Studio Tools

Burli is a Newsroom System that's also useful outside the newsroom. A sophisticated prompter, quick-play carts, and live redundancy tools help to make your news booth a place of calm and convenience and your newscasts polished and up-to-the-minute.

Prompter
Burli makes live news broadcasts easy for anchors and presenters. Text appears in a dedicated radio prompter with audio cuts appearing in place. A simple click plays the audio on-air. The display is configurable so different staff can have different sizes and colours of text. The prompter can scroll automatically at an adjustable speed or users can manually move the screen as required. And play-to-air can be single-button simple, or can offer multiple buttons to allow output to a choice of audio channels.

Burli's prompter is tightly integrated with other tools, not the separate module you find in some newsroom systems. That means staff have full access to wires, stories, and the audio and text editors while they are in the studio and on-air. If an item needs a quick edit during broadcast a simple click puts the item back into editing mode without interrupting the broadcast.

And newscasts remain editable during broadcast, meaning editors can tweak the broadcast as it happens, adding breaking items, updating copy, or substitiuing audio cuts right up to the moment they're broadcast.

Quickplay
A Quickplay module gives on-air staff one-click access to a library of frequently-used audio elements. News themes, stabs, network tones and more can sit in front of anchors, easily accessible regardless of which newscast is currently being used. Quickplay decks can also be updated from the newsroom, making it an ideal place for traffic updates, weather reports and other items that change through the day. Decks can also be automated to play audio, send tones, turn on microphones or other studio automation tasks essential for running network newscasts.

Mirroring
You want your broadcasts to happen uninterrupted regardless of what else is happening in the building. Built-in redundancy ensures the text and audio critical for your broadcast are automatically copied to the studio and play from there. Administrators can select how much data is mirrored into the studio, even giving them the option of turning studio machines into complete backup servers.

Quick-record
Of course, not every news broadcast happens live. If you need to pre-record newscasts or network feeds, Burli can record as you use the prompter. Audio cuts don't even need to play during the recording — Burli can automatically insert them without them having to play. That means you can record a 3 minute newscast in far less than 3 minutes.

Automation Integration
If you've pre-recorded your newscast, you may want it to be aired by your broadcast automation system. Burli integrates with a large number of industry-leading automation systems, allowing system administrators to pre-define cut and cart numbers, audio format and more, including having Burli add industry-standard metadata tags including Cart Chunk and EBU Broadcast Wave Format headers as appropriate for each system. Newscasts can also be sent to multiple automation systems at once over a WAN to allow network distribution of news within broadcast groups.

Printing and Cart Wall
Not every newscast is a simple self-operated broadcast. If you have a separate audio engineer or operator to look after sound during the broadcast, the audio elements of the newscast can appear on a separate Cart Wall screen with audio controls to separate the audio elements of the broadcast from the text that is being read in the studio. And while almost everyone reads from a computer screen these days, Burli is happy to print newscasts onto paper, either as a back-up or for anchors who do not read from a computer.

GPI\O
Burli's studio tools include integration with common GPI/O hardware and software from leading manufacturers to allow external devices (control surfaces, button boxes, automation systems) to control the prompter and/or audio playback in Burli. Similarly, Burli's prompter can issue signals to — for example — control channels on boards, trigger audio in other systems, or turn microphones on or off.

TV Prompter
For television newsrooms Burli also includes an inverted (mirror-image) prompter screen for use with TV prompters.