Live operations and commercials made easy

JB Playout Trick

If you’ve got Live or Reality Shows, you are playing News or Sports, or you just want manual insertion of Commercials, JB Playout Trick is the solution you are looking for. 

Why choose JB Playout Trick

Premium Stability

JB Playout Trick is designed for stability, optimum CPU utilization, and power. It will run many emergency options in the background to keep you on track with your work.

Various Playback formats

By using JB Playout professional, you can play different formats: MXF, MP4, MPG, AVI, MOV, LXF, GXF, NDXHD, PRORES, with different resolutions and framerates, in a single playlist.

Manual playlist with Rate Control

Playlist is under full manual control. Insert Files, Lives, URLs and Commands, and control or playback by yourself or loop it. Playlist never expires and you can adjust playing speed of playing file to produce slow motions.

In-frame Cue items

Cue items in the playlist on their first frame and stop playing on their last frame. Recue partly played item.

Multiple I/O Options

HDMI/SDI Black Magic Decklink or Intensity cards output and input. UDP or RTPM streaming output and input. Direct Show output. Youtube links as input, Newtek NDI IP as output.

Resolutions and Framerates

You will be able to choose from a vast amount of resolutions and frame rates, such as NTSC, PAL, 2K, 4K, 1080 50i, 1080 5994i, 1080 50p…

Simple MAM with File Watcher

Handle your files with style, using File registration, Live events and URLs, properties settings, in/out spots, breaks, cuts, scale, interlace, transitions. Automatically register newly added files with the File Watcher.

Character Generator

Creating rich channel graphics with our integrated CG Editor (Logo, Music Title, Subtitle), is as easy as it can get. Use PNG sequences, SWF files, pictures, Crawls, Rolls, Time and Linked text.

Commercials Client

Create commercial blocks, keep track of customers and commercials for each one of them. Create reports for customers.

Virtual Folders

Your files can be organized in the playout hierarchy independently from the file system location of the resources.

Access and control from any device

With our remote control application, you can control your playout from just about anywhere in the world. You can do the same via Windows remote application when using local networks.

UDP Control

Connect just about any application to your Playout, by using UDP commands, or create your own Remote application.

Full manual control under your fingertips

The pack contains everything that’s packed in the JB Playout Starter and adds unique features, such as: 

  • Semi-automatic file watcher
  • Create file cuts and add them to the playlist
  • Files, URLs and file cuts with Slow Motion
  • Manual Playlist Control
  • Rate (Item speed) control
  • Play once, Play till stop command, Loop
  • Cue next, Cue selected, Recue
  • Loop from/till commands
  • Labels in playlist
  • Preparation client and Commercials client
  • Favorite lists
  • Commercials
  • Virtual folder
  • UDP Control
  • Newtek NDI IP output (send to vMix, TriCaster through LAN)

Manual Playlist Control

Playlist in Trick playout never expires, files stay in the list. You can use three different types of play: Play till stop command, Play Once, and Loop from/till. You can play the block of items and put Stop Command at the end of the block, or you can play an item that will stop at the end of the last frame. Or, you can just put Loop From Command at the beginning of the block and Loop Till Command at the end, and let the block loop endlessly.

UDP Commands

We’ve created UDP plugin in Trick Playout which helps you to create external applications and to connect them to playout and control it remotely. You can control basic operations like Play, Pause, Stop, Cue, but you can also active complex graphics object in Playout with full control over single graphics objects in templates.

Virtual Folders

Organize your files independently of the file system location of those files. Create personal folders structure to help you managing your files faster. You can create Virtual Folder Tree as big as you want with unlimited files in it.

System Requirements

Before you make your final decision, make sure that your system meets the requirements. 

  • Intel Core i7 processor or faster
  • 8 Gb of DDR3 RAM (16 is recommended)
  • SSD Drive for operating system (recommended)
  • Fast media hard drive (Raid 0, 5, 6 recommended)
  • nVidia GPU – GTX7xx or newer (for NVENC H.264 streaming)
  • Intel HD4600 CPU Graphics (for QuickSync H.264 streaming)
  • BlackMagicDesign Intensity or Decklink (for HDMI or SDI input and output)
  • Desktop resolution 1920×1080 minimum (required)
  • Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, 8.1 or 10 – 64 Bits Pro (8.1 recommended)

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