Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.6.3 - Manual (Page 77)

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Creating Placeholders
Creating Placeholders
To insert an Aurora Playout placeholder into your story:
1. Create a new rundown.
Create a rundown as you normally would. See the iNEWS documentation for
details.
2. Create a new story in iNEWS.
3. Create a new placeholder in the Aurora Playout Assignment List Plug-in,
Assignment List Manager, or Housekeeper.
See “Creating Placeholders” on page 70 for instructions.
4. Verify that the new story slug is highlighted in the Queue Panel and then drag the
new placeholder from the Assignment List Plug-in to the Story Form window.
5. Click on a different line in the Queue Panel to save your changes.
The placeholder links with the story and the clip name displays in the Clip Slug
column in the iNEWS Queue Panel.
Assigning Playout Channels to Clips
With iNEWS you can assign playout channels to stories in a rundown. When a
playback operator opens the rundown, stories are already assigned to playout
channels.
To assign a playout channel in an iNEWS rundown:
1. Select the slug you want to assign and right-click the Ch box.
2. Choose Assign Channel .
3. Enter the channel name and click OK .
You must enter the channel label exactly as it was set up in Aurora Playout.
4. Save the slug.
The story is assigned to that channel and appears in the Aurora Playout application
in the “Assign” column.