Grass Valley NewsQ Pro v.2.1 - Manual (Page 70)

Chapter 4 Playing Clips to Air
56 Digital News Production
spreadsheet program that supports comma delimited format and it sorts the
playlist data into columns.
Chaining Clips in a Playlist
Sometimes you may want to group two or more clips together so the clips play
back-to-back as one continuous clip. This grouping is called chaining, and
provides the advantage of playing clips in succession without having to cue and
play each one individually.
You can also chain clips through your NCS through the Auto-Chain feature.
You can also set up your system so that any two or more consecutive clips
assigned to the same channel will chain automatically. See “Setting Cue and
Chain Options” on page 98 for details.
To chain clips:
1. Select the clips you want to chain by clicking on one clip and holding down
the Shift key while selecting the other clip(s).
2. Right-click on one of the selected clips and select Chain Clips .
The clips chain together, indicated by a light blue rectangle around the clips.
To unchain clips:
• Right-click on a chained clip and choose Unchain clips .
The unchained clips remain in the playlist as independent clips.
Clips
chained
together