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An object is instantiated when a Technical Production Manager (TPM) creates the object, which is the equivalent of booking the studio.
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Media Traffic goes in and look at this booking/object and assigns global routing information to it.
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Media Traffic gives the object a checkmark when the shot is good to go and ready to be taken or grabbed by a control room.
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A control room takes or grabs that object. The object will turn yellow if it was taken by a control room. If it was grabbed, the object will turn green and also have a lock icon at the end of the object.
- A control room doesn’t need to take an object in order to grab it; they can just grab it first.
- Multiple control rooms can take an object to view it. Only one control room can grab an object.
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The TPM of that control room adds local routing information to that live shot.
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If another control room attempts to grab an object that has been grabbed already, they will see the object flash red as a warning signal and they will be notified that the object has been grabbed by another room. A notification will be sent to the control room with the control of the object to let them know another room, which room, is attempting to grab control.
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Once the control room with the control releases control of the object, the other control room attempting to grab control will get a notification that the object is free and they can grab it.
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When Media Traffic was initially setting up the object, they put in an expiration time frames. When that time frame is up, the object stops appearing in search results. However, users who already added a shot to their canvas before its expiration can continue using the shot and also renew the shot.