WinPlus-IP News

Product Specification

The power behind Intelligent Prompting

WinPlus-IP News is the choice of newsrooms worldwide. In addition to the features of WinPlus-IP it offers compatibility with all leading NRCS including: Avid iNews, Dalet, News Wire, Newsmaker, Newstar.

MOS Protocol devices supported include: Annova Open Media, AP ENPS, News Works, Octopus, Dayang, Sobey, NIS4, Inception & Eidos Media. WinPlus-IP News enables instant script updates from Newsroom systems. The connectivity status of each Newsroom is viewable at a glance and can be given a user defined name for easy reference. Busy productions will benefit from having multiple rundowns loaded for multi-programme operation.

With multi-language compatibility, WinPlus-IP News offers a powerful Newsroom prompting package for use anywhere in the world.

WinPlus-IP News combines all of the features of WinPlus-IP with additional functionality including:

Closed caption options enable script to be outputted for captions/subtitles
Multiple rundowns loaded for multi-programme operation
Instant script updates from NRCS for seamless newsroom workflow
Newsroom connectivity status displayed for easy monitoring
User definable friendly name & newsroom connection type ensures simple setup

Minimum system requirements

Operating System: Windows 8.1 / Windows 10
32 Bit and 64 Bit OS supported
Hard Drive: 5GB of free disk space
RAM: 8GB
Processor: i5 (3 cores min.)
Graphics: Graphics card supporting OpenGL 3 for smooth preview/VGA prompting

Application

Connects automatically to all Intelligent Prompting devices on the connected IP network
In-screen real time scroll preview
Simple customisable user interface: resizable windows, colour selection, content tile position, content tile pin to sidebar, tabbed windows
Script edits during live prompting
Multi language support
Word & RTF Import
Graphical scroll control

Run Order

Options: add story, remove story, cloak story, drop story, scroll to prompter, track live story, print run order
Available run order preview
Drag and drop story

Story Editor

Options: font type, font size, font format, font colour, background colour, spell check, cut & paste
Script matches prompt mode to indicate prompt output
Follow prompter
Font resize slider

Prompter preview

Super smooth scroll
Options: timer, on-screen message, invert colours, blank screen
Timer options: background clock
Presenter preferences

Device management

Status: add manual, add discovered, monitoring
Device grouping for firmware updates
Remote program of scroll control function buttons
Assign colours to function buttons
Remote software and firmware updates

Compatibility

HC-IP desktop scroll control (not included)
EVO-IP monitors, including EPIC-IP systems (not included, no XBox-IP required)
XBox-IP scroll engine (not included, produces dual HD-SDI output)
Instant script updates from NRCS
Multiple rundowns
Newsroom connectivity status
User definable friendly name & newsroom connection type
Closed Caption output function

WINPLUS-IPNews Newsroom (integrated) software application only

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