100-day countdown to SupeRBOWL LVIII Snipe (Control room version)

Skills: Chyron Prime, Templating

In a unified brand push, CBS designed a 100-clip series of countdown snipes to promote Super Bowl LVIII across its owned-and-operated stations.

Group Creative Chyron specialists developed an automated Vertigo template to play the appropriate clip over commercial/network time.

The management at WJZ was hoping for a solution to also play the snipes over our news and sports shows, but there was no direct connection setup between Vertigo and our Control Room.

My solution was to build a Chyron template that mirrored Group Creative’s automated Vertigo setup. By using the Now-Next-Later function in the Table Object, and binding just the first entry in a spreadsheet of dates and corresponding movie files, the appropriate snipe clip was automatically selected.

Therefore, news could simply drop the snipe into a rundown and when it was queued for playout, the template would check to make sure the correct video was loaded before playing out the clip for the day. No manual video-swapping needed from a producer!