User`s guide

Chapter 12: Newsroom Integration 183
12 Newsroom Integration
Newsroom integration is first and foremost about the Newsroom Component
which is an embedded client that runs within the newsroom system client. An
alternative is VCP’s QuickCG tool for creation of *cg like elements which also can
be installed on newsroom system clients.
Both are used by journalists to fill templates with content and store them as data
elements. The data elements are then put into a running order/rundown, created
using a newsroom client, and made available to the Viz Content Pilot client for
monitoring and playout through Viz Gateway or Viz Device Manager.
Depending on the features selected during installation, the Newsroom
Component allows for template, still image, audio and video clip searches.
Templates can be opened and saved as data elements. Stills and videos can be
searched for and added to templates; however, they can also be added directly
into the newsroom story for fullscreen playout.
Preview of graphics and graphics with video is either available as local or remote
preview. For remote preview, low resolution video clips are used instead of high
resolution video clips. Low resolution clips are also streamed from Viz Video Hub
instead of being rendered on Viz Engine.
The QuickCG tool is simpler, but more efficient when creating data elements that
only contains text (e.g. lower thirds).
The following sub-sections describe the Newsroom Component and QuickCG
properties and features, and how they are used.
This section contains information on the following topics:
• Newsroom Component
• Quick CG
• Newsroom Component Test Page
• MOS IDs