Grass Valley NewsQ Pro v.1.1 - Manual (Page 27)

Digital News Production 27
Chapter
2
The Producer’s Role
Producers can use NewsQ Pro with a newsroom computer system (NCS) such
as the Associated Press Electronic News Production System (ENPS) to create
rundowns, to create placeholders for editor assignments, and to link clips from
NewsEdit to the rundown. Producers can also use ENPS to assign clips to a
specific playback channel, eliminating the need for the playback operator to
assign channels for the rundown.
In newsrooms without NCSs, a news editor can follow the producer’s script and
create placeholders using another component of NewsQ Pro, the Assignment
List Manager, and have a playback operator manually create playlists.
This chapter is written for producers and discusses how to use the Assignment
List Plug-in to:
• Create placeholders for news clips
• Reassign placeholders to other editors
• Link clips to an ENPS rundown
• View placeholder categories and video thumbnails
• Sort placeholders