EVS INTEGRATION WITH ENPS THROUGH MOS PROTOCOL

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1 EVS INTEGRATION WITH ENPS THROUGH MOS PROTOCOL Corporate North & Latin America Asia & Pacific Other regional offices Headquarters Headquarters Headquarters Available at

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3 EVS continues to expand its production workflow capabilities with the new integration between its content production management software, IPDirector, and AP s ENPS newsroom computer system. Thanks to IPDirector MOS protocol support and the introduction of a new EVS ActiveX browser for ENPS clients, full communication between the two worlds is now a reality. EVS ActiveX AP ENPS ENPS MOS Gateway IPDirector MOS Gateway IPDirector API XT[2] servers Playlist Fig. 1: Complete workflow between ENPS and EVS XT/XS series servers The EVS database is synchronised with ENPS so that clips and virtual elements placeholders not yet associated with video can be accessed by users in ENPS. A single search in ENPS can return planning items, stories, wires and EVS content as a single display. Double-clicking an EVS pointer will automatically open the EVS ActiveX within ENPS and display the video and more detailed metadata. Journalists can drag & drop clips directly into the relevant ENPS story from either the ENPS list window or the ActiveX control. Support for placeholder-based workflow means that ENPS users can request the creation of virtual elements in IPDirector using a single click in the ENPS running order. EVS will create the virtual element, publish it to ENPS as a pointer, where it will be automatically added as a reference to the relevant story. In addition to the fast search in ENPS, journalists can use the ActiveX to search on metadata including names, rankings, keywords, dates and timecodes. Concurrently, changes in the rundown of ENPS are made in the online playlist of IPDirector. The same holds for the metadata that is used for facilitate the search of clips and playlists (name, duration, time code, slug, page). Operators using IPDirector can therefore launch the playout of selected playlists in ENPS with the assurance that changes made in ENPS have also been made in IPDirector.

4 When a clip is created in ENPS, but is not recognized in IPDirector, it is automatically tagged as a virtual element in IPDirector but takes place in the playlist as a virtual, or missing element. It is possible to manually re-link this virtual element to an existing clip. EVS ActiveX browser allows ENPS operators to search in the IPDirector database with the help of metadata. Clips in ENPS without correspondant in IPDirector DB are created and waiting for the element to be created.

5 The status of the clips ( online, playing, cued ) in the IPDirector playlist is immediately visible in the rundown of ENPS. It is also possible to define ABroll playlists where clips can be dispatched via several channels and be played out in a sequential mode through each play channel. All modifications in a clip will modify the playlist in a sequential mode. The sequential playlist with each associated channel: A, B, C or D and a virtual element ( missing status, element 09) waiting to be associated with an existing clip. As soon as the operator will create the clip and associate it, the status will change and be instantly reflected in ENPS.

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