NewsBank News incorporates Digital Broadcast's NewsBank Server and craft editing software with your newsroom computer system to give you a totally integrated news/production environment, saving journalists valuable time and giving your newscast a flawless production.
With its complete bi-directional MOS interface, NewsBank News alerts journalists of content availability and automatically reflects the newsroom rundown on the NewsBank Video Server. Journalists can drag-and-drop edits to build the rundown. Placeholder events are used to maintain the rundown's integrity and automatically update when material appears on the NewsBank's video server. The convenience of NewsBank allows journalists to search or view NewsBank content directly on their newsroom computers.
NewsBank's feature-rich software allows newsrooms to run more conveniently, efficiently and intuitively than ever before. With NewsBank you can build your rundown on your news system, then watch the rundown automatically update on your NewsBank server.
NewsBank also offers a direct interface with media distribution services, such as Pathfire™, NBC news, NewsPath and iPump to provide direct transfers of files over a network directly to NewsBank video servers where the files may be edited in their native MPEG-2 format and sent directly to air, never suffering the degradation of converting to and from baseband.
The NewsBank server enables journalists to retrieve material, then edit and store news stories from their desktop computers. A full-function video server, the NewsBank is optimized for long and short format playback. With NewsBank's integral automation, entire newscasts can be scheduled and stories aired instantaneously at the push of a button. Last second changes and triggers are straight-forward and easy to make.
Digital Broadcast's NewsEdit Workstation allows you to select your preferred craft editor and handles High Definition as well as MPEG-2 and DV material.
When coupled with Digital Broadcast's MediaVault, NewsBank enables you to archive news stories and scripts, which can be quickly searched and retrieved from your newsroom system.
NewsBank Advantages
- Consolidates powerful digital server and editing functions with newsroom computers
- MOS interface to major newsroom computer systems including AP ENPS, Avid iNews, Autocue, Comprompter
- Utilizes the craft editor of your choice
- Native digital interchange with media distribution services
- A decidedly economical solution to streamlining live news operations
Digital Broadcast and Pathfire™ Link Up to Streamline Movement of News Content Directly to Video File Servers and Editing Platforms
SafetyNet also can act as a backup to an existing automated master control system. In the event your current system fails, SafetyNet, armed with your content and logs, can take over automated on-air functions.
