System overview, Functional description, Chapter 1 – Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.2.7 User Manual
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December 16, 2004
NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide
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Chapter
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System Overview
NewsBrowse is a media management and editing system. When integrated with a
Profile XP Media Server and a NewsEdit system, NewsBrowse supports the complete
newsroom workflow — from ingest to editing to distribution to archive.
This chapter includes the following topics:
• “Functional description” on page 9
• “Two tier system diagram” on page 10
Functional description
NewsBrowse processes an incoming feed and simultaneously encodes it into two
formats: a low-resolution (MPEG-1) format stored locally on the Network Attached
Storage (NAS) unit, and a high-resolution format stored on the Profile Media Server.
NewsBrowse creates video thumbnails, storyboards and RealVideo. You can use a
web browser to edit stories using the low-resolution media, which is accessible from
the journalist’s desktop. NewsBrowse also provides a rich metadata search engine
that allows you to search for clips using various criteria.
Once you complete a sequence with the NewsBrowse editor, NewsBrowse can use
that sequence to pull the corresponding high-resolution video from the Profile Media
Server and assemble an on-air quality sequence. NewsEdit can also use the sequence
in a similar way. NewsBrowse can also monitor the Profile Media Server to create
low-resolution files that do not exist, and stream live feeds.
From the NewsBrowse application you can archive and restore high-resolution media.
Archived media is still visible from the NewsBrowse application.
For descriptions of the machines used as platforms for the NewsBrowse system, refer
to “Cable hardware components” on page 13.
For descriptions of software components, refer to Appendix A, Component
Interaction Diagrams on page 133.