Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-26 Thread Robert
We solved the problem by creating a series of fill events which run from :58:00 to :59:55 each one 5 seconds shorter then the previous one That's 35 events at the bottom of each hour each one set as a timed event to play next and every 5 seconds the next one is lined up and so on until previously

Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread James Gamblin
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

Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread Wayne Merricks
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

Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread Alan Peterson
r watches to your station, briefly delaying the news via this method is OK to do. -AP - Original Message - From: "Andy Brown" To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:51:30 AM Subject: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids Hi all, I'm running

Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread Andy Brown
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

Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread Wayne Merricks
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

Re: [RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread drew Roberts
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). >

[RDD] Question on Clocks+Grids

2013-01-25 Thread Andy Brown
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