Schedule

Posts says where work has got to. This is the same question turned forward: when the sources your channels listen to are expected to post. It sits under Overview, one row below Posts.

It is an estimate, and it is in your time zone

The Posting calendar is built from the schedules of the sources each channel listens to, not from posts that exist. Actual posting times vary. Read it as each channel's posting strategy rather than as a countdown. Above the calendar, a line counts how many posts are expected in the period shown.

A feed that has When it goes out set in its Settings under the channel's Sources is shown at those release times, not at the feed's own hour. Where the feed's own schedule is known, only the releases that will have a new update to post are shown: a weekly feed let out every weekday appears once a week, on the first release after its day. Pointing at an entry says both schedules. See When a feed goes out.

Every time on this screen is in your own time zone, including the day and week headings and the line that marks the current time. You set the zone under Your time zone on My account. The post lists in Post composer use it too, so the two screens agree.

Paused channels and paused sources post nothing and are left out entirely. If a channel is missing from the calendar, check whether it or its source is paused before looking for anything else.

The filters

Period shows a List until a date, which is where the screen opens (see The list below), or a calendar of a Day, a Week or a Month. A week runs Monday to Sunday. Previous and Next above the calendar step back and forward a day, a week or a month at a time, and once you have left the current one, Today, This week or This month between them brings you back. The day and week views are drawn for the whole day, every hour from midnight to midnight on the card, and you read them with the page's own scroll rather than a second one inside the calendar; blocks at the same time sit side by side. The month view shows up to three blocks a day, with "n more" for the rest.

Channels picks one channel, several, or All channels. All channels is a row of its own rather than every box ticked, so a channel you add tomorrow is included without anybody going back to tick it. Each channel has its own colour, shown in a key above the calendar, and a paused one is marked as paused in the list.

Source offers All sources, Feeds or Manual post lists. A custom feed posts whenever your system sends and never lands on a date, so it is not something a calendar can draw.

Hovering a block shows the post's item from the list, with its buttons: Preview, and Modify and Delete on a post from a post list that is still waiting. A block is drawn when the post goes out; for a feed the channel holds to a schedule of its own (When it goes out, see Channels), that is the release rather than the moment the feed's data arrives. Clicking a block opens its preview.

The list

List until a date shows every post expected from this moment until the end of the day you choose under Until, thirty days ahead at first and at most a year ahead, as items rather than a calendar, each with its left edge in its channel's colour from the key. Each item gives the date and time, the post's title, its brand with the brand's logo, the channel it goes out on with its platform's logo, and the template and style it is drawn with and its source. A post from a post list then shows what it says: its kicker, its points under the template's own labels, and the caption and hashtags its channel posts beside the clip. A ready-made feed's post shows its rule instead, since what it says is the feed's data when it goes out. The Channels and Source filters apply, a search box finds a post by its words, its channel or its source, and Soonest first turns the list round. Each item has Preview (see below), and a post from a post list that is still waiting also has Modify and Delete after it. Modify opens the same dialogue as the post's Settings in Post composer, to change its words, its template or its time without leaving the Schedule. Delete takes the post out of its list after asking once, so it never goes out. A post that has gone out is a record and cannot be changed.

A post's preview

Preview, on an item of the list, on a block of the calendar (click it) or on a source in the card below, opens a dialogue that shows how the post will look.

How the post will look:

• A ready-made feed is drawn as a still of its example content in its channel's brand, style and shape, and in the Look the feed has on that channel (a logo shown as it is, round corners and the rest), as its real clips are; every other style of its template is a press away. The Brand dropdown draws it in another of your brands, and Example brand plays its preview clip, which shows the style's own look.
• A post from a post list is drawn as one still with its own words, in its channel's brand, shape and language.
• A custom feed is drawn as one still of its template's example content in its channel's brand and in the Look it has on that channel, since what your system will send is not known yet.

A still is a frame from the last third of the clip. It is not counted against your videos, and the first one of a template can take up to half a minute while it is prepared. Press the still to open it full screen; the cross closes it again. Under the still of a post or a custom feed, Start, Middle and Keyframe jump to a fifth, half and nine tenths of the clip, << and >> step one second back and on, and Update frame draws the frame shown again. For a post from a post list, Clip preview renders the whole clip as it will go out and plays it: it asks first, counts as one video against this month's allowance, and is kept under Exported videos in Clip studio.

What has no precise time

The card below the calendar, Without a precise schedule, lists sources that post but not at a time a calendar can place: a feed described rather than timed, and streams your own systems post to. They are listed rather than guessed onto a date, because a mark on a date nobody chose would read as a promise. Each row names the channel, the content source and, under When it posts, what is known about its timing, and Preview shows how a post from it will look; the Source filter above applies here too, and a longer list can be searched. When the channel holds such a feed to a schedule of its own, a second line under When it posts says when it really goes out, and its releases are drawn on the calendar too, while it stays in this card.

A post list is never in that card. Each of its posts has an exact time, so they are on the calendar above.

Download the schedule

The last card, Download schedule, saves the schedule as one file. Its Download schedule button opens a dialogue where you choose what the file lists, whatever the calendar above shows: From, the first day, today or later, today's posts from this moment on; Until, the last day; and Channels, all channels, one or several, chosen as on the calendar. It lists every kind of source, the ready-made feeds and the post lists alike. Choose the Format, a PDF or an HTML page. Every post is an item of its own, framed and set apart from the next: its date and time, its channel, source and template, and what it says. The sources without a precise schedule follow in a table of their own. Both are written in your language, with Reelwire's mark at the top and a foot naming your workspace and when the file was made. Every time in it is written in your own time zone, and the facts at the top name that zone under Time zone. The PDF is on landscape A4, a post kept whole on one page where it fits and one too long for a page carried on to the next; it leaves emoji out, and text in a script other than Latin, Greek or Cyrillic reads exactly only in the HTML page. The HTML page opens in any browser and prints; it fetches nothing, so it can be sent on as it is.

Add three stills of every post puts three pictures of every post until that day under its row, however many there are, from its start, middle and keyframe, drawn in its channel's brand as the post's Preview draws them: a post list's post with its own words, a ready-made feed with its example. They are shown large, side by side and named, and in the PDF every post with stills starts at the top of a page of its own. In the HTML page, press a still to see it filling the window and press it again to close it. In the PDF, pressing a still opens a page of its own at the end showing it as large as the page holds, with Back to the schedule to return to its row. Each still takes a few seconds to draw, so a long schedule takes minutes and a year of posts can take hours: Add to the queue puts it in the queue on the card, where it waits for the ones before it, then says how many stills are drawn. Your workspace's schedules with stills are made one after the other, and you can ask for the next while one is made. Each row has Cancel while it waits or is drawn, Download once it is made and Remove to take it off the list. One you asked for on the page downloads by itself once it is made while the page is open; any other waits on the card for its Download. A schedule stays there for an hour from when it is made, the row saying until when, and is then deleted; an update of Reelwire also empties the queue, so download a schedule soon after it is made. A feed posting every day is drawn once, and the stills are written into the file itself, so the page still fetches nothing. A PDF whose stills are too many for one file, about a thousand pictures, comes as several PDFs in one zip file, each a part of the schedule in order, its first page naming the days its posts run from and to.

An AI assistant connected to your workspace can make the same page or the same PDF, with or without stills, with reelwire_calendar, which is on its everyday list of tools, and hands you a link to download it. With stills its schedule waits in your workspace's queue like yours, but is listed only to the assistant, which checks how far it is and gives you the link once it is made. The link works for two hours.