I always prefer to capture audio and use the "make next" approach,
as I believe Alan pointed out. It sounds better to me than fading a
song out as they start their big finishor 30 seconds after the song
starts.
When you used to have have to hit a timed event, things were different.
In the wor
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 f
Rivendell provides rolling recording and simultaneous playout of an audio
source (http://rivendell.tryphon.org/wiki/Delayed_playback). If your
end-of-hour music log has a little slop in it that carries you past the top of
the hour, you can still end a song cleanly and air the news in its entir
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
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 hou
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).
>
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 speci