Grass Valley Xnews Vertigo Suite v.5.0 - Manual (Page 62)

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Familiarizing yourself with the Xnews Interface
5. In the C OMMENT tab’s text box, provide instructions and/or specifications to guide the
graphic artist, so that they can provide you with an image or clip that meets your
specific requirements.
6. Add a placeholder to the page by dragging the X-logo onto the page where the image
or clip is located (figure
3-32 ). The J UST CREATED placeholder is inserted on the page
and the Job’s Asset information (type, name, category, and dimensions) are updated.
Figure 3-32. Adding a job’s placeholder to a page
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You can save a job without a placeholder, then use the Search or Ingest buttons to locate
and attach a placeholder to the job. This placeholder will not exist on any page at this point,
but it can be dragged afterward onto a page, or simply left alone in its category.
Also note, that in the distributed work order case, on the hub the Ingest and Search buttons
are disabled for empty-placeholder jobs because only spokes are allowed to make
placeholders for distributed work orders. See the Xmedia Server Configuration Manual
for more information about the Hub and Spoke model and distributed work orders.
7. Click the S AVE W ORK O RDER button to save the job and the work order.