Frequency Documentation

Features

• Manage Automation Programs - From Manage you can now create or edit Automation Programs. This functionality was previously done within Schedule. Now all automation program configurations are completed within Manage.

• Improved Automation Program Series Workflow  -  From the Automation tab in Manage you can now use Series to create Automation Programs. Select up to three different Series, configure advertising, and choose additional business rules to schedule your series automation program.

• Interstitial Collection By Brand - Interstitial Collection now supports filtering by Brand to power dynamic interstitials in linear programs.

• UI/UX Improvements - Studio now has more cohesive styling across all tools.

• Manage Interstitial Collections - Manage Interstitial Collections - From Manage you can now create and manage collections of interstitials such as bumpers, idents, promotions and more. Interstitial collections allow you to add sets of interstitials to linear programs that will be dynamically populated in a program based on predefined business rules. By managing interstitials dynamically, programmers can now setup rules that will automatically update promotional content across many linear programs saving significant amounts of time.

• Linear Program Editor - When editing a linear program you can now double click on the components, such as ad pods, interstitials, and video segments, to open the editing modals for each component.

• Manage - Cue points can now be imported into linear programs that contain interstitials.

• Linear Program Editor - The timeline position indicator no longer resets to zero when adding components but maintains its location respective to the last component added to the linear program.

• Build - Up to three complete advanced search queries can now be used to return results for building dynamic playlists.

• Manage - Videos are no longer deselected when managing them from the list view.

• Manage - Series and Linear metadata is now displayed within the List view.

• Schedule - Double click feature no longer pastes programs after copy/cut of programs.

• Linear Program Editor - Keyboard shortcuts are now available when editing a linear program.

• Schedule - Users can now drag and drop multiple linear programs. In edit mode hold the Shift button on your keyboard and select several inline programs. Then release the Shift key and all programs remain highlighted. Finally click the highlighted programs and drag and drop to the desired location.

• Schedule - Saving the Schedule with overlapping VOD programs is no longer allowed. In order to save the Schedule all over lapping VOD programs must be corrected.

• Schedule/Manage - Video and Program previews player now show captions when present.

• Schedule - Live programming can now be added into a channels play-out. There are two paths for this feature. First is scheduling live programs automatically in the schedule by double clicking on the time block and selecting the Live tab. Second is located at the bottom the broadcast pane is a One-Time Live section where you can switch to a live stream in real time.

• Manage - Subtitle files can now be included when manually uploading a video through Manage. Below the video asset upload is now a subtitle file upload which can take either a URL or a local file.

• Linear Program Editor Magic Wand - Updated linear program component validation.

  1. If the sum of video/interstitial components and ad pod components are less than the target duration the magic wand feature increase the ad pod component to satisfy the target duration. If the duration sum of component is greater than the target duration the magic wand will suggest increasing the target duration.

  2. If the duration sum of component exceeds the target duration press the magic wand will remove the time fill.

  3. If the duration sum of components exceeds the target duration the magic wand will reduce the duration of ad pods by 30 seconds while maintaining a minimum of 30 seconds for ad pods. 

• Schedule - A Paste button has been added to the editing actions that a located at the top of the schedule while in edit mode.