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Introduction

Brightcove Cloud Playout is a Studio module that enables you to program a scheduled playout of items from your VOD catalogue, combined with live feeds, and stream it as a Linear Channel all with the reliability and scalability of Brightcove Live.

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You can then use the Cloud Playout channel as a {{ site.product_short }} Channel by entering information about it in creating a {{ site.product_short }} Channel. One major advantage to using Cloud Playout channels is that you will not need to find and integrate a 3rd party EPG provider, since an EPG service is built into Cloud Playout.

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Cloud Playout offers a powerful, end-to-end solution for channels of scheduled programming, including:

Cloud Playout helps you increase audience engagement and create new revenue opportunities through a broadcast-like, Live TV experience leveraging pre-recorded content. Use existing VOD assets and add live events (optionally) to create scheduled live channels.

Features

Features of Cloud Playout include:

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Workflow overview

There are four parts to creating a Cloud Playout channel and adding it to your {{ site.product_short }} app:

  1. In {{ site.product_short }} Studio, create the channel.
  2. In {{ site.product_short }} Classic, create a new {{ site.product_short }} channel that uses the Cloud Playout channel as its source.
  3. In {{ site.product_short }} Studio, add the channel to a playlist.
  4. In {{ site.product_short }} Studio, add the playlist to page.
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Workflow overview

There are four parts to creating a Cloud Playout channel and adding it to your {{ site.product_short }} app:

  1. In Video Cloud Studio, create the channel.
  2. In {{ site.product_short }}, create a new {{ site.product_short }} channel that uses the Cloud Playout channel as its source.
  3. In {{ site.product_short }}, add the channel to a playlist.
  4. In {{ site.product_short }}, add the playlist to page.
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Limitations

The following assumptions and limitations apply.