| Event Type | Example | |------------|---------| | Clip | Promo, program episode | | Live | External camera feed (via DeckLink input) | | Graphics | Lower third, logo bug | | Transition | Fade, cut, wipe (between clips) | | Voiceover | Pre-recorded announcement over video |
| Time | Type | Asset | Duration | Transition | |------|------|-------|----------|-------------| | 06:00:00 | Clip | Station_ID.mp4 | 0:10 | Cut | | 06:00:10 | Clip | Morning_Opener.mp4 | 1:00 | Cut | | 06:01:10 | Live | Camera_1 (DeckLink In) | 5:00 | Cut | | 06:06:10 | Graphics | LowerThird_Weather.png | 0:15 | Fade | | 06:06:25 | Clip | Weather_Report.mp4 | 3:00 | Cut | xtv suite tv automation playout
XTV SmartCanvas is a native, render-engine layer integrated directly into the XTV Playout Engine. It allows operators to define "Live Templates" within the playlist that pull data from external sources (APIs, RSS, SQL Databases) and render them in real-time over the video content without requiring rendering time or separate CG hardware. | Event Type | Example | |------------|---------| |
Broadcast engineers who have implemented XTV Suite TV Automation Playout report quantifiable improvements: | Time | Type | Asset | Duration
The most popular option. Playout automation runs on-prem for low latency, while media storage and archiving live in the cloud (S3 storage). This gives broadcasters the speed of local hardware with the archive capacity of the cloud.