About Showmaker
Showmaker is a lightweight, web-based, efficient MOS-rundown creation tool, eliminating the need of a complex newsroom system.
Showmaker provides all features needed to quickly create and control a Viz Mosart show, with rundowns and stories that contain automation templates, graphics, clips and scripts.
Typical Usage
Standalone creation of Viz Mosart-automated shows.
Provide an independent backup for a newsroom system.
Quickly get on air. Especially useful at the beginning of a project:
The automation is prepared in advance, not requiring any newsroom system.
If you are using a newsroom system, all automation can be prepared upfront in Showmaker.
Enables non-journalist skeleton staff (for example, in the middle of the night) to get breaking news on-air.
Info: Showmaker is not intended as a replacement for a newsroom system. Showmaker offers self contained, quick and easy creation and management of a Viz Mosart rundown.
Key Features
Shared Production: Team members collaborate in a single place, preparing and managing rundown content for automated or semi automated productions.
Structured workspace: Visually organize with a clear overview, shows, rundowns and rundown templates, all in one place.
Automation integration: Add and edit Viz Mosart templates.
Graphics gathered: Optional Viz Flowics (HTML graphics) and Viz Pilot Edge graphics all in the same tool.
Story crafting: Rapid modification of scripts, manual items, and timing information in a single, elegant UI.
Synchronized operations: Updates display immediately in the active Viz Mosart rundown.
Future-proofed: Modern, secure, web-based architecture. Support for MOS 4.
Why Showmaker
Traditional newsroom systems are powerful but complex, with long onboarding, heavy configuration, and far more functionality than many productions actually need. Showmaker takes the opposite approach. Light, focused, and built around the small set of tasks needed to drive a Viz Mosart rundown: open a show, build stories, add automation and graphics, go on air. New users are productive in minutes rather than days - a practical choice for teams wishing to move away from a heavyweight NRCS or that need a fast, self-contained way to run shows.
Showmaker is also designed to be the operator's own workspace. The show banner, with its image, title and program window, make each show immediately recognizable for the people who run and own the content. A fast and focused tool that operators can familiarly return to.
Typical Workflow
Showmaker takes you from blank screen to ready-for-air rundown, in five short steps:
Create a show, build the rundown, populate the stories with Mosart templates and other instructions, activate so it syncs with Viz Mosart and mark it Ready-to-Air, as the operator's active rundown.
Showmaker in your Ecosystem
Showmaker is a new addition to the suite of Mosart Web Apps. Browser-based tools from a single server. These utilities are included with every Viz Mosart delivery.
Showmaker covers the role played by a newsroom system in a traditional setup, owning the rundown and pushing it to Viz Mosart for playout.
Component | Role for Showmaker | Required? |
|---|---|---|
Viz Mosart Server | Receives the Showmaker rundown (over MOS, Showmaker acts as a virtual NRCS) and plays it on air. | Yes |
Mosart Web Apps Configuration Tool | Required for one-time setup: | Yes, once only |
NRCS Plugin | Mosart Web App plugin. Showmaker embeds it to read Mosart template sets and to import data from a connected NRCS. | Yes, bundled |
Viz Pilot Edge | Plugin. Showmaker embeds a Pilot Edge panel for Pilot Edge graphic template instant editing. | Optional |
Viz Flowics | Plugin. Showmaker embeds a Flowics panel for real-time cloud-based HTML5 graphic editing. | Optional |
Technically, Viz Pilot Edge, Viz Flowics and the Mosart NRCS Plugin display asset panels inside Showmaker as iframes that exchange MOS messages directly in your browser, so you don't have to open separate applications.