Newsroom Automation

A basic tool for the good development of television production, and especially, news production, is an application for the planning of operations. ScheduAll presents NewsPlan. A resource allocation tool capable of working together with existing systems for the management of the requirements necessary for the coverage of stories or as a stand-alone application. It is designed to indicate exactly the availability of collaborators, equipment and systems, and the costs this represents for news work, from the meeting or editorial board to remote live broadcasts. In real time it is able to schedule operations, alert when there are conflicts with other activities and set costs. It allows users to analyze resource usage, productivity, and value of assignments over given time periods.

In addition to this, he participates in the re-assignment of stories and staff reviewing the programming of camera operators and reporters, trajectory of stories from initial assignment to air broadcast, planning of vacation or illness time, archiving, library management and videotape stock control.

To access the central storage system of a newsroom, the company Leitch has developed its station for non-linear editing of news NEWSFlash. Although it offers all the conventional features that you expect to find in a system of this class, the difference of this solution with the others on the market is that it is built inside the VR300 professional video server of the same house. This difference offers a variety of advantages. As part of a server, each NEWSFlash editor has simultaneous access to all media files that are stored in the central file system. It is stored as raw material or source archival material and is immediately available through NEWSFlash. This app offers an editing interface that renders the video clips , multiple audio channels and an alpha channel in real time.

A.N.N. Systems' integrated media creation, management and distribution technology offers its new StarDrive 3.0 Suite product to fully solve the management needs of small, medium and large television stations. This application handles all video and audio materials from the initial feeding of the system through the entire production process to the broadcast. Through this system, television stations synchronize low-resolution assets in the newsroom computer domain with high-resolution assets in the broadcasting process domain. StarDrive 3.0 offers a complete solution when integrated with the Associated Press' enps system for newsrooms via the MOS2 protocol.

All solutions for this field of television production seek to make the transition to digital systems easier. Grass Valley Group offers a package of integrated solutions called Vibrint Digital News Production. This solution comprises the well-known Profile XP media platform and the production line consisting of Vibrint Feed Clip for feeding news information, Vibrint NewsEdit for non-linear news editing, and Vibrint NewsQ for manual news playback. The Profile XP platform has the option for power and autoplay.

The solution offered by the Vibrint line combines intuitive software with an open platform based on standardized personal computers. This eliminates the need to digitize before starting the editing work and improves the quality of the image by ruling out the loss of generations resulting from the repeated copying of these materials. The Profile XP platform supports both the highest quality video standards required for the broadcasting of television signals and the low-resolution video materials required for the Internet, as well as MPEG, DVCPro, HD and MPEG Transport Streams (MTS). The Vibrint system also integrates with newsroom computing systems (NCRS) including Avstar and ENPS.

For the production stage in studio Parkervision presents the PVTV system. An automated system for live production and broadcasting that combines video, audio machines and camera controls in a production station that can be operated by a single person. This system allows the production of high-quality news programming with a substantial cost-benefit ratio for the stations. The complete system is made up of PVTV Studio News, which includes a video switcher , engine for digital video effects, control interface for machines, teleprompter and cameraman control, the robotized digital camera solution that has 125 options for predetermining movements on rail, pan, tilt, focus, change of camera settings with an approximate accuracy of 0.125°