Playback
Arranging content in time, and running it. The media is in the project by now; here you decide what plays, in what order, and what makes it advance.
Do this in order
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Create a sequence and add content — channels on a timeline, each video channel rendering to a screen in the scene. One sequence is enough to put a show up.
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Build a stepper — an ordered list of steps, each triggering one or more sequences, advanced manually, by trigger, or when a sequence finishes. This is the running order.
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Schedule it — a week plan for venues that run fixed daily or weekly programming, unattended.
Done when: the show runs start to finish without anyone touching the machine — whether that means one looping sequence or a stepper working through a running order.
The Broadcast Scheduler schedules sequences, not steppers. If your running order lives in a stepper, a schedule cannot start it directly — schedule a sequence, and drive the stepper by something else.
Transitions between events
Video and Audio Channel Transitions in Sequence — crossfading two overlapping events on one channel
More options
Chasing or sending timecode, and synchronising several servers frame-accurately:
Next
Remote Control — driving a finished show from outside Backstage
Node Editor — custom logic, where the windows above do not cover what the show needs
Conductor — Conductor, when part of the show is programmed there