In an ideal world the presenters would watch the clock and finish the songs bang on time for when the news hard time started. However we regularly have people cutting the end of the songs for the news. So to not make this as horrible to my ears I use the aux log which fires a macro to put a fade on the main log.
That way the main log auto fades down prior to the news and then the news kicks in. It just sounded nicer to my ears than a hard cut. Regards, Wayne On 25/01/13 14:06, Andy Brown wrote: > Thanks Wayne and Drew, > > This would make sense, I wasn't sure on the overfilling the hour which > you both mentioned, so I've done as Drew suggested, so added in a few > very short 30 second entries into the hour clock to fill the last few > spaces up. > > I've then also modified my on the hour event to have a stop event on it. > And just listened to the 2pm update (I regenerated and loaded in) and it > did the job, so think thats worked great. > > Wayne: I was a little puzzled on the aux log part, do you mean you setup > your aux log to crossfade your TOTH jingle, that way you can do fading? > > Cheers > Andy > > > On 25/01/13 13:19, Wayne Merricks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Just because your songs are 3minutes doesn't mean you can't have 3 >> events that are 10 seconds long towards the end of the hour that pull in >> the songs. This means that in your clock you are taking up 30seconds of >> time but in reality you'll have 9minutes of songs for overfilling. >> >> On the hour you'll need a hard time with a stop event (to prevent >> playing early). >> >> Personally I also have an aux log with a 5 second fade down prior to the >> hour so that the audio doesn't abruptly cut out. >> >> Regards, >> >> Wayne >> >> On 25/01/13 13:06, drew Roberts wrote: >>> On Friday 25 January 2013 06:51:30 Andy Brown wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> I'm running a 24x7 automated setup on Rivendell 2.3.0 using automated >>>> events+clocks+grids >>>> >>>> The issue I've got is on the hour we take a news feed, so we rigidly >>>> have to have our news jingle play coming up to the hour (59:50). >>>> To try and do this in Events I have: >>>> Music category (Nothing special here, import from MUSIC, UseAutoFill >>>> checked) >>>> NewsIntro category (Use hard start time checked, start immediately, >>>> transition if previous event ends: Segue, PRe-IMPORT carts has the >>>> jingle to play) >>>> >>>> The clock I've created fills the hour with music, (Not sure if this is >>>> right) but I've created multiple entries like this: >>>> Music start 00:00.0 end 03:00.0 >>>> Music start 03:00.0 end 06:00.0 >>>> Music start 06:00.0 end 10:00.0 >>>> >>>> (and so on, creating some longer gaps than others). >>>> Then at the end of the hour: >>>> NewsIntro start 59:50.0 end 59:59:9 >>>> >>>> Run this and it loads up, looks OK but it appears the music isn't filled >>>> up right and ends too early, so it triggers the newintro too early, or >>>> randomly near the end of the hour, so for example it triggers 1 minute >>>> before, 30 seconds before, 1minute40 seconds before, etc. >>>> >>>> Am I missing a key here? >>> No expert here and not speaking from personal experience but from memory of >>> other list posts I think it would be good for you to overfill the hour with >>> music. Perhaps put all 3 minute songs with some 2 minute songs at the tail >>> end of the hour. (Assuming your songs average 3 minutes.) You need to make >>> it >>> basically impossible for the music to run out before the hour ends. >>> >>> I need to try this myself so I can speak from experience next time. >>> >>> all the best, >>> >>> drew >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
