| Promotor is a suite of applications that provides extensive capabilities for the automatic playback of graphic and audio promos. By automating the repetitive manual processes currently used to generate television broadcast promos and branding, Promotor significantly streamlines the process of generating these promos. This enables the broadcaster to reduce costs of operation and reallocate personnel and resources from graphics, promotions and engineering departments. In addition, as promos can now be generated without the potential errors of current methods and with much less effort, broadcasters can realize great flexibility and speed in their daily promos.
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Promotor System Architecture |
Promotor consists of several applications that are managed by VDS Cortex, which also provides security functions and Promotor’s distributed web interface. The Promotor Control Engine is the primary system application and also provides quality control functions, authoring functions where rules are applied as well as device triggering. Within the suite is also a tightly integrated interface to the station automation that receives all the playlist and timing information. Promotor Graphics Device Engine provides control of the on air graphics device for graphics generation and the Promotor Audio Engine triggers all audio promos.
Promotor features include:
- Support for static or animated bugs, video clip promo bugs, coming up and other snipes, menus of program names and times, and promos over credits. Can also be used for the automatic generation of show branding and ratings as well as disclaimers and other text messages.
- Scalable architecture suitable for single or multi-channel facilities with cross channel promos possible.
- Provides just in time assembly of graphic and audio promos with graphic design separated from the dynamic content.
- Menus of program schedules can be generated automatically with show names and times extracted from the automation playlist.
- Tremendous reduction in graphics creation, cataloging, storage and management eliminating the need for preproduction of almost all daily promos.
- Significantly reduced scheduling of secondary events resulting in less chance of errors and elimination of omissions in scheduling.
- Audio promos can be independent or coincident with graphic promos.
Promotor UI - Click to Enlarge
- Highly complex graphics, transitions and animations are now possible for promos.
- Graphics are pre-cached and cued providing for new real time accuracy of promos.
- Authored rules can be based on a number of trigger items including clip ID, clip type, secondary events, start time, expiration dates, valid dates, time of day, day of week or sponsor.
- Distributed browser based authoring and administrator user interfaces provides for these functions to be completed anywhere on the network.
- Graphics can be contextual to the program content allowing content to be related to the overlay promo graphics.
- Administrative functions for system settings and status monitoring, channel assignments, database management and diagnostics.
Promotor For Branding - Click to Enlarge
- Promos over credits can start after the credits commence and can provide for sequential playback of promo clips in a video squeeze region with text promos, if desired.
- Provides automatic error detection, logging and alerts as well as security for login and system access.
- Scheduling of promos can be in concert with the station Traffic system or completely independent of input from Traffic.
- Streamlines all operations of promo generation providing for more efficient and faster time to air for new promos.
- Manual control for aborting or inserting promos up to the last minute if desired.
- Promos can be generated with time offsets from the start of the video clip, from the end of the video clip or anywhere in between as well as in relation to any other event on the automation playlist.
- Automation playlist data extraction allows Promotor to retrieve information directly from the playlist including clip IDs (names) and scheduled time.
Example Of Promotor Configuration In A Multi-Channel Facility - Click to Enlarge
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