Thanks Geoff, Yes, I looked at the grid. Perhaps my mistake was in thinking of it as something that needed to be filled up, rather than something that held triggers for specific times!
I guess if I had my "ideal scheduler" it would be more like a calendar with weekly or daily or down to each-item views. And then I'd have Shows I could drop in which would then show how long it was taking up, like a timeline on a video editor. Empty space would show up as "dead air" which I could either mark as Live time or Auto-fill with some kind of music, or whatever. Then I could just copy one week to another as a template. And rather than having a separate log which played, it would just play through the schedule, including "playing" nothing through the Live time. So, that's kind of how I was thinking of Rivendell, though perhaps something like that would be a little too inflexible for the big guys! I'm not really familiar enough with this kind of software to see what requirements a concept like that would have missed? I'll do a test run with your suggestions and see how it looks. Thanks again, 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 On 27 September 2011 00:52, Geoff Barkman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
