Users must be assigned to at least one organization/department to show up in user listings. Organizations are the affiliation for a byline (e.g., “KTOO” or “Alaska’s Energy Desk”) Departments are not shown in bylines, but structures the listing of users (e.g., “News & Public Affairs” or “Arts & Culture”) Summary Use the Organizations and Departments … Read more
There are two convenience links on KTOO’s site to make it easier to download media from the WordPress media library: Media library link Embedded audio link Media library link Select Media from the left-hand menu Click the file you want to download Find the direct link to the file on the right (under the URL) … Read more
Tips on uploading on-demand video files to Invintus: Encoding If files are not encoded just right, the quality in Invintus goes way down for resized videos. In particular, if the bitrate is too high it causes a problem. For example, videos encoded for YouTube often do not work well. This Adobe Media Encoder preset is … Read more
The transition into and out of lower thirds to full screen graphics is a little rough (the lower third cuts out when going into a fullscreen graphic, and replaces the fullscreen out transition with a dissolve when coming from it). (I’m looking into a fix for this, but it will probably be a little while). … Read more
The web interface allows you to easily filter names from the old Gavel Font database and automatically fill titles in XPression with those names. Visit the page The URL for a control page looks like this: https://ktoo.media/gavel/data/names/?station=1&slots=20 The “station” parameter is an arbitrary ID. You can add new IDs as you want, and even have … Read more
There’s a basic web interface that you can use to select which titles from the database should be available in XPression. (Because there are over 6,000 records in the database, which might be hard to manage in XPression itself). It takes a little manual synchronization to get everything set up. Create a group for titles … Read more
The steps to set up Gavel lower titles that pull in the names and titles from the following spreadsheet: P:\Gavel2021\Legislators.xlsx. Add a group for legislators Give it a take ID with enough numbers after it – to automatically populate, the titles in this group must be sequentially numbered starting from the group’s take ID. Drag … Read more
Every event (video) in Invintus gets a 10-digit ID number (the “event ID”) that uniquely identifies it. (It starts with a four-digit year.) This ID is also how you can find any Invintus video in WordPress. If you are editing an event in Invintus, you can find the event ID in two places: In the … Read more
Gavel events you create in Invintus should be automatically shown in WordPress for ktoo.org. You can view the event on WordPress using the event ID If there’s an issue, you can re-sync an event with Invintus (you must be logged in to WordPress on ktoo.org for this). Some important points: Everything is public as soon … Read more
Videos from Invintus should show up in WordPress within a minute or two of being created in the Invintus control center. Similarly, when you change an Invintus video, WordPress should quickly reflect the changes. If you ever have a situation where WordPress does not mirror Invintus almost immediately, please let David Purdy know. It’s important … Read more