Smart Rundown organizes a broadcast into three levels inside the rundown. Understanding this structure is essential for planning and executing your shows.

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Above the rundown there is the Show. A Show is the container for a production and holds its Graphics, Control Pages, Rundowns and Spaces. One Show can have several Rundowns — one per broadcast.

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Segment

The top level inside a rundown. Segments divide the show into blocks, and you reorder them by dragging. There are three types:

• Segment — a normal content block that holds stories. "Opening", "First Half", "Interview".
• Break — an ad break or transition.
• Setup — a block that runs before air (opening the graphics, arming a source). Setup segments are pinned to the top of the rundown.

A segment either ends with its content — it is worth exactly what is inside it — or lasts a set time you type. Breaks and Setup segments hold their declared length by default; a normal segment is worth its stories.

Story

Stories are the items inside a segment: one news item, one interview, one play. Each story can carry a slug, a script for the teleprompter and production notes.

The story is also the clock every element inside it is measured against — an element that starts "at 00:05" starts five seconds after its story does.

Like segments, a story either ends with its content or lasts a set time.

Element

Elements are the cues inside a story. Each one puts something on air: a graphic, a clip, an OBS or vMix action, a streaming action.

Every element answers two questions:

• When does it start? — At a set time (counted from the start of its story), With previous, or After previous.
• How long does it last? — For a set time, or until the story ends (a lower third that holds the block).

A graphics element can also carry clips and field changes — timed content that plays inside the element while it is on air.

During execution each element moves through: Upcoming → Standby → On Air → Done (or Skipped).

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