A working networked production system The show is underway. There is a narrator and two operators at workstations. Apologies for the blurry picture. The left rear projectior is showing the screen of the left most workstation, the middle one has the company logo up, and the one on the right is showing the screen of the non-linear video editing system.


Among the things being shown are a Basys newsroom client window on an Alpha workstation that is also accessing stills from a database, viewing video from a video server and playing audio from an audio server. The non-linear editor has a client-server version of Montage that is pulling video clips from a database and using them to assemble a video. A Macintosh is keeping track of accesses to copywritten material for audit tracking. The databases are distributed across hard disk arrays, raid and conventional, and the robotic terabyte optical jukebox. The operating systems are VMS, Windows 3.1, Unix and MacOS. The networking includes a serial connection to the video server which could be configured to emulate various serial control standards.

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