Grass Valley NewsQ Pro v.2.1 - Manual (Page 32)

Chapter 2 NCS Rundowns and NewsQ Pro
18 Digital News Production
Tour of the Assignment List Plug-In
You use your NCS to create rundowns for news shows and add scripts for each
story. The NewsQ Pro Assignment List Plug-in integrates with both ENPS and
iNews and allows you to create placeholders for clips, assign those placeholders
to newsroom editors, and link the resulting clips back to your NCS rundown.
The Assignment List Plug-in displays the following information for each clip:
Column Description
S (Status) The clip status: displays OK if a clip has been completed, sent to the Media Server, and is
ready for playback. Status is blank if a clip is incomplete and not ready for playback.
Clip Name The name of the placeholder clip.
Editorial
Duration The duration of the clip set when the placeholder was created. Once a clip has been created,
a newsroom editor can change this field to reflect the actual on-air duration of the clip.
Category The category assigned to the clip; you can assign categories based on the editor to receive the
assignment, for instance.
Type The type of clip an editor needs to create: Voice Over (VO), Sound on Tape (SOT), or other
types set in the SDB Server Options. See “Setting General Options” on page 107 for details.
Description Brief description of the clip an editor needs to create.
Clip ID The clip ID, which is automatically defined when the placeholder is created.
Date The date the placeholder was created.
P (Protected) Protected status; displays P if the clip is protected, which prevents it from being erased or
deleted from the database. Column is blank if the clip is unprotected.