Editing a rundown that is Ready or on air
How the padlock works, and why changes to a Ready or on-air rundown are not live until you push them.
A rundown is freely editable in Draft. Once it is signed off or on air it is deliberately frozen, and there is a way through when you need one.
In Ready: it is signed off
"This rundown is signed off." Marking it Ready freezes the content, because Ready also arms it: the engine has the rundown and the screens are downloading its media.
To change anything, put it back to Draft. Marking it Ready again re-arms it and the screens start downloading again.
On air: the padlock
"The rundown is ON AIR." It is locked so nobody moves what is about to air.
To edit, open the padlock in the live control bar at the bottom of the screen. Two things to know before you do:
- The padlock is shared. It opens for everyone working on this show, not just for you. Close it when you are done.
- Whatever you change can go out live.
Your changes are not on air until you send them
This is the part that surprises people. The engine holds the rundown as it was when you armed it. Editing the rundown on screen does not change what is going out.
When there are unsent changes the rundown says so: "Your changes are NOT on air yet."
Press Push changes to active rundown. The engine re-reads the rundown and reconciles from the next story on; whatever is on air right now is left alone.
If the push fails, the rundown tells you and what is going out is still the old version. Press the button again.
Reordering while live
The running order is frozen for everyone on the show, not per person. One operator unlocking used to let them reorder a live rundown while everyone else still saw a closed padlock. Now the padlock is one shared state.
- In Ready: put the rundown back to Draft to move things.
- On air: open the padlock in the control bar.
What is always safe
Some things do not need the padlock and do not need a push:
- Firing an element by hand: Fire IN and Fire OUT on a row.
- Skipping a block, or navigating in Manual mode.
- Fetching the files again from the pre-flight.
Working with other people? The rundown shows who else is in it (Also here:) and tells you when somebody changes a segment, story or element. Agree who holds the padlock before the show starts, not during it.