CNN Student Bureau


We are a CNN Student Bureau!  Here is the link to access the CNN Newsource web portal and to learn how to download and retrieve your media from the JHUB.

PLEASE NOTE: Content downloaded from the CNN Newsource website is to be used only for educational purposes.
Please acquire the username and password from your course instructor/professor or one of the program technologists.  Once you have login credentials to the newsource site you can access scripts, feed information and the VOD (video on demand) service.  See the steps below on how to request videos from Newsource and how to add them to the JHub.

  • Downloading videos from the CNN NewSource (from Acquire station in S210 Only). – Download clips/footage to import to Avid NewsCutter and Media Composer

At the Acquire station in S210

– Open Safari: the default should be CNN NewsSource (http://newsource.cnn.com) – Log on:

For username and password please see your Instructor/Professor or a program technologist.

 

1Click on ‘See All Videos’ for a list of all recent videos in chronological order.

 

2You can search on the left for top/on-going stories.
- To download a story – click the check box to the left of the story and on any of the stories in the list.   Then click request button to download.

– A new window will appear asking you to pick the Broadcast Format.

– Always pick best quality available: HD 1080i NTSC & press Request (then close that window).

request_video_and_quality

 

3To look at the progress on the download, press the second icon button in the top right menu to ‘Open Download Manager’

It will download this story into the Volumes/Shares/CNN_DOWNLOADS_in_progress Folder (on the server).
  This cues up the content to be converted into an editable format before it is exported to the JHUB

 

downloads_manager_button

 

4Go to the JHUB website
… Look in the Incoming Media Folder / CNN Downloads You should see 2 folders: .Mov and OP1A

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Import your CNN video into your Avid project. It is quicker for Avid to import an Op1a file.
- You can now leave this ‘Acquire’ station by logging out of CNN NewSource.
- You will be able to access this CNN Downloads folder on the JHUB CMS and from the AVID edit stations.

 

About Greg Prince


Greg originally joined Sheridan as a part-time professor in 2000 and has since logged over 1700 hours of classroom teaching. In 2001 he took the position of Technical Producer and supports the Journalism New Media and Journalism programs. Prior to coming to Sheridan Greg had worked at three national broadcasters, ‘The Score”, “Sportsnet”, and CTV. Greg also shot, produced, and directed a travel documentary called “Real Travels” that aired on Discovery USA and OLN. Greg also co-founded a digital media company called Filemobile. Filemobile grew to be Canada’s leader in providing social media networking and citizen journalism services to some of the country’s leading broadcast and media companies until it was sold in 2015 to NewZulu.


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