The Short Event Reel module is commonly used in instances where automation cannot send commercials or short-length events on air due to technical issues, for example, as mentioned before, due to a fault in the videoserver or automation; in such a situation the Short Event Reel can be used for the manual broadcasting of commercials.
Etere provides a feature to facilitate this manual process, Etere Backup VTR, which allows the cueing and playing of events to be performed manually by an operator via the VTR panel. When the Short Event Reel is created, Etere keeps track of the time code details from the Video Server and these can be printed from the VTR at any time. Using the Timecode details the operator is thus able to manually cue and broadcast directly from one or more VTR's.