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Viz Pilot User’s Guide
8.4.14
Rundown Monitor Bar
The Rundown Monitor Bar is available for MOS playlists (also known as newsroom
playlists). It is used in Vizrt’s MOS integration, and shows the current MOS status for
the playlist.
When a MOS playlist is first opened in Director, it is empty. Monitoring needs to be
requested using the context menu so that the playlist can be populated.
Once Director requests the monitoring of a MOS playlist, it can be presented as a
playlist in Director. Director can then monitor the playlist and receive updates from the
newsroom system and Director. The operator can then take the graphics on air from
Director.
Status Information
The information available in the rundown monitor bar is as follows:
• Host: IP address of the Media Sequencer that has requested the playlist.
• Start: Playlist start time, according to the Newsroom system.
• Duration: Playlist duration, according to the Newsroom system.
• MOS: The current MOS status for the playlist (Active/Inactive).
Context Menu - Rundown Monitor Bar
• Request: Begin monitoring, and populate the Director playlist with the elements
from the newsroom system. Once the monitoring is active, all subsequent updates
done to the newsroom rundown will be reflected in the active Director playlist.
• Release: Director will stop monitoring the newsroom system. A list of elements will
still appear in the Director playlist, but any subsequent updates to the Newsroom
rundown will not be reflected in the inactive Director playlist.
IMPORTANT! Any elements that are manually added to the playlist by Director
will disappear if a released playlist is requested again.
Note: If using Director to take items on air, be mindful that the cursor position in
Director may change if the related item is deleted from the newsroom rundown.
That is, the Current Element cursor would move to the following item, and the
Next Element cursor would be removed.
Cleanup and Auto Preview and will work on playlists that are either active or inactive.
Initialize will work once the MOS playlist has been populated with content.
Example Scenarios
If two Directors use the same Media Sequencer and MOS Gateway, and have the same
playlist Requested, then they will both get all updates.
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