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Studio/News Room Automation-An Update Studio/News Room Automation-An update Mr Arnaud Elnecave Managing Director, Dalet VII-1 Studio/News Room Automation-An update Journalists in the drivers seat bandwidths have reached performance levels A second generation of newsroom computer and cost points that make it economic for systems appeared in the mid-1990s to address broadcast quality media to go tapeless. Last year, that goal. With the introduction of its Electronic it became cheaper to store 25Mb/s video News Production System (ENPS), the material on computer hard drives than on video Associated Press achieved a tour de force by tapes. The advent of tapeless electronic news successfully defining and imposing a new gathering (ENG) based on Grass Valley Infinity, protocol — Media Object Server (MOS) — as a Panasonic P2 and Sony XDCAM is further standard communication mechanism. Systems accelerating this move to filebased such as Avid iNews and Dalet OpenMedia environments. Gigabit Ethernet networks now followed suit. The industry took advantage of offer the bandwidth required to migrate digital MOS to achieve dynamic communications video from SDI streams to TCP/IP packets. between newsroom computer systems and news production systems. Although each system remained a proprietary island, both could The Workflow Engine of exchange basic data through MOS messaging. Tapeless Facilities Improved communications resulted in a As tapes disappear and files become the rule, breakthrough, which in turn allowed for the broadcasters have the unique opportunity to partial reengineering of news production. redefine their production workflows. The legacy In addition to user rights management, divide of news production — with scripts and newsroom computer systems became more rundowns on one side and tapes on the other — sophisticated. They permitted system has been broken. The thirdgeneration administrators to define sophisticated workflows newsroom enables the whole workflow, involving item status management, instant providing a platform to share scripts and notification and versioning. rundowns at various levels of completion, as well as of media clips and their associated metadata In the gallery, journalists and producers were (the electronic tape labels). allowed to drive things themselves. From the newsroom computer system, they could control Spain’s RTPA runs a trimedia TV/radio/Web and trigger third-party devices or equipment; operation, with TV scripts also used for the radio news. automation was partially commoditized. In addition to providing user management and Multichannel broadcasters started dreaming of workflow functionalities, these thirdgeneration “bi-media” operations in which a single newsroom computer systems (3G|NCS) allow newsroom platform could feed and control for more sophisticated metadata and media output to both radio and television transmitters. management. By doing so, these 3G|NCS make Then the Internet wave hit. Web sites became a it much easier to handle networked digital “must have” for all news organizations. For media; they automatically capture contextual technology vendors, open systems became the metadata collected during news gathering and rule and XML its lingua franca. Today, give system administrators the flexibility to tailor computing power, storage and network metadata schemas VII-2 to fit the needs of their own organizations. In incoming feeds from any desktop, the ability to doing so, 3G|NCS make sure that editors can strip the audio of a radio story to produce a last- determine at any time who did what and why. minute piece for the TV newscast or to capture Finding relevant, accurate information has frames from a video package and convert these always been important to meeting editorial into still images for a Web site facilitate the standards. Properly labeled material and sources constant re-working of raw material and have become essential to maintain both speed constitute the basics of any tri-media, and accuracy in a very competitive multichannel newsroom. environment. In this multichannel, Shown here is the news gallery at Radiotelevisión del multiplatform world, separating the shelf life of Principado de Asturias (RTPA) in northern Spain. The content from its transmission date has become tapeless newsroom shoots with a Panasonic P2 and airs of strategic importance. It allows stations to with a DaletPlus News Suite. provide access to material that would otherwise be locked away in vaults. Each media channel — To do this, however, 3G newsrooms need to AM/FM, digital radio, SD and HD television, make media migration from one news Web sites and mobile services — has its own production system to another as seamless as constraints and formatting guidelines. But there possible. Such flawlessness requires integration is huge benefit in providing mutual access to raw that goes beyond the data exchange supported source material: the possibility to browse by the original MOS protocol. It implies that VII-3 By merging such media asset management features with the core workflow engine found inside newsroom computer systems, 3G newsrooms are capable of much more than the