Grass Valley Group Adds Low-Resolution Browsing To Digital News Production Solution
Desktop-based NewsBrowse system lets journalists share materials simultaneously to speed workflows, ease viewing-room congestion
Nevada City, Calif., March 1, 2002 – Accelerating the efficiency of hard-news production and streamlining newsroom workflows considerably, the Grass Valley Group today added the Grass Valley™ NewsBrowse™ browsing system to its Digital Newsroom Production Solution. Using it, journalists can browse, assemble, and save shots, clips, and complete sequences—all from their desktops.
As part of the Digital News Production Solution, the NewsBrowse system joins the FeedClip™ interactive feed capture system, the NewsEdit™ nonlinear editor, the NewsQ™ manual playback system, and the NewsQ Pro automated playback control system, the Profile® XP Media Platform for ingest and playout, and the Profile Network Archive.
The Grass Valley Group also announced two new additions to its Digital News Production Solution today: the NewsShare™ real-time, shared-storage system and laptop-based NewsEdit LT nonlinear editor (see "Grass Valley Group Announces Shared-Storage System For Digital News Production Solution" and "Grass Valley Group Unveils Laptop-Based Nonlinear Editor For Hard News").
SAVING TIME, EASING CONGESTION
The NewsBrowse greatly streamlines newsroom workflows. Because it's a desktop product, it eases viewing-room congestion, letting journalists work faster. By making frame-accurate low- resolution copies, it enables multiple journalists to share the same media simultaneously. And its integration with Media Object Server (MOS)-compatible newsroom automation systems boosts workflow efficiencies further still. For example, a MOS-based system user can view a sequence created with the NewsBrowse system in an ActiveX plug-in window and link that video to a script for playout using the NewsQ Pro system.
Running on a standard PC platform, the NewsBrowse system lets journalists browse MPEG-1 versions of high-resolution media to create frame-accurate shots, clips, and sequences. The system can then send an edit decision list representing these materials to a Profile XP Media Platform system for final conformation and play to air—or to NewsEdit system for further editing of the original media. NewsBrowse system users can also control feed and VTR recording on Profile XP Media Platform with a simultaneous browse copy. This capability also includes control over Grass Valley Series 7000 routers. And when using the NewsQ Pro control system, journalists can associate the finished sequence with a placeholder in a newscast.
In a typical newsroom deployment, the highly configurable NewsBrowse system is priced from $200,000. The system is scheduled to be available in the summer of 2002.
ABOUT THE GRASS VALLEY DIGITAL NEWS PRODUCTION SOLUTION
The Digital News Production Solution helps improve newsroom productivity, break down price barriers, and fast-track digital newsroom conversion. It features native MPEG and DV support at up to 50 Mb/s, plus real-time effects. The Digital News Production Solution includes intuitive, easy-to-use software running on a standard PC platform which relies on standard MPEG2 video, the Microsoft Windows NT file and operating systems, and standard networking and storage technologies. Broadcasters also have the flexibility of choosing the Grass Valley Group Profile XP Media Platform for news ingest and playback.
ABOUT THE GRASS VALLEY GROUP
The Grass Valley Group knows more about high-quality video than anybody else-especially as video goes digital. The Internet. Digital cinema. Data-enhanced broadcasting. Interactive television. It's a world of Digicasting—one that demands Media Without Bounds™ solutions. Whether online or on the air, the Emmy® award-winning Grass Valley Group, a privately held digital media leader, has the hardware, software, and new media technologies to get content wherever it needs to go.
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