Ontime Timers

Users create the rundown in a pre-production phase, where Ontime can extract schedules and total durations.

At runtime, Ontime overlays the playback over the schedule to provide extra information on the rundown progress.
In short, we can use the schedule and the current playback to answer questions like:

• how long until “event-x” starts?
• are we running late?

Expected times and planned times

With these layers of information, Ontime can extract two types of schedule, planned times and expected times:

Planned times would tell you when is your event supposed to start, according to the schedule you have provided
Expected times give an expectation of when Ontime expects the event is able to start. The expected time is calculated using the current offset + the total duration of all upcoming events until that point.

Considering the above screenshot of the Editor overview.

Countdown to group end

1

Time until the planned end of the Morning session group

2

Time until the expected end of the Morning session group

Countdown to flag

3

Time until the planned end of the Session 1 flag event

4

Time until the expected end of the Session 1 flag event

End of rundown

5

Rundown planned end time

6

Rundown expected end time

Time to anything

With the information of expected and planned times, Ontime can provide an timer to any rundown event.

See more the delay management documentation.