Thauma Operations Manual

Overview

This is the full structure of an episode of Home and Away as it should appear on the Master Tape and all preceding sequence types

Timecode	Element
09:58:30:00	Colour Bars
09:59:30:00	Ident
09:59:45:00	Countdown
10:00:00:00	Picture Start. Should begin with 6 seconds of Opener.
	Recap starts immediately after the opener> The recap has a 2:35 mask in place The recap ends with a fade to black, followed by a moment of black (usually 1-sec) followed by a fade-up
	Segments 1-4 Each segment has the following structure: Countdown starts at t-15:00 Black starts at t-01:24 Picture starts at the minute or half-minute 12-frame fade up Segment 4 has a (usually) 25 frame fade to black
10:25:00:00	Local Credits - Duration 30:12
10:25:45:00	Local Credit Base (no teaser) - Duration 30:12
10:26:30:00	Local Teaser Clean
10:27:30:00	International Credits - Duration 30:00
10:28:00:00	Channel 7 Production Logo
10:28:30:00	Clean International Credit Base & all Clean Openers
10:30:30:00	Extended Segment Ends (Segment Breakers)
10:31:30:00	Clean International Teaser - Wednesday episode only with International Teaser
10:32:30:00	Clean International Teaser (second copy) - Wednesday episode only with International Teaser
10:33:00:12	Last frame of picture
10:34:00:12	At least one minute of black at end of tape

Total Drama Duration = 21:15:11 to 21:30:11