The new Playout Composer: prepare your graphics before going live
With the Episode version of the Visual Radio Playout you can preview all upcoming shows live to make sure they look good. And if you want to prepare rundowns with graphics outside of the 5 upcoming shows it is now possible to do safely, without interrupting the live production with the Episode Composer!
First you select a date and scheduling program in the new Composer interface. After which you are able to edit all rundown items and add new items to prepare fully for when the episode gets onair. The Live Preview enables you to see exactly how the Visual is going to look in the live production 👀
New Features & Enhancements
Playmode for items in a Output Rundown: same option as you had on the Live Items in a Output to control how an item is started after it is added to the Queue of a Player.
Edit Variable: Playout Access is on default true
Episode Playout
The order of the buttons below the Upload Cropper are switched now.
Documentation for the Manual Playout, Episode Playout and Composition Editor.
The background of the rundown list items on smaller screens has been adjusted, making the Episode Playout look calmer.
Playout retains the column widths, so they remain consistent even when you return, eliminating layout shifts.
Improvements in clearing an image in the Playout Episode.
Add layout customization to the Playout Episode. User can switch between the Default and Three Column view.
User can hide the PGM View in the Playout
Revisit Roles and Permissions for Playout
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Fixed bug where Music Track Meta could not be found when ft. or feat. was located in the title
Media Selector consistencies are fixed
Playout Rundown were sometimes too long, and will be automatically truncated now.
Inconsistencies in resizable columns in the playout are fixed.
Infrastructure updates
In the last two weeks we’ve also made major updates to our infrastructure to increase performance and throughput. We hope you’re enjoying the speed improvements this has brought to the Visual Radio Cloud!