Crispin NewsCat

www.crispincorp.com

As facilities move to a tapeless workﬂow with nonlinear editors and video servers, it’s important to have a system in place to store news stories without the time-consuming process of dubbing to videotape. Crispin’s NewsCat digitally archives stories after airing and provides a method to easily locate material at a later date. Archived video clips are linked to a database containing all script information from the newsroom computer system. The database functionality includes an extensive search function; producers and editors can search for a story using traditional parameters such as date, slug, script information or keywords.

NewsCat is an integrated digital archiving and cataloging system for news footage. It allows the news department to store, index, locate and retrieves stories and clips that were previously aired.

NewsCat not only stores video clips, it organizes and manages the content so operators can find what they need on the ﬂy. Now that facilities are changing to a tape less workﬂow with nonlinear editors and video servers, it’s important to have a system in place to store news stories without the time-consuming process of dubbing to videotape. Crispin’s NewsCat can digitally archive stories after airing and then provides a method to easily locate material at a later date when needed. Archived video clips are linked to a database containing all script information from the newsroom computer system which enables a producer or editor to search for a story using traditional parameters such as date, slug, script info or keywords.

Supported ENPS Workflow

Item Status

This vendor sends real-time status information during playback and other functions which is displayed through ENPS writers and producers in real-time. This includes the use of a minimum set of standard status messages which enable color coding and the automated movement of the ENPS timing bar.

ActiveX Plug-in Functionality: Search & Find/Click & View/Drag & Drop

ENPS users can discover media stored on this device through the use of simple searches within ENPS. When a media description or link is found in ENPS, a user may simply click on the media to view it. The media can be linked to ENPS Running Orders, Stories and Assignments by simply dragging it into and ENPS document.

Automatic Placeholder Creation

ENPS can automatically create and name placeholders within this vendor's server into which finished clips ready for play out can later be edited, saved, or recorded. The name and other metadata used to automatically create this placeholder is drawn from the related ENPS Story and Running Order. The vendor then updates ENPS with duration and other information as the placeholder is replaced with the actual media.

Media Awareness

This device sends ENPS a description of the media it stores. The description contains structured metadata and a pointer to the media object. This information is used by ENPS to return media in search results. Pointers are used to link media to ENPS documents, including Stories, Running Orders and Assignments using simple drag and drop workflow.

MOS Redirection

This product works with ENPS to transfer media between machines and locations using instruction and metadata from ENPS. When stories containing media are moved from one ENPS location in ENPS to another this vendor offers the option to automatically transfer the media contained in the stories without further user interaction. This can be used to automatically transfer media between servers and NLE's within a single newsroom, or between multiple newsrooms and production servers in different cities.

Round Trip Archive

Clicking on Stories contained in the ENPS archive can retrieve media stored within this product's archive. Thed media can be automatically restored to the production server or NLE for re-use by dragging the media pointer or story containing a media pointer into an active ENPS Running Order.

Crispin ActiveX Plug-in

This vendor provides an ActiveX plug-in for ENPS which allows users to search and preview media as well as edit media metadata from the ENPS user interface.

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