Pre-flight: what it checks and what to do

Pre-flight checks the next 30 minutes of transmission every minute and warns in the bottom bar.

It checks four things about every clip coming up:

1. That the file exists
2. That quality analysis did not mark it unairable
3. That it is within its airing window
4. That it has a valid duration

When it goes red

Click it. The detail opens and each problem carries three buttons:

• 📍 Take me to the line — closes the warning, selects that clip in the rundown and brings it into view.
• 🗑 Remove from the rundown — takes it out, with confirmation. It does not delete the file from disk, and it will not let you remove something that is on air.
• 📂 Open its folder — and if the file no longer exists, it opens the folder that contained it.

Usual causes

Several files missing at once. Almost always the network drive is down, not the files. Check the drive before touching the rundown: if you delete the lines and then the network comes back, you have lost the schedule for nothing.

Out of window. The file has airing dates and has expired. Change them in its metadata.

Quality red. Analysis found the file is not airable: no video track, corrupt, or zero duration. Replace it.