Grass Valley Aurora Playout v.6.3 - Manual (Page 78)

78 Aurora Playout User Guide September 2007
Chapter 5 NCS Rundowns and Aurora Playout
Using Octopus
The Aurora Playout Assignment List Plug-in lets you create placeholders for clips and
insert them to the accompanying story slug in the NCS rundown. With Octopus, you
can create the placeholders and insert them manually to your rundown or use the
auto-create feature and create and insert the placeholder automatically.
Creating Placeholders Automatically
With Octopus, you can create placeholders automatically using the Auto-create
feature.
To create a placeholder and insert it automatically:
1. Create a new story in Octopus.
2. Open the story.
3. If an element doesn’t exist, right-click and select New | type of element and click
OK .
4. Click the button next to the JOBID field and select Auto-create - MOS ID .
The MOS ID and Name of the placeholder fill in automatically.
5. Click OK to save.
Linking Clips to Octopus Manually
If your system doesn’t have the auto-create feature enabled, you can create
placeholders and insert them to your rundown manually:
Click this button
for auto-create