Weather Central 3D:LIVE

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3D:LIVE is the complete, real-time broadcast weather platform for HD and SD from Weather Central. Regarded as the industry’s reference standard for its technical leadership and innovations, the powerful, real-time 3D:LIVE platform integrates up-to-the-second data, 3D effects, animations, high resolution maps, and comprehensive storytelling tools that ensure a continuous supply of fresh content.

3D:LIVE has been completely updated for NAB 2010. New tools enable meteorologists to quickly and easily personalize forecasts, graphics and alerts for distribution to their audience across the complete spectrum of broadcast, online and mobile communications mediums, including social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Tight integration with the newsroom and production environment yields seamless workflow for operations of any size. Backed by the most trusted weather information data service, 3D:LIVE provides high resolution and precise, hyper-local forecasting for every point on the globe.

Supported ENPS Workflow

Running Order Control

This device allows ENPS to dynamically build and control a playlist within the media server. Changes to the Running Order in ENPS result in immediate changes to the sequence of media objects queued for playout by the media server.

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.

Story Send

This product uses the full body of text within ENPS documents, including all media pointers and custom metadata. This product also dynamically tracks the sequence of Stories and Assignments within active ENPS Running Orders and Assignment grids.

Story Write-Back

This vendor provides an interface within their NLE product that not only allows an NLE operator to select and display live stories within ENPS, but also allows the NLE operator to make changes to the ENPS story in the NLE application and have these changes reflected on all ENPS desktops.

Weather Central ActiveX Plug-in

The Weather Central ActiveX Plug-in allows users to view Media Objects, search for Media Objects, change objects, and edit Media Objects associate metadata.

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