Brando Snipes

Standard Snipe

Standard snipes are scheduled in Brando which puts them in the queue at a specific date and time. However, they don't get shown until they are triggered. Standard snipes have an optional expiry which deletes if they're still in the queue when the expiry arrives.

Timed Snipes

Timed snipes are scheduled in Brando which puts them in the queue at a specific date and time. Timed snipes get triggered by a different trigger than standard snipes. They were conceived as a way to show a snipe n seconds after the start of a segment. The delay (n seconds) can be defined for a channel in Brando. It is called Timed Snipe Segment Delay. As an alternative to using timed snipes as it was conceived, they could just be used as a secondary queue for snipes and can just use a different trigger. Timed snipes have an optional expiry which deletes if they're still in the queue when the expiry arrives.

Named Snipes

Named snipes provide a deeper way of integrating with traffic and automation systems. The name refers to a "house id" for a promotion or sponsor. Instead of scheduling named snipes, they are just defined in Brando with no date or time. Once defined, they are available to be triggered. The trigger from automation will include the name (house id). For example, the trigger might look like <snipe id="abc"> where abc is the name. Named snipes can be added, modified and deleted as required. Named snipes can optionally have clients attached to them. If so, an as run record would be written. Unlike the other 2 types of snipes, there is no naming convention for Named Snipes scene names.

You will fined Named Snipes under the Manage Module

Snipes at a Glance

Trigger OFF

Named snipes playout until the scene is complete and then gets cleared if anything is left over. Alternatively, named snipes can hold until it is triggered off. This is useful when automation shows a sponsor logo for a scheduled period of time. To indicate that a named snipe is to be held until it is triggered off, meta data metadata in the scene must be specified:

For the scene object, define an attribute TriggerOff. That will tell the player to hold the named snipe until a trigger off.

Brando Player Logic

• The player checks each minute for new standard and timed snipes to add to the queue

• Each second, Brando Player checks the on-deck list and if a Snipe has a start time equal to the current timecode, the Snipe gets moved into one of the 2 Snipe queues
• Every time Brando Player shows a Snipe, it is removed from the queue
• snipes can also be shown out of order using switcher by choosing the snipe in the grid and playing it.
• named snipes are triggered either from automation or manually from the switcher. When triggered, the snipe's name tells Brando which named snipe to show.
• the player refreshes the current set of Named Snipes every 15 minutes but to get an immediate set of Named Snipes, a Refresh button is available in the UI