Re: [RDD] Best way to import daily news into playing log

2016-05-09 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Thanks everyone. It's great to hear how various of you do this. I have
something that works but today I will be working with the production guy to
show him and find out what will work best. Being the station engineer with
the least amount of time here I keep finding out things I didn't know about
how they run it. They are so used to doing everything manually that it is a
challenge to get them to think in new ways and that Riv can actually
automate so much of what they do.

Tom Van Gorkom
Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM
Office: 956-380-8150
Cell: 865-803-7427

Rio Grande Bible Institute
4300 S US Hwy 281
Edinburg, TX 78539

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:

>
> At WSRO/WBAS, which run a Brazilian Portuguese format, newscasts are
> recorded off site and uploaded to a dropbox where they are imported to
> specific cart numbers called for at the top of each hour on the daily logs.
> At midnight, a cron job deletes them all so we don't get old news on the
> air if an upload fails.
>
> Rob
>
> --
> Я там, где ребята толковые,
> Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд",
> Где песни рабочие новые
> Страна трудовая поёт.
>
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Re: [RDD] Best way to import daily news into playing log

2016-05-09 Thread Rob Landry


At WSRO/WBAS, which run a Brazilian Portuguese format, newscasts are 
recorded off site and uploaded to a dropbox where they are imported to 
specific cart numbers called for at the top of each hour on the daily 
logs. At midnight, a cron job deletes them all so we don't get old news on 
the air if an upload fails.


Rob

--
Я там, где ребята толковые,
Я там, где плакаты "Вперёд",
Где песни рабочие новые
Страна трудовая поёт.
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[RDD] Best way to import daily news into playing log

2016-05-06 Thread Jim Stewart
Yes, I also do some of this kind of stuff.

Normally you would just use RD-Catch to get all the online sources.  But in our 
case I needed to edit the content first (we only broadcast the 1st half of the 
file), so I did a Linux "bash" script the uses tools like wget and mp3-split to 
automatically get and cut things up, then used the command-line RD-import to 
import what is left into a cart.  Then I used the Linux cron scheduler to 
schedule this.  Hopefully you don't have to do all this, but you could if you 
needed to.   My point here is that if Rivendell can't do something you need, 
you can use some Linux tools behind it to get it done and even call it within 
Rivendell if needed.

As far as intermixing your locally produces elements with your online 
downloaded elements, I would try scheduling lots of carts around your online 
elements that would just get skipped over if they weren't filled.  If you do 
this, you probably need to schedule some sort of cleanup task (perhaps another 
bash script that simply deletes the carts) so that you don't end of airing old 
news if the cart never got filled.  Perhaps your whole news montage is more 
organized than this such as a single local news cart after a national news cart 
(perhaps with a local "intro" in front) is all you need so you won't have to 
get so fancy.

The concept of "donut" carts (intro and outro, with empty space in the middle) 
might work for you too (remember to set the seque point at a normally 
ridiculous point to make a donut cart work, and turn off the auto fade mode for 
it too). I wouldn't rely on making your staff do this to a cart that needs to 
be replaced everyday however.

In any case let us know exactly what you wish to do and we should be able to 
help you do it.  

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Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 14:25:23 -0500
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I'm looking for ideas on how to import the news casts for different hours of a 
given day that are produced the morning of the day they are to air. We can add 
them manually to the playout log but is there a way to create an event that 
imports from a file just before it airs or somehow automate this so the 
producer can just drop it into a folder?

We are a Spanish station and we get our news from online sources as well as 
live recording by staff, connect the pieces, edit it, and drop it into the 
playing log, but there must be a way to automate this better.

Thanks,

Tom Van Gorkom
Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM
Office: 956-380-8150
Cell: 865-803-7427

Rio Grande Bible Institute
4300 S US Hwy 281
Edinburg, TX 78539
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Re: [RDD] Best way to import daily news into playing log

2016-05-05 Thread Pab Sungenis
Tom Van Gorkom  writes:


> I'm looking for ideas on how to import the news casts for different 
hours of a given day that are produced the morning of the day they are 
to air. We can add them manually to the playout log but is there a way 
to create an event that imports from a file just before it airs or 
somehow automate this so the producer can just drop it into a folder?
> We are a Spanish station and we get our news from online sources as 
well as live recording by staff, connect the pieces, edit it, and drop 
it into the playing log, but there must be a way to automate this 
better.

I do something similar with my setup, retrieving ABC News from their 
online feed and having it picked up by a dropbox. I created an event in 
my clocks for hours when news airs to play the cart the same way the 
tutorials show to do a legal ID.

Edit Events, Add, call it "NEWS."

Use Hard Start Time, Make Next.

Pre import the cart number you are dropping news into.

Import None.

Post Import empty.

Now go into your clock. Say you have news at :25 and :55 after the hour. 
You will want music events ending at :25 and :50, with news events 
immediately following them. The first natural break in the music (or 
after your break event if you play it following spots), it will schedule 
the news.


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[RDD] Best way to import daily news into playing log

2016-05-05 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
I'm looking for ideas on how to import the news casts for different hours
of a given day that are produced the morning of the day they are to air. We
can add them manually to the playout log but is there a way to create an
event that imports from a file just before it airs or somehow automate this
so the producer can just drop it into a folder?

We are a Spanish station and we get our news from online sources as well as
live recording by staff, connect the pieces, edit it, and drop it into the
playing log, but there must be a way to automate this better.

Thanks,

Tom Van Gorkom
Radio Esperanza Engineering, KRIO AM/FM, KOIR FM
Office: 956-380-8150
Cell: 865-803-7427

Rio Grande Bible Institute
4300 S US Hwy 281
Edinburg, TX 78539
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