Blockz
Cuez Blockz
Your Broadcast Automation
Building Blocks.
Use the Cuez Automator from any MOS-based NRCS.
What is Blockz?
Blockz is our universal plug-in to combine the Cuez Automator with any NRCS. It serves as a cloud-based repository for all your studio automation commands. This allows you to build these automations once, and use them over and over again.
It allows anyone of your team to add content to your rundown in a non-technical and structured way, as Cuez Automator takes care of the automation down the line.
This makes Blockz the library of all your automation templates across:
- Any show in Cuez Rundown
- Any MOS-based NRCS, including ENPS and iNEWS
The 3 problems we solved
You can easy share these automation presets from one station to any other in your station network. We also make the hassle of studio automation invisible. And you can now take your automations with you when you change NRCS.
You don't have to keep on rebuilding the same cue blocks that run your show. You also don't have to chase down 12 rundowns if that same cue block needs some changes. Create it once, deploy it everywhere.
why Blockz?
01
Manage your automations in one place
Blockz enables you to create and update your studio automations in one single place, and allows you to manage them across all your connected stations.
02
Deploy across all stations
This media house management platform connects every station, regardless of which MOS-based NRCS they rely on such as iNews and ENPS. Blockz ties our Cuez Automator to them.
03
A simplified interface for non-tech users
We don't bother non-technical people with the hassle of studio automation. We provide one simplified interface with the necessary building block options, and Automator executes.
What Blockz + Mos Connector + Automator changes in ENPS
The Cuez MOS-Connector is a plugin that connects Cuez Automator to any MOS-based NRCS, including ENPS and iNEWS.
Combined with Blockz, this is what changes:
Inside ENPS, when journalists build their rundown, they can now open the Blockz panel directly as a plugin. From that panel, they can select any block, such as video, graphic, lower-third, or another action, and fill it in just like they would inside Cuez Rundown
This is how it works:
Adding a clip
Select a clip from any MAM, PAM, or edit system.
Adding sound
Choose the sound: VO or SOT.
Anything to say?
Choose whether to play back with VO: TRUE or FALSE.
Done!
The block then inserts directly into the ENPS rundown as a structured MOS object. Not a blank container. A fully coded instruction that the connected Automator knows how to execute.
Live sync
Need to make changes to the block? Do it once in Blockz, and it will be deployed instantly to everywhere it has been used.
What this means in practice
- MOS objects had no structure
- Journalists had no guidance
- Engineers manually coded every variation
- No shared standard between shows
- Every block is pre-defined and consistent
- Journalists can self-serve with pre-approved options
- Works with Cuez, ENPS or iNEws etc.
Jan de Wever
Product Owner
"Blockz is our plugin of plugins for every NRCS out there. This allows our customers for some unique setups. Whether you are a single newsrooms, or a media group with 300 newsroom across the country, Blockz is compatible with all of different NRCSs. Just indicate in the admin panel how and where this plugin should operate, and this can be deployed anywhere you want. We know that users tend to switch stations, graphic engines and playout devices tend to change, but Blockz is the constant."
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