Aurora News Production Suite
News organizations face a challenging competitive environment. Economic conditions have changed the landscape—fewer people are having to do more things, under increasing demands.
The Aurora™ News Production Suite is a toolset for ingest, browsing, editing, playout, and asset/archive management that meets these challenges. The focus is on a common look and feel, simplicity, and speed, all woven around and into the newsroom computer system.
From Ingest through Playout news directors, journalists, editors and archivists all work together in realtime, with no wasted effort. For example, the same tool for viewing, annotating, and moving media is embedded in all the user interfaces, including the newsroom computer system, such as ENPS and iNews. Learn it once, use it anywhere.
Bring in video feeds, videotape, removable media (XDCAM and P2) from anywhere in the facility—Aurora Ingest uses 'floating licenses' based on a username/password, so you don't have to sit at a dedicated workstation.
Within seconds of the initiation of ingest, that material can be viewed and annotated from same station. It is also available for editing at the desktop, and in the edit suite.
Incoming records can also be linked with rundown items for immediate airplay.
Monitor activity in the facility, view incoming material, preview finished stories for approval—Aurora Browse has functionality ranging from simple read-only browsing, up to facility media management.
Preview the contents of the archive system and restore whole or partial files with three mouse clicks.
Aurora Edit is a true resolution-agnostic nonlinear editor. This means that you can edit in low-resolution, high-resolution (SD and HD), and a mix of the two. It can be presented in a basic view for journalist desktop editing, as well as a full-featured view for news package editing. Edit at the journalist desktop with low-resolution proxy copies of online material as well as offline archived material. After editing, restore only those archived portions needed for the edit, right from the same interface. Or simply save the project, and have an editor in the suite finish it.
Edit decision lists (EDLs) can be sent from Aurora Edit to Final Cut Pro 7 and EDIUS® workstations. These editors are part of the same shared system and have access to the same files, at the same time, as the Aurora Edit stations.
Control up to six playout channels, with six mirrored backup channels. Aurora Playout sits inline between the newsroom computer system and the playout video server—it stacks a video playlist according to the rundown and instantly reflects changes in running order and status.
The same viewer tool that you find across all the Aurora applications is embedded in Aurora Playout. Preview stories before air, and place new in/out points—virtually 'last second' editing.
The newsroom computer plug-ins let you annotate raw incoming footage with notes for editors, review finished stories before playout, restore files from archive—all from within the newsroom computer system.
