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25/09/2008

Autocue Upgrades QSeries To 'Add Value'

A provider of teleprompting and newsroom automation solutions, Autocue, has introduced dynamic MOS and FTP interfaces to its QSeries applications to enable users to control and add-value to the output of their existing third-party applications.
By introducing a dynamic MOS interface to enable its networked scripting and prompting system, 'QNet', to connect to a home grown newsroom computer system (NRCS), Autocue have been able to unlock a number of benefits for a leading French broadcaster.
The news interface obtains the script and rundown information from the NRCS (including dynamic updates) and stores them in the QNet database.
The prompters then access the up-to-date information from the database, rather than directly from the NRCS. This solution utilises a single connection to the NRCS - even for multiple, simultaneous prompt sessions - thus ensuring a simple configuration and a reduced load on the host.
The customer benefits in several ways. Firstly, changes can be made to the scripts and rundowns collected from the NRCS from any of the prompters, or from non-prompt client workstations.
In the event of a complete or long-term NRCS failure, the QNet system can be used by journalists, writers and producers to create new material for the prompter, increasing the level of overall system resilience.
This is the only prompting solution to enable multiple prompters to work from a single database, where any prompter can access any show - even working in the same rundown at the same time as another prompter.
Another example of how customers are already benefitting from these new interfaces is a station in the US who are using the dynamic FTP interface to Autocue’s control software to enable them to pull video clip and scripting information from its iNews NRCS to automate their video server playout.
Autocue's Neil Hutchins said: "These new interfaces enhance the flexibility of the QSeries product range and provide building blocks that can be used to create a configuration tailored precisely to customer requirements."
He also noted that Autocue has been serving the broadcast industry since the 1950s, and with the introduction of the QSeries family of software, has became the only company to offer the television industry a single solution for all transmission, newsroom, scripting and prompting requirements.
He said the Autocue Group is known worldwide for its service and dependability, serving such prestigious clients as the BBC, Bloomberg, NBC and CNN.
The Group's prompting solutions are compatible with all newsroom systems on the market and are used all over the world by broadcasters, production professionals, government facilities and corporate producers.
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