The Program Highlights Report is helpful for generating a schedule of programs for a given time period that have program descriptions associated with it (from which TONIGHT rundowns can be generated). Below are the steps involved to do this: From the ProTrack main menu, select Programs | Program Reports | Daily Program Listings | Program … Read more
You may want to run a 360 North Grid report either for your personal reference, or this is the report that is sent each week to Rovi & others from which the PBS schedule is created. Below describes the steps involved in doing that. From the ProTrack main menu, select Programs | Program Reports | Weekly … Read more
If you are wanting to export a promo or show that you want for broadcast on 360 North, here are the settings you should use for your export (CTRL+M from the edit window): HD Programs Export Settings: Format: MXF OP1a Preset: XDCAM HD 35 NTSC 60i Video Tab Video Codec Video Codec: XDCAMHD 35 NTSC Basic Video … Read more
Every once in a while the Harmonic Polaris Play: Ingest BXF database (data being exported from ProTrack to Harmonic’s Polaris Play Ingest program) corrupt and needs to be renamed. When this happens, the Log will fill up with the following error: EUniError: database is locked. Processing BXF and you will not be successful exporting the Harmonic … Read more
PBS Program Guidelines & Policies – The Red Book KTOO & 360 North has had a goal of presenting between 2-4 productions a year for national distribution. Here is a link to the PBS Red Book – before producing and working on any production that could potentially have national distribution (I might extend this to … Read more
Every three months or so it is time to add multiple feeds and schedule the news block. Generally I add about 3 moths worth at a time. To do so, you need to do three main steps. 1. Do a PBS Feed Search, 2. Schedule them for Air & Feed, and 3. Add and Attach … Read more
Once a year (or every three months or so) it is more efficient to add a year or a few months worth of weather feeds and air dates (when you schedule the air dates it will automatically insert program records). If done at the same time, it takes a little longer every year or three … Read more
From time-to-time the Harmonic manager machine becomes sluggish and unresponsive as well as has unpredictable things, like missed records, or unchanged router settings happen with ingests. At that time it is a good idea to restart the machine. Below describes the actions that should be taken to do that. From the task bar, select Restart. … Read more
This program works in conjunction with Polaris Play: Ingest and changes the SDI router sources as records take place. Occasionally the settings to this program are lost, or sometimes you may wish to set it up running under a different user. For reference, the setup for Polaris Live: Route is below: To reconfigure the router, … Read more
Occasionally you may either loose configuration information, or will want to set up PP:I using a different user. Below is configuration information that is necessary to have Polaris Play: Ingest working. From the main menu select Tools | Configuration. General Settings: Media Director IP (Control) Control IP Address: 192.168.1.156 Samba IP Address: 192.168.1.156 Files System Folders … Read more