Request or Release a MOS Playlist

When a MOS playlist is first opened in Director, it is empty. Monitoring needs to be requested in order to populate the playlist.

Right-click on the MOS Status Bar to request or release a MOS playlist:

• Request: Begin monitoring, and populate the Director playlist with the elements from the newsroom system. Once the monitoring is active, all subsequent updates done to the newsroom rundown will be reflected in the active Director playlist.

• Release: Director will stop monitoring the newsroom system. A list of elements will still appear in the Director playlist, but any subsequent updates to the Newsroom rundown will not be reflected in the inactive Director playlist.

  IMPORTANT! Any elements that are manually added to the playlist by Director will disappear if a released playlist is requested again.

  Note: If using Director to take items on air, be mindful that the cursor position in Director may change if the related item is deleted from the newsroom rundown. That is, the Current Element cursor would move to the following item, and the Next Element cursor would be removed.

MOS Status Bar

The information available in the rundown monitor bar is as follows:

• MOS: The current MOS status for the playlist (Active/Inactive).

• Host: IP address of the Media Sequencer that has requested the playlist.

• Start: Playlist start time, according to the Newsroom system.

• Duration: Playlist duration, according to the Newsroom system.

• Updated: Last update time
  Cleanup and Auto Preview and will work on playlists that are either active or inactive. Initialize will work once the MOS playlist has been populated with content.