The rundown is not exported into the console. It is the same rows, in the same order, read by the same people — the surface changes register when the transmission block opens, and nothing is carried across by hand.
Segments with durations, sources, video, audio, graphics, location and notes, adding up against the block window as you type. The screenshot reads 1:03:00 written into a 1:30:00 block, 27:00 still free — so nobody finds out at the read-through that the running order is twenty minutes long.
Columns are yours: switch them on, reorder them, pin the ones that never move. The order you set is the order the operator scans in the console. You are not filling in a spreadsheet; you are building the view somebody will read at speed with a show on air.
Segments group into sections — opening, awards, closing — and each section carries its own item count and its own running time. Every row also shows the time left to the end of its section, which is the number a director actually watches when a section has to hand over on time.
Lock a pre-recorded VT, an EVS clip or a contracted sponsor billboard and nothing in the product will shorten it, because shortening it in software does not make it any shorter. Anchor a segment to an absolute time for sport and it stays there — moving the start of the rundown does not drag a captured anchor with it.
Save any rundown as a template and it lands in a library held on your account, not in the workspace you happened to be in. It travels to the next client, and the client never sees it. A template carries no clock times — only durations and anchors — so the same skeleton drops into a block starting at 09:00 or at 22:45 and still adds up. The column layout comes with it.
Six clocks that do not disagree: the wall, the transmission clock, time in the current segment, time to the next, time to the end of the section, and the predicted end — when the show comes off air if it runs to plan from now. Fixed geometry, so the operator never hunts for a number that has drifted somewhere else on the screen. The current segment, the next two, and the full timeline underneath. Advance on cue or by hand. DONE, SKIP and undo, each one a single transaction. Going on air out of order is a deliberate choice from the ▶ menu on the row, not a stray click.
When the network drops, the console says how old the data is rather than what the socket is doing — and it does not return the director to a login screen mid-show.
Click a cell to select it; click again or type to change it. Grab a segment by its number and drag it — a green line shows where it lands, and nothing lands above the segment on air. Copy a range out to Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets, or paste one in: one save, one undo. It works the same with a finger: hold for a quarter of a second, then drag.
If someone else changed the same thing in the meantime, undo refuses instead of overwriting them. The other show directors, the wallboard and the crew phones see the change within about two seconds. Played segments are read-only; a played segment can only come back right after the one on air — as a replay, with its first airing kept in the audit trail.
Something is not ready; the clocks stop and say so in amber. The segment keeps its planned length, the show keeps its shape, and the moment it resumes the arithmetic picks up where it left off.
When the show goes over, it offers to distribute the drift across what is still to come. Choose the range — the next two, three or five items, the rest of the block, or up to the next anchor — and the proposal arrives as a table: every upcoming segment, its planned duration, its new one, and the difference.
It will not touch a locked duration or an anchored segment, and it says why it skipped them. Nothing drops below fifteen seconds, and the remainder is redistributed across the rest. If the show cannot be fully recovered it reports exactly how much it could not find, rather than pretending.
A production takes up to three show directors, and none of them costs the customer a seat. Before the show that is three people shaping the same running order instead of mailing versions of it around. During the show it is a backup one click away from the chair, and a change can land while the show is on: one director drives, another edits alongside the producer, and the running order under the operator updates as they work.
Every segment carries the name of whoever last touched its script or its notes, so the person driving is never quietly overtaken by an edit they did not make. The chair itself can be handed over mid-show, confirmed by name, without the show stopping.
Script and technical notes sit in a dock beside the running order for the producer, the show directors and the operator. Team leaders and crew do not see them, and that limit is in the database, not in the interface.