Hi Seumas Have you looked in the rdlogmanager at the "Edit Grids" section. There is a square for every hour of the week. First I would make an hour of generic music clock and populate most of the grids in there for your selected audio service.
Next decide where your regular weekly slots go... eg a 30 minute radio serial plays every Monday night at 8pm. Open your generic music clock... use the "Save as" to save the radio serial (clock) Call it "Bob's serial" or whatever. Now delete most of the music events out of it. and add a 30 minute event called Bob's serial that loads the Bob's serial cart from rdlibrary. Now go back into the grids for 20-21 on the Monday line and replace the grid assignment to call up the hour long, Bob's Serial Clock. For other weekly shows open up your original clock and use the "Save as" again to save as a new clock... and then delete the events you don't want and add new events for new shows. For shows that aren't weekly...ie monthly 2 weekly it might be quickest to manually add those events in rdlogedit. In the case of the 2 hour show you mentioned... say it plays 12 noon on a wednesday. Make 1 clock....make it 1 hour long... schedule it for 12 noon wednesday. For the second hour (1300) leave the grid pattern empty. Resume your next grid 1400 hours (2pm) for whatever show comes up afterwards. I've used other scheduler programs and the grid pattern with clocks for the weeks events seems to be a fairly standard way of doing things. I hope that helps Geoff Barkman On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Seumas Mackinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm just not "getting" the whole events and clocks thing. My situation > is that all our shows are pre-recorded (well, let's assume for > simplicity they are!). I have a 2 hour show, some 1 hour shows and > some half-hour shows. The way we have things at the moment is just > putting each show in a cart and creating a log that plays them out to > schedule. > > Now, I guess what I *should* have is one Event for each show? And then > what happens with Clocks? Do I have a Clock for each show? Or to cover > each hour? What if I have something going from 1330 to 1430? Do I > split things up? Please don't say "whatever you like" or "whatever > works". I'd really like some suggestions on how *you* would do it. > > I'm hoping that if someone can give me some suggestions on the best > way to do this, I'll suddenly "get it"! :-) > > Many thanks, Seumas > -- > Seumas Mackinnon > "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, > but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with > life itself." -- Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
