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Creating a playlist, Opening an ncs rundown – Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.6.5 User Manual

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The Playlist Overview window shows clip’s status, page and clip name.

Description

Column

Displays clip the status:Blank — The clip has not yet been cued.C (Cued)
— Clip is cued to a specific channel and is ready to play.P (Played) — The

Status

clip has finished playing.R (Roll) — The clip is playing to air.S (Stopped)
— The clip has been manually stopped during play.Red Square — Clip not
ready for playback.

Corresponds to the page of the ENPS or Octopus rundown. This column is
blank if you are not using ENPS or Octopus with Aurora Playout or if your
Producer didn’t choose the

Freeze Page Numbers

option in ENPS.

Page

Displays the clip name.

Clip Name

Creating a Playlist

You need to create a playlist before you can play clips to air.

By opening a rundown that you created in a newsroom computer system

By manually creating a playlist in Aurora Playout

Opening an NCS Rundown

If you use a newsroom computer system such as ENPS, iNEWS, or Octopus to create
news rundowns, you can open a rundown that you created there.

Select a rundown from the drop-down list and click the

Open Rundown

button.

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Playing clips to air