Aurora Playout
Playback Control for Live Studio Production Running Windows 7/XP

Our Aurora™ Playout system offers highly coordinated news playback from the K2 media server/media client, K2 Summit™ Profile® XP Media Platform, and the M-Series™ intelligent video digital recorder (iVDR). Designed for workflow efficiency and flexibility, it can automatically create and adjust playlists from a MOS-compatible newsroom computer system (NRCS). It also features an intuitive playback user interface and GPI inputs and outputs for remote control of playback.

Key Features
  • Up to six-channel system playlist management for K2, Profile XP, or M-Series systems
  • Ability to trigger the Orad Maestro graphics server directly from the control room
  • Manual or automatic channel assignment
  • Mirrored playback of backup channels
  • GPI triggers for and from external devices
  • XKeys template support for channel and application control
  • Jog/shuttle and slow/fast control
  • MOS NRCS connectivity for instant rundown management
  • Insert, move, or delete an item in a playlist without interrupting playback
  • Quickly cue/recue next/previous stories
  • Automatically skip items that are not ready
  • Out cue preview – see seconds to end of story with auto re-cue
  • Trim clip – can trim top/tail of clip to adjust rundown story length
  • Head frames displayed in playlist
  • Viewable duration countdown for each story playing
  • Editorial duration field for accurate timing in iNEWS, AP ENPS systems
  • Housekeeper management tool for manual playlist and clip selection
  • Integrates with Grass Valley Aurora Edit and EDIUS nonlinear editors
  • Archive play with RS-422 VTR control
  • MediaFrame support for lo-res playback of stories in Playout and at NRCS
Specifications
Playback
  • Control up to six playout channels (fully mirrored)
  • AMP control protocol
  • 32 GPI inputs and 32 GPI outputs

Aurora Edit Interface Standard Features
  • Assignment list of unfinished stories
  • Automatic transfer to Grass Valley server/storage systems

Newsroom Interface Features
  • Playlists from running order via MOS 2.6, MOS 2.7, or MOS 2.8 protocols
  • Plug-in to enter metadata and link to script
  • ActiveX plug-ins for iNEWS, ENPS, Octopus systems
  • Archive – play to tape, file to data tape or MediaFrame archive contribution

PC Operating Systems
  • Windows 7 (32/64-bit)
  • Windows XP Professional SP3 (32-bit)
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