The Front time shows the estimated start time of each Part, Item, or Block. It is based on the Episode On Air time plus the Estimated Duration of the previous element.
For example: If the Episode’s On-Air time is 12:00:00, the first Part, Item, and Block will all have a Front time of 12:00:00.
If the first Item has an Estimated Duration of 1 minute, the next Item’s Front time will be 12:01:00.
Cuez automatically calculates Front times throughout the Episode based on the Episode On Air time and the Estimated Durations of Parts, Items, and Blocks
The automatically calculated Front time of an Item can be overwritten with a custom value to set a fixed start time.
For example: An Esports event may require matches to start at specific times.
If Match 1 should start at 14:00 but is automatically calculated to start at 14:03, you can overwrite its Front time to 14:00.
All the following Items will automatically recalculate based on this manually set time.
When you overwrite an Item’s Front time:
Items below it are automatically recalculated.
Items above it are not adjusted but may turn red if they are no longer valid.
The original, automatically calculated Front time is shown in black or dark grey. Black when they are 'active', dark grey when they are 'inactive' (meaning that the Part that the Items are in, has a manually overwritten Estimated Duration).
The Front time of the Item that is overwritten with a manual value becomes blue.
Front times that result in a value that is no longer 'valid', meaning an Item would have to take place at a time after an upcoming Item's manually overwritten Front time, would be shown in red.