OnTheAir News (Newsroom)
Introducing the first true Apple Mac based newsroom system for TV, mobile and web distribution.
Based upon one of the worlds most open and popular (over 10 million users) database architecture, Filemaker Pro, OnTheAir News offers a complete newsroom solution from story creation, editing, browsing media, integration with Apple Final Cut Pro, RSS feed creation and delivery to OnTheAir Video for play out. OnTheAir News also leverages both Filemaker’s cross platform capabilities for Windows users and the remote capabilities of Filemaker Mobile, allowing remote journalists to create and send stories back to base from anywhere in the world.
OnTheAir News is a true client server solution for creating and managing news bulletins for TV and web delivery. OnTheAir News leverages the power of Mac OS X and one of the worlds leading database platforms to deliver a truly open newsroom environment, whether it’s just 2 journalists or 200, OnTheAir News delivers integrated work flows only previous enjoyed by proprietary and expensive systems. No matter if you are creating HD news or managing RSS feeds OnTheAir News can be tailored to your needs using industry standard open formats such as XML, XLST, PHP, and SQL. OnTheAir News offers full presenter and voice over script creation tools, including a library of presenter read rates and auto spell check tools. OnTheAir News's Final Cut Pro Integration means that any story can have media of any format associated to it then sent to FCP for editing. Once complete finished packages are automatically associated back to each story so as the final bulletin or rundown is sent to OnTheAir Video for playback. All media packages are automatically ready for playback.
Spanish, Italian and French version to follow.
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Release date: End October 2007
BetaVersion available upon request