Grass Valley PVTV NEWS Rev.4.02 - Manual (Page 82)

78 STUDIO NEWS
Understanding and Using the PVTV Rundown Converter
What Gets Imported
After news items are imported into the PVTV timeline, page number and slugs of the associated items
in the rundown are displayed on the timeline by way of a label. The label marks the segment and
allows the director to determine which segment corresponds to which news item in the rundown.
Additional parameters can be coded into the news command for advanced automation of the mapped
TMEs. Currently, PVTV supports StillStore page number and timecodes as TME Association parame-
ters. Syntax for TME Associations and their parameters differ according to which news system is in use.
Generally, AP and Avstar use columns on the rundown and ENPS uses the "Insert" dialog within the
scripts. The following pages describe the processes used by each news automation sytem.
If User Marks are utilized at the beginning and end of TMEs, they can be automatically aligned through
activation of the User Mark Insertion function. Once User Mark Insertion is activated, and a Rundown
is imported by activating Rundown Converter, the User mark at the end of the first TME imported will
be directly aligned with the first User mark of the next TME and so forth, throughout the entire show.
Timecodes
Downstream processing by PVTV will fill the applicable TME timecode properties on the timeline with
the supplied timecodes in chronological order. If the number of timecodes embedded in the TME Asos-
ociation exceeds the number of timecode properties in the TME, the trailing timecode values are
ignored. Visa versa, the trailing timecode properties retain their value as saved in the TME, assuming
the director intends to edit these values later on in production.
VR file IDs can be inserted in the time code field as well.
StillStore Page Numbers
Downstream processing by PVTV will fill the applicable TME stillstore page number properties on the
timeline with the supplied page numbers in chronological order. If the number of page numbers
embedded in the TME Association exceeds the number of page number properties in the TME, the trail-
ing page number values are ignored. Visa versa, the trailing page number properties retain their value
as saved in the TME, assuming the director intends to edit these values later on in production.
To activate the User Mark Insertion func-
tion, click on the SETUP menu on the
toolbar above the timeline. Toggle User
mark Insertion on the drop-down list.