description
Red The event cannot be broadcast for reasons such as the event is not yet
available from the cache or the event was not found. It can also mean that
the event ended earlier than its allocated duration.
Dark Orange The event is cueing up.
Orange The event is cued up and ready to be played.
Purple The event is not on-air due to a Breakaway event, is unable to resume playing
after the breakaway event ends, or has been manually disabled from the
playout.
Dark green The event is about to go on air.
Green The event is being broadcast.
White/Grey The event is not active.
Status Description
Accessible The media file is accessible, but has not been cached.
Breakaway The event is being interrupted by a live feed.
Caching The caching process has started, but a progress report is not available yet.
Caching (%) The caching process is in progress and is reporting a percent (%) value of
completion.