New Features
- Undo / Redo for playlist - You can now undo and redo all operations in the playlist that would not have a direct effect on the current playing element.
- Placeholder elements - You are now able to define a placeholder element that you can place in the rundown. Once a file is discovered in the library (either locally or on any connected external library), that matches the defined name of the placeholder element, Schedule will automatically download the file and exchange the placeholder element with the asset.
- Optional bumpers for entering and leaving Breaking Live - It is now possible to define a bumper asset both for transitioning into and out of Breaking Live.
- Exchange Breaking Live live stream - While Breaking Live is active, you can now change the live source used for Breaking Live. This will result in a hard cut to the newly selected live source.
- Optional file-name pattern filter for library purge functionality - We now offer to provide one or more optional file-name pattern filter. The older library elements will then only be removed, when these pattern match.
- Overwrite option for conflict resolution: You now also have the option to not only move all following assets when you insert a new element in the rundown, but also to overwrite (and trim) all following elements.
- Define ad breaks on sequences in the library - It was already possible to define ad breaks on library elements, now you can also do this on sequence elements in the library.
- Audio level meters are now also visible for asset previews
- Transcoded universal low latency preview of MPEG2 & H.265 video codecs library assets.
- PGM Preview output latency improvement to less than 300 ms.
- Previews of all supported external library assets now possible, this includes TS or MXF files
- AC3 5.1 audio encoding option within LTN Schedule transcoding settings (contact support to enable this feature)
- New rescan mechanism for AWS S3 libraries - You can now trigger a full rescan of your connected S3 bucket in case the local library representation might have lost sync with the bucket. The rescan will happen in the background while you can still use the library.
- Optional SCTE ad trigger type selection - You can now differentiate between "national" and "local" ad breaks for SCTE-35. By default Schedule will use "local".
Changes / Bugfixes
- [Changed] General Settings restructuring
- [Changed] Default behaviour for gaps configurable
- [Changed] Reduced latency in previews (live stream + PGM)
- [Changed] Reduced bandwidth for all previews (especially VOD previews)
- [Changed] Changed display of start-time and end-time in rundown and Calendar View
- [Changed] Conflict resolution dialog does no longer show move option when removing an element before a locked element
- [Changed] Improved import process of templates
- [Changed] Improved processing times of reruns
- [Changed] Allow up to 10 seconds of buffer for RTMP inputs
- [Changed] Depending on the changes, different releases can now still sync their data. With that update a newer version (e.g. just updated B server) can receive data from an older version (the not updated A system. This is only meant as a temporary state while updating A + B instances though.
- [Changed] When Breaking Live is active, elements in the playlist don't get blocked ten seconds before they virtually start
- [Changed] The as-run XML files are now written after an element has played and take the selected timezone into account
- [Changed] Assets of Templates are now only downloaded when used in the rundown. Assets that are deleted from the library and were used in a local template are now removed from the template as well, leaving a gap
- [Changed] It is no longer possible to change the runtime of a currently playing live stream shorter than the current time + 10 seconds
- [Changed] When the default backup video is changed, it has an immediate effect on all upcoming gaps using the default backup video
- [Changed] It is now possible to adjust the elements inside a playing sub-playlist
- [Bugfix] Purging playlist elements on secondary was not saving the playlist, and could make the elements reappear when switching to primary
- [Bugfix] Recordings and other elements which last less than the minimum playback threshold were prevented from playing, but were not skipped over
- [Bugfix] Live stream status was not updating properly back to available once a live stream that was available (green) became unavailable (red)
- [Bugfix] When dragging an external library element to the rundown more than once and then deleting one instance of it while it was still in queue could lead to the item not being downloaded at all, causing Schedule to skip over it
- [Bugfix] When an external library element was placed as next element and it would need to download, it could happen that the playback on the secondary instance of this element failed
- [Bugfix] duplicate X-button removed in search field
- [Bugfix] Library filters were not applied properly when UI was reloaded
- [Bugfix] various smaller UI fixes like
- blocked status not shown properly in calendar view
- popup of Youtube broadcast details not aligned properly
- Hold status was not visible in Control View
- ...
Documentation
For detailed product documentation, please refer to the following location:
https://ltnglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/1500000177442-Schedule
System Characteristics
View the full system characteristics here:
https://ltnglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500006970362-System-Characteristics-Schedule
Known Issues and/or Limitations
| Deletion of rundown elements | Deleting more than 2,000 assets in the rundown at once does not work. |
| Moving assets into folders in asset-library |
When the designated folder is expanded, items cannot be dropped into this folder. |
| PGM Preview can show grey image when interlaced source files are used |
It sometimes can happen, depending on several factors, that the PGM preview shows a grey image but the actual output is fine. |
For the previously known issues and their fixed versions: https://ltnglobal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500002027841-Release-Notes-Changelog-Schedule