Our Partners - Working with others
Each of our scripting, newsroom, automation and media management software products, and our video server and production suite hardware products, have been designed to integrate with other manufacturers' solutions. Across our range, we have developed a wide selection of specific interfaces between our products and many other broadcast devices, fulfilling a variety of roles throughout the production workflow. In many cases we have produced interfaces based on native protocols to ensure maximum flexibility and performance, but we also have extensive experience of connecting to many third-party applications via the MOS protocol.
The partners listed below are just a small portion of the companies that we have worked with. Please contact us for more details about other integrations we have carried out.
Teleprompting Software
Despite now operating as separate companies, we retain a close link with Autocue and still offer direct integration with Autocue QMaster software – the teleprompter is able to establish a direct connection into our scripting / newsroom database. This offers considerable benefits over the traditional file-sharing or MOS connection, since it allows the prompter software to operate as an integral part of the main networked system.
Newsroom Computer Systems
Typical integration includes:
- transfer from NRCS to script markup tool (QScript) via FTP
- automation (QNews ACC) for playout from a video server, via FTP or MOS
- automation control for server playout could be with the aQ Video Server or a third-party unit
Completed integrations include Avid iNews & ENPS
Video Editing
Typical integration includes:
- Recording content on the aQ Video Server (AVS) which can be edited by third-party software
- Playing pack content on the AVS which has been produced by third-party software
- Producing EDLs which can be opened by other software
- Processing third-party EDLs to generate new versions existing material
Graphics & Display Applications
Typical integration includes:
- Allowing users to enter CG information within the QNews NRCS (e.g. selecting an appropriate template and entering the correct text)
- Controlling a third-party CG by recalling specified templates in the correct order and adding text which has been entered by the QNews users – this is achieved via direct integration with the appropriate native protocol for the device
- Supporting MOS ActiveX plugins, to provide QNews users indirect access to third-party devices, for instance for caption template selection and property definition
- Storing MOS automation events within QNews scripts in associated rundowns
- Feeding MOS automation event information to the third-party MOS gateway, with dynamic updates based on any changes within the QNews system, to allow captions to be displayed in the correct order
Subtitling
Typical integration includes:
- Feeding script information from the QNews NRCS to the subtitling
Video Servers
Typical integration includes:
- Scanning of the third-party’s media database, in order to populate the QNews and/or QMedia clip databases with the same list of content
- Allowing users to select from the list of available clips and enter them as automation events, either at the rundown level or within the scripts themselves
- Direct control over the third-party device in order to load and play clips in the correct order, with manual control over play, pause, recue and skip functions.
- Providing status feedback for clips entered into the rundown, indicating for instance cued, playing, paused, etc.
Playout & Automation
Typical integration includes:
- Supporting MOS ActiveX plugins, to provide QNews users indirect access to third-party devices, for instance for clip selection
- Storing MOS automation events within QNews scripts in associated rundowns
- Feeding MOS automation event information to the third-party MOS gateway, with dynamic updates based on any changes within the QNews system, in order to allow clips to be played out in the correct order
