Grass Valley NewsQ Pro v.1.1 - Manual (Page 17)

Terms You Should Know
Digital News Production 17
Terms You Should Know
To use NewsQ Pro effectively and efficiently, you should become familiar with
these terms:
Term Definition
Clip A piece of media you can edit, containing video, audio, or both.
Once a sequence is sent from a NewsEdit workstation to a Profile Video Server
it becomes a clip again. All clips and subclips merge into one clip.
Placeholder An item (in the NewsQ Pro Assignment List Plug-in or the Assignment List
Manager) reserved for a clip that doesn’t yet exist or is not complete. Clips are
linked in the playlist and played to air.
Script The textual information for a news story in the newsroom computer system
(NCS) rundown. Scripts can also reference electronic media, such as clips from
the Profile Video Server.
Sequence Edited media, consisting of different clips and subclips edited using the
NewsEdit editing system.
Story The story — a collection of clips, sequences, and scripts — is the complete
news segment that plays to air.