91.7.2.2 News Playout

Radio Live Director can also visualize the playout of the stories from Nunzio (see chapter 79) with basic commands for managing the onair rundown

Story Context Menu:

• View Story Info: displays story text
  
• View Live Info: avaiable only if the station is TV, view video preview of the story onair 
  
• View Jog/Shuttle Controls: enable the Shuttle bar right below the Playout Commands for any given channel;
• Standard Buttons: show playout controls icons as small;
• Large Buttons: show playout controls icons as large;
• Counter 2: will provide more option regarding the second counter to list right beside the Playout Controls for any single Video Channel:
  • none: will not display the Second Counter;
  • elapsed: will display the Second Counter with the Elapsed Time;
  • duration: will display the Second Counter with the duration of the given Rundown.

The menus on the Toolbar will provide:

• Playout: the playout Menu contains the same command of the toolbar, and is basically the same as the old Nunzio Playout, which provide the following playout commands:
  • Go On-Air: Load the current Rundown and all configured channels with the first sequence of clip of the story.

    NB: Exiting Nunzio while a rundown is on-air is disallowed, it's required first putting it off-air.

  • Put off-Air: Interrupts the current on-air Rundown.

    NB: Exiting Nunzio requires putting all rundowns off-air, otherwise a warning message is displayed.

  • Send on-air next story: Start the Rundown counter and load the next story in the list.
  • Send on-air previous story: Load the previous story on-air.
  • Load objects to playout: Reload every channel and CUE the available clips/objects in the story even if playing.
  • Play on-air objects to playout: This function put on-air object to playout in Rundown. 
  • Play on-air Video Over to playout: This function put on-air video to playout in Rundown.

• Show: the Show menu would allows to perform some actions in the Etere Nunzio Rundowns such as:
  • Go to the On-Air event: it will set the Rundown focus on the On-Air event;
  • Segments: Rundown separators which separates stories in categories:
    • Collaps all: would collapse all the Segments for the active Etere Nunzio Rundown;
    • Expand all: would expand all the Segments for the active Etere Nunzio Rundown;
  • Stories: Etere Nunzio Stories:
    • Collaps all: would collapse all the Stories for the active Etere Nunzio Rundown;
    • Expand all: would expand all the Stories for the active Etere Nunzio Rundown;
  • Publish on platforms: select the given platform to publish the news
  • Refresh: Refresh the Etere Nunzio Rundown

• • Settings: this is the most important part of the Etere Nunzio Playout functions. The settings Menu would allows the full configuration of Etere Nunzio Playout:
    • Toolbar: which contain the following option for the Playout Commands:
      • None: will remove the Playout Commands toolbar from Etere Nunzio Playout GUI;
      • Icon: will show the Playout Commands Icons toolbar in the top-left Etere Nunzio Playout GUI;
      • Icon and Name: will show the Playout Commands Icons and Text toolbar in the top-left Etere Nunzio Playout GUI.
      • Restore Defaults Velues: will restore the Etere Nunzio Playout toolbar to its Default Values.
    • . Counters: It would allows to add, select or modify all the related Etere Nunzio Playout Counters, which are located right next to the Etere Nunzio Playout Toolbar:
      • off: 
      • Current Time:
      • Current Day:
      • Station Name:
      • Rundown Countdown:
      • Rundown Elapsed:
      • Countdown to scheduled start of rundown:
      • Countdown to scheduled end of rundown:
      • Rundown % Progress:
      • Counter 4 > Difference from Total Dur vs Sch. Dur:
      • Story Countdown:
      • Story Elapsed:
      • Auto:

    It worth mention that Counters configuration is totally Customizable and counters can be added, removed and placed accordingly to one needs.

    • Studio Control Rooms: Select from which control rooms are fetched the Rundowns
    • Playout Configuration: as mentioned ealry on this topic, Playout Configuration would allows to configure the related playout channels and their behavior.
    • Players > Display Options: the given menu will provide several functions in order to enhance playout usability for each Video Channel previously configured. So if we've configured 4 Video Channels for instance, the related settings would be the same for each one:
    • • View Jog/Shuttle Controls: enable the Shuttle bar right below the Playout Commands for any given channel;

        jog_shuttle

      • Standard Buttons: show playout controls icons as small;
      • Large Buttons: show playout controls icons as large;
      • Counter 2: will provide more option regarding the second counter to list right beside the Playout Controls for any single Video Channel:

        counter_2

        • none: will not display the Second Counter;
        • elapsed: will display the Second Counter with the Elapsed Time;
        • duration: will display the Second Counter with the duration of the given Rundown.

      Depending on the selected Channel mode and the provided Channel Description, they will be named as for instance:

      Player: Channel 1 ABC A

      where:

      Player: > is the default naming convention which identify every created channel;

      Channel 1 ABC > is the Channel Description provided during the Channel Association;

      A > stand for the first Channel on the list.

      playout_channels_config

      • Axia Livewire: Settings for Axia Livewire integration
      • EmBER+: Settings for EmBER+ integration
      • Rundown Customize Columns: Columns customization in the rundown area