Grass Valley streamlines digital newsroom production

Grass Valley Group have recently announced the addition of NewsBrowse to its Digital Newsroom Production solution.
NewsBrowse allows journalists to browse, assemble, and save shots, clips, and complete sequences-all from their desktops. The system joins the FeedClip interactive feed capture system, the NewsEdit non-linear editor, the NewsQ manual playback system, and the NewsQ Pro automated playback control system, the Profile XP Media Platform for ingest and playout, and the Profile Network Archive.
The Grass Valley Group also announced two new additions to its Digital News Production solution – the NewsShare real-time shared-storage system and laptop-based NewsEdit LT non-linear editor.
The NewsBrowse is a desktop product that eases viewing-room congestion, letting journalists work faster. By making frame-accurate low- resolution copies, it enables multiple journalists to share the same media simultaneously. Its integration with Media Object Server (MOS)-compatible newsroom automation systems boosts workflow efficiencies further still.
Running on a standard PC platform, the NewsBrowse system lets journalists browse MPEG-1 versions of high-resolution media to create frame-accurate shots, clips, and sequences. The system can then send an edit decision list representing these materials to a Profile XP Media Platform system for final conformation and play to air-or to NewsEdit system for further editing of the original media.
NewsBrowse system users can also control feed and VTR recording on Profile XP Media Platform with a simultaneous browse copy. When using the NewsQ Pro control system, journalists can associate the finished sequence with a placeholder in a newscast.
The system is scheduled to be available in the summer of 2002.
(GMcG)