Live Event Slate

Slate may either be:

• Automatically Inserted: Slate will be automatically triggered under the following conditions:

  • Pre-Event Slate: Prior to the start of a live event.

  • Post-Event Slate: Directly after the completion of a live event.

  • Ad Slate: During an ad break when ad content is not being received.

  • Missing Content Slate: During a live event when both of the following conditions are true:

    • The Live Slicer is not producing content.
    • The live event is not in an ad break.

    Define default pre-event, post-event, ad, and missing content slate from the Slate page. You may override this default configuration when setting up your live event. Additionally, a live event's pre-event slate may also be manually set from the Live Events Dashboard prior to the start of the live event.

• Manually Inserted: The Live Events Dashboard allows slate content to be manually inserted during a live event by selecting the desired asset from within the Live Events Dashboard's Switcher pane.

  Key Information:

  • Slate that is manually inserted into a live event is known as mid-event slate.

  • Prior to the start of your live event, you may select a CMS library for mid-event slate through the Mid Slate Library option from your live event's Config tab. The assets associated with that library will be available for selection when inserting mid-event slate during a live event.

  • If you enable the VOD Replayable option on your live event, our service will generate an asset through which your live event can be replayed as on-demand content. Each time you insert slate into your live event, you must choose whether that asset will contain the slate content being inserted.

    • Include slate within the VOD asset generated by your live event:

      1. Open the configuration for the desired live event and set the Enable Slate in VOD Replay option to Yes. You cannot set the Enable Slate in VOD Replay option to Yes if a live event has been configured to use slate from a CMS library shared with your account.

      2. From the Live Events Dashboard, find the desired asset under the Mid Event Slate section and click on Save to Replay. Use the Save to Replay option to include the entire mid-slate asset within the asset generated for VOD replay of your live event. This occurs regardless of whether the live event operator chooses to add only a portion of that mid-event slate asset or loops it multiple times. If the live event operator loops a mid-event slate asset multiple times, it will be included only once for that instance of slate.

    • Exclude slate from the VOD asset: From the Live Events Dashboard, find the desired asset under the Mid Event Slate section and click to the left of the Save to Replay cell. If the Save to Replay cell is not present, you may click anywhere on the desired asset.

Configure a Live Event's Slate

1. Navigate to the Live Events page. From the main menu, navigate to Events > Live Events.

2. Select a Live Event that has not yet started.

3. Click the Config tab.

4. At the bottom of the page, view the default pre-event, post-event, ad, or missing content slate.

5. Change the default pre-event, post-event, ad, or missing content slate:

   • Click Change that appears directly below the desired slate.
   • Select the desired asset.

6. Optional: If you want to include mid-event slate within the VOD replay asset of your live event, enable the Enable Slate in VOD Replay option.

7. From the Mid Slate Library option, select the desired CMS library.

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All assets within the selected library will be available for selection as source content from the Switcher pane of the Live Events Dashboard.

8. Click Save.

Define a Default Slate Configuration

1. From the Content tab, organize assets that will serve as slate content into one or more CMS libraries.

2. Navigate to the Slate page. From the main menu, navigate to Settings > Slate.

3. Click on the Slate Types tab.

4. Ad Slate: Perform the following steps to set the default asset that will be broadcast as slate during an ad break when ad content is not being received:

   • Set the Ad Slate Library option to the CMS library that contains assets that may be used as ad slate.
   • Set the Ad Slate option to the desired asset.

5. Missing Content Slate: Perform the following steps to set the default asset that will be broadcast as slate when content is not being received and the live event is not in an ad break:

   • Set the Missing Content Slate Library option to the CMS library that contains assets that may be used as missing content slate.
   • Set the Missing Content Slate option to the desired asset.

6. Click on the Live Event Slates tab.

7. Pre-Event Slate: Perform the following steps to set the default asset that will be broadcast as slate prior to the start of a live event:

   • Set the Pre Event Slate Library option to the CMS library that contains assets that may be used as pre-event slate.
   • Set the Pre Event Slate option to the desired asset.

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   The asset that will serve as pre-event slate may be changed prior to the start of the live event from within the Live Events Dashboard.

8. Mid-Event Slate: Set the Mid Event Slate Library option to the CMS library that contains assets that may be used as mid-event slate.

9. Post-Event Slate: Perform the following steps to set the default asset that will be broadcast as slate after the live event has completed:

   • Set the Post Event Slate Library option to the CMS library that contains assets that may be used as post-event slate.
   • Set the Post Event Slate option to the desired asset.

10. Click Save.

Post-Event Slate Duration

After the end of a live event, post-event slate will automatically play in one of the following modes:

• Loop Indefinitely: The post-event slate will play continuously on loop.
• Play Through One Time: The post-event slate asset will be played only once.
• Set Time Duration in Minutes: The post-event slate will play for the specified number of minutes.

To set one of the above modes, navigate to the Post Event Slate Duration section of the Live Events page.