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www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 13 - Issue 3 | March 2023
InTech
Newsroom Production and
Playout Made Ultra-Efficient
By Pavlin Rahnev, CEO, PlayBox Neo...
T
elevision newsroom technology
has developed strongly in recent
years as broadcasters compete for
attention. Fast and impartial news
coverage is a highly
effective way
to build up and sustain a channel's
ratings
provided
the
content
is
informative and well produced. Linear
channels have the advantage of being
able to provide fully live coverage of
key events when appropriate to the
target audience.
PlayBox Neo has partnered with
many major broadcast
product
developers over the years to ensure
close integration between our wide
range of playout-related products
and third-party devices. Most recent
of these is our recently announced
agreement with SNews whose Arion
software equips newsroom teams to
monitor, search and filter incoming
and
archived
content. It
Photo 1: PlayBox New Production AirBox showing four channels
Photo 2: Story rundown in SNews Arion
MXF and TS files are available for
immediate playout without having
to wait
for the ingest process to
complete.
Four channels in one
Designed specifically for use in live
allows
staff to create their own rundown
including an exact count of surpluses
or overruns. View layouts can be
customised
to match a channelpreferred
design. Arion also allows
easy configuration of subsections,
expected
length and video clip
duration. Externally sourced news
can be verified automatically through
channels such as RSS, Twitter and
Facebook.
Ingest without congestion
Efficient
content
aspect
of
especially
ingest
is
vital
newsroom operation
for staff working across
multiple programme channels.
PlayBox Neo's Capture Suite allows
multiple ingest
channels
to be
managed across multiple servers.
Functions such as input selection,
ingest
presets, file-naming rules,
assignments and auto-transfer can
be performed quickly and easily from
a single graphic interface. Features
include a multiviewer with blackframe
and frozen-frame alarms plus
loudness
audio level
monitoring
as well as manual, scheduled and
compliance ingest
modes
completion of ingest.
with
automated input switching. Content
can be now edited
before the
production, our ProductionAirBox
Neo-20 integrates easily with MOScompatible
solutions such as Arion to
make the entire process of newsroom
content production and playout ultraefficient.
Its feature set includes the
ability to trim or reposition every clip
in a playout while the scheduled
session is on-air. Commands such as
next, jump or shuttle allow playout
order to be modified seamlessly
without
interrupting the current
playout session.
Up to four independent players
can be configured on a single
ProductionAirBox
Neo-20 server.
Each player can be controlled via its
own playlist. Each of the four SDI/
NDI interfaces can be assigned as
program or preview outputs. Singlechannel
or multi-channel
Graphics made easy
In an Arion-connected
user
interfaces are available to streamline
the operation. Content manipulation
and delivery can be performed with
the near-zero latency demanded for
the fast-paced work
environment
of broadcast news, sports and live
production.
Photo 1 shows the ProductionAirBox
Neo-20 user interface. Arion pushes
information to the ProductionAirBox
playlist in real time. This is made
possible by
gateway to tell the system where
it will find the playout server from
which the system will source the
video files. The administrator can
system,
news graphics template generation
and its playout are directly integrated
with our TitleBox Neo-20 graphics
processor.
This
staff
activity without
allows newsroom
to concentrate on their core
distraction, saving
time and maximizing production
efficiency.
TitleBox Neo-20 allows a practically
unlimited number of graphic overlays
to be created
during on-air. Capabilities include
text selection with transitions, the
creation of
horizontal
configuring the MOS
text,
vertically
crawling
rolling credits and
messages, still and animated logo
graphics, clocks and countdowns,
coming-up-next
banners
and
the
display of data coming in real time
and manipulated
Summary
There are many variables in the
channel
broadcast
equation.
The one point
which practically
management
on
all network and
station operators agree is the high
effectiveness of news in attracting
and keeping audience loyalty. Mobile
phones are convenient sources of
text-based and short-duration news
clips but they lack the immediacy
and impact of live and near-live news
when viewed on large-screen HD and
UHD domestic
television displays.
Linear television broadcasting is
just five years short of its 100th
anniversary. Powered
by
wellproduced
news, linear broadcasting
looks
sure to remain a popular
medium through to its bicentennial.
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define the extensions of the files
which operators want to see, such as
MXF, MPEG, MP4 or Transport Stream.
They then have immediate browserbased
access to the available video
files.
Photo 2 shows a rundown with
various stories. Detailed information
can be entered and accessed for
each story. A subsidiary display lists
the content files to be used for that
story. Related functions such as Stop,
Loop or Cue-Next at the end of aired
clips can be defined as part of the
system configuration process. Stories
can be selected and approved for
use quickly and easily. Being web
based, the combined system is easy
to deploy and configure, If necessary
it can be managed from multiple
locations. User-specific rights can be
assigned by the administrator.
from sources such as live RSS feeds
and social media.
Virtual routing and decoding
Our recently
introduced
Gateway
offers
Media
high operational
efficiency and significant cost savings
by allowing the entire process of
playout routing and decoding to be
handled in software. This eliminates
the need to buy, accommodate and
maintain traditional routers, codecs
and related devices. Media Gateway
can be installed on site or in the
cloud. Integral software codecs allow
signals
to be converted between
SDI, NDI, SRT, UDP and RTP. Video
and audio content can be grabbed
directly from a desktop screen and
delivered as live feeds. A built-in
multiviewer includes
automated
black-frame and frozen-frame alarms.
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