Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
  • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
  • G11B27/00—Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
  • G11B27/10—Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
  • G11B27/34—Indicating arrangements 
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
  • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
  • G11B27/00—Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
  • G11B27/02—Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers
  • G11B27/031—Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
  • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
  • G11B27/00—Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
  • G11B27/02—Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers
  • G11B27/031—Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
  • G11B27/034—Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals on discs
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
  • H04N5/00—Details of television systems
  • H04N5/222—Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
  • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
  • G11B2220/00—Record carriers by type
  • G11B2220/40—Combinations of multiple record carriers
  • G11B2220/41—Flat as opposed to hierarchical combination, e.g. library of tapes or discs, CD changer, or groups of record carriers that together store one title

Definitions

• Existing news broadcast systems provide the capability for the integration of the video production process, the graphics production process and the on-air operations to provide complete management of audio and video elements of the news program from acquisition, through editing, distribution and on-air play.
• An integrated process in accordance with one such system includes a disk-based video production process integrated with a media production process and on air operations.
• the use of disk-based digital audio/video storage systems, digital networks, and digital nonlinear editing systems has allowed for successful integration of the video production, graphics production and on-air operations.
• Several products are available from Avid Technology, Inc., Tewksbury, MA, for providing such an the integrated system.
• the video production system 12 provides audio/video capture, media data editing, and management and control of high quality multimedia data suitable for broadcast.
• Multimedia data is defined as any form of information that can be represented in a digital form.
• the video production system includes a capture manager 24 coupled to control a news cutter/media recorder 23.
• a media recorder is the Avid Media RecorderTM available from Avid Technology Inc., Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
• the capture manager controls the conversion of the NTSC or PAL video into digital form, and forwards the converted data to an encoding station 26.
• the video data is compressed in either JPEG or MPEG format the compressed audio/video is forwarded over network 20 via bridge 22 to a number of news servers 42a-42c in server subsystem 14.
• An asset manager 27 controls the indexing and storage of the compressed video data.
• a storage array 30 is also included for retaining archived audio/video data. Access to images stored in RAID array 30 is controlled via a browse server 32.
• a digital playback system 31 is coupled via a switch 38 to components in the video subsystem.
• graphics workstation 28 The number of graphics workstations, such as graphics workstation 28, are used for generating and editing graphics material for broadcast and storage in the video production system.
• the graphics workstation 28 is implemented using a MATADOR workstation available from Avid Technology.
• the journalist workstation provides access to multimedia data from a variety of sources and includes the tools (i.e., software) necessary to create a multimedia story board of a news story for broadcast.
• the multimedia data available to the journalist includes the low resolution MPEG video data captured by the media recorder 23.
• Each of the journalist workstations advantageously includes a video port (not shown) for receiving video from, for example, a video tape recorder.
• Each of the journalist workstations also includes a serial port (not shown) for controlling the video tape recorder.
• the Technical director workstation 52 provides intelligent, user-friendly, interactive control for newsroom production.
• the workstation may be, for example, an Avid Workstation running Windows NT.
• the control of components coupled to the Technical Directors Workstation is managed via a graphical user interface, such as that shown in Figure 2.
• FIG. 2 A portion of one rundown list is shown in Figure 2. Although only one rundown is displayed at a given time, multiple rundowns may be stored at the technical director workstation.
• control over the entire production is centralized at one workstation, thus requiring intervention by only one operator and removing the ambiguity presented by having multiple operators controlling multiple external devices.
• device control may be automated, and the manual operator need not know the particulars of controlling each of the specific external devices.
• An additional benefit of providing the status of all of the events and devices coupled to the system in one graphical user interface is that it allows the director to over ride device assignments and channel assignments based on the status of the devices as viewed at the interface. For example, the director may override the channel assignment to maintain continuity if there are two back to back audio clips directed to different channels. In addition, if one of the devices becomes unavailable, the director may easily modify the run down to change device assignments of subsequent events.
• FIG 2 An example graphical user interface and associated functions have been described and illustrated in Figure 2, it should be understood that the user interface may be augmented to provide other types of functions that facilitate broadcast production. Thus the graphics user interface is meant only as an example, and not intended to be limiting, but rather intended to introduce a concept of centralized production control.

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• Television Signal Processing For Recording (AREA)
• Management Or Editing Of Information On Record Carriers (AREA)

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