Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.8.1 - Manual (Page 87)

Setting up your NCS for Aurora Playout
Setting Up Your NCS for Aurora Playout
With Aurora Playout, you can use your Newsroom Computer System (NCS) to create rundowns
and link clips to rundown scripts via Assignment List in the STRATUS ActiveX Plug-in. The
MOS-compatible NCS needs to be configured for use with Aurora Playout.
• ENPS
• iNEWS
• Octopus
Setting up ENPS
To set up ENPS for use with Aurora Playout, you need to modify your ENPS configuration.
1. On the ENPS server, find the enps.ini file and add the following to the [ENPS] section:
QTMediaExtensions=.mov,.mp4
2. On an ENPS client, log in as the administrator and start up ENPS.
3. From the ENPS folder, select System Maintenance | Groups | New and create a new group with
these parameters:
KXYZGVG ID
GV Clips Description
Select the name of your ENPS server from the dropdown list Server
4. Click Save and close ENPS on the workstation.
5. Close the News Object Manager and it should restart automatically. After the NOM has started,
restart the ENPS client.
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