This page only appears when you run more than one playout. With a single line there is nothing here that is not already under Outputs.
How many
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Number of playouts | One to four. |
A playout you switch on starts empty: no rundown, no output, nothing live. Give it an output and a name and it is ready — see more than one playout.
Each extra line renders and encodes its own picture, so two is roughly twice the work of one.
Colour
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Colour playout 1 … 4 | The accent colour of that line. Click to choose. |
The colour tints that playout’s list background, its panel and its block in the status bar. It is not decoration: it is how you know which rundown you are looking at from across the room.
Pick colours that are clearly different in a dark room. Blue and amber works; two shades of blue does not.
Always live
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Playout N always live (start at launch) | That playout goes live by itself when the program starts, with the cue that was live when you closed it. |
For a screen that must never be black: a foyer display, a hall screen, an overlay layer. It changes only the start — the playout stays an ordinary line you can fire, stop and edit.
Full page: permanent playout.
Where the rest lives
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| The name of a playout | Outputs → Output name |
| Its output, audio track and monitoring | Outputs |
| Overlay-only mode | Outputs → Options |
| Its colour and whether it is always live | Here |
That split follows the hardware: everything about where the picture goes is an output question, and everything about how you recognise the line is here.