Avid Technology iNEWS, Installation & Operation Manual

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Overview of MOS Gateway
The iNEWS MOS Gateway is an application that does the following:
• receives information from the iNEWS newsroom computer system as
machine control events are entered in production cues in scripts
• converts the information into commands in version 2.8 of the MOS
Protocol and directs it to specified MOS-compliant devices
• routes the status of each media object in a rundown on a MOS device
back to the iNEWS Workstation
MOS Gateway can handle multiple shows simultaneously.
MOS Control Workflow
MOS Gateway is designed to work with multiple vendors’ MOS devices.
Each MOS device can be accompanied by an ActiveX control that is
hosted by the iNEWS Workstation, or MOS item replication can be used
for devices that do not have ActiveX controls.
Replication also
provides users with the
capability to search the
MOS inventory using
iNEWS search tools.
Replication means that MOS Gateway v2.0 supports the Media Object
Metadata (MOM) connection with a MOS device as well as the
Rundown/Running Order (RO) connection. Each MOS device can send
MOM to a single device-specific queue, allowing iNEWS to host a copy of
a MOS device’s inventory. Each story in the device-specific queue
contains information about a different MOS item. The
MOSREPLICATION
form in iNEWS determines how MOS items are
replicated to a device-specific queue—that is, whether the MOS item
appears in the story form, as a production cue in the story body, or
both—and what metadata is displayed as normal text in the story body.
MOS replication requires an iNEWS user account with write access to all
device-specific queues that will store replicated MOS items.
See
“Configure iNEWS for MOS Replication (Optional)” on page 68 for more
information.
Replication options are configured using the MOS
Administration tool. See “Using the MosAdmin Application” on page 91
for more information.