The Mediastream Platform offers an innovative solution that facilitates content scheduling management. It allows you to incorporate VOD material or live broadcasts from your account and provides a quick way to integrate ad branding, thereby increasing the impact and monetization of your content. With Fast Channel, you will experience a new level of simplicity and control in planning and executing programming.

In the initial interface, press the + Create Fast Channel button.

This opens a pop-up window requesting the following information:

Once the different parameters are completed, press the Create button, this will add the Channel to the list in the initial interface.

Access the created channel and then proceed with its configuration:

It displays the on-air signal (1), the section to adjust the schedule playlist (2) and the content explorer (3) from where you can add media and/or shows previously created by drag and drop.

By clicking on this button we proceed to configure the channel programming, in the pop-up window displayed, we manage the name of the channel, its start and end time and we indicate whether it is a recurring program or not,

The Input exact duration checkbox disables the end time and enables the possibility to indicate the exact duration of the schedule:

If the recurrence option was activated, it allows to indicate the days of recurrence of the schedule, as well as information of its duration, extension in days and pending days to start. This function allows playing the same schedule during the associated time, considering that the content can be edited on a daily basis.

If the exact duration is specified in a recurring schedule, the end time is not disabled.

After validating the configurations, click on Confirm. The Schedule will appear inside the playlist, in order to ensure that the configuration is not lost, it is recommended to save the changes inside the channel. The generated schedules will not have any associated content yet.

To add our content, you can click on the text Add Content + inside the schedule or, by dragging it from the Content Explorer section of the interface, from the latter, you can upload all the content available within a show, media or active live signals; the associated content must always be in published status.

Define the type of content to be added, this can be Media, Live Push, Live Pull, Ad Break or Episode (Shows).

Add Media: enter the name of a media and confirm, the time is assigned according to the duration of the clip, if required, you can reduce or extend the duration of the clip.

Add Live Push: This option provides the possibility of ingesting the live input generated by default with the fast channel from source, simply assign a name, define the duration of the live push and confirm, once the channel is on air, at the indicated time, the respective signal change will be made automatically ( signal must be running for the live push to work). This option provides the publication parameters.

Add Live Pull: This option allows us to add other live signals available in the account to the Fast Channel.

Add Ad Break: refers to a schedule that carries SCTE-35 marks, or a media that accompanies the duration of the same and can be programmed, to configure it just assign the name and the exact duration of the content. The Ad break generates the API mark automatically, and in case an ad insertion is not assigned to the livestream, the content associated to the adbreak Media will be played during the Fast Channel configuration.

Add Episode: With this option you can add content associated to a show, initially you must type the name of the show and select it,

Once the show is available, other options are displayed, add the duration of the playback of the content, select from which season and finally, from which episode to start.

Once the content loading process is finished, save the changes, the playlist should look like this.

This option allows you to drag and drop content into the schedule playlist using the list of media, shows and lives available in the account.

Media: Select a clip from the list and drag it to the schedule in order to add it as content, it is configured by default with its total duration, once the content is loaded, it can be edited later.

Show: Select a show from the list and drag it to the schedule, the first episode of the first season is configured by default and all the content associated with the show is played sequentially, if the content of the show is shorter than the remaining time in the schedule, the default bumper media is played at the end of the sequence of clips.

Like media, the shows can be edited later.

Lives: when selecting the Lives tab, just drag it to the playlist, the editing is the same as mentioned when adding by content. the interface indicates if the live is online or not.

At the top of this section you will find the search engine if you have the name of the content to add, to search for a show or a specific media, you must be located within the respective tab of the section.

The different schedules will be generated within the live signal, as configured in the Fast Channel, they are editable but it is not recommended as this may affect the correct playback of the schedule in the fast channel.

Once the Schedule starts, the cloud transcoding of the created live signal is automatically activated, starting the live broadcast, and the fast Channel will indicate that the content is on air (Running).

1- Once it starts, you can select to view the current live signal, considering that it will have the characteristic delay of a streaming (15 - 30 seconds), just activate the Signal button.

3- Go Live Button: When switching to live mode, the associated live broadcast will be played instead of the scheduled program. this option can be disabled at any time, and is useful in the case of emergency broadcasts. If pressed by accident, platform will give an alert in a pop-up window.

4- Go Ad Break Button: this option enables the ad break assigned over the signal of the current content, emits the ad insertion if configured or, if not, the ad added when configuring the Fast Channel at the beginning,

The interface displays the remaining time set in the ad break and gives the option to stop it.

5- Options: Allows you to change the fast channel preferences, but the changes made will be reflected in the next schedule,

The Fast Channel can be deleted in this option, doing so will automatically delete the live signal created, the change cannot be reversed.

6- Time shifting: this option allows you to change the start time of the content following the current one in case it is adjusted during its playback or before starting; there are several ways to make use of this feature:

If it is an episode type content, it can be adjusted from Edit Item or from Edit Source, the result will be the same.

7- Edit Source Ad breaks: This functionality allows you to replace any source adbreak configuration, to apply it, click on the 3 dots to the right of the item and select the option (Only media, episode and Live content).

In the Add a new rule + pop-up window, there are 3 types of rules:

When adding the Absolute seconds and/or porcentual rules, the item will show a red alert in the playlist.

8- ADS: For the use of advertising on the Fast Channel, live signal configurations will prevail, ads configured in the VOD content will not be inherited, this is because they become part of a live broadcast, any required ad must be configured within the livestream generated by the Fast Channel, either ad server or ad insertion (SSAI).

The ads settings must be assigned to the signal prior to the start of the schedule in the fast Channel, if, during the playback of a program, changes are made to the live signal, they will be taken into account from the next configured schedule.

The ads assigned are configured as ad server for preroll and as ad replacement for the SSAI, if for any reason, the VAST in these ads do not have a campaign, the Fast Channel will play the ad break configured for this purpose.

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