Grass Valley NewsQ Pro v.2.1 - Manual (Page 17)

Terms You Should Know
Digital News Production 3
Terms You Should Know
To use NewsQ Pro effectively and efficiently, you should become familiar with
these terms:
Term Definition
Clip A piece of media you can edit, containing video, audio, or both.
Once a sequence is sent from a NewsEdit workstation to a Media Server it
becomes a clip again. All clips and subclips merge into one clip.
Placeholder An item (in the NewsQ Pro Assignment List Plug-in or the Assignment List
Manager) reserved for a clip that doesn’t yet exist or is not complete. Clips are
linked in the playlist and played to air.
Script The textual information for a news story in the newsroom computer system
(NCS) rundown. Scripts can also reference electronic media, such as clips from
a Media Server.
Sequence Edited media, consisting of different clips and subclips edited using the
NewsEdit editing system.
Story The story — a collection of clips, sequences, and scripts — is the complete
news segment that plays to air.