On Tuesday 26 April 2016 06:20:03 pm Tom Van Gorkom wrote: > Neither drag and drop or cut > and paste seem to work at this level. Am I missing something?
Probably. First off, let's understand the concept of a cart and or vs. a cut. Carts go back to the old days, last week, maybe the week before, where a tape CARTridge was played in a tape CARTridge machine. One would schedule what to play based on which cart it was on, when one wished that cart to play, how long, in what order, etc. The "jock" ( cart jockey would be more accurate than disk jockey in those days ) would pull the appropriate carts and literally stack them on the counter in the play order as appeared in the program playlist, incorrectly called the program log. ( a log is generated after the fact, not before ) He/she would then pop carts off the stack, shove them into the cart machine, and they would play in that order. He/she would then make an entry on the program log as to what played, and when, which became the affidavit submitted to the client as proof of play. Pay us ! Now, a cut is a different concept. A cut was a section of tape literally cut from a much longer tape, such as cutting a single song from an entire album. Later, the concept of a particular advertiser having some number of different spots he/she wanted played, not necessarily in any particular target time slot, got stacked sequentially on a cart. A single 5 minute cart could carry 10 30 second spots. Traffic would schedule that *cart* at a particular time. The jock would stack that cart, and play it when scheduled. There was no reliable way to know which cut would play. The only thing you could know with certainty, was that a 30 was a 30, and a 60 was a 60. That's also why 30's and 60's were NEVER mixed ! If the schedule called for a 30 cart, it was 30. Period. Whatever cut would play ( if more than one cut on that cart ) was guaranteed to be a 30. If you wanted a specific "cut" to play at a particular time, you would cart it up on its own cart, so it could be scheduled. Carts can be scheduled, cuts can not. Now, based on the background...... uh...... I forgot where I was going with this. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
