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absolute time markers


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By paulmoore - Wednesday, April 23, 2014 7:59:28 PM

Do the absolute time markers only come into effect during autofade hours ?

reason I ask is on the tutorial video for V4 AutoTrak it shows an absolute time marker at the start and at the end of the hour, the first fires off the weather the second fires the news at the end of the hour, I tried this tonight and it just went past my marker, I purposely made the abs time 1 second short to fire at 00:02:01, as the news shuts off at 00:02:02, but it just carried on playing and my weather fired off at 00:02:03.

any ideas ? do I have to be in auto fade for it to work ? OR is this absolute marker at 00:02:02 only there to allow us to programme the clock to time? eg to get our ads at the right time etc.

Thanks for any replies in advance ;-)
By David Boulton - Monday, September 22, 2014 9:24:58 AM

Hi Phil,

that correct, no need for that one.

If you just want the hour to backtime calculate to be an hour you don't need any time markers in an AuotFade hour at all. But if you do want something to wait until or backtime to you do need the markers.