CNN Student Bureau

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.
Click on ‘See All Videos’ for a list of all recent videos in chronological order.
You 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).
To 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
Go to the JHUB website
… Look in the Incoming Media Folder / CNN Downloads You should see 2 folders: .Mov and OP1A
- 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.