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
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
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
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