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News coverage is one of the most challenging areas in modern
broadcasting. Often, dozens of stations compete in being the first to
air the latest breaking new event. Television newscast (especially
when LIVE) requires a fast and flexible delivery mechanism, without
compromising on the graphics quality. Graphics form the backbone of
news presentations– they provide a structured display of data, alert
information, background facts, wire/data-feed statistics etc. in an
intelligible manner to its viewers. At any given time, the amount of
information that needs to go on-air, far exceeds the capability of
current graphics systems – the issues ranging from the inability to
handle multiple sources of data inputs, multiple playout points,
networked access and control of graphics content, to the limitations
of existing workflow capabilities
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nX News
provides a complete package of standard news templates providing
the power of graphics automation, allowing non-graphics personnel
to deliver on-air graphics on the fly. The networked content input
stations allows everyone on the network to contribute data, by
choosing the appropriate graphics published by the artists, and
appending the variable graphics data. Data entries can be inserted
locally by the operator or alternatively linked to external
databases for live data feeds. Once published these pages become
available to those involved in the news production chain such as
editors and journalists, and are then ready for live production
using the custom built playout controllers.
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Rundowns are easily created either locally by the operator, or
whenever an automated newsroom system is in place, access to the
published templates is done from within the newsroom system (such
as ENPS, iNews, OCTOPUS Newsroom, Dalet etc.) itself. This allows
the journalist to continue working within a familiar environment;
the journalist can call up the page, enter relevant data for the
story, preview it on a local machine and once satisfied with the
outcome, the story can be sent either for authorization or directly
to the newsroom rundown.
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Once the newsroom
rundown is updated, the rundown within the Controller is
automatically updated as well. Even during a production when the need
arises for last minute changes, it is sufficient to update the
newsroom rundown, which causes an automatic update of the TV news
graphics’ rundown as well.
Developing the complete News Graphics workflow can be quite a
challenging task. The Labs team can provide you with custom solutions
based on their vast experience on the same and help you get into the
action right from the start.
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