Creating a Beacon Classic Playlist

Overview

Playlists are a collection of videos and other entities that are created one of two ways for Brightcove Beacon:

1. Imported into Brightcove Beacon from your Video Cloud library. In this case, the items in the playlist will ONLY be videos.
2. Created in Brightcove Beacon using the Playlists tab. When creating the playlist in Brightcove Beacon, you can use the videos imported from Video Cloud (movies / episodes), and in addition you can also add series, seasons, channels and live events. This method is the focus of this document.

Basic Data section

To create a playlist in Brightcove Beacon, follow these steps:

1. Login to Brightcove Beacon.
2. In the top navigation, select Playlists.

3. Click the Add new playlist button.

   

4. From the Basic Data tab, you will define the name and display type of playlist, then add content. Note that most of the functionality in this section is not usable at this time. Of course, the steps below will only address the usable items.

   

5. In the Name field, add an internal system name for your playlist. This is also the name used for analytics. Note that you will add the viewable title for the playlist in a later step.
6. Select a layout from View All Playlist Layout. This is the layout used when viewers click the View All button in the apps. As a best practice choose a grid of some kind.
7. To begin the process of adding content to your playlist, click the Assets tab. You see you have six asset types to choose from.

   

8. To select the desired asset, click first on the asset type, then click the next to the actual asset.

Textual Data

The Textual Data section allows you to add displayable text for your playlist.

1. Select the Textual Data tab.

   

2. Add values for the following fields:

   Field	Required	Notes
   Title	Yes	The displayed title for your playlist.
   Description	Not applicable	This field is not currently used.
   Subtitle	Not applicable	This field is not currently used.

Non-Textual Data

The Non-Textual Data tab is not functional at this time.

Tags

The Tags tab is not functional at this time.

Rights & Scheduling

The Rights & Scheduling section is where you set the publish status and availability.

1. Select the Rights & Scheduling tab.

   

2. Be sure the Status is set to Published for your playlists.
3. For the Availability Details, use the following as a guide to complete the information:

   Field	Required	Notes
   Rights Type	Yes	Select Free.
   Start Time	Yes	Schedule a starting time for your playlist.
   End Time	Yes	Schedule an end time for your playlist.
   Max Streams	N/A	Not functional at this time.
   Devices to publish	Yes	Add the devices you wish to publish to. Select the Select/ Unselect All Devices to see a list of available devices.
   Permitted locations	Yes	Select the locations where you want to stream your content, if no restrictions enter World.
   Denied locations	No	Select the locations where you DO NOT want to stream your content.

   
   
4. Be sure to click the Create New Playlist button to save your work.