We’ve contracted with the State of Alaska Supreme Court to caption our Oral Arguments. To do this, we are using a third party company Speechpad to transcribe the video after it has been ingested, titled and placed in the Invintus archive. There are x main steps. Determine which videos need to be captioned in Invintus … Read more
In this article we will walk through setting up a closed caption session. There are 3 main steps involved. 1) Scheduling the Captioning Session. 2) Routing the Sources. 3) Verifying & Recording the Captioning Session. 1. Scheduling the Captioning Session This step should be done well in advance of the Captioning Session (days to weeks before). Below are two companies … Read more
About every quarter it is a good idea to remove any expired media from the server in order to free up space. There are three main steps involved in doing this. 1. Identifying Expired media in ProTrack, 2. Deleting Expired Media, and 3. Updating the ProTrack Media to Purged to reflect that the show has been purged … Read more
Here is the procedure for making a permanent Desktop ClipTool shortcut specific to a media player: Customizing a ClipTool Shortcut This procedure allows you to place a convenient ClipTool icon (shortcut) on the desktop which when clicked, loads ClipTool and calls a specific Player and MediaDirector host. This method bypasses the MediaDirector/Player dialog. To customize … Read more
Wild cards can be used in a query to represent one or more characters. ProTrack uses two Wild cards, the * (asterisk) and the ? (question mark). The * is used to represent one or more characters and the ? represents a single character. If we were searching for the movie “Gone With the Wind” … Read more
When you produce a Forum@360 show, one of the things you will need to do is produce (or arrange for someone to produce for you) a promo for TV. We like to run the promo a week before it airs, and the TV control manager likes to have the TV automation logs loaded a week … Read more
Weekly Scheduling Grids should be completed and mailed out to people within the organization and also outside of the organization three weeks prior to airing in order to guarantee that listings and whatnot are complete. Once you have completed your Weekly Schedule (as described in “How to “Ripple Out” a Prime-time Block to the Schedule … Read more
There are a few reasons you may want to copy multiple air dates from one day or time to another day or time. One example is after you have rippled-out a schedule and you have several blocks that are still blank (that need to be copied from the previous week). See below for an example: … Read more
Since we share a database with KAKM, we will occasionally have programs with a different time than KAKM has. So, what happens is the main program record will have one time (e.g. 26:46, and our media will have another 26:45). These will show up as teal in the programming grid and should be corrected before … Read more
The meat of the schedule for 360 North is done in the prime-time block which goes from 2000 – 2300. Once you’ve filled in that block for a given week, it is easy to fill in most of the most of the rest of the schedule using the template feature. Below are the steps involved … Read more