Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.8.1 - Manual (Page 96)

The Assignment List panel features are as follows:
• Toolbar — Displays buttons to add placeholders, show placeholders with missing clips, delete
placeholders, and add new sequence to placeholders.
• Missing clip indicator — Displays the number of missing clips that can help you determine the
number of incomplete assignments.
• Incomplete placeholder indicator — Displays blank thumbnails for incomplete placeholders.
Completed placeholders are identified by the thumbnail display and
READY status in the Status
column.
• Placeholder list — Displays incomplete and completed placeholders. When you select a rundown,
all placeholders in that rundown appear in the placeholder list. When you select a story in the
rundown, only placeholders in that story appear in the placeholder list in the same sequence as
in the story.
• Playout Remote Site — Displays placeholders in the remote site. The Playout remote site must
be configured in the GV STRATUS Control Panel before it can be accessed via the Assignment
List.
• Rundown view — Displays rundowns and stories for each rundown. Rundowns display
alphabetically in the panel, while stories appear in sequence as assigned in the Newsroom
Computer System.
• SDB status indicator — Displays the connection status between Assignment List and Simple
Database (SDB) Server. The SDB Server updates clip status, clip duration, and amount of missing
clips for the Assignment List tool.
• — Connected
• — Disconnected
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