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5. Do one of the following:
t Select one or more stories, drag them to Media Composer, and drop them into a bin.
You can then work with the sequence or sequences as you do with any other Media
Composer sequence. Note that editing the sequence and checking it in to Interplay
Production might make it uneditable or unplayable in MediaCentral UX. For more
information, see “Opening and Editing an Existing Sequence in the Sequence Pane” on
page 132.
t Select a story, drag it to Media Composer, and drop it into a source monitor.
You can play the sequence without adding it to a bin. Note that if you make changes, like
adding locators or properties, you must save the changes to Interplay Production by right-
clicking the monitor and selecting “Check In to Interplay”.
Note the following limitations for Media Composer v8.5.2, which are removed in v8.5.3:
• If you drag to the Record monitor, the drag cursor indicates that you can drop, but nothing
happens if you do. Dragging to the Record monitor is not supported.
• If you drag to the Source monitor and make changes to the sequence (such as adding locators),
and you do not check in the sequence, you could lose these changes if you clear the monitor or
load another asset into the monitor.
If you lose your changes, your modified asset might still be in the monitor menu, so you might
be able to recover the asset until you close the project or flush the asset out of the monitor menu.
• Drag and drop into the Source monitor fails with an error message (“Dragging from a remote
workgroup is not supported”) if there is a mismatch between the Interplay Engine name used for
login from Media Composer and the Interplay Engine name displayed in MediaCentral UX.
Make sure the captalization matches.
Production Tasks
Some tasks considered to be typically done by producers or production staff—such as grouping
stories, reordering queues, turning on the monitor server, and floating stories—are available via the
Queue/Story pane in MediaCentral UX.
Grouping Stories
You can group stories within a queue to link them together. For example, a producer might want to
link a presenter’s intro and tag before and after a reporter’s package as a story group within a
rundown. When stories in a queue can be grouped, a Story Group column appears as the second
column in the Queue panel located next to first column of selector buttons.
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You can only create groups from contiguous stories.