What is Amagi Planner?  

Amagi Planner is a cloud-based platform that helps organize media planning in the most efficient manner. It offers a toolset that allows media planners to convert schedules into playlists and Electronic Program Guide (EPG). It works in sync with Amagi Playout and automation systems, independent of any third-party integration. 

Every media organization is constantly coming up with new products that ease the overall work for human resources. But what makes Amagi Planner different from the existing media scheduling applications is its speed and accuracy. It simplifies scheduling for various content and ad breaks and validates the digital rights and operator-defined rules. With its easy-to-use web interface, you will notice a remarkable reduction in time, effort, and errors.

You can schedule episodic, non-episodic, long-term, and short-term content for both linear and VOD channels. 

Amagi Planner - Benefits 

Amagi Planner comes with a lot of benefits, including converting playlists and EPGs to Amagi Cloudport with minimal resources. The key benefits are listed below:

• Provides a scalable and unified experience for seamless scheduling of programs and ad breaks.

• Minimize efforts and increase efficiency by performing rule-based automation for repetitive tasks.

• View and analyze the daily progress of assets. This helps to manage the planning activities effectively.

• Significantly reduce manual errors that are caused by the use of traditional spreadsheets.

• Provides advanced searching filters to access content in a hierarchical media library easily.

These benefits are discussed with examples in the upcoming sections of this document.

Amagi Planner - Key Features

Amagi Planner comes with features that are extremely useful. Highlighted below are some of the key features.

• Rights management with alerts: Generate alerts for multiple licenses and rerun frequency rights to avoid violations.

• Automation of ad breaks for maximized revenue: Automates ad breaks and manages promos, idents, bumpers, stings, and fillers that consume bandwidth for every ad spot.

• Schedule programs with/without blocks: Performs batch scheduling for manual and pattern-based programs. Helps in short-term and long-term planning with the option of making quick edits before pushing assets to playlists and EPGs.

• Asset Collection Implementation for easy allocation of content: Categorise and schedule related titles into groups, arrange content in a sequenced and shuffled manner, add automation rules, and pin assets as per Channel IDs, credits, and disclaimers. 

Amagi Planner - Terms 

Here is the list of common terms used in Amagi Planner and their meanings.