MediaCentral | UX User’s Guide : Building a Script : Dragging a Script Sequence from MediaCentral | UX to Media Composer

Dragging a Script Sequence from MediaCentral | UX to Media Composer
 
(Windows only) If you are running Media Composer and MediaCentral UX on the same system, you can view or edit a sequence associated with a news story by dragging the story from MediaCentral UX to a Media Composer bin or source monitor. The associated sequence is then available for viewing or editing in Media Composer.
Requirements:
A Windows computer running Media Composer v8.5.2 or later, with access to an Interplay Production workgroup.
Access to a server running MediaCentral UX v2.6.1 or later. This MediaCentral server must be associated with the same Interplay Production server that you are logged in to.
To drag a sequence from MediaCentral UX to Media Composer:
1. Open a Media Composer project.
2. Log in to Interplay Production.
3. Open MediaCentral UX in a Chrome browser window and sign in.
4. In MediaCentral UX, open a queue that contains the story whose sequence you want to open in Media Composer.
MediaCentral UX shows a sequence icon if a sequence is associated with a story.
5. Do one of the following:
*Select one or more stories, drag them to Media Composer, and drop them into a bin.
You can then work with the sequence or sequences as you do with any other Media Composer sequence. Note that editing the sequence and checking it in to Interplay Production might make it uneditable or unplayable in MediaCentral UX. For more information, see Opening and Editing an Existing Sequence in the Sequence Pane.
*Select a story, drag it to Media Composer, and drop it into a source monitor.
You can play the sequence without adding it to a bin. Note that if you make changes, like adding locators or properties, you must save the changes to Interplay Production by right-clicking the monitor and selecting “Check In to Interplay”.
Note the following limitations for Media Composer v8.5.2, which are removed in v8.5.3:
If you drag to the Record monitor, the drag cursor indicates that you can drop, but nothing happens if you do. Dragging to the Record monitor is not supported.
If you drag to the Source monitor and make changes to the sequence (such as adding locators), and you do not check in the sequence, you could lose these changes if you clear the monitor or load another asset into the monitor.
If you lose your changes, your modified asset might still be in the monitor menu, so you might be able to recover the asset until you close the project or flush the asset out of the monitor menu.
Drag and drop into the Source monitor fails with an error message (“Dragging from a remote workgroup is not supported”) if there is a mismatch between the Interplay Engine name used for login from Media Composer and the Interplay Engine name displayed in MediaCentral UX. Make sure the captalization matches.