Inserting MOS Placeholders
You can create a placeholder item for a third-party MOS device in a Newsroom Management story, in either the story form or as a story’s production cue. To add it to the story form, the story form must be capable of including MOS information.
The Newsroom Management server must be running MediaCentral Newsroom Management v4.0.3 or later.
To insert a MOS object placeholder:
1. Position your cursor in one of the following places:
- In a segment in the Story editor.
- In any field in the Story form.
2. Right-click and select Insert Placeholder.
The Create MOS Object Placeholder dialog box opens.
3. Select a device name and enter a title. Optionally, enter a description.
4. Press OK.
The new MOS object placeholder appears as a production cue in the Story editor and the Cue List, or in the MOS-Title field.
The MOS device user can later update the placeholder with a real ID and object by turning on or loading the monitor server. The MOS Gateway will then return data back to Newsroom Management and MediaCentral Cloud UX in the production cue.
The Rundown app can manage a MOS object in the story form that corresponds to the Video ID field, thus enabling playout devices referencing videos via a MOS object (as well as using the Video ID in a MediaCentral Command workflow). To enable this feature, some configuration is necessary in the Newsroom Management module of the Administrator app. Please see the Configuration Settings chapter of the MediaCentral | Cloud UX Installation and Configuration Guide.