Re: [RDD] Scheduler tips?

2015-09-17 Thread Wayne Merricks
Even for live Events, we schedule Rivendell so that it can run the entire hour by itself. Its also good for if your live event has live technical problems. If you have a presenter on hand for doing live shows in the studio all they have to do is switch to manual mode and wait for the current

Re: [RDD] Scheduler tips?

2015-09-17 Thread Wayne Merricks
You have to use the AUX log for this otherwise the Main log will just stop and be silent for 5 seconds. Create a macro cart with these commands: 001 PS 0 5000! <-- This fades down log 0 (the main log) over 5000 ms 002 SP 5100! <-- This waits for 5100 ms before doing anything else otherwise

Re: [RDD] Scheduler tips?

2015-09-17 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Thanks for the tips. I put only the 24 TOH announcements in one cart and made them playable for a minute before and a minute after just in case. We don't need to play any other time announcements like that. Now I am looking at a way with an RML macro event placed that the end of each hour to fade

[RDD] Scheduler tips?

2015-09-16 Thread Tom Van Gorkom
Being new to Rivendell and having to become the staff trainer by default, I have scheduler questions. I have looked at Brett's Blog of 12/2009 which was helpful but not enough. We are a Christian teach, talk, and music station with several live segments during weekdays with every hour being

Re: [RDD] Scheduler tips?

2015-09-16 Thread Geoff Barkman
Hi Tom For those time announcements you can put them all in the one Cart and make each Time announcement a seperate Cut you can choose up to 999 cuts inside a Cart. Not quite enough to make time announcements for the whole day, you would need 1440 cuts. Each Cut, gets set up so it is only