Running order

The Mosart design acknowledges that a successful and practical introduction to automation requires a thorough acceptance from the editorial staff. Mosart has a story based architecture managing rundowns, stories, story elements and secondary events in addition to automation commands. Mosart supports multiple playlists at the same time, even from different newsroom computer systems. For complex sequences, e.g. headlines, Mosart provides context sensitive templates, making template behavior dependent of its order in the rundown sequence; e.g. starts sound on first headline template and fade out after last headline, allowing the editorial staff to reorder headlines up to the last second before airing.

Rather than device commands directly in the rundown, Mosart has comprehensive templates containing device commands for vision mixer, playout server, full screen graphics system, overlay graphics, audio mixer, sound file player, camera robotics, routers, weather system, GPO and other attached devices. Templates are parameterized and may take arguments as part of newsroom computer system commands.

The gallery independent rundown concept allows airing from different play-out galleries or studios without modifying editorial rundown. Running order and Mosart automation playlist(s) are kept synchronous with near zero delay. Mosart even accepts up to the second modification of elements already cued and in preview - or modification of CGs in the story element playing. Stories floated in the newsroom computer system disappear from the Mosart GUI rundown and reappear when no longer floated.

Clips and graphical items are obvious parts of any rundown and may in your environment be contained as MOS-items or as textual references. Mosart can be configured to accept what you already use. To insert the MOS-items, simply continue to use tools originating from your Media Asset Management and/or graphics systems or take the benefit of the Mosart Active-X. Any textual command to Mosart is user configurable to your local language and established journalistic terminology.

Any rundown story may be set as the first before starting or as next while running. One can add stories directly in Mosart and mark them as independent of the newsroom computer system. It is even possible to turn newsroom computer system synchronization off and then resynchronize later. In order to play video clips and graphics in loop on the studio video wall, while the main rundown is airing, separate playlists can be created to run on top the main rundown.