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Chapter 1: introducing newsq, Chapter 1, Introducing newsq – Grass Valley NewsQ v.5.5 User Manual

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Digital News Production

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Introducing NewsQ

NewsQ is a news playout control system designed for instant roll, two-channel
manual or automated playout. With NewsQ, you can quickly create a running
order of stories and clips, cue the stories, and manually trigger them for play to
air. You can also configure NewsQ to be controlled by an external automation
system such as NewsQ Pro.

This manual shows you how to use NewsQ effectively and efficiently to create
playlists and play out clips to air using electronic news clips.

This chapter discusses:

• What NewsQ is

• How to use NewsQ to playback clips

• The NewsQ interface

• How to navigate around NewsQ

• How to use the NewsQ keyboard

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