Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.8.1 - Manual (Page 116)

Linking clips manually in Octopus
You can also link placeholders from the GV STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in and insert clips into your
rundown manually.
1. Open the story that you want to link clips into.
The story displays on the Octopus.
2. Click the Edit button on the toolbar.
3. Right click on the NOT READY status, select Launch STRATUS .
The GV STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in displays.
NOTE: Launching multiple GV STRATUS ActiveX Plug-ins might cause the first launched
window to be blank. Click anywhere on the blank window to refocus the display of GV
STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in.
4. Select a placeholder on the Assignment List of GV STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in, and click Use
on the Octopus story.
5. Click the Save button on the toolbar.
The placeholder links with the story.
6. On the GV STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in, select an asset and link it to the placeholder.
The clip links to the story in Octopus. You can see the Clip ID in the Octopus story is the same
as the Clip ID in the Assignment List of GV STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in.
Using GV STRATUS with OpenMedia
The GV STRATUS ActiveX panel lets you create placeholders for clips and insert them into the
accompanying story slug in the OpenMedia rundown.
You can create the placeholders and insert them manually into your rundown or use the auto-create
feature to create and insert the placeholder automatically.
To launch the GV STRATUS panel within OpenMedia, click the GV STRATUS button on the
toolbar.
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