day's news bulletin. They are the key to massive productivity gains. By merging media production and metadata intake into a single workflow, broadcasters can deploy a more cost- efficient news production model. Such a re- engineering of work processes can occur only through incremental change management. It must leverage on an open, scalable newsroom solution that combines the benefits of central media warehousing, integrated workflow, easy- to-use production tools, and automated broadcast and distribution. In doing so, broadcast organizations can convert news stories and clips into corporate assets that can be redistributed over more and more delivery platforms. More importantly, journalists can be empowered with the tools they platforms be open enough to allow for media need to do what they do best: delivering the most essence and associated metadata to migrate accurate news, faster than the competition. across the network, from system to system. It also means that wrapper and format conversions are automated in order to ensure that once content is found, it can be easily repurposed. ABOUT THE SPEAKER A graduate from the prestigious French engineering university École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, he started his career in the oil industry, in Venezuela. He then spent five years at l'Oréal in Paris where he was in charge of IT projects dedicated to supply chain management, before moving to operational marketing and sales manager. Arnaud joined Dalet in 2006, as Managing director for Asia Pacific. VII-4 Automation and Newsroom Software Mr Mike Powell VP International, RCS Inc VII-5 Automation and Newsroom Software [and tools to compete in the Digital Era] RCS was founded in 1979 by Dr. Andrew France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Italy, Economos for the purposes of developing Czech Republic, Canada, Dubai, USA programming software for the radio industry. and Latin America. The Selector® music scheduling system is the RCS has been in India right from the beginning industry standard, and is used by more than 85% of commercial radio; our clients include the of radio stations worldwide. Selector helps country's largest radio operators. broadcast music programmers make their song rotations consistent and balanced. Based on programming strategies created by each station, The Heart of the Studio Selector provides an on-air play list complete with reports and analysis capabilities for any While the scheduler is the most important tool format and any size music library, small to large. for the music programmer, the automation or playout system is the most important tool for the Selector was the first of its kind and presenter in the studio. “Playout System” is revolutionized song management at thousands probably a better term because “Automation” of stations, and remains today the industry infers that it always automates – which is not so. standard and most popular radio software in the The vast majority of radio stations have a high world. proportion of live programming and while this is Specializing in audio software products, RCS happening, the Playout system provides what we continues to expand and develop products for call “Live Assist”. In other words, it provides the radio broadcast and television applications, as maximum degree of help to allow the presenter well as audio products for the Internet. to do their job while pushing a minimum RCS remains the ONLY broadcast software number of buttons! If a sequence can be company that is able to provide a total suite of automated (for example, an advertising break, software that covers all of radio's needs: station promotion, station identification jingle or production bit and into the next song) … then · SCHEDULING the Playout system can be configured to do this · PLAYOUT (AUTOMATION) with one key press. · LOGGING · MONITORING · COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC Playout/Automation Systems · NEWSROOM • RCS has two current playout systems – · NEW-MEDIA TOOLS NexGen Digital and Master Control SQL. • NexGen works in conjunction with our RCS maintains offices all over the world revolutionary scheduler, GSelector. India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, • Master Control SQL works either with Thailand, China, Taiwan, Korea, New GSelector or Selector SQL. Zealand, Australia, South Africa, UK, • Most Indian commercial radio uses VII-6 Selector/Master Control XV and is about to Note the big green arrow on the top right of this be upgraded to the new SQL version. picture. Anyone can learn how to use this system in a basic mode within 10 seconds. Quite simply, when you press that single green button, Master Control SQL whatever is meant to happen next, will happen next. And when the audio stops, that's your cue Because of a unique feature called the Living to speak – until the next time you choose to press Log,™ Master Control is the only automation the green button! system that is Selector-smart and communicates constantly with the music scheduler – Selector SQL. This means when you make a change, it Master Control Highlights automatically appears on the log and in the studio.
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